Want to send a message directly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? It might cost you $100, if you don't want it to wind up in his spam folder. If you're not already friends with Zuckerberg on the social network, you might see a pop-up ...
Facebook has reported fixing a flaw that made it possible to snoop on private New Year's Eve messages sent using a "Midnight Delivery" service. Facebook took "Midnight Delivery" offline temporarily to patch a vulnerability pointed out by ...
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IDG News Service-Zynga is cutting about 5 percent of its workforce,and is"sunsetting"13 of its older games,the company's founder and CEO Mark Pincus said Tuesday in a note to employees. The games developer is also shutting down its studio ...
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The path from birth to death is filled with choices about where to work and what kind of work to do. Sometimes the world is nice enough to allow us some input. These days, developers have a lot more say in their employment, thanks to rising ...
After a disappointing Wall Street debut, all eyes will be on Facebook on Thursday when it makes its first quarterly earnings report as a public company. The world's largest social network is under a lot of pressure to show strong numbers ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is donating nearly $US500 million ($A476.5m) in stock to a Silicon Valley charity to focus on health and education issues. The gift of 18 million Facebook shares is valued at $US498.8 million, based ...
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The company told Instagram fans it has no intention of selling photos after its new terms and conditions sparked outrage among users yesterday. The photo-sharing service saw many of its users threaten to delete their accounts after it ...
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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister evidently tripped on the social network's privacy settings,landing in the midst of a debate yesterday about"online etiquette". Randi Zuckerberg,who launched a Silicon Valley themed online ...
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Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on ...
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HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. Thanks to HTML5, along with innovations in JavaScript ...
Tags: HTML5, slide apps, Zoho, Google Docs, Aviary, HootSuite, Scribd, Angry Birds
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved social network Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram. The approval comes a week after the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) cleared the deal, giving ...
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Facebook has shown Wall Street that it's finally starting to figure out how to make money from its vast array of mobile users. It's third quarter financial report, which showed a significant increase in mobile users and mobile revenue, ...
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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, best known for their epic legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg over ownership rights to Facebook, have reportedly invested $1 million in a new social network aimed at the financial community, called SumZero. ...
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Facebook plans to start charging businesses to run targeted ads in its Facebook Offers daily deals service. The social network also is allowing businesses to add unique codes to their ads for better tracking of ad results. Facebook also ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company does not plan to create a Facebook-branded smartphone during a conference call with financial analysts and reporters this week. Building a phone, he said, "wouldn't really make much sense for ...
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