Saturday, December 29, 2012

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How Facebook Is Hunting Down And Deleting Fake Accounts
Business Insider
Earlier this year, in its Q2 2012 earnings report, Facebook disclosed that 4.8 percent of its accounts were either "duplicate" accounts (meaning that one person was operating more than one profile) or being used for nefarious purposes that violate ...
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Business Insider
Trade A Bit Of Facebook Privacy For Free Samsung TecTiles, Flip Covers
TechCrunch
Samsung has announced it will give away six free TecTiles and a flip cover for every customer that registers their Galaxy S III or Galaxy Note II to Samsung's Owner's Hub on Facebook. That means that you'll be giving Samsung some personal info, like ...
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TechCrunch
Why Social networks should be more like Facebook Poke
Computerworld
Computerworld - The sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who's name is Randi Zuckerberg, posted a private photo this week of some of her family members, including brother Mark, in a kitchen goofing around with Facebook's new Poke app. A friend of ...
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Top Comments: The Problems with Facebook, Windows and Apple
Mashable
When a Twitter power user reposted a photo that Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi had posted on Facebook, the female Zuckerberg was furious that her privacy had been breached. But the exchange grew into a much larger conversation on Mashable about ...
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Facebook, Apple Part Of Big Year For Business News
NPR
Facebook, Apple Part Of Big Year For Business News. December 29, 2012 8:00 AM. Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approximately 12:00 p.m. ET. December 29, 2012. Weekend Edition Saturday guest host Linda ...
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Proof That Facebook Copied One Of The Hottest Apps On The Planet And It Still ...
Business Insider
Poke lets you send self-destructing photos, videos, and text messages to your Facebook friends. It's remarkably similar to another app called Snapchat, which launched a few months ago. In fact, Poke is so similar to Snapchat, that it's tough to call it ...
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Business Insider
Facebook's top 10 from 2012: A big acquisition, a mobile hangover, and, oh ...
VentureBeat
This was Facebook's year. The social network made its debut on the public market, and it crossed the unprecedented one-billion-users mark. For many of the social network's earliest employees, it was the stuff dreams are made of. But so much happened to ...
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VentureBeat
Facebook Tops 2012 Wikipedia Queires
Daily Beast
How do you learn about another culture? Maybe by looking at its Wikipedia searches. On Friday, a Swedish software engineer published a list of Wikipedia's most-searched articles of 2012, sorted by language. Facebook tops the English-language site's ...
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Daily Beast
Facebook gets personal and it's creeping us out
Albany Times Union
On Facebook pages such as those used by businesses, the prompts offer advice: "Wish people happy holidays" or "Let your audience know what's going on for the holidays" or "Let people know about your news, specials, or promotions during the holidays." ...
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Facebook Instagram use dived after photo fiasco: AppData
DAWN.com
Instagram, which Facebook bought for $715 million this year, saw the number of daily active users who accessed the service via Facebook bottom out at 12.4 million as of Friday, versus a peak of 16.4 million last week, according to data compiled by ...
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Michigan says bosses can't ask for workers' Facebook logins
msnNOW
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation Friday that stops companies and colleges from asking workers and students for logins to their Facebook pages and other social media accounts. Lawmakers are high-fiving each other for their pro-privacy ...
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Facebook Page Slanders Teens
YourErie
Cyber bullying takes on a whole new meaning in our area with a Facebook page called Erie On Blast... The site rips apart and severely bullies grade school and high school students...even including their pictures... If you look on the site now, you'll ...
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Snapchat and Facebook Poke 'security hole' allows recipients to keep videos
TechRadar UK
Those folks (not us, honestly) sending risque videos through the Facebook Poke and Snapchat apps can be comfortable in the knowledge that anything they send self destructs 10 seconds after it is viewed. Or can they? Buzzfeed has uncovered a quite ...
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Out-of-control party after Facebook invites
The West Australian
An out-of-control party in Beechboro was advertised on Facebook before police were called to attend to more than 100 teenagers creating a disturbance. About 10.15pm, police were called to an address in Altone Road, a police spokeswoman said.
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The West Australian
Alex Rodriguez calls himself 'Captain Rodriguez' on Facebook (picture)
NBCSports.com
For those of you wondering what New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was doing earlier today, a picture of himself with girlfriend Torrie Wilson was posted on his Facebook page to give you all the juicy details. The photo shows Wilson standing ...
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NBCSports.com
Medicine Hat man charged with Facebook threats
CBC.ca
A Medicine Hat man has been arrested and been charged with making threats after posting on Facebook about the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. He also allegedly made a threat toward an unidentified school. The man, 18 was also charged ...
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We need our own Google, Facebook: Infosys Executive Co-Chairman Kris ...
Times of India
KOCHI: Start-ups in India need to become household names and they should create internet successes on the lines of 'Facebook and Google', Infosys Executive Co-Chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan said. "We need our own Facebook and Google," he said at a ...
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Times of India
Internet Travel Hoax Cons Facebook Friends
ABC News
Internet Travel Hoax Cons Facebook Friends. ABCNews·13,007 videos. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 230,260. 42 views. Like 2 Dislike 0. Like. Sign in to YouTube. Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, ...
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UFC 155 Facebook Preliminary Recap
MMAFrenzy.com
Todd Duffee UFC 155 kicked off the evening's festivities live on Facebook. The three-fight card featured plenty of action with fighters Todd Duffee, Max Holloway, and John Moraga proving victorious in their respective bouts. Be sure to stay tuned to ...
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Facebook Question
BassResource.com (press release)
I have a new page my friend and I started on Facebook about bass fishing. Aside from getting both our friend lists to like the page we wanted to get more likes. I couldn't find the space in bass resource for permission, but am I able to put the link in ...
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NLRB Sides with Employees Fired over Facebook Posts
JD Supra (press release)
In its second opinion addressing employee terminations resulting from Facebook posts, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered an employer to reinstate five employees terminated for posting Facebook comments in response to a co-worker's ...
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Lady Gaga Announces Free Counseling Services For Fans On Born This Way Tour
GossipCop
Hot Topics Justin Timberlake · Lady Gaga · Lindsay Lohan · Robert Pattinson · Britney Spears · Justin Bieber · Kristen Stewart. What is Gossip Cop? Find out! Follow on Google Plus · Follow on Pinterest · Follow @gossipcop · Like us on Facebook ...
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Reading, Writing and... Facebook?
PsychCentral.com
Facebook? A new study shows that 94 percent of Israeli high school students accessed social media on their phones during class. Researchers at the University of Haifa said that just 4 percent of students reported not using their cellphones at all ...
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PsychCentral.com
Central Valley man posts suicide note on Facebook
Daily Democrat
HUGHSON (AP) -- A Central California man died after posting a suicide note on Facebook and then driving his car onto railroad tracks about an hour later, as friends and family frantically tried to get in touch with him. Antjuan Miguel Colvin, 21, was ...
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Facebook roundup: Instagram, Poke, New Year's and more
Inside Facebook
Facebook files for Poke trademarks - Facebook filed for three trademarks related to its new Poke application this week. It is seeking trademarks for 'Poke', 'Facebook Poke' and the logo for the app. The company had previously held a trademark for Poke ...
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Inside Facebook

Blogs10 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook's High-Stakes Poker Game | TechCrunch
By Antone Johnson
Editor's note: Antone Johnson is a startup lawyer specializing in early-stage consumer Internet and location-based businesses. Facebook has been..
TechCrunch
Deals Year in Review: Only Facebook Lifted the Tech World - David ...
By David Benoit
Global mergers and acquisition volume in the tech industry slid 10% from the prior year to $198 billion, according to Dealogic.
AllThingsD
Facebook Poke For Mobile, This Week in Social Media | Social ...
By Cindy King
Social media news and new developments making social media marketing easier. (Facebook Poke on mobile, Google+ integration with Blogger, Snapchat)
Social Media Examiner
Deleted Facebook Poke, Snapchat videos can be saved - Tech ...
By IBNLive.com editor@ibnlive.com
Snapchat and its Facebook equivalent Poke kept copies of videos that should be deleted.
IBN Top Headlines
Obama's Facebook Page Features 'Favorite' Photos of 2012 (Can ...
By Erica Ritz
President Obama's apparent penchant for inserting himself into historical events and other people's biographies is well-documented. As 2012 winds to a close, his official campaign arm, "Obama for America," appears to be continuing the ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Does Facebook make everyone a cyborg? | The Raw Story
By Samantha Kimmey
Yet one HuffPo blogger points out the deep resentment that some people have regarding the "ambient intimacy" of Facebook and social media that Case discusses, potentially meaning that "we aren't all cyborgs yet." Responses to the video ...
The Raw Story
Facebook Censors Prominent Political Critics | The Big Picture
By Washingtons Blog
Political Witch Hunt by Popular Social Media Sites We've previously documented that the largest social media websites censor government.
The Big Picture
How To Save Facebook Poke Or Snapchat Pictures - Redmond Pie
By Paul Morris
Opinions are clearly divided on the need to have applications like the new Facebook Poke offering hanging around the iOS App Store, but regardless of individual opinion on the topic it would seem that users seem to enjoy having the ability to ...
Redmond Pie
Facebook, What Happens To Your Photographs, Etc. | Thought ...
By Nathan Savin Scott
She took a photo of herself and some of her friends and posted it on Facebook, because of course she did. The photo was of the girls all looking down and gasping at their phones, with Mark Zuckerberg in the background. This isn't news.
Thought Catalog
Exclusive Facebook Censorship Interview About Recent Account ...
By JGVibes
Facebook has become more and more of a problem for activists over the years, between charging for views and random account cancellations it has become increasingly difficult to get the message out through this medium. This week ...


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