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News28 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook offers physical gift cards for selected retail stores
PCWorld
The product, called the "Facebook Card," is a plastic, reusable card that users can give their friends to redeem at four different partner companies: Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target. Facebook describes the product as "a new type of gift ...
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Facebook Ramps Up News Discovery Battle Against Apps Like Flipboard With ...
TechCrunch
Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with "Articles Related To…". This special feed story shows you popular links that lead to content mentioning Pages you ...
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TechCrunch
Coming soon to Facebook- more action, battle games
Reuters
By Malathi Nayak. SAN FRANCISCO | Fri Feb 1, 2013 4:31pm EST. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When nWay began a trial of its dark, sci-fi combat game "ChronoBlade" on Facebook last year, the San Francisco-based startup felt sure it had a hit on its hands.
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Conservatives To Facebook: Screw You Guys, We're Going Home
Wonkette (satire)
the new soundtrack to your liebrul-free lives Has Facebook not been meeting your needs, conservative friends? Have you long wished for an alternative where you and only your people could come together and share pictures of guns to fap to and new ...
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Wonkette (satire)
Facebook settlement emails: Message saying social networking site may owe ...
WXYZ
The class action claims Facebook unlawfully used names, profile pictures, photographs, likenesses and identities to advertise or sell products and services without obtaining permission. Facebook denied any wrongdoing. But, if you or your child have had ...
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WXYZ
You May Have Received An Email Last Night Saying Facebook Owes You $10
Business Insider
The Action claims that Facebook unlawfully used the names, profile pictures, photographs, likenesses, and identities of Facebook users in the United States to advertise or sell products and services through Sponsored Stories without obtaining those ...
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Business Insider
Facebook and Google not in a relationship, Zuckerberg says
TechRadar UK
... Google isn't one where the companies really talk." Now, this could mean that Facebook and Google don't really have any reason to talk, but given Facey's desperate need to own the mobile space, part occupied by Google, everyone knows that isn't true.
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Woman Finds Birth Parents Through Viral Facebook Photo
Mashable
One woman in search of her biological parents found her apparent birth mother and father after posting a picture of herself on Facebook. On Jan. 27, Jenessa Simons shared a photo of herself holding a handwritten sign with her birth information. Two ...
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Facebook Testing Suggested Page Ads in News Feed
Adweek
Last summer, Facebook began experimenting with running ads in the News Feed devoid of the social connections typical to its Sponsored Story units. Rather than requiring an ad only be shown to fans of a brand's Facebook Page or their friends, marketers ...
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Adweek
Goodbye Barney: Thousands mourn Bush's terrier via Facebook
WJLA
The statement was reposted on the former president's Facebook page and had drawn more than 31,000 comments by Saturday morning, all expressing sympathy for the family's loss. The Facebook page also shared a 64-photo gallery of Barney, including ...
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WJLA
Why Building Your Own Corporate Facebook Will Usually Fail
Forbes
A new study from Baylor University tells the alluring tale of a company that used a proprietary social network—its own internal Facebook, in other words—to great benefit. The study makes the network's success seem like an easy feat. But according to ...
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Facebook: Teens might be so over us
CNET
Facebook's teen users are switching their attention to other applications, the company warned in the risks section of its 10-K annual report, which was filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The legal disclosure, included below, marks ...
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Facebook tests statuses with emoticons
Los Angeles Times
The social network began letting a small number of its users post statuses this week that include small and colorful icons, similar to the emoticons people often use in text messages, emails and on Facebook chat. The company said the test feature ...
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Another Iffy Quarter For Facebook When It Needed A Win
Seeking Alpha
Facebook Inc (FB) is currently down slightly from its close on January 30th before the company issued its quarterly earnings report, recovering from a plunge below $30 in after hours trading on that day. Facebook reported a 40% increase in revenue last ...
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Facebook: 76 million accounts were fake last year
Computerworld
Facebook said it continually tries to improve its ability to identify these duplicate or false accounts. It also noted that there's a higher percentage of such accounts in developing countries such as Indonesia and Turkey, compared to developed markets ...
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Lobos confessing wild ways on Facebook
KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - The University of New Mexico, the state's flagship university, is not exactly known for wild parties or a crazy campus culture, until now. "We have some sad, some funny, some kind of raunchy and some just like really bad ...
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Facebook sues Profile Technology in control fight over user data
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Facebook Inc. accused an application developer in a lawsuit of continuing to display information about users of the social-networking website after Facebook tried to add protections to the data. Profile Technology Ltd. failed to keep its agreement to ...
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On the Ansar al Sharia Facebook pages
Long War Journal
A longtime reader asked me via email earlier today, "What are we to make of the Eiffel Tower graphic you posted? Is there some specific threat behind it?" She is referring to the image included at the top of my LWJ article, Ansar al Sharia Egypt calls ...
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GoFundMe, Facebook help people raise cash for wants, needs
Orlando Sentinel
Brenda Lynn says her autistic 3-year-old son, Kaleo, hardly speaks, and his inability to express himself frustrates him — except when using his speech therapist's iPad. "The iPad really controlled the tantrums and helped him communicate. I tried to ...
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Orlando Sentinel
Facebook going after hardcore gamers
CNET
Facebook is boosting its efforts to attract hardcore gamers -- the players who spend the most time and money on games -- by helping developers launch at least 10 new high-quality gaming titles this year, according to a report from Reuters. These are ...
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Many Aussies opt for Facebook-Free February
Times of India
SYDNEY: Australians who are now sick and tired of wasting hours on social network and are worried about their privacy, have vowed to drop Facebook this month in favour of real-life social contact, phone calls and emails. Many people who are bored to ...
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Times of India
Major backlash for Burger King on Facebook and Twitter as horse meat found in ...
IrishCentral
Commenters erupted on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. @zmama891 Tweeted: 'Burger King.....that is not good!!!!!!! Don't think I will be having a Whopper for a very long time.....here's to homemade burgers.' @Cresean agreed: 'Never have to ...
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IrishCentral
Facebook Campaign Rescues 'Gay Bulldog' From Execution
Mashable
A male bulldog was saved from execution earlier this week after a clamorous Facebook campaign jumped to its defense. According to the Daily Dot, the dog — pictured here — was returned to the Tennessee shelter where it was purchased after its owner ...
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Facebook's Graph Search is a different kind of search
San Jose Mercury News
Zuckerberg has touted Graph Search as a "third pillar" of the popular social networking service -- as important to the Facebook experience as Timeline or News Feed, the two main pages where users can find their own posts and a daily stream of updates ...
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Two Reasons Facebook Fell
Fox Business
Facebook released quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 Wednesday evening. Despite solid growth, the price of the stock tumbled in after-hours trading. It opened trading Thursday morning 6.7% lower than the close Wednesday. Revenue in the ...
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Facebook Warns: Mobile Ads Are A Double-Edged Sword For Us
Business Insider
However, what Facebook loses in volume it makes up in margin, the report says. "The lower volume of ads per mobile user is partially offset by the higher price per ad for mobile, and we are investing to try to make our mobile ads more valuable over ...
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Facebook is turning facial recognition back on - so here's how to check your ...
Naked Security
At the end of 2010, the tell-us-all-about-yourself social networking service announced that it would be using facial recognition to make it easier for you to tag other people in your photos. Just in case you didn't know the names of all of the "friends ...
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Facebook report reveals 76 million accounts were 'fake' last year
Tech2
In the report filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission on Friday, Facebook revealed that out of the 1.06 billion user accounts on its site, around 76 million of them were fake in one way or the other. According to the report filed by Facebook ...
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Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Understanding Facebook's EdgeRank | Social Media Today
By Cara Tarbaj
A recent controversy over average Facebook Page reach led Facebook to publicly announce the four main factors it uses to determine the reach each Page post gets. These are the factors you should concentrate on in order to increase ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Local News Station's Shockingly Insensitive Facebook Post About a ...
By Jason Howerton
An NBC affiliate serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area apologized Friday for penning an extremely insensitive Facebook post about a Fort Hood soldier's tragic death. "BOOops," the post began, jokingly referring to a Fort Hood soldier who ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
I Empirically Show Facebook Getting "My Space[d]" As They Actually ...
By Reggie Middleton
The Truth About Facebook That No Media Outlet Or Analyst Has Bothered To Notice.
Fox News Facebook fans asked…and I answered! « Gretawire
By Greta Van Susteren
ON THE RECORD at 10pm/ET turns 11 years old on Monday! To celebrate our anniversary, I answered some viewer questions from the Fox News Facebook page…take a look! Make sure [...]
Gretawire
Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is a lousy tipper? - Zap2it
By mchance
Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg is no friend of the service industry, or so says an insider at a fancy hotel in Maui.
Pop2it
html - facebook registration form integration - Stack Overflow
By user2035710
I have mad a website and I wanted to include a Facebook registration form using Facebook Developers. I created an account and mad an app. When I copy and paste the html for the registration form I put in my app id where it says (in the ...
Recent Questions - Stack Overflow
The Top 25 Facebook games of February 2013
By Mike Thompson
With the recent changes to Facebook's reporting, we've had to modify how the Top 25 charts looks. Starting next month, we'll be able to look back at the previous month and begin incorporating data like chart position changes and tier changes ...
Inside Social Games
Facebook Spent $87M on M&A in 2012, In Addition to Instagram ...
By Todd Haselton
The books show that Facebook spent $15 million on acquiring new net assets, but that $72 million was filed under "goodwill," which Facebook says includes "expected synergies from future growth and potential monetization opportunities" in ...
TechnoBuffalo
Can You Make Free Voice Calls with Facebook Messenger? | BlogHer
By Virginia DeBolt
Facebook is rolling out some new functionality for its mobile Messenger app. The rollout started in Canada and is making its way to U.S. iPhones now. The new feature allows you to make free voice calls through Messenger if you are ...
BlogHer
Has Facebook Joined The Leftist Media? - Noisy Room.net
By TMH
By: Nancy Morgan RightBias.com. The advent of 'social media' has been heralded as a new, unbiased forum where ideology, politics and opinions are able to compete on a level playing field. From talk radio to social networking sites like ...
NoisyRoom.net
Graph Search – The Future of Facebook
By vrakhmanin
Vladimir Rakhmanin gets a sneak peek at some of the changes Facebook has in store for its users.
The University Times
DH is an idiot and SD's Facebook proves it | Step Talk
By Still Have Hope
Last month sd asked for $500 claiming her student loans would not cover her books for this semester. DH forks it over with no questions asked. She is only taking 3 courses, very basic, not ones with hundred dollar texts. So yesterday bd14 ...
Step Talk
Facebook and Google: An Org Chart [infographic] | SafeHouse Web
By scott
Until I saw this infographic, I had never given much thought about the who's who at the top levels of Facebook and Google. Take a look and see what strikes you.
SafeHouse Web

Web4 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Now TRULY a Mobile Company, Beats Expectations
In 2012, more people used Facebook on their mobile devices than on the desktop, a challenging transition that CEO Mark Zuckerberg navigated through ...
www.cnbc.com/.../Facebook_Now_TRULY_a_Mobile_Comp...
Clarifying Our Platform Policies- Facebook Developers
Over the past few days, we've received questions about a few of our platform policies and want to clarify our thinking.
https://developers.facebook.com/.../clarifying-our-platform-po...
Facebook grows ahead of big spending year - MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc. reported gains in adjusted earnings and revenues on Wednesday that beat Wall Street's expectations, again ...
articles.marketwatch.com/.../36631867_1_mobile-revenue-acti...
Facebook mobile users surpass desktop users for first time - CNN.com
For the first time, the number of active daily visitors checking Facebook on mobile devices is higher than the number of people checking the social network on ...
www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/social.../facebook-mobile-user...


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