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Facebook Launches Groups For Schools Service
Facebook has announced a new service called “Groups For Schools” that requires an active “.edu” e-mail address to join. In the Groups for Schools pages, the students and faculty can exchange files, create events, and message each other.
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Facebook Acquiring Instagram For $1 Billion
Facebook has announced that they are acquiring Instagram, a popular photo-sharing application, for $1 billion in cash and stock. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on a profile post from his account. Zuckerberg said that they are planning to allow Instagram run independently from Facebook. It was only three days ago where it was that Instagram raised $50 million.
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How To Adjust Facebook Privacy Settings For Apps
The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin and Jeremy Singer-Vine wrote an article called “Selling You On Facebook” where the headline said “Many popular Facebook apps are obtaining sensitive information about users—and users’ friends—so don’t be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places.” Does Facebook harvest your data? Yes. Can you control it? Yes, but their article does not really mention how.
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This Is What Facebook Sends To The Police When Being Subpoenaed
When the Boston Police was investigating Phil Markoff, the “Craigslist Killer,” they had subpoenaed his Facebook account. The Boston Police Department has released the large collection of files related to the case and now we can see what Facebook shares exactly when being subpoenaed.
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Security Hole Discovered In Dropbox and Facebook iOS/Android Apps
Security researcher Gareth Wright has discovered a hole in the Facebook app on iOS and Android devices. The hack allowed people to use anyone to copy a plain text file off of the device on to another one. This would give another user access to your Facebook account. Dropbox also has the same vulnerability.
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Facebook Picks NASDAQ For IPO Under FB Symbol
Facebook has officially picked the Nasdaq for their initial public offering. They will trade under the symbol “FB” according to sources with The New York Times. Facebook will be joining other tech giants like Google, Apple, and Microsoft on the Nasdaq. Facebook’s IPO is expected to be the largest offering since Google’s debut in 2004 and is expected to hit a valuation as high as $100 billion. Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Goldman Sachs are leading the I.P.O.
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STUDY: How Facebook Is Helping E-Commerce Startups
Social media powerhouse Facebook.com initially started out as a way to stay in touch with friends, but as the company started collecting more data, they have found ways to help e-commerce companies capitalize on their platform. So much so that analysts are predicting that Facebook could make as much of an impact on the e-commerce industry as companies like eBay and Amazon.com. The term of e-commerce on Facebook is “f-commerce.”
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Facebook Acquired A Few Patents To Fight Back Yahoo!
Facebook is countersuing Yahoo! with 10 patents of their own. Two of the 10 patents originate from the company. One was acquired on March 30, 2012, two were acquired on February 1, 2010, and another two were acquired December 8, 2011. The other three patents are still being recorded at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as being owned by New York University.
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Facebook Files Lawsuit Against Yahoo!
Last month Yahoo! filed a lawsuit against Facebook that claimed Facebook’s News Feed, ads, and privacy settings infringed on their patents. Today Facebook has filed a countersuit against Yahoo! through 10 of their patents. Facebook said that Yahoo!’s Flickr photostream and their recent activity feature infringes a Facebook patent that is related to generating a personalized feed of stories on a social network. ”While we are asserting patent claims of our own, we do so in response to Yahoo’s short-sighted decision to attack one of its partners and prioritize litigation over innovation,” stated Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot.
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Teacher’s Aide Kimberly Hester Fired For Not Giving Her Facebook Password To Supervisors
Kimberly Hester was a teacher’s aide at an elementary school that has been fired last year for refusing to give her Facebook password to her supervisors. Now she is fighting a legal battle with the school district. She was fired by the Lewis Cass Intermediate School District from her job as an aide to Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis, Michigan.
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