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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Watch Out Facebook, With Google+ at #2 and YouTube at #3, Google, Inc. Could ...
Forbes
A report by UK market research firm Trendstream updated its Global Web Index this week which showed how well Google's strategy is working in terms of getting users engaged in its social networks. According to GWI, Google+ is now the second largest ...
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Forbes
Facebook Blocks Vine, Wonder Apps
InformationWeek
Facebook also blocked Russian search engine Yandex's new Wonder app, which provides users with a way to search social data streams. Facebook, as it happens, just introduced its own social search service, Graph Search. [ Is Google about to become a ...
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Facebook, Instagram Ask More Users to Verify Accounts with Photo IDs
PC Magazine
If you're one of the unknown number of users who have been hit with a temporary shutdown of your account on either service lately, it's likely that Instagram and/or its parent company, Facebook, is asking you to confirm your identity. And to do so ...
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Even Syrian Activists Fall In Love On Facebook
NPR (blog)
Syrian activists tend to spend long nights on Skype and Facebook, sending and receiving updates on the battle to oust the government. And online is also where they sometimes fall in love. Mohsen, an activist from Hama, says he first met Sara, his ...
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NPR (blog)
10 Awesome Pranks to Play On Your Facebook Friends
Mashable
So, make an utterly random comment on one of your victim's posts, wait for his off-topic response and then delete your original remark. This way, your victim will look like he's talking nonsense. To delete a comment after the fact, simply hover over it ...
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Vine, Facebook fall out; Facebook clarifies policies
Washington Post
Vine has been cut out of Facebook — at least in part. The new app, which was designed by a Twitter-owned company, limits you to six-second bursts of film creativity and carries a menu option to find friends who are using Vine on its network. But when ...
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Washington Post
Does Facebook Owe You Money?
Gizmodo
In October, Facebook agreed to a settlement about this whole Sponsored Stories issue, wherein they may have used your likeness in a Sponsored Story ad without your permission. The settlement set aside $20 million for you poor, wronged souls, and now ...
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Why the Facebook and Apple empires are bound to fall
The Guardian
Nothing lasts forever: if history has any lesson for us, it is this. It's a thought that comes from rereading Paul Kennedy's magisterial tome, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, in which he shows that none of the great nation-states or empires of ...
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The Guardian
GOLDMAN'S JIM O'NEILL: Facebook Is To Blame For The Outbreak Of Global ...
Business Insider
Every once in a while, since the economic crisis started, the phrase "currency wars" pops up. It just means central banks trying to weaken their currencies (to make their countries more competitive) and other countries complaining about said weakening ...
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How Long Til Facebook Clones Vine? No, Facebook Should Have Invented Vine
TechCrunch
Facebook used to build the future, but since the mobile era began it's been chasing what's next — buying Instagram, reskinning Beluga as Messenger, copying Snapchat as Poke, and now getting beat to animated photos by Twitter's Vine and Cinemagram.
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TechCrunch
Facebook Is Primed To Disrupt Online Dating
TechCrunch
But there is a site out there with 1 billion people that is quite familiar with my friends and me, as well as all of our interests: Facebook. I have been involved in the dating and social industries since 2003. I was the vice president of product at ...
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TechCrunch
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg steps into politics
Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook confirmed that co-founder and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg will make a foray into politics next month by hosting a fundraiser for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The mid-February event at Zuckerberg's home in the California ...
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Times of India
Chelsea Clinton visits Detroit boxing gym, posts Facebook picture of herself ...
MLive.com
DETROIT, MI - Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton (the departing Secretary of State), posted on Facebook she paid a visit Friday to Detroit's Downtown Boxing Gym. And she posted a Facebook ...
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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook say they require warrants to give over ...
The Verge
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook all say that they require full warrants in order to provide the contents of emails and messages to government entities, The Hill reports. That's a higher standard than currently required by US law, which as of now ...
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Manti Te'o 'fake girlfriend' says she's off Facebook, social media
Los Angeles Times
DIane O'Meara, the Southern California woman linked to an elaborate hoax involving Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, said she is shutting down all her social media. O'Meara wrote an opinion piece for The Times in which she talked about the incident.
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Facebook tip leads deputies to auto burglary suspect
MyFox Tampa Bay
A Facebook tip lead authorities in Charlotte County to a car burglary suspect sought in connection with a December 20th incident at a Port Charlotte CVS Pharmacy location. Tony Curtus Goforth was booked Friday into the Charlotte County Jail where he is ...
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Police use Facebook 'fans' to help fight crime
Canton Repository
Roadside sobriety-test videos, jailhouse mugshots, lost dogs and even a police chief's latest rant against criminals increasingly are drawing Facebook fans across the nation to police department Facebook pages. More importantly, police say their fans ...
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Do You Have A Case Of The Facebook Blues?
CBS Local
If you feel lonely, frustrated or angry after you log onto Facebook, you are not alone. A study conducted by two German universities found that one in three people felt dissatisfied about their lives after spending time on the world's largest social ...
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CBS Local
Facebook, Twitter, Stop Fighting!
Mashable
Guys, please. I know you've got serious differences, but you still love us users, right? Right? A Cold War has been brewing between the two major social media services for the better part of a year — and it heated up Friday. That's when Facebook ...
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Kiwi: Facebook loses its cool
Stuff.co.nz
Facebook is losing its shine among Kiwi teenagers, probably because their parents are flocking to it. Auckland digital strategist Justin Flitter said the number of younger users opting to delete their Facebook accounts was "staggering" and he ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Facebook tip helps Charlotte County deputies arrest man for car burglary
The News-Press
Charlotte County Sheriff's detectives arrested a Port Charlotte man for a car burglary and purse theft, thanks to a tip received after viewing surveillance photos on the CCSO Facebook page. Arrested for Grand Theft and Burglary of a Conveyance was 51 ...
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'Facebook for cops' could prove costly
TCPalm
Anne Marie Rasmussen was a former police officer who competed in body building contests in Minneapolis. The petite blonde received many offers for dates from officers. What surprised Rasmussen, however, was that after asking for a date, her admirers ...
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Charges dismissed in Facebook photo saga
Journal and Courier
Technology played a key role in helping investigators piece together the case against a Lafayette woman accused of deliberately posting a nude photo of her 14-year-old daughter to Facebook. The popular social networking site showed how it was uploaded, ...
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Clean up Your Facebook Profile With FaceWash
Mashable
We've all been there. Your grandmother just joined Facebook, your boss sent you a friend request or you're applying for that dream job. Suddenly, you're scrambling to purge your profile of last night's pictures plus everything else you wouldn't want ...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg to hold fundraiser for Chris Christie
American Thinker (blog)
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a high profile supporter of President Obama during the election campaign. But that won't stop him from holding a fundraiser for his favorite Republican: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. New York Times: ...
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Facebook roundup: mobile app, lobbying, HQ expansion, mental health and more
Inside Facebook
fb icon Facebook finishes 2012 as No. 1 mobile app in U.S. – Facebook edged Google Maps as the top mobile app in the U.S. at the end of 2012, according to ComScore. Google's app had been No. 1 until October when Apple implemented its own maps ...
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Facebook updates developer policy after Vine scuffle
PC Advisor
Facebook has updated its policies for third-party application developers in a bid to explain why Twitter's new Vine video-sharing app is unable to access Facebook's friend-finder tool. Related Articles. Twitter launches Vine for sharing quick, looping ...
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Facebook bars Twitter's video streaming service Vine from contacting users
Times of India
LONDON: A day after Twitter unveiled a new app Vine, rival firm Facebook has cut off the video-sharing application's "find people" button, which allowed members to connect to their friends on the social networking giant. Twitter users trying to use the ...
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Times of India
Facebook challenge offers brides-to-be chance at wedding planning tour
Times-Standard
Gala Beleza Events & Weddings and Humboldt Limousine, LLC have partnered to take brides on the Wedding Planning on Wheels Tour, according to a press release. The free tour will chauffer eight engaged brides-to-be in Humboldt Limousine's Krystal ...
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Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Class Action Lawsuit - Business Insider
By Dylan Love
So Facebook got caught using people's likenesses in Sponsored Stories without their permission. A class action lawsuit ensued and it was settled for $20 million. Now Facebook might have to cough up $10 for you if you are one of the people ...
Business Insider
Facebook May Owe You $10 From Class-Action Lawsuit - FOX 4
By Barrett Tryon
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Facebook offered to settle a class-action lawsuit in December rather than face it in court. And, some money could be coming to you. The $20 million payout stems from people who "may have been featured in a ...
fox4kc.com – Kansas City news...
I have a problem with Facebook's Zuckerberg hosting - AMERICAblog
By Chris in Paris
Remember, Facebook's Zuckerberg wants to fund the destruction of unions and doesn't believe in equality. Other than that, he's a great guy.
AMERICAblog
Social site oldies mean Facebook loses its cool | Stuff.co.nz
By AMY MAAS
Facebook is losing its shine among Kiwi teenagers, probably because their parents are flocking to it.
Stuff.co.nz - Digital living
Problems referencing Facebook SDK C# WP8 from C++ Windows ...
By Iulian
I try to reference facebook.dll - wp8 branch - within an app of type "Windows Phone Direct3D App (Native only)" project under Visual C++ VS2012, and I get the error: a reference to [dllname] cannot be added because the two projects target ...
Recent Questions - Stack Overflow
Oh, if only Downton Abbey had a Facebook page…. | Tellyspotting
By Bill Young
…catching up on episodes would be so easy and life on social media would be suddenly worth the time. Unfortunately, it will never happen as it would be a bit difficult to install WiFi at Downton given the Dowager Countess' feelings toward ...
Tellyspotting
Facebook and Google+ Avatars | drupal.org
By mariner702
I have my site integrated with addthis and when someone likes my homepage with Facebook, there's just a red block in the page. And when someones "pluses" a product via Google+ the CMS logo shows in their pages. I have my logo and ...
drupal.org - Post installation
Even Syrian Activists Fall In Love On Facebook
The activists spend a lot of time online. Mostly they follow the twists and turns of Syria's uprising. But they also fall in love this way.
GPB News Feed
Some Facebook and Instagram Users Being Forced to Provide ...
By Brandon Russell
Multiple reports suggest Facebook and Instagram users are suddenly being locked out of their accounts without explanation. And the only way to regain access is to provide an image of a government issued ID. Apparently, a select number of ...
TechnoBuffalo
Free package of Oscar Mayer Pulled Pork (Facebook offer) | Money ...
By Crystal
Leave a Taste-a-monial on the Oscar Mayer Facebook Page and, if enough people do so, we'll all get a coupon for a FREE Oscar Mayer product. Right now it's up to $6.50 off. Let's get it up to FREE! We all pulled this off last year so let's do it ...
Money Saving Mom® » Hot Deals
Facebook Profile May Expose Mental Illness | Peace . Gold . Liberty
By libertyablaze
"A person's Facebook profile may reveal signs of mental illness that might not necessarily emerge in a session with a psychiatrist, a new study suggests. "The beauty of social media activity as a tool in psychological diagnosis is that it removes ...
Peace . Gold . Liberty - Daily...
New Facebook Graph Search: How To Protect Privacy - South Cobb ...
By South Cobb Patch
The powerful social network launches a new feature.
South Cobb Patch
A baby scale that connects to Facebook: awesome or outrageous ...
By Molly Balint
My grandmother had fifteen children. I'll give you a moment to wrap your mind around that thought. One of the stories I've heard told about my grandmother is that she used to keep a baby scale in the house to weigh her babies before and after ...
BabyCenter Blog

Web3 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Mystery Announcement: What to Expect
What we may hear at Facebook's event on Tuesday.
www.cnbc.com/.../_Facebook_Mystery_Announcement_What...
Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work , study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ...
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Facebook Vaults Ahead of Google Maps to Finish 2012 as #1 U.S. ...
With another interesting year in digital media in the books, we can now begin our retrospective view of what happened in 2012 in order help bring the digital ...
www.comscore.com/.../Facebook_Vaults_Ahead_of_Google_...


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