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Facebook Politicking
By Nicole Michels Nov 13th 2012
“Off the fiscal cliff we go.”
“Ohio may not win championships, but we sure do win presidential elections.”
“If I’m going to live in a communist country I prefer to live in a tropical…
Facebook in Silicon Valley talent battle
Pinterest, Square, Airbnb and Dropbox are increasingly winning the hearts and employment contracts of Silicon Valley’s most talented
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Report: Facebook tweaking Timeline
Be prepared for another change to your Facebook profile: Timeline could soon be getting a makeover.
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Model stalked on Facebook killed
CNN’s Vladimir Duthiers reports on the murder of a Nigerian model lured by Facebook fraud.
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Facebook fillip from mobile growth
Facebook is starting to show success from its aggressive push into mobile advertising in recent months
Full Story: Financial Times – UK Homepage
Facebook post $59m quarterly loss
The world’s number one online social network site, Facebook, enjoys a 32% jump in third quarter revenues, however the company still posts a loss.
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Facebook third-quarter revenue rises 32 percent to $1.26 billion
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s revenue rose 32 percent in the third quarter to .26 billion.
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Senior Facebook executive moves to Tech City
Facebook’s European head is leaving the social networking group to take charge of government efforts to promote London’s growing high-tech cluster
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Facebook troop slur man sentenced
A man who posted an offensive Facebook message about the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan is given a community order.
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Facebook expands to 1 billion users
Number who access social network on mobile devices rises to 600m, forcing company to seek how to adapt its revenue model to smaller-screen advertising
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Facebook users top one billion
The one billion user count is up from the end of June, when it had 955 million active monthly users.
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Facebook passes one billion users
Social networking site Facebook now has over one billion users logging on every month, founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
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Facebook test turns users into advertisers
The new product allows ordinary users to pay to promote their own status updates, marking a shift in the social network’s willingness to charge its users for a core service
Full Story: Financial Times – UK Homepage
Youtube and Facebook ‘blocked’ in Kashmir
Local media reports that popular social media websites have been blocked throughout the restive state.
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Rampage over Facebook Koran image
Hundreds of Muslim protesters attack Buddhist villages in Bangladesh, after an image of a burned Koran was posted online.
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Facebook message rumour ‘false’
Facebook is forced to deny a rumour that users’ private messages have been made public, while its shares fall after a financial journal says the stock is overvalued.
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Facebook raises fears with ad tracking
Social media group attempts to prove power of advertising reach via tracking online marketing targeted at users and actual purchases
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Hostage taker kept updating Facebook
The police involved in a hostage situation were faced with an interesting decision.
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Facebook invite leads to mayhem
Hundreds of police confronted rioters in a small Dutch town where a 16-year-old girl’s birthday party invitation on Facebook spawned a large gathering that turned destructive, authorities said Saturday.
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