A startling number of teen girls have admitted to having a schoolgirl crush on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, proclaiming their love for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect on social media. It’s a disturbing trend on sites like Twitter and Facebook, where girls have admitted to finding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attractive, and herald him in the ranks of Justin [...]
May 15 2013 | Posted in
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Frugal billionaire Mark Zuckerberg continues to enjoy his budget holiday in Hawaii with his wife Priscilla Chan, while it has been revealed he is even richer than previously thought. Mark Zuckerberg, 28, gained $2.3 billion from selling 60 million stock options just before Facebook’s initial public offering last year. Facebook’s CEO and his Harvard-educated doctor [...]
Apr 27 2013 | Posted in
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Facebook announced they would be borrowing a page from Twitter’s manual and introducing hashtags (#) onto its site. According to The Week, no specific date has been announced for the introduction, but soon Facebook users who click on a word preceded by a hashtag will bring up all Facebook posts tagged with that hashtag. Hashtags [...]
Facebook has decided to revamp its design, making its website look more like its Android and iOS mobile apps. The refresh also introduces topic-specific alternatives to its news feed. One consequence of the change is that adverts can take up more screen space, making them harder to ignore. However, the project’s lead engineer denied ads [...]
Facebook has admitted that teenagers are becoming bored with the social networking giant. Facing competition from younger, more agile and “cooler” apps such as Snapchat and Instagram, Facebook fears its long-term business could be harmed. And as Facebook approaches its tenth anniversary the firm published its annual 10-K report last month revealing that its younger [...]
According to a report released on Thursday, Facebook will not pay any tax for 2012 despite making $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations. But Mark Zuckerberg’s company will also get a multimillion dollar tax refund of around $429 million according to Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ). The refunds reportedly come from tax deductions [...]
Feb 17 2013 | Posted in
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Facebook is facing legal action from Rembrandt Social Media over its use of the “Like” button and other features of the social network. Facebook is being sued by a patent-holding company acting on behalf of a dead Dutch programmer called Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer. Rembrandt Social Media said Facebook’s success was based, in [...]
Facebook has reported a sharp drop in profits, partly due to increased spending on research and development. Facebook made a profit of $64 million in the final three months of 2012, compared with $302 million a year earlier. Revenue was up 40% at $1.6 billion, largely due to a big jump in advertising revenue, a [...]
A pair of glasses dubbed a “privacy visor” has been developed to make the user invisible to hidden cameras using facial-recognition software. The prototype spectacles have been designed by scientists at Tokyo’s National Institute of Informatics. The glasses are equipped with a near-infrared light source, which confuses the software without affecting vision. Law enforcers, shops [...]
Facebook has added a feature in its mobile phone app that allows free calling for US iPhone users. Users can now make calls to each other via the Facebook Messenger app anywhere they have a Wi-Fi or a cellular-data connection. The feature could be a boon for heavy talkers as they would avoid carrier call [...]
Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network – a smart search engine it has called graph search. The feature allows users to make “natural” searches of content shared by their friends. Search terms could include phrases such as “friends who like Star Wars and Harry Potter”. Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg [...]
A new survey has revealed that the photo-sharing blogging platform Tumblr is more popular with 13-to-25-year-old than Facebook. Garry Tan of Y Combinator found 59% of those polled responded that they were regular users of Tumblr, compared with 54% who regularly used Facebook. “Marketers are definitely looking to other social networks beyond Facebook,” a spokesman [...]
Social network founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is celebrating his first Christmas with wife Priscilla Chan after the couple tied the knot on May 19, laughed and joked during private surfing lessons on the island of Maui. Priscilla Chan looked relaxed in a sporty, red one-piece while her billionaire husband lugged his own surfboard and worked [...]
Dec 30 2012 | Posted in
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Instagram, Facebook’s photo-sharing website, has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users’ photos to advertisers without notification. Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of January 16th, they cannot opt out. The changes also mean Instagram can share information about its users with Facebook, its parent company, as well [...]
Facebook and Zynga have amended an agreement that gave Farmville’s developer strong access to the social network’s one billion users. Farmville is a game once mostly played on Facebook, which at its peak attracted 82 million players a month. Zynga now has its own games platform, but players will no longer be able to share [...]
Justin Bieber, the world’s richest self-made teenager, has now 47 million Facebook fans, 29 million Twitter followers and three billion YouTube hits. As the world’s first social-media superstar, Justin Bieber, 18, built up a fan base of millions before he’d even signed a record deal. His world record puts him ahead of Lady Gaga, Rihanna [...]
Oct 29 2012 | Posted in
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Paul Ceglia, a New York businessman, has been charged with trying to defraud Facebook by claiming he was owed a 50% share of the social media company, prosecutors say. Paul Ceglia, 39, is accused of fabricating and destroying evidence in a lawsuit asking for half-ownership of the firm. Arrested at his home in Wellsville, New York, [...]
Barack Obama made a new attempt on Friday to shore up the youth vote with a live interview on MTV. President Barack Obama sat down at the White House with anchor Sway Calloway and delivered a careful pitch based around youth-friendly topics such as climate change, college tuition and gay marriage. He also opened up [...]
Facebook has been dealt another blow after Zynga, the gaming company responsible for much of its revenue, announced that it was slashing its outlook for the year. Facebook shares had slipped by 2.5% to $21.41 by Friday afternoon after Zynga announced that its number of paying customers had fallen. Analysts have once again reduced their [...]
Facebook “likes” are being added to webpages even if a user has not clicked a like button, or even visited the page in question, the company has admitted. A US security researcher found that simply sending a web address to a friend using Facebook’s private messaging function would add two likes to that page. Leaving [...]
Facebook has now surpassed one billion people using it every month, the company has said. The passing of the milestone was announced by founder Mark Zuckerberg on US television on Thursday. The company said that those billion users were to date responsible for 1.13 trillion “likes”, 219 billion photos and 17 billion location check-ins. The [...]
Noah Kagan, one of Facebook’s first ever employees, was forced to leave the up-and-coming social network in 2006, and he missed out on a payday which could have totaled $100 million. Noah Kagan, who is now running online startup AppSumo, was the 30th employee at Facebook when he was hired by founder Mark Zuckerberg as [...]
Social network Facebook has begun deleting fake page “likes”, independent data suggests. According to Pagedata, many of the site’s most “liked” pages suffered large drops in numbers on Wednesday. The move follows the social network’s admission that 8.7% of its users are not “real”, many having been set up by spammers who use them to [...]
A party invitation which went viral on Facebook ended in rioting and injury after thousands of revellers descended in the small town of Haren in the Netherlands. Haren had been braced for trouble all week after what should have been an invite to a small-scale celebration was passed on to 30,000 people. The girl whose [...]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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Facebook has decided to suspend the facial-recognition tool that suggests when registered users could be tagged in photographs uploaded to its website. The move follows a review of Facebook’s efforts to implement changes recommended by the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland last year. Billy Hawkes, who did not request the tool’s total removal, said he [...]
