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Facebook To Debut Paper App For IPhone Feb. 3
The proof is in the Paper: Merely hours after Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed the social network’s focus on building separate mobile applications beyond its flagship apps during...
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How Many National Security Letters Sought Data On Facebook Users In The...
There were fewer than 1,000 requests for information about Facebook users via National Security Letters from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2013, involving fewer than 1,000 users and accounts, Vice President...
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Facebook To Leave Privacy Settings Of Memorialized Accounts Unchanged; Create...
Facebook announced two changes to the way it handles the accounts of users who have passed away: The privacy settings of memorialized profiles will now remain unchanged, rather than automatically being...
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Mark Zuckerberg Spotlights Several Internet.org Initiatives During Keynote At...
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed several developments from the Internet.org global connectivity initiative at the 2014 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Monday,...
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Facebook Adding Posts To News Feed Where Pages Have Tagged Other Pages
Facebook’s latest attempt at serving its users with relevant content in their News Feeds involves posts where pages have tagged other pages. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in...
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UPDATED: Facebook, Instagram Take Aim At Transactions Involving Guns, Other...
Facebook and Instagram reacted swiftly to appeals last week by advocacy groups Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, announcing new educational and enforcement...
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Facebook Continues To Court Media Industry With Public Content Solutions Program
Facebook took a giant step forward in its efforts to further align itself with the television, publishing, and event venue industries with Friday’s launch of its Public Content Solutions program, which...
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1Q Review: Top 5 Facebook Changes For Brands
It’s been a busy first quarter for Facebook. From acquisitions to algorithms, there have been more than 10 new announcements in the first three months of the year, causing many brands to feel cold...
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2014 NCAA TOURNAMENT: 15.3M+ Facebook Users Create 46M Combined Posts,...
The 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament came to a close Wednesday night, with the University of Connecticut’s 60-54 victory over the University of Kentucky at AT&T Stadium...
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UPDATED: Facebook Takes Aim At News Feed Spam
The next posts from pages to be targeted in Facebook’s ongoing efforts to maintain the quality of its News Feed will be: posts actively seeking likes, comments, or shares; photos and videos that are...
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Facebook Adding Nearby Friends Feature To Apps For IPhone, Android
Facebook is officially introducing a feature it has toyed with in simpler form in the past, as the social network announced the launch of Nearby Friends in a Newsroom post, saying that it will be...
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Facebook Teams Up With Storyful To Launch FB Newswire For Journalists, Media...
Facebook has become a virtual newsroom of sorts, with a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project finding that three out of 10 U.S. adults get at least some news while on Facebook,...
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F8: Facebook Gives Control Back To Users With Anonymous Login, Revamped...
Most mobile applications include social logins, and Facebook Login is the most-used one by a healthy margin. At its F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday, the social network...
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F8: Facebook’s FbStart Initiative Will Give Selected Developers A $30K...
Developing successful applications is likely a whole lot easier with $30,000 in free tools and services to start off with, and that’s exactly what selected developers will get out of FbStart, a new...
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New Feature For Facebook IOS, Android Apps Uses Microphones To Identify...
Facebook is adding a hint of Shazam to its flagship applications for iOS and Android in the form of an optional feature that allows users to use the microphones on their devices and identify songs,...
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Facebook Changes Default Privacy Setting For New Users To Friends From...
Users’ privacy is a perpetual hot-button issue for Facebook, and the social network announced several steps Thursday aimed at simplifying users’ efforts to control who sees their content, including...
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Facebook News Feed Algorithm To De-Emphasize Stories From Apps Unless They...
Prepare to see fewer stories from applications in News Feed, as Facebook announced a change to its News Feed algorithm that will emphasize what it calls explicitly shared stories from apps, or stories...
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Facebook Taps PayPal President David Marcus To Lead Mobile Messaging Efforts
PayPal President David Marcus is switching gears, leaving the electronic payment service to join Facebook and lead the social network’s mobile messaging efforts. continued... New Career Opportunities...
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Facebook Launches Trending World Cup Hub
2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil kicks off Thursday (June 12), and Facebook will take soccer fans through the championship game July 13 with its new Trending World Cup hub, aggregating the best content...
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Las Vegas Shooter Sought Rifle In May Facebook Post, Which Remained Live For...
The tragic shootings in Las Vegas Sunday -- which claimed the lives of two police officers, one civilian, and alleged shooters husband and wife Jerad Miller and Amanda Miller -- also brought more...
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How Facebook Hopes To Serve More Relevant Ads To Users And Give Them More...
Many Facebook users will be happy to learn that the social network will soon roll out ad preferences, a tool that explains why specific ads are served to them and allows them to choose which interests...
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FATHER’S DAY: Facebook Examines Common Likes Between Dads And Their Kids
With Father’s Day coming up Sunday, Facebook offered a look at television shows, movies, musical artists, athletes, and teams that are liked on the social network by both fathers and their children....
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Google Embraces Real-Time Data and Visuals To Share Search Trends Around The...
With global attention and excitement around The FIFA World Cup, Google is leveraging real-time search data to curate sharable facts and visuals to help fuel online conversations around the matches....
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Video Review: Facebook Alters News Feed Ranking
Facebook announced a revamp of the way it ranks videos from both users and pages, with a focus on if users watched videos and for how long, adding that the change only applies to uploaded videos, and...
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Facebook Diversity: Progress, More Work To Do
Facebook Global Head of Diversity Maxine Williams provided a detailed look at the company’s diversity figures in a Newsroom post, saying that progress has been made, but more work remains to be done....
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Facebook Details Fight Vs. Bulk Search Warrant
Facebook Deputy General Counsel Chris Sonderby offered an update on the social network’s efforts to fight the request of a court in New York that issued a bulk search warrant for data from the accounts...
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Facebook Looks To Bolster Video Advertising With Acquisition Of LiveRail
Facebook’s latest acquisition is aimed at bolstering the quality of its video ads and premium video ads, as the social network announced that it has brought video-ad-technology company LiveRail into...
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Facebook Announces Rollout of Save Feature
After several tests of a save feature, Facebook announced Monday that it will officially roll out Save to all users via the Web, iOS and Android “over the next few days.” (more…) New Career...
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Internet.org App to Debut in Zambia
Zambia may seem like an odd choice for the site of an application’s launch, but it makes perfect sense when the developer of that app has a mission statement of connecting the rest of the world....
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NEWS FEED: Facebook Targets Click-Baiting, Favors Link Format vs. Links in...
Facebook’s next steps to improve the content users see in their News Feeds include taking aim at click-baiting headlines in posts from pages and emphasizing links that are shared via the social...
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EMMYS: 10.9M Interactions from 6.2M Facebook Users
Roughly 6.2 million Facebook users weighed in on the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Monday night, leading to 10.9 million interactions on the social network, Data Analyst Betsy Williams wrote in a...
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Facebook Begins Rollout of Privacy Checkup
Facebook Thursday announced the rollout of Privacy Checkup, a tool aimed at helping users better control who sees their content, which the social network began testing as early as March and officially...
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Facebook Adding View Counts to Videos
Facebook announced that it has been averaging more than 1 billion video views per day since June, with 65 percent of them on mobile, and brands and users that post videos will now be able to see how...
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NEWS FEED: Facebook Places More Emphasis on Why Users Reject Ads
Facebook has repeatedly stressed its mission to provide the most relevant ads on News Feed, and the social network Thursday announced two more steps it is taking toward doing so: When users indicate...
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iOS 8 Is Here, and Facebook Is Ready
With owners of Apple devices being able to upgrade to iOS 8 starting Wednesday, Facebook is prepared for the new mobile operating system, as well. (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs...
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NEWS FEED: Time Is of the Essence, as Facebook Tweaks Algorithm Again
Facebook announced two tweaks to its News Feed algorithm aimed at ensuring that the content users see is timely: Posts related to trending topics will be ranked higher, and the rate at which users like...
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Facebook Promises Revamped Research Policies
Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer issued the social network’s strongest response to date to the controversy over a 2012 study in which the News Feeds of 689,003 randomly selected...
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Mark Zuckerberg Delivers Internet.org Summit Keynote; Internet.org Innovation...
The first-ever Internet.org Summit kicked off in New Delhi, India, Thursday, and highlights included a talk by Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as well as the introduction of the...
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SAFETY CHECK: Facebook Tool Simplifies Users’ Communication During Disasters,...
Facebook often comes into play during natural disasters or other crisis situations as a means for users to check on friends and loved ones, or alert them that they are safe. The social network...
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Facebook Adds Features to Photo Uploading via iPhone, Android Apps
Facebook announced improvements to the ways that users upload photos to the social network via its iOS and Android flagship applications, allowing users to choose the exact order in which photos will...
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Facebook to Award Up to $300K to Internet Defense Prize Winners in 2015
Facebook teamed up with computer-industry association USENIX in August to launch the Internet Defense Prize, aimed at highlighting research that could significantly improve the security of the Web, and...
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Governments’ Requests for Facebook User Data Up 24% in 1H 2014, Restricted...
Requests for Facebook user data and content restrictions in the first six months of 2014 were up some 24 percent compared with the same period of 2013, with a total of 34,946 requests, and the amount...
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Facebook Announces Three Anti-Ebola Initiatives
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $25 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Foundation last month to aid the fight against the Ebola virus, and...
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Facebook Gives Users New Ways to Control News Feed
That was quick: One day after Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned during his town-hall question-and-answer session that the social network was working on adding more ways for users to...
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Facebook Messenger Reaches 500M Monthly Users
Facebook vice president of messaging products David Marcus announced in a post on the social network that its Facebook Messenger applications topped the 500 million monthly active user milestone....
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Kenya Gets Internet.org App
Add Kenya to the expanding list of countries where the Internet.org application is available, joining Tanzania and Zambia, as Internet.org vice president Chris Daniels announced at AfricaCom in Cape...
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VETERANS DAY: 242M U.S. Facebook Users Are Friends with Veterans, Active Duty...
The U.S. celebrated Veterans Day Tuesday, and Facebook data analyst Betsy Cameron reported in a Newsroom post that 4 million U.S. users of the social network are veterans or active duty members....
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Facebook Lets Users ‘Say Thanks’ with Personalized Video Cards
Expressing gratitude is a wonderful thing, and Facebook Wednesday introduced a way for users to do just that by creating personalized video cards for their friends and sharing them, Say Thanks. (more…)...
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Facebook Introduces Privacy Basics, Updates Privacy Policy, Expands...
Facebook Thursday announced a host of new features aimed at enabling its users to better understand the social network’s privacy settings, as well as to control the types of ads they see, and the...
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NO PROMO: Facebook to Begin Cutting Back on Promotional Posts from Pages in...
Facebook users are going to like this news, and page administrators will likely not: The social network announced Friday that users will begin seeing fewer promotional posts — not ads, but posts from...
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