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Facebook shutters program that sparked a lawsuit alleging privacy violations, and funnels $9.5 million into a fund that will support online privacy, safety and security.
Facebook shutters program that sparked a lawsuit alleging privacy violations, and funnels $9.5 million into a fund that will support online privacy, safety and security.
Probably not a big shocker that the minds behind Facebook are a little dweeby. Proof positive? They've incorporated an old video-game cheat code into the site
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Social media has influenced 28 percent of U.S. holiday shoppers in gift-buying decisions this year, according to a survey by ComScore Inc.
ARLINGTON, Tenn. - A Tennessee mayor is apologizing for writing on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama deliberately timed a speech last week to block the "Peanuts" Christmas special.
Jesse Eisenberg to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
SOUTHINGTON - While news reports of police using social networking Web sites such as Facebook as an investigative tool are commonplace, Southington police will begin using the site as a means of community outreach.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Social networking site Facebook today said it is creating a global safety advisory board to protect its users against online predators such as sex offenders.
ST. LOUIS, MO--(Marketwire - December 8, 2009) - HDA, Inc., a premier home plans company, offers a one-stop shop for all builders and consumers with their newly redesigned web site. To promote this exciting launch, HDA created a Facebook page that offers fans links to their weekly articles, new videos, as well as special discounts. Although popular as a way to socialize with friends for years ...
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- A former Sandy Springs police sergeant wants his job back after he said he was fired for comments he posted on his Facebook page.
The Associated Press is inviting Facebook users to vote on the 10 top news stories of the year, marking the first time the public has been invited to weigh in since the news cooperative began its annual survey in 1936.
alphadogg sends in a Network World piece that begins "Facebook has agreed to shut down a program that sparked a lawsuit alleging privacy violations, and set up a $9.5M fund for a nonprofit foundation that will support online privacy, safety, and security. The lawsuit centers around Facebook's Beacon program, which let third-party Web sites distribute 'stories' about users to Facebook. Beacon was ...
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has launched a page on Facebook , the social media Web site.“The site will allow the base to share more news, photos and videos with families and friends of people that work on the base, and others with an interest in what goes on behind the fence,” Josh Aycock, Wright-Patterson spokesman, said in an announcement Monday Dec. 7. “We produce a lot of photos and ...
The Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook.
West Palm Beach, FL (AHN) – Social interaction site Facebook has agreed to pay $9.5 million to establish a non-profit foundation to settle claims the company violated users’ privacy. Facebook announced the settlement Tuesday of claims in a class-action suit that its Beacon program did not give users enough notice about the way the program collected [...]
The mayor of a suburban Memphis city apologized for a statement he made on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama deliberately timed his speech last week about the war in Afghanistan to block the airing of the "Peanuts" Christmas television special.
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