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News28 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook's list of the 25 top-rated games that debuted in 2012
Washington Post
Games can be both a welcome and an annoying diversion on Facebook, the world's most popular online social network. This year, Facebook crossed a big milestone — reaching 1 billion active users. Game companies such as "FarmVille" creator Zynga Inc.
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Facebook joins Nasdaq 100, may boost stock
USA TODAY
Facebook joins Nasdaq 100, may boost stock. Matt Krantz, USA TODAYShare. Comments. facebook. A Facebook worker outside of the social media giant's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Photo: Paul Sakuma, AP) ...
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Facebook's Instagram cuts support for key Twitter integration
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's recently acquired photo-sharing service, Instagram, removed a key element of its integration with Twitter, signaling a deepening rift between two of the Web's dominant social media companies. Instagram's Chief ...
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Facebook: Vote to Keep Voting Rights
ABC News
It's time to head to the polls -- the Facebook polls, that is. It could be the last (even if it's the first) time you ever do. Facebook has opened its online polls, allowing its more than a billion users to vote on a several new proposals, including ...
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Why Facebook will have trouble killing the text message
CNN International
(Time) -- Facebook has started to roll out a new version of its Messenger app for Android that only requires a name and a phone number, not an actual Facebook account, to sign up. Although the new Facebook Messenger app is only available in a handful ...
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Facebook touts app numbers at Paris confab
CNET (blog)
On the mobile side, nearly 200,000 iPhone and Android apps are integrated with Facebook, including 9 of the top 10 grossing iPhone apps. Additionally, more than 45 percent of the top 400 grossing iOS apps use the Facebook SDK, the company said.
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Facebook Won't Automatically Post Private Photos
HispanicBusiness.com
Responding to concerns about its new Photo Sync feature for smartphone users, Facebook said Tuesday that it won't use data from pictures that are automatically uploaded to users' private albums on the social network, unless the user shares them.
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HispanicBusiness.com
Facebook Backer Alisher Usmanov Now Focused on China
Businessweek
Billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who made more than $1 billion investing in Facebook Inc. (FB), is now avoiding the U.S. and focusing on China, where the company holds stakes in online-commerce companies. The valuations of U.S. technology companies are ...
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Austrian student group prepares to raise Facebook concerns in Irish court
Washington Post
Max Schrems, who leads the group and who was recently profiled in The Washington Post, says Facebook collects too much information on its users. After asking the company for his own Facebook profile data last year, Schrems received a 1,222 pages ...
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Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB): Is The Company Building Its Own Social Gaming ...
ETF Daily News (blog)
How the new, more distant relationship with Facebook will impact Zynga's ability to earn revenue from the sale of virtual goods-Facebook friends will no longer be updated on a user's progress in a game-and from advertising, since Zynga will no longer ...
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Proposed Deal Involving Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' Gets Okay
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook is inching closer to putting the "sponsored stories" litigation behind it. A federal judge in San Francisco late Monday gave preliminary approval to a settlement between the social-networking giant and a class of Facebook users who claimed ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook Modifies Guidelines, Clueless Thousands Cut and Paste Response ...
Houston Press (blog)
A funny thing happens whenever Facebook does anything. People lose it. Change the layout of the profile page, go crazy. Add a new feature, go crazy. Change privacy or use guidelines, REALLY go crazy. But the denizens of Facebook are not quite like ...
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Facebook For BlackBerry Gets Expanded BBM Integration
WebProNews
First up is an expansion on Facebook's BlackBerry Messenger integration. Now users can find fellow BlackBerry users on Facebook and add them to their BBM contact list. From there, users can start up BBM chats with their friends instead of using ...
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Facebook shares mount strong comeback
MarketWatch
Shares of Facebook are up nearly 40% from their closing price on Nov. 13, which happened to be the day before the expiration of a massive post-IPO share lockup that unleashed more than 800 million shares held by insiders — many of whom had been ...
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MarketWatch
Game Maker Creates App That Lets Users Insult, Threaten Facebook Friends
CIO (blog)
"Earlier today we launched an app based around Hitman: Absolution that allowed you to place virtual hits on your Facebook friends. Those hits would only be viewable by the recipient and could only be sent to people who were confirmed friends. We were ...
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Facebook Demetricator may be a solution to your 'likes' addiction
Los Angeles Times
The numbers that dot your Facebook page may be small, but boy are they powerful. We feel supported when a lot of people like the picture of last night's dinner, or comment on how cute our children are. And when an update gets no comments we feel ...
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Facebook: The new arbiter of enterprise identity
Computerworld (blog)
Today Facebook knows your identity. Tomorrow Facebook may very well be your identity. Before long, enterprise identity and access management may key off of social media identities rather than remaining an island unto itself. Are you prepared? That's ...
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Checking Facebook at work could actually be a federal crime, two Boston ...
Deseret News
No matter how much you "like" Facebook, browsing the tremendously popular social website at work could actually be against federal law, according to Business Insider. No matter how much you "like" Facebook, browsing the tremendously popular social ...
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Deseret News
Facebook Changes Name Of Subscribe Feature To "Follow" So People ...
TechCrunch
Facebook Subscribe lets you get feed updates from people who don't have to Subscribe back. It's essentially Twitter within Facebook. So to reduce confusion and hopefully boost traction, it's adopting Twitter's terminology and renaming Subscribe as ...
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Facebook Tips for the Over-50 Set
Huffington Post (blog)
Most of us have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. We love it when it connects us with the people we care most about and hate it when our Facebook friends over-share. They may be excited about the wonderful chocolate cake they're enjoying, but ...
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Facebook sets its sights on its next billion users
Memphis Commercial Appeal
A magnifying glass is posed over a monitor displaying a Facebook page in Munich. Facebook is pushing to double the number of users on its network. Analysts question whether it's possible — or matters. (AP Photo/dapd, Joerg Koch, File) ...
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Flight attendant writes she wants to throw coffee in a passenger's face on ...
New York Daily News
BANGKOK — A Cathay Pacific flight attendant is out of a job after writing on her Facebook page that she wanted to throw coffee in a passenger's face because she happened to be the daughter of someone she dislikes intensely: ousted Thai Prime Minister ...
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New York Daily News
West Papua rebel outed on Facebook
The Australian
GERARD Micheal Little's alleged fight for the separatist cause in West Papua unravelled when a Facebook friend told police he had trained at a warfare school in a seedy corner of Ukraine. In a multi-agency sting spanning two states, Australian Federal ...
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Facebook Will Replace Infosys in Nasdaq-100 Next Week
Businessweek
Facebook Inc. (FB) will join the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) next week after the exchange operator shortened its waiting period for inclusion in the gauge, potentially making the stock more attractive to fund managers. The operator of the social network ...
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Facebook invades our MOST private moments: One third of U.S. youngsters ...
Daily Mail
But now, with social media becoming an ever-more important part of our lives, it seems that Facebook has even penetrated as far as our time atop the porcelain throne. A new study found online social networking is becoming so pervasive nearly a third of ...
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Daily Mail
TabSite Boosts Facebook Mobile Fan Interaction with Integrated Instagram ...
ADOTAS
INDIANAPOLIS (December 5, 2012) – TabSite, the industry leader in Facebook fan page management, today announced a new Instagram Contest app for Facebook Pages. The new tool enables brands on Facebook to engage mobile users via Instagram for ...
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US fails to shield Google, Facebook from ITU process
Ars Technica
Nations gathered in Dubai to discuss revising the world's telecommunications regulations have reacted coolly to a proposal, put forward by the United States and Canada, to limit the scope of deliberations. American negotiators had proposed that this ...
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Facebook Makes Weekly Movie Nights Easier with New Repeat Event Option
WebProNews
Facebook has just pushed an update to the site that makes creating repeat events easier by populating new events with all of the previously saved information and inviting all of the same guests for you. The new feature was announced by Facebook ...
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Blogs12 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Talks App Traction: 350 Apps Have 1M+ Monthly Actives ...
By Sarah Perez
Facebook today announced new numbers related to Facebook app usage on its site, as well as its integration into mobile platforms like iPhone and Android. The..
TechCrunch
Facebook Users Have One Week to Vote on Policy Changes, Voting ...
By Anita Li
Facebook users have five more days to cast their ballot in the "Facebook Site Governance Vote."
Mashable!
Facebook to Join Nasdaq-100 - Michael Driscoll - News - AllThingsD
By Michael Driscoll
Facebook Inc. will join the Nasdaq-100 Index at the start of trading next Wednesday, Nasdaq OMX Group said late Tuesday.
AllThingsD
Facebook faces European legal showdown over privacy violation ...
By RT
Facebook is about to be the subject of a new legal battle over its data protection policies and alleged violations of privacy as an Austrian privacy group plans to bring the case in an Irish court.
News RSS : Today
Facebook Unveils The Top Rated Games Of 2012
By Robin Wauters
Facebook has unveiled its list of the best 25 games from its social network and mobile platform.
The Next Web
Facebook to add design team to NYC office
By Brittany Darwell
Designers, of which Facebook currently has about 90, have traditionally worked from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Now in order to collaborate with the sales team and key clients on advertising products, a team of designers will ...
Inside Facebook
You Can Now Vote on Facebook's Policy of Having to Vote on ...
By Liz Klimas
If you care about being able to voice your opinion on Facebook's future policy changes -- and have the site listen -- you'll want to to vote on its current proposed revisions. You might never have the chance to do so again. Among the changes to ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
The State of Facebook: What's Working Now | Copyblogger
By Andrea Vahl
Although Facebook is flawed, it can still be a valuable part of your overall content strategy. Here's what's working best lately ...
Copyblogger
Facebook Wants You To Vote On Policy That Wouldn't Let You Vote ...
By Mary Beth Quirk
Facebook is at it again, this time asking its users to vote on some new changes to its data use policy and statement of rights and responsibilities. The kind of stuff that you might ignore, if you didn't know that allowing the changes would mean ...
The Consumerist
Facebook snubs 'Subscribe' button in favor of Twitter-esque 'Follow ...
By Ellis Hamburger
Facebook today announced that every user's Timeline profile page will soon include "Follow" buttons instead of "Subscribe" buttons. The move is an obvious effort to encourage users to follow...
The Verge - All Posts
New Facebook App Update for BlackBerry: Discover BBM friends ...
By Donny H.
New Facebook for BlackBerry version brings even more features to the popular social networking app.
Inside BlackBerry
Facebook's Top 25 Games From 2012 « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
By KTVTPhil
Games can be both a welcome and an annoying diversion on Facebook, the world's most popular online social network.
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Web5 new results for Facebook
 
Social Business | ZDNet
Featured Stories. Here's how Facebook keeps track of who you are stalking ... Facebook users have one week to vote on voting rights · Scam: New Update from ...
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Binders Full Of Women | Facebook
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Facebook to Join Nasdaq-100 - WSJ.com
Facebook will join the Nasdaq-100 Index at the start of trading next Wednesday, Nasdaq OMX Group said.
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Facebook voting begins on Instagram data-sharing, email privacy ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc opened the polls on Monday for its roughly 1 billion users to vote on a variety of changes to the social network's ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-facebook-vote-idUSBRE8B21DL2012...


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