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Public interest groups appeal $20M Facebook “Sponsored Stories” deal
Facebook users and advocacy groups are calling on a California appeals court to review a controversial settlement that would see the social network pay...
Facebook Doesn’t Want To Be Cool, It Wants To Be Electricity
Critics say Facebook is doomed because it’s not cool to teens anymore. But Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn’t care about Facebook being cool, because...
Is Iran easing up on Facebook and Twitter? Not according to...
On Monday evening, Iranians found that national web filters blocking access to Facebook and Twitter had gone down. The blocks have been in place for...
Facebook Joins Industry in Petitioning Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Today, Facebook is joining others in the industry in petitioning the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to require the government to permit companies to disclose...
Facebook Adds Professional Skills Category for Job Seekers
In what could prove to be a stealth move to compete with the likes of LinkedIn, Facebook has added a fully discoverable “professional skills”...
Facebook-Flavored Ice Cream Is a Real Thing
Can you imagine tasting a social network? Two enterprising ice cream makers at Valentino Ice Cream Shop in Tisno, on Croatia’s Murter island, came...
Facebook Seeks to Clarify How It Uses Member Data for Ads
Facebook is proposing to clarify how it manages user data for advertisements, as part of an agreement stemming from a settlement of a class-action...
Facebook’s share of digital advertising growing fast, thanks to mobile
Facebook will nearly triple its share of global mobile advertising in 2013 compared to 2012, according to research firm eMarketer. They forecast that Facebook will...
Facebook Launches Shared Photo Albums and Other News You Need to...
Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories Facebook is starting to roll out its newest feature, shared photo albums. A white Xbox One...
Readers Debate Facebook Hacker and Other Top Comments
Readers had a lot to say when Facebook refused to reward the hacker who broke into Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline to report a bug
Some were...
Social Media Project Monitors Keywords to Prevent Suicide
A Boston-based project is using predictive analysis technology to comb through social media posts in hopes of preventing suicide.
The opt-in Durkheim Project combines search...
How Ant Colonies Foreshadow the Future of Facebook
In 2012, Stanford biologist Deborah Gordon, Ph.D., discovered that the behavior of harvester ant colonies mirrors the fundamental Internet technology known as Transmission Control...
Analyst Prediction: Facebook Video Ads Will Generate $1 Billion in 2014
Facebook users may not be excited to see video ads hit their News Feeds, but company stockholders should be. A report released by Morgan...
Enel #guerrieri, in Facebook and Twitter with everyday life heroes
A communication campaign that combines social network and storytelling. With its #guerrieri initiative, Enel asks everyday life heroes to tell their own stories. A platform is already online to log in...
Will Facebook become the new mobile newspaper?
With the shutting down of Google RSS Reader on July 1st. 2013, an important market segment is vacant. Several companies are competing to submit...
Facebook opens signups to Android Beta Program, so you can help...
Today Facebook announced and is now taking signups for its new Facebook For Android Beta Program that uses Google Play’s new beta system to...
Hootsuite: Social media dashboard.. excluding Italy
The world of social media has collected billions of users world wide. Whether you use Twitter or Facebook, you are still tuning and communicating...
Look at your profile pics and find out who you are
When you post a profile photo on your social media site, what is it saying about you? Is it a photo you dug out...
The difference between social media and Social Business Collaboration
There’s confusion spreading across the business world today with respect to what social means in business. Is “social” the tweets, Facebook contests, LinkedIn articles...
Marketers and Facebook: a love hate relationship
According to a recent survey, Facebook is viewed by marketers as somewhere where you just have to be. Advertising investments on socials are growing...
