STUDY: Parents Have No Clue What Their Kids Are Doing On Facebook, Other Social Networks
Parents may think they know what their teenagers are doing online, but according to a study released Tuesday by McAfee, they are sorely mistaken.
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Facebook Extends Relationship With Message Systems
Facebook extended its relationship with email, text, and cross-channel messaging operations provider Message Systems, and the social network will continue its use of the Momentum platform to power its messaging features.
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Bigger Big Apple Space For Facebook
Facebook signed a 10-year lease for 100,000 square feet at 770 Broadway in New York, nearly double its current space of 55,000 sq. ft. at 335 Madison Ave., The Wall Street Journal reported.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook, Other Social Networks Boost Mobile Rich-Media Ads
Mobile rich-media ads fare far better on social networks than via mobile publishers, according to the results of a study by rich-media mobile-ad-serving and analytics firm Celtra, released Tuesday.
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Through Pipe, Facebook Users Can Send 1 GB Files To Each Other
Facebook’s messaging system isn’t optimal for transferring large files. Pipe looks to solve that problem. Pipe, an application that is set to launch Wednesday, allows Facebook users to easily send files of up to 1 gigabit to each other. If the person receiving the file isn’t on Facebook, users can still send 100-megabit files to be received once their Facebook friend logs on.
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Facebook Sees Record Gaming Numbers In 1Q
Facebook Monday released its latest gaming statistics, showing that 250 million people are playing games on the social network each month. The first quarter of the year also represented the most successful three-month period in terms of revenue and people playing games to date.
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STUDY: Can Facebook Likes Show How Fit Or Obese You Are?
If you tend to like exercise- and activity-based Facebook pages, are you in shape? Conversely, do all of those likes of TV shows paint the picture of someone more obese? That’s what some researchers from Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital, and San Diego State University wanted to figure out. They took geographic data of Facebook likes, comparing them to obesity levels, finding that areas where more people liked TV shows on Facebook also tended to be areas with higher obesity rates.
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Sheryl Sandberg To Speak At Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The 2013 edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will feature a special guest speaker: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
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McAfee: Koobface Facebook Virus Is On The Rise
Facebook is trying to educate users more about scams that seep through its News Feed, but according to antivirus firm McAfee, there has been an increase in the first quarter in reports of Koobface, a virus that hijacks Facebook accounts.
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LAYOFFS: Zynga To Slash 18 Percent Of Workforce
The ax has begun to fall at troubled game developer Zynga again, as the company confirmed that it will lay off 18 percent of its workforce, lowering its pretax annualized cash expenses by $70 million to $80 million, and AllThingsD reported that Zynga is shuttering its offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
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PageData: Baseball Rivals Do Battle On Facebook
Major League Baseball recently had its geographical rivalry week, where teams played interleague series against their closest foes. The New York Yankees took on the New York Mets, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim battled it out, as did the Oakland A’s and San Francisco Giants. We know how the teams did on the field, but who won the rivalry battles on Facebook? We dug through PageData numbers to find out.
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Facebook Page Admins Seeing ‘Create Offer’ Module
Facebook introduced yet another way to promote offers, with some page administrators seeing a “Create Offer” module to the right of their insights charts.
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Geo-Targeting Can Now Be Added To Facebook Promoted Posts After Initial Posts
Brands on Facebook can now use geo-targeting on promoted posts, even if the original posts did not tap into that feature, sister blog Inside Facebook reported, on a tip from social media marketer Rich Tucker.
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Make Web Pages Fit On Facebook With TabSite’s Website ReSizer
Facebook marketing and page-management firm TabSite released an application that automatically resizes Web pages and websites to conform with Facebook’s 810-pixel width, eliminating the need for scroll bars.
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Mark Zuckerberg-Led FWD.us Adds Steve Chen, Barry Diller
FWD.us, the political advocacy group led by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced two high-profile additions: YouTube Co-Founder and former Chief Technology Officer Steve Chen, and InterActiveCorp Chairman Barry Diller.
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REPORT: Facebook To Test Addition Of Messages To Status Update Box
According to reports, Facebook will launch a test “with a small percentage of users,” enabling those users to send private messages to friends directly via the status update box.
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AppData Analytics Service Introduces IOS Revenue Estimates
Application analytics provider AppData announced the launch of its proprietary iOS application and developer revenue estimates. Metrics are provided by week, month, and year-to-date for the top-grossing applications and developers on iOS.
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Facebook Reminds Users That They Can Turn Home Off
Is Facebook attempting to use reverse psychology, or merely attempting to address one of the most prominent concerns about its Home Android overlay? The Facebook Mobile page published a post reminding Home users that they can turn the overlay off and use their devices normally.
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Yelp CFO: We’d Team Up With Facebook On Graph Search
When Facebook introduced Graph Search in January, it was perceived as a threat to social reviewing site Yelp. Despite that — or possibly because of it — Yelp is interested in teaming up with Facebook.
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HOW TO: Cut Through Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm And Create A List
Users who want to see all updates from friends can be at the mercy of Facebook’s News Feed algorithm with the default setting, but there is a way to get around this through lists. Users can create lists of their friends (useful if they want to see what specific groups of friends are posting, such as co-workers or college buddies), then click to see their posts in reverse chronological order. Here’s how.
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