Thursday, July 4, 2013

Google Alert - Facebook

News30 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook policy on friends' data is no friend of privacy
Irish Times
So, Sue might be my friend on Facebook, and Sue might be friends with Joe, but Joe is not one of my Facebook friends. Yet, simply by his Facebook friendship with Sue, Joe can see a range of my posts, comments and pictures, if Sue has interacted with ...
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Facebook comment about shooting kindergartners: A dangerous threat or a ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
"My son, Justin Carter, was arrested on February 14, 2013 (yes, Valentine's Day) because of a sarcastic comment he posted on Facebook about a computer game which was then taken out of context by a complete stranger! Please sign my petition to help ...
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Facebook helps wages soar in Californian county
Telegraph.co.uk
The beneficiaries included more than 1,000 people who had accepted shares instead of cash for work they did when the social network was getting off the ground. Graffiti artist David Choe, who decorated the walls of Facebook's offices seven years ago, ...
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Egypt Likes Facebook, but Investors Prefer US
Wall Street Journal
Beyond the streets, Egypt's crisis has been unfolding on Facebook. The Egyptian military's 48-hour ultimatum was posted to its official page. Deposed President Mohammed Morsi's "vision" for the country went out via his own. It is just the latest ...
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Facebook foxes: Cute family get their own page and 80000 'likes' after moving ...
Daily Mail
Even Facebook billionaire has joined in on the action and was pictured last month looking at a cub out his office window. It was uploaded to the site with the caption 'FB Fox crashes Zuck's meeting'. The cubs are now moving on but Facebook hopes the ...
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'Facebook & Co. ignore fundamental rights'
Deutsche Welle
DW: You have been running your organization "Europe versus Facebook" for two years now. What complaints have you lodged against Facebook so far? Max Schrems: In total we have made 22 complaints against Facebook for different breaches of European ...
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Shop's Facebook post made fun of people with Down syndrome
New Zealand Herald
The post on the Facebook page for Mairangi Bay shop Platinum Wheels showed a person with Down syndrome edited into a Ford Falcon car with a caption reading: "Racing a Ford is like being in the Special Olympics. Even if you win you're still a retard.".
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Companies use Facebook to screen applicants, but are they using it correctly?
Houston Chronicle
Companies often visit social media sites, such as Facebook, hoping to spot troublesome signs, inappropriate traits or glean insight into the applicant's personality or behavior. Hiring managers, however, are often mistakenly connecting personality ...
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US spent $630000 to 'buy' Facebook fans
Hindu Business Line
The US State Department was today under fire for spending $630,000 over two years to win millions of "likes" on its Facebook pages at a time of severe government austerity measures. A scathing report by the department's independent watchdog took the ...
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Facebook gets socially relevant status
Moneycontrol.com
Facebook's popularity can be leveraged for a greater good as shown by this initiative by its COO Sheryl Sandberg and Johns Hopkins Hospital. A study at John Hopkins University highlighted the increase in organ donation after Facebook users were enabled ...
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Facebook helps former Marine find service dog in Virginia Beach
wtkr.com
A former Marine who was looking for his special service dog, Chewie, found out through a Facebook post that the dog was serving in the Virginia Beach Police Department. Chewie joined the Virginia Beach K-9 unit after the Military cut his program.
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Facebook Ads Work Best When Helped by a Social Context
DigitalJournal.com
As per a report on June 13, 2013 on the Social Times, Facebook even as it continues polishing its advertising options and adding a variety of different advertising units like the graph search, ads on its existing units seem to perform the best when ...
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End of Facebook row: Marriage for Shaheen, new course for Rinu
Daily News & Analysis
Normalcy finally seems to have returned to the lives of the two Palghar girls who were arrested last year over a Facebook post criticising the bandh following Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's death. While Shaheen Dhada, the author of the post, is all ...
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Review: Get those precious Facebook moments backed up sharpish with ...
PCWorld
Although they are not likely to shut down their site anytime soon, Facebook has been known to shut down user accounts without warning for some perceived infraction of the rules. In instances like this, a free open-source app called Photograbber would ...
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Facebook comments back Rudd for top job
Warwick Daily News
The change was made not long after a Daily News Facebook poll found a majority of poll participants (34%) named Mr Rudd as preferred prime minister ahead of Ms Gillard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull. After Mr Rudd was sworn in, the Daily News ...
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Links Between Facebook Pages and Friends' Albums
Opposing Views
When members share photos on Facebook, links are created that connect one person's page to the next, which is not always desirable. While you can't link to a friend's entire album with a simple click, tagging yourself in each photo individually will do ...
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Facebook Messages Spark Arrest of St. Charles Man
Patch.com
While arrests related to Facebook posts are uncommon, they are not unheard of, and social media even have become investigative tools. An article a year ago on the Elgin news website BocaJump outlined how police there are using social media in law ...
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Tamkeen's Facebook page wins Pan-Arab e-Government Award
Al-Bawaba
Tamkeen's Facebook page won the 'Best Interactivity' category at the 5th Social Media e-Government Award ceremony held on June 29th in Burj Al-Arab Hotel in Dubai, UAE. The ceremony for the pan-Arab award, which exclusively targets Arab government ...
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Facebook Share Price: Native App for Windows 8 Unveiled
iNVEZZ
iNVEZZ.com, Thursday, June 27: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), the operator of the world's largest social network, yesterday finally announced a native application for Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 8. As technology website Venture Beat reported, ...
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Stephen Harper takes to Facebook to tout 'petition' praising Ottawa's new ...
Financial Post
Stephen Harper wants you to convince you he's getting tough on the country's wireless firms and he's taking to Facebook to get his message out. A post on the prime minister's page on the social network Wednesday night urges Canadians to sign his ...
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5 Reasons Why Facebook Is Finally A Buy
NASDAQ
At first glance, Facebook would seem to be a purely American phenomenon. The company's U.S user base of 207 million (as of May) is larger than its next four markets combined (Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and the U.K). Yet the U.S.-centric nature of this ...
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BJP to exploit 'Facebook arrest row' in upcoming poll to woo young India
Daily News & Analysis
The girls had posted comments on Facebook on Mumbai Bandh after Bal Thackeray's death last year. The comments had "offended" the Shivsainiks who creates a ruckus after which Palghar Police had arrested the two girls. They were later released after a ...
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Disgusting Facebook page gets pulled
Dumfries and Galloway Standard
A Facebook page has been removed after police were inundated with complaints from horrified people named on the site. Dumfries Dirtys went viral within days of its launch and had amassed more than 4,500 likes before it was taken off-line on Monday night.
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Facebook Feedback
Jamaica Gleaner
Facebook Feedback. Published: Thursday | July 4, 2013 Comments 0. How will the impending increase in the Highway 2000 toll rates affect you? Old Harbour mi sey, from Saturday - plus, every car I drive uses less gas when I drive through Old Harbour.
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Facebook reportedly down for some users
Tech2
Facebook has not been having a very good year with service disruptions and downtime since the beginning of this year, with most notable and widespread outages being caused in the month of February. On Valentine's day, Facebook announced that the site ...
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Anti-virus software discovers Facebook steal users' data without consent
Pakistan Observer
Thursday, July 04, 2013 - THE mobile anti-virus and anti-malware software produced by Norton discovered that the Facebook application for Android was secretly identifying users' phone numbers and sending them to Facebook's servers. This news is ...
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Facebook game 'Buzzed. Busted. Broke.' reminds you to have a safe 4th of July
GameZone
And they are looking to do so through a new Facebook game called Buzzed. Busted. Broke. According to the NHTSA, July 4th is "one of the deadliest times on the roads." "From 2007 to 2011, 40 percent of all fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes ...
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Facebook joke row councillor cleared
St Helens Today
A COUNCILLOR who posted lewd jokes on her Facebook page will NOT face a standards hearing into claims her behaviour breached the council's code of conduct. Coun Carole Gill provoked the storm by uploading posters to her home page containing ...
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Monetizing Facebook- integrating on demand communication into the experience
Retail Digital
Facebook advertising doesn't work. Well, to be fair, the $5 billion advertising revenue generated in 2012 would suggest it works for Facebook. But are there any companies out there that can actually demonstrate a return on investment from the Facebook...
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Facebook reaches out to young users with stickers
Daily News Egypt
The goal of the new feature was to boost Facebook's messaging features ,while engaging the young users with cartoon characters; in addition to classic happy or sad faces, the feature includes characters from movies like Despicable Me. Facebook ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
U.S. State Department spends $630000 to boost Facebook 'likes'
By Francis Bea
How do you get 2.5 million Facebook followers? Spend $630000 of course.
Digital Trends
Facebook Is for Moms - Hyperallergic
By Alicia Eler
There is a set of culturally acceptable ways for mothers to be and behave in the world.
Hyperallergic
#013 Does Advertising on Facebook Really Work? — Amy Porterfield
By Amy
Some of you may have seen me post an image on my Facebook Page of two soda bottles. One soda bottle said "Facebook Advertising" and the other one said "Webinars that Convert." I asked, "What do you want to learn about most?
Amy Porterfield
How one man's Facebook 'banter' is another's 'threat' | The Raw Story
By The Christian Science Monitor
That's the question in the case of the New Braunfels, Texas, teenager arrested for a comment posted on Facebook that's generating national attention. Mr. Carter was arrested several months ago… By commenting, you agree to our terms of ...
The Raw Story
Althouse: Is Facebook instigating racial discord in anticipation of a ...
By Ann Althouse
If you click on those 2 Facebook links, you'll see those pages have been taken down, but I clicked on them at around 8 a.m. CT, and I was surprised to see how few "likes" they had, even after being linked from Drudge for about an hour.
Althouse
Activist Post: Teenager Jailed For Facebook Comment Brutalized ...
By Activist
My son, Justin Carter, was arrested on February 14, 2013 (yes, Valentine's Day) because of a sarcastic comment he posted on Facebook about a computer game which was then taken out of context by a complete stranger! Please sign my ...
Activist Post
Five critical elements to building a large and engaged Facebook ...
By Special Nodes
Every travel marketer wants a big and active social media audience. Who wouldn't?
Tnooz
java - com.facebook.FacebookException: could not construct ...
By user2551547
I had my app posting feed stories to facebook fine until yesterday. Now it stopped working and sends this error in the callback: "com.facebook.FacebookException: could not construct request body". This comes from: response.getError();.
Recent Questions - Stack Overflow
No Money for Benghazi Security, But State Department Spent ...
By Daniel Greenfield
Hillary knew where the money really needed to go. Buying Facebook fans.
FrontPage Magazine » The Point
Mum learnt of son's death from Facebook | This is Cornwall
By The Cornishman
A HAYLE mother who found out her son had died when news was posted on Facebook has criticised the police for not telling her sooner.Dawn Mayes' son Wesley McArthur died in Hayle in April of what she...
Cornwall All Content Feed
Follow Robot 6 on Twitter and Facebook | Robot 6 @ Comic Book ...
By Kevin Melrose
As you can probably tell from the "Tweet" and "Like" buttons at the top of this post, Robot 6 is on Twitter and Facebook! Follow us there to keep up to date on all of the latest comics news, commentary and reviews. You can also subscribe to our ...
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources...
German interior minister: don't use Google and Facebook if you fear ...
By Madison Ruppert
Whoever fears their communication is being intercepted in any way should use services that don't go through American servers"
The Daily Sheeple
Wild Wednesday: Summer Braids - Khloe Kardashian official web site
By Khloe Kardashian
... or my personal favorite summer style, cornrows on one side. I love to keep the non-braided side long, wavy, flowy and GORGEOUSS. Gives me instant attitude XOXO. Facebook; Twitter; MySpace; Email; Share. Posted under Beauty, Braids, ...
Khloe Kardashian official web site
Gettysburg 150th Anniversary | Facebook - PCN
By Diana Robinson
Facebook logo. Email or Phone, Password. Keep me logged in. Forgot your password? Sign Up. Gettysburg 150th ... About · Create Ad · Create Page · Developers · Careers · Privacy · Cookies · Terms · Help. Facebook © 2013 · English (US)
PCN: Pennsylvania's Neighborhood.

Web1 new result for Facebook
 
State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes ...
State Department officials spent $630000 to get more Facebook likes, prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was buying ...
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