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Facebook Murder Trial: Closing Arguments Set for This Week
ABC News (blog)
Closing arguments are set to begin this week in the trial of a California teenager who allegedly lured his victim, an up and coming boxer, using a bogus Facebook profile and then fatally shot him. Prosecutors say Manuel Edmundo Guzman Jr., 19, was the ...
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ABC News (blog)
Facebook paid no taxes despite record profits
Fox News
Despite earning more than $1 billion in profits last year, social media juggernaut Facebook paid zilch when it came to federal and state taxes in 2012. In fact, the website will actually be getting a refund totaling $429 million thanks to a tax ...
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Facebook Attackers Exploited Java Zero-Day Bug
PC Magazine
Java's reputation took a beating again, after Facebook revealed that attackers had infiltrated its internal systems after exploiting a zero-day vulnerability. As PCMag.com reported late yesterday afternoon, Facebook said its systems had been "targeted ...
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Facebook hacked, social media company says
Yahoo! News (blog)
"Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack," the company said in a blog post. "The attack occurred when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website that was compromised." ...
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Yahoo! News (blog)
Facebook pic of toy mortar leads to armed cops raid
CNET
When you make your Facebook profile picture that of Action Man (aka the British G.I. Joe), it can be a clue to your fascination with fantasy. It also suggests that if there's a toy mortar in the background of the picture, that, too, might actually not ...
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Facebook is changing the way we grieve
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria knows that all too well. Since his friend William Brandon Lacy Campos, a poet and activist from the Twin Cities, died unexpectedly in November, he has watched Campos' Facebook page become a memorial guest book, where ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Facebook 's VP nearly confirms Facebook is working on auto-play video ads
Digital Trends
If there's one type of advertising product that really irks the Internet, it's auto-play video ads. And with sights set firmly on snatching up advertising dollars, Facebook has some stiff competition, and it's willing to make our lives a little worse ...
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Digital Trends
Facebook pay no tax for 2012 and even get a tax refund of $429MILLION despite ...
Daily Mail
Facebook will not pay any tax for 2012 despite making $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations, according to a report released on Thursday. But Mark Zuckerberg's company will also get a multimillion dollar tax refund of around $429 million ...
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Daily Mail
Half of Parents Join Facebook to Creep on Their Kids
Mashable
Are you friends with your parents on Facebook? You might be surprised to find out that one in two parents join Facebook just to keep tabs on their kids. In our increasingly digital world, it is difficult for parents to monitor their children's ...
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Facebook expected to get huge tax refund
Fox News
This tax season and while many of us may have to pay up this year the social media site FaceBook is reportedly getting a ton of cash back from the government. Peter -- see -- live with the details now Peter. Folks all around the world use FaceBook for ...
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Facebook Wins Legal Battle Vs. German Privacy Watchdog
Manila Bulletin
Berlin (DPA) — Facebook won a legal fight on Friday in a German court against a privacy official who demanded the US-based social network site allow users to hide their true identity. Facebook demands that users disclose their real names. Many members ...
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Facebook furor over dog's death
KOKI FOX 23
A Cherokee County teen is receiving death threats for a picture of a dead pit bull posted to Facebook. The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating a Facebook picture allegedly posted by Caisen Green showing a dog wounded by a bow and ...
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Facebook defends Graph Search's privacy controls for teens
TechHive
To start, most of the things minors already do on Facebook, such as adding information to their timelines or sharing status updates, can at most only be shared with friends of friends, Facebook said. But with Graph Search, any information that could ...
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Facebook hacked in 'sophisticated' attack
Green Bay Press Gazette
This Feb. 8, 2012 photo shows a mural at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Intruders recently infiltrated the systems running the world's largest online social network but did not steal any sensitive information about Facebook's more than 1 ...
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High Court Disqualifies Judge For Facebook Friendship With Prosecutor
CBS Local
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) – Judges, take note: you cannot be Facebook friends with the prosecutors in your cases. The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an appellate court ruling saying that a judge's Facebook friends can be used to disqualify ...
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CBS Local
Jeff Jarvis Tears Into BBC For Coverage Of Facebook Hack: You're Inciting ...
Mediaite
Facebook disclosed yesterday that the laptops of some of its employees were hacked last month, reassuring the public that no user information was compromised. BBC News covered the story last night, and brought on blogger and journalism professor Jeff ...
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Facebook postings prompted Valentine's stabbing, accused's sister says
Chicago Sun-Times
Disparaging comments made in person and on Facebook may have led a woman to stab her brother's teenage girlfriend eight times on Valentine's Day at her Southwest Side home, a family member said. Erika Bedolla, 26, is charged with attempted murder in ...
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Margaret Kuo's Rediscovers Facebook
Patch.com
If you liked Margaret Kuo's Restaurants on Facebook in the past couple years, you might have forgotten you did so until last week. Its account just became active after years of silence, and it's apparently making up for lost time. "Thanks to our ...
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Read "The Facebook Guide to Small Business Marketing"
Small Business Trends
facebook marketing guide With over 1.1 billion members, Facebook is a rewarding social media platform, but it can be a mystery as to who is enjoying the spoils. A study noted in an Adweek article claimed media plans that included Facebook offered a 24% ...
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Small Business Trends
Facebook admits it was hacked, but claims your data is safe
msnNOW
Irony alert: someone is looking at Facebook's private information without permission. The company is the latest U.S. media company to be hacked. Like Twitter, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Facebook admits it was breached in January ...
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Facebook owns up - admits network breached, blames "Java in the browser"
Naked Security
Facebook, like every significant internet service, is frequently targeted by those who want to disrupt or access our data and infrastructure. As such, we invest heavily in preventing, detecting, and responding to threats that target our infrastructure ...
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Facebook paid no income taxes in 2012
Press TV
Facebook didn't pay any federal or state income taxes last year and will receive a hefty tax refund, according to a recent report. According to the Citizen for Tax Justice report, the company benefited from the tax deductibility of executive stock ...
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Press TV
Facebook Accused Of Tax Evasion
The Inquisitr
Instead, Facebook will rake in nearly four and a half million USD in net tax refunds for the year, according to Facebook's recent annual report. The company earned over a billion dollars in US corporate profits last year. Facebook cut its tax burden on ...
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The Inquisitr
Kids aren't only ones who live on Facebook
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Parents are on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, so if we wonder why our children are distracted by social media, we don't have much room for preaching. Just as we can't text and drive and then tell our children not to text and drive with any ...
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Examining How Facebook Got Hacked
BankInfoSecurity.com
Even the most savvy information technologists aren't immune from cyber-attacks. Just ask Facebook. The social-media titan says it fell victim to a sophisticated attack discovered in January in which an exploit allowed malware to be installed on ...
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BankInfoSecurity.com
Sister of Facebook founder to write memoir, kids book
Arizona Republic
Zuckerberg, who has founded her own Zuckerberg Media company, is known in part for opposing anonymity online, saying it enables cyberbullying. Her brother co-founded Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room in 2004, and his net worth is estimated ...
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Arizona Republic
Facebook Acknowledges It Was Hacked
Truthdig
Facebook revealed that it was the target of a "sophisticated attack" by hackers last month, but claims it found no evidence they gained access to user information. The breach is the latest by apparently sophisticated hackers against high-profile sites ...
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Truthdig
Facebook Tax Breaks: Why is Facebook Paying Zero Taxes?
PolicyMic
Facebook pulled in more than $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits in the United States alone in 2012 — so why is it paying nothing in taxes? According to Business Week, the social media giant even stands to receive a federal tax refund in the neighborhood ...
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PolicyMic
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Facebook Will Pay No Taxes, but Will Be ...
Truth-Out
In today's On the News segment: Facebook made over $1 billion in US profits in 2012, but it won't be paying a single penny in federal or state income taxes; forty Republican Senators filibustered Chuck Hagel's Secretary of State nomination yesterday ...
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Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook's Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never ...
By Josh Constine
It's not if, but when. Between crooks, hackers, and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When i..
TechCrunch
Video Ads On Facebook News Feed - Business Insider
By Steve Kovach
Facebook is one of the largest websites in the world, with more than 500 million monthly users. The site was started in 2004 by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg when he was an undergraduate student at Harvard. Facebook became a.
Advertising
Facebook 'Nearby' Can Benefit Local Businesses | Social Media ...
By navneet
Google introduced a new update for the feature known as 'Nearby' in the Facebook App for iOS and Android that makes it easier to discover new places that your friends like.
Social Media Today - Social Customer
Behind the Facebook Like Button [infographic]
By Tim
Facebook has actually created and entire new way of marketing to the masses.
Daily Infographic
Facebook furor over dog's death - FOX23 News
The Cherokee County Sheriff;s Office said a Facebook post from a teen bragging about a pit bull killed with a bow and arrow is under investigation.
FOX23: Local News
Facebook, Tax Dodgers, and the Political System - LewRockwell.com
By Karen De Coster
A curious individual asked me, via Facebook, what I thought about this Bloomberg article on Facebook's "multibillion-dollar tax break." Even though Facebook (FB) reported $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations in 2012, it will ...
LewRockwell.com Blog
Facebook says networks were compromised, no user data stolen ...
By hidden
Intruders recently infiltrated the systems running the world's largest online social network but did not steal any sensitive information about Facebook's more than 1 billion users, according to a blog posting Friday by the company's security team.
Firstpost
Facebook victim of 'sophisticated' zero-day Java attack
Facebook has reported that some of the laptops used by employees were hacked last month in a "sophisticated" zero-day attack. The social network says that no user data was compromised in the exploit.
RSS Feed - Top Digital Journal News
Facebook targeted in 'sophisticated attack' using malware - AfterDawn
Social Network giant Facebook has revealed that it was a target in a sophisticated attack using a zero-day exploit that delivered malware to employee's computers.
AfterDawn.com
Like! Facebook avoids most taxes | CalWatchDog
By CalWatchdog
Feb. 16, 2013 By John Seiler A year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials were salivating like Pavlov's dog over the $2 billion in new taxes.
CalWatchDog
Facebook targeted by hackers, user data safe | Technology ...
An unidentified hacker group has targeted Facebook Inc. in a series of attacks, although no evidence was found that user data was compromised, Reuters has reported. "Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been ...
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Facebook Says it Was Hacked, No Data Compromised | 23 WIFR ...
Facebook Inc. says it was the target of hackers but no user information was compromised during the attack.
WIFR - News - Headlines
Facebook Sees Everything You Do // Current TV
By FreeSpiritMuse
Remember that Coke "security camera" Super Bowl commercial this year, whose premise was "Your every move is being watched, but look! Hugging!" ? That,
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Web3 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook highlights privacy protection for minors on Graph Search ...
As Facebook continues the slow rollout of a tool to let users search out others by using common interests or other personal information, the site emphasized ...
www.cnn.com/2013/02/14/.../facebook-graph-search-minors
Facebook says it was hacked, no data compromised - Associated ...
Facebook Inc. says it was the target of hackers but no user information was compromised during the attack. The social media giant said Friday on its security ...
www.politico.com/.../facebook-says-it-was-hacked-no-data-co...
Facebook Says It Was Hacked, but No User Data Compromised
Facebook said it was the target of a series of attacks from an unidentified hacker group but no user data were compromised.
www.cnbc.com/.../Facebook_Says_It_Was_Hacked_but_No_...


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