Archive for January, 2011
Monday, January 31st, 2011
Facebook is not worth $US50 billion, according to a poll of global investors that shows skepticism about Goldman Sachs' recent estimate of the largest social networking site's value and concern that a bubble may be forming in the technology sector.
Sixty-nine per cent of investors say Facebook is overvalued after Goldman ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Facebook said a software "bug" let a hacker impersonate the social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg in a comment posted to his public fan page at the website.
The bogus update posted earlier this week suggested that Facebook turned to its users instead of banks for money and got "liked" by more ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Facebook users who check in to a store or click the "like" button for a brand may soon find those actions retransmitted on their friends' pages as a "Sponsored Story" paid for by advertisers.
Currently there is no way for users to decline this feature.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Facebook, which faces potential fines for violating privacy laws in Germany, has agreed to let users there better shield their email contacts from unwanted advertisements and solicitations.
After discussions which dragged out for more than six months, Facebook, which has more than 10 million users in Germany, agreed to modify its ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
She has no idea who they were or why they would target her but Sasha Mathers feels violated by Facebook hackers.
The mother of two was on a family holiday in Bali when she was woken by an early morning phone call from her sister telling her that hackers had hijacked ...
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
Facebook has raised $US1.5 billion in new financing led by Goldman Sachs, it announced on Friday.
Investments include $US500 million from Goldman Sachs and the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, as well as $US1 billion from wealthy Goldman clients based overseas.
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
A cyberbully who forwarded explicit online photos of a teenage boy to the teen's school has been sentenced to 45 days in federal prison.
Matthew Bean, 20, of Bergenfield, New Jersey, was part of an "electronic mob" trying to drive the boy to suicide, federal prosecutors charged.
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Facebook, in its latest privacy flap, has delayed a plan to share home addresses and mobile phone numbers of its members with outside developers of applications.
Facebook announced on its developer blog last week that it would begin granting developers access to home addresses and mobile numbers but the social network ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
A Colorado mother who told police her 13-month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she was playing a game on Facebook was charged last week with child abuse resulting in death.
Shannon Johnson, 34, was advised of the charge against her via a video hookup from the jail where she is ...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Social media is proving to be a powerful tool in the disaster relief effort in Queensland, with sites such as Facebook and Twitter helping to co-ordinate temporary housing, provide vital police updates and record first-hand experiences of the disaster.
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