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Facebook users raise privacy concerns as company tweaks security settings
Reports – and myths – about user privacy abound on Facebook. Is it time for the social network to be more open with users? In the weeks since Mark Zuckerberg trumpeted Facebook’s growth to 1bn monthly users, there has been a lot of focus on the social network’s struggle to…
eBay relaunches look to be more mobile and social media friendly
EBay unveiled a new look for its website Wednesday inspired by social networks, giving consumers personalized shopping suggestions and a new emphasis on mobile Internet. The ecommerce giant with 105 million active users will start giving its users a “newsfeed” and a “personalized homepage” with recommendations based on a user’s…
New study says Facebook and Twitter are more tempting than sex
A study arousing interest online Friday found that checking Facebook or Twitter is more alluring than sex for those immersed in Internet Age lifestyles. The week-long poll conducted in Germany by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business classified checking social network tweets, pictures, comments and other posts as…
Facebook reaches 1 billion monthly users
The milestone means Zuckerberg has achieved his stated ambition of reaching 1 billion active monthly users just two years and three months after the social network reached the half billion mark. Facebook reached 900 million active monthly users in April. Facebook has recorded 1.13 trillion Likes, 140.3 billion friend connections…
Facebook to charge users a fee to highlight their posts
Facebook has begun testing a new feature that would allow users to increase the visibility of their posts for a fee, in what appears to be a new bid to add more profitability to the social network. “As part of a test starting today, people in the US can promote…
New York cracks down on local gangs via Facebook monitoring
The New York Police Department is deploying a surge of detectives to patrol an increasingly mean new beat: Facebook and other social networks. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday that he’s doubling the number of detectives assigned to combating local teen gangs and that increased surveillance of social networks will…
Welcome to the bubble: Most people don’t use social networking for politics
To read some people on the Internet, you’d think the election would be decided by who had the most followers and Tweeted the most about his or her favored candidate. The truth of the matter is that, even if you are the world’s most prolific political Twit with gobs of…
France summons Facebook over private messages rumor
The French government said on Tuesday it had summoned Facebook managers to explain rumours that some users’ old private messages were being posted publicly on the social network. In a joint statement, Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg and the junior minister for the digital economy, Fleur Pellerin, said Facebook managers…
Facebook to require firms to pay for previously free ‘offers’
Facebook said Thursday it was revamping its “Offers” service, by making companies pay for what had been free advertising until now. Withe the social network giant struggling to prove it can boost revenues, the change requires payments, starting at $5 per ad, for the deals offered through Facebook. “The new…
Instagram officially part of Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO — Instagram on Thursday became part of Facebook as the social network completed its billion-dollar acquisition of the smartphone photo-sharing service. “Very excited to announce that we’re now officially joining the Facebook family,” Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said in a Facebook post tagged as being made using a…
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