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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Shares Fall Briefly Amid Report of Instagram Quitters
Wired
The fallout from Instagram's terms of service change that wasn't actually changed continued Friday. Facebook, which owns the popular social media app, saw its stock price fall 3 percent amid a report that the TOS flap cost Instagram 25 percent of its ...
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Wired
Facebook Poke and the Tedium of Success Theater
New York Times (blog)
Don't get me wrong: My use of Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook has never been greater. But I'm growing tired of seeing everyone's perfectly framed, glittering nightscapes of the Manhattan skyline, their impeccably prepared meals, those ...
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Man leaves Facebook suicide farewell, parks car on train tracks Christmas ...
New York Daily News
A California man parked his car on an Amtrak railroad crossing before a northbound train struck him at 75 mph at 9:48 Christmas night. He was declared dead at the scene. About 45 minutes earlier, Antjuan Miguel Colvin, 21, of Waterford was typing the ...
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New York Daily News
Deals Year in Review: Only Facebook Lifted the Tech World
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Outside of Facebook's $16 billion offering, the tech world's deal activity dropped across the board this year. Global mergers and acquisition volume in the industry slid 10% from the prior year to $198 billion and follow-on offerings dropped 31% to $16 ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook Pays Less Than 1 Percent In Foreign Taxes On $1.4 Billion Profit
Huffington Post
Social media giant Facebook is the latest American corporation to use its offshore entities as a way to dodge the taxman, paying only a 0.3 percent tax rate on more than a billion dollars in foreign profits. In 2011, Facebook Ireland paid just $4.7 ...
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Watch Randi Zuckerberg Have a Facebook Freakout Over Her Photo Going Viral
Gizmodo
Watch Randi Zuckerberg Have a Facebook Freakout Over Her Photo Going Viral You probably already read about Randi Zuckerberg's faux-privacy violation on Facebook this week. But odds are you're not part of her inner circle. Lucky for you, a tipster who's ...
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Facebook friends fan interest in TV shows, study finds
Los Angeles Times
A new study reveals that social-network conversations about a television show can increase viewership. "How Chatter Matters in TV Viewing," Nielsen research conducted for the cable industry association CTAM, shows a powerful connection between ...
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Facebook Fixes Webcam Vulnerability After Receiving Tip
Bloomberg (blog)
Facebook is one of a few technology companies — along with Google and Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser — that encourages outsiders to hack their products in return for cash payouts. Some companies, notably Microsoft, have shunned "bug bounties" ...
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Bloomberg (blog)
Fla. boy designs kid-friendly rival to Facebook
USA TODAY (blog)
Facebook restricts users younger than 13 though it's considering lowering that to attract more youth now that it's a publicly-traded company. However, underage users can easily work around that policy and many parents even assist their children in ...
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Facebook and One Direction Among Top Wikipedia Articles in 2012
Mashable
Facebook, One Direction and the Mayan apocalypse-that-wasn't were among the most visited English-language Wikipedia pages in 2012, according to a list complied by Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson. The Avengers, Fifty Shades of Grey, The ...
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Make Your Facebook News Feed Stop The Rings And Babies
Forbes
This isn't about my Facebook page insights or promoted ads interaction. This is purely the number of engagement announcements from family and friends that have hit my feed over the past 30 days. That number is nine for anyone curious (seven in the past ...
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How much data did Facebook have on one man? 1200 pages of data in 57 ...
Wired.co.uk
"Personal data is the 'oil' Facebook is drilling for," says Max Schrems, Austrian law student and founder of the advocacy group Europe versus Facebook. "They might not have the best motor to burn it yet, but they know it will be coming." Schrems, 26 ...
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Wired.co.uk
Facebook in 2013: More Growing Pains Ahead
Mashable
We'll get to our Facebook predictions for 2013 in a minute. First, here's a pertinent prediction from 2011. In January of that year, when Goldman Sachs had just become an investor, Facebook could do no wrong. A financial analyst called Albert Babayev ...
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Is Facebook's Privacy Policy Too Confusing?
U.S. News & World Report
Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, posted a photo to Facebook which subsequently ended up posted to the Twitter account of the marketing director of Vox Media—and was then visible to her 40,000 followers. Zuckerberg was ...
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Facebook Instagram use dived after photo fiasco: AppData
Yahoo! News (blog)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared the photo-sharing service would use their pictures without compensation.
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Yahoo! News (blog)
Facebook Gifts: Now All Your Friends Can See Your Generosity
DailyFinance
Facebook hasn't had a problem attracting restaurants, florists, and makers of eclectic gifts to its social commerce platform. Who wouldn't want to have enhanced exposure on Facebook? And for Facebook, the selling of tangible gifts represents huge ...
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Indiana teen arrested after alleged Facebook threats
Chicago Tribune
Friends tried to calm Rizley down online after he allegedly made Facebook posts such as, "Watch out portage people might be dying soon," officials said. Police were called when he allegedly continued to post statements such as, "No seriously imma go on ...
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It's Easy to Save Videos From Facebook Poke Permanently
Mashable
Apps like Snapchat and Facebook Poke let users send short messages, photos or videos that automatically self-destruct after a few seconds. However, it's actually very easy for a recipient to save some of those messages permanently -- and without the ...
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Store gains exposure through Facebook auction
DesMoinesRegister.com
Going once, going twice, refresh … sold to the Facebook user with the highest bid. Shortly before Christmas, Facebook became an auction stage for a Pleasant Hill business specializing in vintage, consignment furniture. With the sale of about a dozen ...
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Review: Making Facebook a warmer, smaller space
The News Journal
A Facebook User Operations Safety Team worker looks at reviews at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Curating your Facebook news feed, and other practices that can help personalize a user's Facebook activity, can be a burdensome process, but ...
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Facebook recovers nearly all losses brought on by false Instagram story
The Next Web
Following the brouhaha concerning a supposedly massive decline in Instagram usership, Facebook's stock recovered today, closing a mere half point down, having reached breakeven for the day shortly before. As QZ noted earlier, the story declaring that ...
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Facebook Post Leads Father To Gift Of Hearing
CBS Local
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (WCCO) – A man from Alexandria got a very unusual Christmas present Friday, and it all started with a Facebook post. Steve Hensley said on Facebook that he liked hearing his daughter on the baby monitor. It turns out Steve has mild ...
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CBS Local
Khamenei Page Prompts Calls For Iran To Unblock Facebook
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Thanks to a Facebook page in the name of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supporters and opponents of Iran's supreme leader now agree on one thing: Iran should free up access to the social-networking site. "Khorasan" last week published an opinion piece titled ...
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Facebook Vs. Groupon: Which Has a Brighter Future?
The motley Fool (blog)
Several, in fact, have upgraded their price targets. Is this attitude justified? Facebook trades at 24.2x cash flow (industry average: 17.6x) and 8.2x book value (industry average: 5.2x). It has a 16.9% return on invested capital, which is 250 bps ...
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Mumbaikars shun 'depressing' Twitter, Facebook
Daily News & Analysis
Many people hooked to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook have off late echoed similar views. Many people are avoiding using the networking sites, saying there is too much of negativism and cynical statements and insensitive approach of ...
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Data Shows Online Buzz About Snapchat Is Skyrocketing After The Launch Of ...
TechCrunch
Data from social media and web analytics firm Topsy indicates that mentions of Snapchat have skyrocketed since Facebook rolled out its Poke app last week. Hat-tip to Bloomberg social media director Jared Keller for who pointed out the shift in a Tweet ...
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Facebook page making a difference in Los Banos
ABC30.com
Jayden's death also inspired Monica Gallagher to immediately launch a Facebook page she was developing called "Los Banos Community Pay It Forward." People quickly signed up on the page to provide meals to the Thomas family for an entire month after ...
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ABC30.com
CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Now Controls Nearly One-Fifth Of US Mobile ...
Business Insider
The chart below presents a visualization of Facebook remarkable performance. The social network wasn't in the picture in 2011. One year later, it has seized a fatter share of U.S. mobile display revenues than heavyweights such as Google, Pandora, and ...
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Business Insider
Facebook Is Wikipedia's Most Popular Article Of 2012: Hot Topic Or Confused ...
Search Engine Land
What was the most viewed article on Wikipedia this year? The one about Facebook. Is Facebook really that popular of a Wikipedia topic? Perhaps, but more likely, confused searchers are getting to the Wikipedia page rather than Facebook itself. Yesterday ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating - Reason Online
By Scott Shackford
Why doesn't domestic surveillance stir more outrage?
Hit & Run
Facebook stocks lower as Instagram loses 3.5M users | Economy ...
NEW YORK - Facebook shares fell Friday after a report said its photo-sharing app Instagram had lost millions of users following the release of planned policy changes since dropped on an outcry from users.
GMA News Online
Daily Kos: Surprise! Facebook Avoids its European Taxes
By rss@dailykos.com (Kenneth Thomas)
Cross-posted from Middle Class Political Economist. If you are as cynical as I am, I know you are not surprised that Facebook paid Irish taxes (via Tax Justice Network) of about $4.64 million on its entire non-US profits of $1.344 billion for 2011.
Recent
Facebook Censors Gandhi | Right Wing News
By Dave Blount
Facebook Censors Gandhi. Written By : Dave Blount December 28, 2012. Mahatma Gandhi is a demigod among moonbats. After all, he is the guy who struck a nonviolent deathblow to the declining British Empire, and who snarkily sneered, ...
Right Wing News
Facebook shares fall as Instagram loses millions of users | The Raw ...
By Agence France-Presse
Facebook shares fell Friday after a report said its photo-sharing app Instagram had lost millions of users following the release of planned policy changes since dropped on an outcry from users. According to audience tracker AppData.com, over ...
The Raw Story
Facebook dodges potential 'peeping Tom' webcam exploit thanks to ...
By Nathan Ingraham
It appears that Facebook has dodged a somewhat serious security mishap that would have allowed hackers to remotely and secretly activate user webcams and post the recorded video to their profiles. A...
The Verge - All Posts
Facebook tops list of most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2012 | CNET ...
By customerservice@cnet.co.uk (Joe Svetlik)
The social network was the most-viewed Wikipedia article of the year, ahead of One Direction and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Latest articles in Crave at CNET UK
Portage Teen Arrested For Making Threats On Facebook « CBS ...
By Todd Feurer
The father of one of Eric Rizley's friends contacted police after seeing Rizley had posted: "Watch out portage people might be dying soon," on Thursday.
CBS Chicago
2012's most viewed Wikipedia article: Facebook
By Tim Schiesser
The list of the top 100 most viewed English articles on Wikipedia is in, and the #1 spot is claimed by the Facebook article with over 32 million views. Others in the list are somewhat surprising.
Neowin
PowerShares QQQ Trust And Facebook Among Most Active Stocks ...
By Christopher Witrak
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL The three most active funds and stocks in pre-market trading on the Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) were PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), and Aeterna Zentaris (NASDAQ:AEZS) ...
Minyanville
Facebook Bans Gandhi Quote as Part of Revisionist History Purge :
By Alex
Mike Adams | They suspended our account and gave us a "final warning" that one more violation of their so-called "community guidelines" would result in our account being deactivated.
A BUBBLING CAULDRON: Saying Goodbye To Facebook
By The Pot Stirrer
More than a year ago, HERE, I wrote about why I was considering leaving Facebook. As you scroll down through all those "maybes" I included you'll understand my mindset then and, for the most part, now. Go ahead and read it, then come ...
A BUBBLING CAULDRON
4 Ways to Prepare a Facebook Content Plan for 2013 | Social Media ...
By Mac Ocampo
We all know that content be it branded or user-generated is what fuels social channels. Without comments, shares, and retweets, a great social platform is like a slick porsche with flat tires.
Social Media Today - The world's...
Did Instagram's Terms Of Use Flop Hurt Facebook? - AllFacebook
By Justin Lafferty
After mass confusion over Instagram's updated terms of use, several users took to Facebook and Twitter to express their outrage over the company supposedly selling photographs. But how many people actually stopped using the application?
AllFacebook

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Stories - People using Facebook in extraordinary ways
A site dedicated to sharing the extraordinary, quirky and thought-provoking stories and ideas from Facebook's community.
www.facebookstories.com/midnightdelivery
Facebook Instagram use dived after photo fiasco: AppData | Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-facebook-instagram-idUSBRE8BR0HE...


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