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Facebook launches app store
Facebook has launched an app store, similar to that for the Apple iPhone, in a bid to turn the social network into a key entertainment platform online. The network announced its “App Centre” in a blogpost late on Thursday, confirming its first major move into a booming market of gaming,…
Facebook opens online center for social apps
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook began rolling out an App Center for mini-programs that plug offerings such as Pinterest or Draw Something into the leading social network. The App Center feature opened its virtual doors in the United States with 600 programs geared for Web browsers as well as those for…
Colorado mom takes toddler out of baby seat and straps in gas can
A police officer in Aurora, Colorado was shocked last week to find a toddler sitting unbuckled in the back of his mother’s car — and a gas can strapped in to the safety seat where the child should have been. On Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation posted a photo…
Napster creators launch video service via Facebook
The creators of the original Napster music-sharing site on Tuesday launched a new video service which allows people to chat online using their Facebook accounts. The service called Airtime was launched by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning along with a host of celebrities at a New York event. The browser-based…
Nasdaq readies payouts for Facebook IPO glitch: WSJ
EW YORK — Nasdaq is taking steps toward compensating investor losses due to computer glitches that fouled trading on the first day of Facebook’s $16 billion IPO, the Wall Street Journal said Tuesday. Nasdaq OMX Group, which operates the Nasdaq exchange, has told brokers that it expects to submit plans…
How low can Facebook go?
WASHINGTON — Two weeks after the largest, most anticipated IPO in years, Facebook shares keep going down. And down. And down. And investors want to know how far they can go. During trade on Monday the shares hit $26.44, more than 30 percent below the initial public offering price of…
New York Congresswoman’s Spokesman Who Suggested “Throwing Acid on Female Senators” Resigns
Last week a top campaign aide for Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY) jokingly claimed that Hayworth supporters should “hurl some acid” at female democratic Senators who claim to be fighting the War on Women but who pay their female staffers less: On a Facebook discussion board maintained by local Democratic activists,…
Facebook considers opening up to users under 13
Facebook is working on technology that would permit children under the age of 13 to use the social network site with parental supervision, people familiar with the effort said Monday. Facebook currently requires members to be at least 13, but the new effort is being made because many children lie…
Republican who advocated acid attacks on female Democrats quits job
A top campaign aide to Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY) has resigned his post after writing on Facebook that supporters should “hurl some acid” at female Democratic officials. “Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign,” Rep. Hayworth said Monday in prepared text.…
Real cost of the smartphone revolution
The problem with living through a revolution is that you’ve no idea how things will turn out. So it is with the revolutionary transformation of our communications environment driven by the internet and mobile phone technology. Strangely, our problem is not that we are short of data about what’s going…
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