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Facebook buys advertising firm from Microsoft
Facebook agreed Thursday to buy Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft as part of an effort to boost ad revenues at the massive social network. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Atlas is a leader in campaign management and measurement for marketers and agencies. We believe this acquisition will benefit…
Israel police probe apparent hate attack on Arab woman
Israeli police on Wednesday confirmed they were investigating an apparent hate crime against an Arab woman in Jerusalem and said a policeman had been dismissed after praising the attack on Facebook. The attack took place on Monday at one of the light rail stops in west Jerusalem, with an Israeli…
Online Misogynists Are Not Fringe Characters
Michael Nugent, the chair of Atheist Ireland, put up an interesting post comparing what happened when the same (really terrible) joke went up on two Facebook pages. In one case, the joke was accompanied by a no-doubt-non-consensual upskirt picture, and in the other, there was no picture. The illustrated one…
Facebook is dumping your old photos into cold storage
If you’re a longtime Facebook user, chances are pretty good that you uploaded some photos to the social network that you haven’t actually viewed in years. And you’re not alone: Facebook stores hundreds of billions of photos, with hundreds of millions uploaded every day. Facebook’s apparently……
Microsoft the latest to be hit by hackers
Microsoft joined Facebook and Apple on the list of US technology titans targeted in recent cyberattacks. “As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion,” Trustworthy Computing team general manager Matt Thomlinson said in a blog post. “During our investigation, we…
Man with high-powered rifles and ‘tank buster’ bullets arrested for posting liberal ‘hit list’
Police in Clarkstown, New York have confiscated a cache of high-powered weapons and body armor from a man who was arrested for posting death threats against against many Democratic politicians and every liberal supporter of President Barack Obama. According to WCBS, 49-year-old Larry Mulqueen was arraigned on Thursday on charges…
Conan spoof features Biden suggesting Facebook fans buy cocaine
In a slyly edited version of Vice President Joe Biden’s Facebook Q&A this week in which he advocated Americans buying shotguns, late night talk show host Conan O’Brien featured the fast-talking veep bragging about his corvette, getting drunk and buying heavy weaponry. “He started strong but, in my opinion, Biden…
New Jersey Democrat in hot water after using Facebook to declare love for ‘Big Booty Freaks’
A New Jersey Demcratic lawmaker faced questions this week over two “Likes” that went out from his Facebook page recently, attached to entries for “Big Bootie Freaks” and a page titled “You Got Knocked The Fck Out Man,” featuring fight videos from the website World Star Hip Hop. It’s not…
Nursing student sues school after being kicked out over Facebook posts
A Minnesota nursing student is suing his former nursing school for allegedly kicking him out over “disturbing” posts on his Facebook page without telling him what the problem was. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press reported on Sunday that 37-year-old Craig Keefe is suing Central Lakes College in U.S. District Court for…
Facebook network hit by ‘sophisticated’ attack
Facebook said Friday its computer system was “targeted in a sophisticated attack” last month, but that it found no evidence any user data was compromised. The company said in a blog post that malware came from an infected website from a mobile developer and that “we remediated all infected machines,…
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