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BBC News
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Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook.
Elliot Schrage's departure as head of global communications and public affairs is the latest in a string of se..
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CNN
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Israeli defense officials say they have identified an unlikely new threat to national security -- Facebook. A new list of rules announced Thursday aims to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees from revealing classified information on social netw..
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MSNBC
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Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social networking site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online.
Facebook executives told reporters at..
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BusinessWeek
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As recession looms, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slide are taking a go-easy approach before selling shares to the public
During the Web's heyday, a profitable Internet company nearing $100 million in annual sales while luring a million new customers a month..
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BBC News
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The founder of social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users for the way it launched a social advertising system.
Called Beacon, the system tracks web shopping on partner sites outside Facebook and then sells adverts to the so..
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BBC News
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Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology.
When Facebook..
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BusinessWeek
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The social network gives in to complaints, granting users greater control over a system that shares information about Web activity
Facebook made modifications to a controversial advertising system that many users considered an invasion of privacy. On N..
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MSNBC
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Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see.
Those users say they never noticed a small box that appears on a corner of their Web browsers following..
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BusinessWeek
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The social network's new ad system delivers everything you say, do, and buy to marketers—with no opt out
Mark Zuckerberg isn't friends with everyone on Facebook. But the founder of the popular social network does have access to valuable information p..
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BusinessWeek
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Can more targeted pitches on Facebook and other sites reverse the shrinking response to online ads?
In June, Luke Mitchell's student marketing service, Reach Students, ran a series of Web ads to promote an offer from a major parcel delivery service. Th..
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Ars Technica
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Facebook falsely advertises the safety of its social network and fails to respond to complaints about obscene content and sexual predators in a timely manner, says the New York Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo's office has launched an investigation i..
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BBC News
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Microsoft is reported to be in talks to buy a stake in Facebook that could value the social networking website at as much as $10bn.
The talks could lead to a showdown with Microsoft's rival, Google, which is also keen to invest in Facebook, th..
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BBC News
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Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates.
The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person.
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New York Times
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I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose appears to be to remind me that I’ve lost my edge...
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Yahoo News
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As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's second largest social-networking site also could tur..
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BusinessWeek
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The social network is adding more language capability, further proof that growth outside the U.S. is vital for Facebook and MySpace
Facebook is stepping up its international expansion. The Palo Alto (Calif.)-based company will introduce tools that tran..
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BBC News
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Facebook is to add a slew of new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyber bullies.
At the heart of the changes are efforts to ban convicted sex offenders from the site and finding better ways to verify users' ages and identities...
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MSNBC
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As the co-founder of Ascentive, a Philadelphia-based software firm that solves workplace Internet problems, Adam Schran figured managing his own staff's Web use was pretty well covered.
That was before Facebook came along. Like countless other small-bu..
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BusinessWeek
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FriendFeed is tearing down the walls between Web haunts such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, etc.
Attention, attention: The latest tech darling has arrived, and it goes by the name of FriendFeed. Silicon Valley is buzzing about the seven-month-old startu..
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BusinessWeek
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The social network provides important lessons for executives—and a key forum for innovation and experimentation
For most business executives, Facebook remains a remote, somewhat mysterious, online frontier. Many executives harbor strong doubts that F..
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