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Facebook's "Bug Bounty" Programme Has Paid out $1m in Total
Aug 6, 2013Facebook's "Bug Bounty" programme has paid out $1m in total to users-turned-security-bug-hunters in the past two years, with the youngest recipient being a 13-year-old boy. The largest single "bounty" has been $20,000, and two recipients ...
Tags: Facebook, Amateur Security Testing
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The Company's Servers Must Assemble Data for Users Better Visits The Social Networking
Jun 27, 2013Each time any one of the billion Facebook users visits the social networking site,the company's servers must assemble data--user posts,likes,shares,images--from hundreds or even thousands of different servers around the globe.The page must ...
Tags: Facebook, social networking, IDG, TAO API
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The Use of Facebook in The UK Has Declined by Nine Per Cent Year-on-Year
May 28, 2013According to a report by market research firm YouGov, the use of Facebook in the UK has declined by nine per cent year-on-year. This fall coincides with the social media site's advertising push, which has seen promotions jump over the ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products
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In March Bing Expanded Center Column to Incorporate More Social Information From Facebook
May 14, 2013Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site. The new tools constitute yet another expansion to the Microsoft search site to make it ...
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Facebook User Has 342 Friends and Teenagers Tend to Misreport The Relationship as Married
May 2, 2013The average Facebook user has 342 friends and teenage girls and boys tend to misreport their relationship status as married, according to an analysis of Facebook data by Wolfram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram analyzed Facebook ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products
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More Details Have Emerged About The New 'facebook Phone'
Apr 3, 2013More details have emerged about the new "Facebook phone", which is expected to be launched as early as Thursday 4 April. The press event will be held at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California - revealed after invitations ...
Tags: Facebook Phone, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
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Facebook Likes Can Reveal a Lot More Than You Think
Mar 12, 2013ThoseE Facebook 'likes' can reveal a lot more than you think. Research shows patterns from these Facebook preferences can provide surprisingly accurate estimates of the user's race, age, IQ, sexuality and other personal information. The ...
Tags: Facebook, Facebook data, Facebook users
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Laptops Belonging to Its Employees Were Recently Infected by Malware
Feb 19, 2013Facebook has admitted that laptops belonging to its employees were recently infected by malware, blaming a zero-day Java exploit for the incident. Users of the social network will be concerned that their private data may have been ...
Tags: Facebook, malware, zero-day Java exploit
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New Software Capable of Dredging Social Media Websites Has Been Developed
Feb 17, 2013New software capable of dredging social media websites, mining people's social networks and "predicting their behaviour", has been developed by defence contractor Raytheon. The software, called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), ...
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Facebook Is Rolling out a Major New Search Engine
Jan 18, 2013Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends. The social network is positioning the tool, dubbed "Graph Search," as a way to make the ...
Tags: Facebook, search engine, social network
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Facebook Is Rolling out a Major New Search Engine Designed to Give Users More Options
Jan 17, 2013Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends. The social network is positioning the tool, dubbed “Graph Search,” as a way ...
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It Has Won a Temporary Restraining Order in a California Court Against Twitter's Decision
Nov 29, 2012Social media analytics service PeopleBrowsr said it has won a temporary restraining order in a California court against Twitter's decision to end its four-year old arrangement to supply data to the company. PeopleBrowsr said late ...
Tags: California, PeopleBrowsr, Twitter, Firehose, Twitter data