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Bing search feature allows you to search through Facebook photos
Bing added a feature Thursday that lets people search through photos friends posted on Facebook. “With more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, photo viewing is one of the most popular things people do on Facebook,” Bing social team senior program manager Ian Lin said in a blog post. “Now, with Bing,…
Democrats still outpace GOP in use of social media
TAMPA, Florida — The US Republican and Democratic conventions have traditionally targeted television viewers above all — but this year’s will see an unprecedented effort to reach voters via social media. In the last presidential election four years ago, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms were not yet the ubiquitous force…
Facebook rolls out faster iPhone and iPad app
Facebook unveiled a new mobile app Thursday for its users on Apple iPhone and iPad, saying it would speed up the performance of people accessing the world’s biggest social network. The new app is “a major update to the Facebook for iOS rebuilt from the ground up, to focus on one thing, performance,” said Facebook…
Facebook shares now at half-price
If you bought Facebook shares in the May IPO and held onto them, by Monday morning you would have lost more than half your investment — and not see any encouraging signs of making your money back. Three months after the largest tech share issue ever on US markets, Facebook…
Google social network adding verified accounts
Google announced that it will let users of its online social network have verified accounts with names or brands in a manner similar to that offered at Facebook and Twitter. Custom Google+ page addresses were rolled out to a limited number of profiles including the footballer David Beckham, actor Hugh…
Facebook agrees to run marijuana legalization ads
Facebook has agreed to run marijuana legalization ads after being confronted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Northern California. The social networking giant had refused to run the ads of multiple organizations because they showed marijuana leaves. “Platforms like Facebook that are designed to facilitate communication should…
Facebook accused of deceiving developers over security
Facebook has been accused of deceiving developers after it emerged that the social networking site did nothing to verify the security of applications it was paid tens of thousands of dollars to review, and which it assured users had been checked. It is believed Facebook was paid up to $95,000 (£60,600) by…
Facebook to have privacy policies audited for two decades under finalized deal with FTC
Facebook will submit to external audits of how well it guards users’ data under the terms of a settlement finalized Friday with US authorities concerned about privacy abuses. The deal with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was announced in November and then subjected to a public comment period that recently…
ACLU argues Facebook ‘like’ is protected by First Amendment
WASHINGTON — Freedom of speech on Facebook is at the heart of an appeals court case in Virginia involving an elected sheriff who fired staff members who “liked” his rival on the social networking site. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week associated itself with the case in Newport…
Facebook user arrested over hacking threat
Hong Kong police said on Sunday they had arrested a 21-year-old man after he reportedly said on social networking site Facebook that he would hack several government websites. Police said the man, who was later released on bail, was held on suspicion of “access to a computer with criminal or…
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