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Report: Facebook Home Quietly Rolls Out to Galaxy S 4, HTC One
PC Magazine
Facebook Home just topped 1 million downloads, a number that will likely increase with the recent launch of the mobile social network experience on two more devices. Android Central reported this week that Facebook quietly added unofficial Facebook ...
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Facebook plaintiff seeks halt to criminal case
New Zealand Herald
The government has accused Ceglia of doctoring a software development contract he signed with Zuckerberg in 2003 to make it appear Ceglia would receive half ownership in Facebook in exchange for $1,000 in startup money for the budding company.
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Facebook in talks to buy mobile map firm
South China Morning Post
Facebook is in serious discussions to buy a leading mobile navigation service, Waze, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. If the sale is concluded, it would give Facebook the ability to better deliver tailored advertisements and ...
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Facebook general counsel exiting company
CNET
"Ted has been a valued member of Facebook's leadership who built our legal team through an intense 5-year period in which we faced complex and high-stakes legal issues of all types. We wish him the best of luck in the future," Facebook spokesperson ...
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CNET
Comment on Facebook Directly From Bing
PC Magazine
Microsoft on Friday announced that it has more tightly integrated its search engine with Facebook to let users interact with friends' posts directly from the right-hand social sidebar. Launched last year, the Bing social sidebar displays content from ...
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An Alleged Kidnapper's Life on Facebook
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Days after police arrested Ariel Castro for allegedly holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for nearly a decade, his Facebook page lives on as an eerie remnant of the seemingly normal guy many friends and neighbors thought him to be.
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook Is Getting Serious About Original Programming With "Facebook Live"
TechCrunch
"House Of Cards" proved that great, exclusive content can create loyal customers. While Facebook isn't about to produce TV shows, it tells me that it plans to ramp up production of its Facebook Live original programming starting with a talk with Star ...
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Is Facebook getting into navigation?
Christian Science Monitor
We're not mutual fund managers, but if we were, we'd be taking a good, long look at Facebook right now. Though its stock prices faltered after the IPO, recent developments suggest that Facebook will retain its 800-pound gorilla status for years to come ...
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Christian Science Monitor
An Open-Source Network Switch? Facebook Points the Way
PC Magazine
That all changed at the Interop convention this week in Las Vegas when Frank Frankovsky, Facebook's vice president of hardware design and supply chain operations and chairman of the Open Compute Project, announced that Open Compute is indeed ...
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Why Facebook's Phone Is Flopping: It's a Social Network With No Social Skills
Huffington Post
Facebook has become so pushy about its on-the-go alerts that the primary screen of my phone has already been taken over by Facebook notifications -- less visually appealing than Home's news feed, but just as brash. My Apple smartphone more and more ...
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Facebook plans globe-spanning hardware deployment
Register
The plans – which are still in a very early stage – were revealed to The Register by Facebook at a briefing at Interop in Las Vegas this week. They will see the social network attempt to distribute some software and hardware to the edge of its network ...
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Will loss of anonymity spell Facebook's death in US?
Firstpost
With 78 million monthly active users – up 50 percent over the last year – in India Facebook is growing in leaps and bounds. But evidence from its home market – the US – and other developed countries seems to suggest that its growth there may have ...
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From Facebook to streets, project 'Green Life, Clean Life' kicks off
Indian Express
Conceptualised and planned on social networking site Facebook by some Ludhiana residents and NGOs, project 'Green Life, Clean Life' began on Saturday with volunteers coming on to the streets of Model Town and cleaning it. Ludhiana Cares, a group of ...
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Facebook app Bang with friends may let out all your sex secrets
India Today
Facebook's controversial app 'Bang with friends' launched in January this year has no privacy settings to keep the user's interests, activities and likes 'private'. 'Bang with friends' is an app with which one can find out who all from their friend ...
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India Today
Under fire, Facebook aims to fix Home — but it may be too late
NBCNews.com
Facebook Home, the Android launcher released to a skeptical public a month ago, is in for some changes — changes that Facebook hopes will help fix the app's abysmal ratings and disappointing download numbers. At a press conference Thursday, ...
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Bing adds more Facebook to search
Computerworld
In March Bing expanded its center column to incorporate more social information from Facebook, Twitter and Klout into how it displays search results involving people. In January its right-hand Social Sidebar was scaled out to include more content from ...
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Paul Rossington / Pic: Facebook Source: Supplied
NEWS.com.au
On a NSW Ambulance Service Facebook page paying tribute to Mr Rossington, his father Richard thanked people for their kind words: "We thank you all for your support in this time of grief." A relative who answered the door at the Rossington home would ...
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NEWS.com.au
Reports: Top executives leave Facebook CEO's political advocacy group
The Hill (blog)
Two top executives, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Yammer CEO David Sacks, have dropped out of the political advocacy group co-founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, FWD.us, according to reports. The departures come after Zuckerberg's advocacy ...
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Facebook's New Direction? - The Motley Fool
Motley Fool
The following video is from Friday's Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill, and analysts James Early and Matt Koppenheffer dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day. According to reports, Facebook is in talks to buy navigation app Waze ...
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Vin Diesel says Facebook owe him billions of dollars
TV3.ie
The 45-year-old star insists he updates his Facebook page himself and he admits the social network giant was shocked by how many followers he has gained. He told Entertainment Weekly: ''Facebook used to ask me to come up to their office to explain what ...
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TV3.ie
Police: Facebook insult led to Colorado Springs killing - Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs Gazette
A fight on Facebook sparked a confrontation that led to the stabbing death of a 39-year-old Colorado Springs man Tuesday night, according to court documents. Police arrested 20-year-old Elton Lamar Johnson Jr. on Wednesday in connection with the ...
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Facebook Home Gets Unofficial Support on More Phones - Mashable
Mashable
Good news, Android fans: You can now install Facebook Home on your device — provided it's running Android 4.0 or higher — whether it's officially supported or not. Facebook Home was released last month to lots of fanfare but with limited device support.
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Whitney Tilson: Facebook, IAC Takeover Target Could Be the Next Netflix
NASDAQ
"I think Facebook is actually a big plus for Spark Networks (not a negative) for two reasons," said Tilson. "Spark Networks gets a lot of its leads and people to market to because when people sign up on Facebook and enter information about themselves ...
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New Voices: Facebook is losing its cool among younger generation
Orlando Sentinel
Soon, Facebook became a great source for gossip as well. A Facebook account was something everyone was expected to have; otherwise, you weren't cool. Over the years, however, the hype has died down, especially among the younger generation.
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Facebook adds, then deletes ongoing expandable notifications
Android Community
We are still waiting for the Facebook Home update to come available in the Google Play Store, however in the meantime, the company has rolled out an updated release of the regular Facebook app. This update is currently available and the changelog ...
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Facebook Comments Spark Broader Debate At Willamette University
OPB News
Controversial comments on a Willamette University fraternity Facebook page have sparked a broader debate on campus about sexual harassment and assault. The school is forming a task force in response. Eaton Hall at Willamette University. About Movies / ...
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Gadget Guide: Bored with Facebook? You and 63000 others
Cork News
More than 63,000 Irish users have left Facebook over the last six months, according to figures released by Social Breakers. While there are still 2,219,240 monthly active users on the social networking site, it would seem users are increasingly turning ...
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NY Facebook plaintiff seeks halt to criminal case
TheNewsTribune.com
A lawyer for a New York man who was charged with fraud after filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming half ownership of Facebook asked a judge Friday to suspend the criminal case to keep it from interfering with the still-pending lawsuit. By ...
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Watch out Cisco: Facebook is designing open network switches
TechSpot
Social networking icon Facebook -- perhaps with a deserved emphasis on "networking" -- announced that is now expanding its Open Compute Project in an effort to take a fresh look at enterprise-level switch design. Facebook is hoping OCP will yield a ...
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Facebook Starts Home Improvements After App's Lukewarm Reception
RedOrbit
Facebook is looking to do some renovations to its new Home app, which was introduced with much fanfare just a month ago. So far, however, a scant one million users have installed the app. While it was installed around 500,000 times in the first two ...
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RedOrbit
Plants Vs. Zombies Adventures hits Facebook on May 20
Computerandvideogames.com
Plants Vs. Zombies Adventures will exit its beta phase and go live for all on Facebook on May 20, PopCap has confirmed. Plants vs. Zombies 2 Screenshot PvZ Adventures is an isometrically-viewed spin-off of the popular strategy game, dubbed a "highly ...
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Hangtime: a Better Way to Find Facebook Events
TIME
With details on millions of events of all sorts all over the world, Facebook is — among many other things — the closest thing the world has to a universal repository of things to do, such as concerts, parties, book readings and a whole lot more. But ...
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It Looks Like The Facebook Android App Can Control Your Camera And Take ...
San Francisco Chronicle
A spokesperson for Facebook explains this as follows: the language in this disclaimer comes from Google and wasn't written up by Facebook, it's simply how Android handles camera access. While it is technically possible for the Facebook app to record ...
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Blogs11 new results for Facebook
 
Vin Diesel: Facebook "Owes Me Billions of Dollars" | Gossip Cop
By Shari Weiss
Vin Diesel jokes that Facebook owes him billions of dollars because of his unprecedented success on the social networking site.
Gossip Cop
This week in Facebook news | Digital Trends
By Francis Bea
In this week's Facebook news, Facebook adds more emojis, courts Waze, and finds out how many of your are friends with your mom.
Digital Trends
Bing Search Adds Commenting and Liking to Facebook Sidebar ...
By Todd Haselton
Bing now allows you to comment and like Facebook statuses direct from search results.
TechnoBuffalo
Should Apple Buy This Map App Before Facebook Does? | Wall St ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
Is Apple missing a lucrative opportunity by not going after the map app company Waze?
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Tell Facebook: Attacking The Environment Is Not Pro-Immigran ...
By Nancy C.
One of the first actions taken by the new political group founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been to spend over $1 million in advertisements attacking the environment.
Care2 News Network
Will loss of anonymity spell Facebook's death in US? - Firstpost
By Rohin Dharmakumar
Facebook might be growing in leaps and bounds in India but the US is showing early signs of a decrease in the popular social networking site's popularity. Has it got something to do with Facebook's intrusive and open-to-all nature?
Firstpost
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Facebook Action Shortcuts For All Major Browsers [Cheat Sheet]
By Richard Darell
I don't think anyone can say that Facebook doesn't matter in our society. Everything around it seems to be affecting everyone these days. I mean, if it wasn't for Facebook, how would we be able to keep in touch with all the people that we love ...
Bit Rebels
Facebook Login under PHP MVC | PHP - Freelancer.com
r>* HybridAuth can be used (http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/) * The inputs are: Name, E-mail, CPF (Brazilian ID) and the Store Name * The developer has no need to create the Database, its already setup * Database is Postgresql * Theres ...
Freelancer.com - New Projects
Facebook Home: 1m downloads, .1% of monthly active users. Not ...
By Steffen Konrath
AllThingsD :: One million downloads of Facebook Home is less than .1 percent of Facebook's entire monthly active user base, now topping 1.1 billion people every month. And as the company disclosed in its last earnings call, more than 750...
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More than just a mother, now she's your 'friend' - AZCentral.com
By Martha Mendoza
More than just a mother, now she's your 'friend',Josh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent years refusing his mother's "Friend Request" on Facebook before, eventually, "caving in." Today they have an agreement: she'll try not ...
azcentral.com Top Business

Web1 new result for Facebook
 
Wishing Mom a Happy Mother's Day…on Facebook | Pew Research ...
Are you planning to wish your mom a Happy Mother's Day on Facebook? If so, you're not alone. "Moms" (defined as women with a child or children under the ...
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