Facebook Look Back videos can now be edited

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLwDmwp9JaFrsSjZzmY8NRC8DkzJFtSyU7bU3NjKC_h3IQ9WSR-IsApMT1Fx2TGafBIowHUgX-h-awrwUmGNHWSnxx97TDaePQaC6A1gzoSRSPRpEmn8oPn2WwsK7GNunycLhUL6Tzw4/s1600/facebook_look_back_edit_option_ndtv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLwDmwp9JaFrsSjZzmY8NRC8DkzJFtSyU7bU3NjKC_h3IQ9WSR-IsApMT1Fx2TGafBIowHUgX-h-awrwUmGNHWSnxx97TDaePQaC6A1gzoSRSPRpEmn8oPn2WwsK7GNunycLhUL6Tzw4/s1600/facebook_look_back_edit_option_ndtv.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Facebook Look Back videos</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook, after rolling-out the Look Back feature to mark the 10-year anniversary of the social network, has now released tools that will allow users to edit their Look Back videos in case they are dissatisfied with them.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The editing tool for Look Back allows users to choose alternative photos and clips to put in the video, eliminating those unwanted posts that Facebook's algorithm chose for them.</span></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">The Look Back video editing feature seems to have rolled out to most users, with the 'Edit' option clearly visible to us (see above), right next to the 'Share Your Movie' button.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">News of the edit option being in the offing had been reported on Wednesday by Techcrunch, and </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/dont-like-your-facebook-look-back-youll-be-able-to-edit-it-soon/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" target="_blank">Facebook had confirmed</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;"> the feature will soon arrive for the users, failing to give any particular time-slot. "We will be launching an Edit feature soon that will allow people to change moments in their movies or update the ones they shared. I don't have exact timing at the moment, but this will enable people to remove a post from the movie that was pre-selected and change it to a different one."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">The Look Back video initiative is very much like the </span>Year in Review compilations<span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;"> Facebook has offered at the end of the year, but this time, it's in video form, and </span>highlights the biggest events from the user's entire time on the social network<span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">The social networking giant says "this is a small gesture to thank the over one billion people who are on Facebook by providing a unique way to look back at some of their biggest moments."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;">You can access the experience by going to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lookback" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; outline: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/lookback</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 20px;"> while being logged into your Facebook account. //<a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/facebook-look-back-videos-can-soon-be-edited-by-users-480447"> </a></span><i style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/facebook-look-back-videos-can-soon-be-edited-by-users-480447">NDTV Gadgets</a></i></span>

Facebook Look Back videos can now be edited

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10 Things Facebook Changed in 10 Years

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH45JkKzQA3w4w_fq4sFRBYbYsyEXwF9KHLKXsBdCYF_ES81GMgtofj-8BbbKUCJzcYCwJ6iyFNlx_BHpUYG-YaI1vBPd_W7R0GlXGI1wffD5akf6zDlFZ3Srw27Dj6xg4HAXxEYRRunk/s1600/facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH45JkKzQA3w4w_fq4sFRBYbYsyEXwF9KHLKXsBdCYF_ES81GMgtofj-8BbbKUCJzcYCwJ6iyFNlx_BHpUYG-YaI1vBPd_W7R0GlXGI1wffD5akf6zDlFZ3Srw27Dj6xg4HAXxEYRRunk/s1600/facebook.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember920" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s 10 (of course) ways Facebook has changed our lives.</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember925" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-27="27" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember925" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember972" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember926" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. Facebook took the toil out of stalking</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Prior to Facebook, ex-friends and lovers had to work hard in order to reinsert themselves into the lives of their unsuspecting prey. The “phone books” of our forefathers were no match for changed names or cross-country moves. All it takes is a wistful thought on Facebook to lead effortlessly to a friend request and a reopened past – even if the recipient prefers it vacuum-sealed.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember927" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember930" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="700" id="ember973" src="http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162491/facebook_4_ca3170fe0b0f1cef4345f52e4439338c.nbcnews-ux-640-700.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember931" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. Facebook made botched IPOs cool</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Featuring a bungled rollout matched only by HealthCare.gov, Facebook’s $104 billion IPO is the third biggest in IPO history, and <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/fury-over-facebook-ipo-grows-lawsuits-mount-150039330.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">arguably the most notorious</a>. It’s also the role model for Twitter, Snapchat and every other tech startup with public-trading aspirations.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember932" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Never mind Facebook’s $38 share price, which tanked for months after the company’s NASDAQ debut on May 18, 2012. Forget the ongoing federal investigations and lawsuits accusing the IPO team of secretly axing the earnings forecast. Would-be dotcom billionaires admire Facebook’s refusal to sell out, preferring to go public (despite a weak mobile plan).</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember933" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The social network’s once accursed stock hitting an all-time high of $61 in January has done wonders for bad memories, as does the $3 billion it plunked in Zuckerberg’s pocket, boosting the hoodie-wearing CEO’s estimated worth to $29.7 billion.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember934" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What’s not to emulate?</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember939" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-28="28" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember939" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember977" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember940" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. Facebook made us OK with the NSA</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Private companies don't usually break down doors and drag people off to camps. Governments have and still do, and they do it based on meticulously maintained, detailed records.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember941" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nevertheless, companies that literally <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34825225/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/#.UvEEJj1dWbN" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">bank on our personal info</a> (by selling it to advertisers) also inure Americans to their continuing loss of privacy. As Edward Snowden, Europe and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_card_(France)" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">history</a> know, that rarely turns out well. And yet, here’s, Facebook, with its early privacy abuses, anti-privacy default settings and a CEO who until recently described anonymity as a “lack of integrity.”</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember942" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The world’s largest social network is arguably also the biggest influence in our laissez-faire attitude towards surveillance in the United States: What’s the big deal? We’ve already willingly sacrificed our privacy to Facebook.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember943" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember944" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="480" id="ember978" src="http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162321/duanehoffman_5f9c884ae7278c73d6f5970788fa2043.nbcnews-ux-640-480.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember945" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">4. Facebook messed up our love lives</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />From obsessing over every aspect of your BF or GF’s Facebook profile and what it means for your relationship, to posting passive-aggressive status updates when your interpretation turns negative, all this easily-accessed info would throw off anyone’s pitch. If we scrutinized our lover’s friends as potential romantic rivals IRL the way many do on Facebook, restraining orders would be the closest thing we’d get to a valentine, and plenty of ‘em.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember946" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">5. Facebook welcomed us to the new age of underemployment</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Facebook isn’t the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/201331116423560886.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">only high-income, under-employing company</a> in the U.S. these days, but it’s one we patronize daily and it's one of the most ubiquitous.</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember951" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-29="29" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember951" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember982" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember952" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take General Motors. With its $55 billion market cap, its 212,000 employees, the company pumps billions of dollars into the U.S. economy every year. It supports whole cities.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember953" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there’s Facebook, which has a $100 billion market cap — nearly double that of GM — yet employs fewer than 6,000 people.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember954" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shareholders might argue that Facebook doesn’t need more workers, but shareholders would be wrong … at least according to panicked users who try to reach Facebook’s customer service department. Facebook — a $100 billion company — doesn’t even have a customer service phone number.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember955" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember956" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="700" id="ember983" src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162331/facebook_9_302c3a7422a176c8d2d586d6988453b7.nbcnews-ux-640-700.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember957" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">6. Facebook built the virtual town square of the 21st century</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Did <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Facebook turn your grandma</a>, cousin or mom into the town crier, blasting views and posting inane news? “Obama this! Dog abuse that! You won’t believe how many Upworthy links are junkin’ up your Newsfeed!” Or maybe that’s you …</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember958" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This new kind of community where people share views with family members, as well as close friends they only know from Facebook, is as real as any offline. People not on Facebook are cut off from society. Anyway, for all the obnoxious posts that offend delicate sensibilities or get someone “Facebook fired,” there’s plenty that’s positive. Post about your beloved dog or cat crossing the Rainbow Bridge, and see how fast your "community" comes running.</span></div> <div class="ember-view ad-location" id="ember963" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px;"> <div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="ad-content" data-bindattr-30="30" id="moceanTop-tech-social-media-n21721-ember963" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1rem; text-align: center;"> <div class="ember-view" id="ember987" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember964" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">7. Facebook saved us from the Internet</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Cyberspace offers endless resources for email, instant messaging, sharing our personal news, photos or locations and catching up on curated news. But why go out when the ever-expanding Facebook hegemony offers all of that, as well as your friends, in one convenient location. Like AOL of olden days, Facebook is your Internet portal — but with a better business plan. Plus, mobile!</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember965" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> </div> <figure class="ember-view image spanFull" id="ember966" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;"><div class="stack-l-figure-container-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Duane Hoffman/msnbc file" class="ember-view" height="700" id="ember988" src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_06/162456/facebook8_bc5cf677f2aed0f52a3b8638c52ddc1e.nbcnews-ux-640-700.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: none; min-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 596.421875px;" title="" width="640" /></span><small class="stack-credit-art-figcaption" style="bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5rem; opacity: 0.6; position: absolute; right: 8px; text-shadow: black 1px 1px 1px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">DUANE HOFFMAN/MSNBC FILE</span></small></div> </figure><div class="ember-view" id="ember967" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">8. Facebook changed the way we grieve</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As a new company originally limited to college students only slightly younger than its founders, Facebook didn’t launch with a plan around what to do when customers die. Once membership hit critical mass, and users inevitably did too, survivors were confronted with abandoned profiles and eerie Facebook reminders of their (now-deceased) friend. Eventually, loved ones were allowed to “memorialize” profiles, but many take comfort in posting messages there, regularly addressing the deceased on these living, virtual shrines.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember968" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">9. Facebook aided in disaster relief</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When an earthquake decimated Haiti's capital in 2012, a spontaneous rescue center arose on Facebook, with users posting Haiti-related updates at a rate of 1,500 per minute. Facebook now serves as a valuable platform for rescue agencies following disasters. Last week, SnowedOutAtlanta, a Facebook group that has attracted more than 46,000 members in 24 hours,reportedly connected wannabe Samaritans with more than 400 snowbound travelers trapped on Atlanta’s highways.</span></div> <div class="ember-view" id="ember969" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10. Facebook stole hours and hours of our lives that we’re never, ever getting back. // <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/it-or-not-10-things-facebook-changed-10-years-n21721">NBC News.com</a></span></strong></div>

10 Things Facebook Changed in 10 Years

Here’s 10 (of course) ways Facebook has changed our lives. 1. Facebook took the toil out of stalking Prior to Facebook, ex-frie...

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Facebook Accused for Selling Data Of Reading Private Messages

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLuy4OIRTFwCf35dSAGPIYyDlckN3rx8Vw8v46n-RG_cqk-U3JrFtaA4JKo63YDTlEHxIEi4Ds5ObAlyQR7s88TbuNF3wg22VjJ0UzVbtHgDfbvsozqka3pIKNJi8eQoJjSZZpltR8rs/s1600/facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLuy4OIRTFwCf35dSAGPIYyDlckN3rx8Vw8v46n-RG_cqk-U3JrFtaA4JKo63YDTlEHxIEi4Ds5ObAlyQR7s88TbuNF3wg22VjJ0UzVbtHgDfbvsozqka3pIKNJi8eQoJjSZZpltR8rs/s1600/facebook.jpg" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two Facebook users, Michael Hurley and Matthew Campbell, filed a <a href="http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1611&context=historical" style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">class action lawsuit against Facebook</a> on Dec. 30, 2013, alleging that the social network "has systematically violated consumers’ privacy by reading its users’ personal, private Facebook messages without their consent."</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The lawsuit also alleges that when Facebook finds a link in a private message, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/facebook-sued-for-allegedly-making-private-messages-into-public-likes/" style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">it essentially clicks on the URL</a> and if that site has a Facebook "Like" button, the inclusion of the URL in that message is registered as a "Like" for that webpage.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The plaintiffs want Facebook to pay each member of the class action lawsuit "$100 a day for each day of violation or $10,000."</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Wall Street Journal reported in 2012 that Facebook was <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/10/03/how-private-are-your-private-messages/" style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">scanning private messages</a> and also registering "Likes" for links in private messages. According to the WSJ, Facebook said it filtered private messages for spam or hints of criminal activity, but also promised that "absolutely no private information has been exposed."</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The complaint is without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously," a Facebook spokesperson told the Huffington Post.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The lawsuit alleges that Facebook, rather than just filtering messages for spam, mines them for data that it sells to advertisers, marketers and other data-miners. In 2011, the company made $2.7 billion in targeted ad sales, according to the lawsuit.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook is not the only company accused of reading personal correspondence for one reason or another. Google has also been sued for reading Gmail users' emails without their consent.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Internet security expert Graham Cluley argued recently that it's <a href="http://grahamcluley.com/2014/01/facebook-scan-private-messages/" style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">in our best interest for Facebook to scan our messages</a>. "[I]f you didn’t properly scan and check links, there’s a very real risk that spam, scams, phishing attacks, and malicious URLs designed to infect recipients’ computers with malware could run rife," Cluley wrote. // <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/03/facebook-lawsuit-private-messages_n_4536154.html"><i>huffingtonpost</i></a></span></div>

Facebook Accused for Selling Data Of Reading Private Messages

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5 predictions for Facebook advertising in 2014

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-JGsnDCXRgHN7sdYUEZaTZmkcvf2NHjiUqCY7tfusQR0g2wcRqR1P6-A5TcKwpWUyjpBUoXhsc4FYCKlr0BfCxSLsUsTjLO-arYmS9Cbi4m7RsJOwhiayI8Ze6aZlick7vmIS4FAy0k/s1600/shutterstock_151503620.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-JGsnDCXRgHN7sdYUEZaTZmkcvf2NHjiUqCY7tfusQR0g2wcRqR1P6-A5TcKwpWUyjpBUoXhsc4FYCKlr0BfCxSLsUsTjLO-arYmS9Cbi4m7RsJOwhiayI8Ze6aZlick7vmIS4FAy0k/s1600/shutterstock_151503620.jpg" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since 2013 was such a big year for Facebook advertising, it’s worth asking: What’s in store for 2014? Here’s a look at five key Facebook advertising predictions that marketers should watch for in the New Year:</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="more-86156" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div> <ol style="border: 0px; line-height: 20px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Graph Search on mobile will change the Facebook advertising game.</b> Facebook’s inevitable release of Graph Search for mobile (it’s already available on desktop) will be a positive turning point for Facebook ads. Advertisers will be able to place ads on Facebook depending on users’ mobile search terms. They will also have the ability to place a type of sponsored search result, depending on the user’s search, with social context. Facebook <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/13/facebook-cuts-sponsored-results/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s;">previously offered</a> a sponsored results ad type that was widely <a href="http://www.insidefacebook.com/2013/06/13/facebook-eliminating-sponsored-search-results/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s;">denounced</a>, but that applied to a previous incarnation of Facebook’s search functionality. Now that search on Facebook is fully baked into the social network’s DNA, especially on mobile where it will play an increasingly influential role, look for Facebook advertising to get a lot more interesting – and competitive – in 2014.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Great creative is now essential on Facebook.</b> Brands will need to put much more research and focus into the images they use in their Facebook ads because the ad size is so large on Facebook (especially in the News Feed). The relatively short lifespan of a Facebook ad means that brands must have a vast quantity of engaging images at the ready in order to keep their ads near the top of users’ News Feeds. Unique, constantly refreshed creative is necessary in order to keep a brand’s ad relevant to users. This is especially true for direct response advertisers, who must rely on engaging, creative ads to entice a consumer into making a purchasing decision.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Offline conversion for retailers. </b>Speaking of consumers’ path-to-purchase on Facebook, the ability for retailers to track offline sales conversions from ads viewed on Facebook is another critical step Facebook is taking to give advertisers deeper insight into how their ads actually drive some type of consumer action. As <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Inside Facebook</i> recently reported, Facebook has released an update to its Custom Audiences that advertisers to measure offline sales. This update will help advertisers use sales data to overlay on their Facebook data to show what actions a consumer may have taken based on viewing a brand’s ad on Facebook.</span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bye-bye right-hand side ad types. </b>Right-hand side ad types will lose favor in 2014 in response to advertisers’ preference for the higher-performing page-post ads and app install ads. The former ad type has been on the decline for some time. Advertisers will be urged to make Facebook their de facto homepage and vehicle for ad content, which will reinforce the concept of Facebook pages as “mission control”. The right-hand side ad placement will continue but it will be miniature format app ads or page-post ads. This change will make the user the de facto quality assurance for Facebook. Users will increasingly have the ability to engage, like and, of course, report an ad, ensuring quality content wins the battle for ad space.  <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Facebook will continue its shift away from engagement/affinity ads to performance-based ad solutions.</b> For performance-based marketing professionals, such as my Matomy Media Group colleagues and me, Facebook’s recent shift away from engagement and affinity ads, such as its introduction in April 2013 of cost-per-action ad buys, is welcomed news. We have long advocated for more performance-based advertising opportunities on the social network. Advertisers need more than just the ability to engage with consumers. They need to be able to drive consumer actions. Performance-based advertising on Facebook gives advertisers that option.<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b></span></li> <li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bonus: Stepping into Twitter’s territory. </b>Facebook has known for a while that the things its users talk about are supremely interesting and relevant for advertisers. Twitter proved that basing an advertising model around brand mentions really works; Facebook is bound to follow suit. Already, we are seeing Facebook taking steps into Twitter’s territory by <a href="http://socialmediatoday.com/will-sigsworth/1712966/facebook-testing-trending-feature-news-feed" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s;">showcasing</a> which topics and brands are trending in users’ News Feeds, and by aggregating hashtagged terms. It will come as no surprise to see an ad product appear in 2014 to support both of these Twitter-like additions.</span></li> </ol> <div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Via : <a href="http://www.insidefacebook.com/2014/01/02/5-predictions-for-facebook-advertising-in-2014/">Inside Facebook</a></span></span></div>

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Google and Facebook write your end-of-year cards for you

<div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-none" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 518px;"> <img alt="With its auto-awesome feature, Google+ creates a movie with musical accompaniment out of what it deems to be your best photos and videos of 2013." class="cnet-image" height="282" src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/12/23/GooglePlus-autoawesome-year.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="518" /><div class="image-caption" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> With its auto-awesome feature, Google+ creates a movie with musical accompaniment out of what it deems to be your best photos and videos of 2013.</div> </div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you're one of the countless people who feels guilty about failing to send end-of-year letters to your friends and family, perhaps it's time to let Google or Facebook do the work for you.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Both companies have released tools that compile what they judge to be your top moments of the year for easy sharing with your social contacts. Of the two, the Google+ auto-awesome movie is more interesting -- at least if you actually have some photos and videos uploaded onto Google+ -- since it builds something new rather than just repackaging some highlights from the year's posts.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Google packages what it deems to be your best Google+ photos and videos of 2013 into an embedded YouTube video. You can see ones that are public or from your contacts with aGoogle+ search for #year2013. The results show animated GIFs of the videos, but clicking on a post takes you to a movie version with Ken Burns-esque photo zooming and the cheerful music.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Vic Gundotra, Google's senior vice president of engineering, announced the feature on Monday.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> nd Google gave itself a little marketing present with the feature. At the end of the movie, viewers see a Google+ plug including the suggestion: "Give the gift of awesome photos. Help your friends install the Google+ app and turn on auto backup."</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Google's auto-awesome feature examines photos that people have uploaded then takes actions like combining a group of them into an animation. More recently, Google's auto-awesome feature took a seasonal turn by adding falling snowflakes to snowy scenes and making Christmas-tree photos twinkle.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Facebook described its feature this way: "Your year in review is a collection of your biggest moments on Facebook from this year, including life events, popular posts you've shared and posts your friends have tagged you in," Facebook explained. Facebook also amasses yourfriends' top moments into another year in review that you can browse.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It's cleverly convenient, though the Google and Facebook highlight selections may not agree with your own. But let's be honest here -- who these days actually writes and sends real holiday letters to all their friends and relations? Surely only a tiny fraction of people, and for the rest, a Google+ slideshow or Facebook page could be a convenient way to share a year's worth of shots.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Just don't be fooled into expecting that people will see any kind of personal touch in your year-in-review page. It's a nice idea, but both the Facebook and Google features have a very mechanical, algorithmic feel.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>Via: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57616240-93/google-and-facebook-write-your-end-of-year-cards-for-you/">CNET</a></i></div>

Google and Facebook write your end-of-year cards for you

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Microsoft has released a new version of the Facebook app for Windows Phone 8

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsk2LmY8jrQ_7LF5e7H_mmksXUxhAooX79VYk_YDeTdwXXRKRR5VhUN7-CCEbjKWcE1FOVvoa6ckC1ybfP3sKIcC5GizPuz3PZbaW6kpndj8LTM9ED4kI4Cs52F5dT4049l63cw5nnaE/s1600/Facebook+Update+For+Windows+Phone+8.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Microsoft has released a new version of the Facebook app for Windows Phone 8</i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsk2LmY8jrQ_7LF5e7H_mmksXUxhAooX79VYk_YDeTdwXXRKRR5VhUN7-CCEbjKWcE1FOVvoa6ckC1ybfP3sKIcC5GizPuz3PZbaW6kpndj8LTM9ED4kI4Cs52F5dT4049l63cw5nnaE/s1600/Facebook+Update+For+Windows+Phone+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft is making the festive season merrier with a latest update brought to its official Facebook app for Windows Phone 8.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People love sharing their favorite moments with the world through numerous social networking sites today and therefore improving the overall in-app experience of the world's largest social networking site, Facebook makes total sense. The mobile app has been redesigned effectively to give its users a great experience.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The update for Facebook Windows 8 app rolled out Monday. It lets users receive toast notifications when tagged or invited or when a message is received. The Redmond-based software giant has also improved Facebook's primary Live Tiles on the Start screen to show updates like friends' updates on the wall. The redesigned app, which brings the version to 5.2, also debuts new secondary Live Tiles to let users pin chats, events, groups, pages, and photo albums to the Start screen. This makes access to any page easier than ever.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Only on Windows Phone can you see who commented on a photo, what they wrote and which photo they commented on, from you phone's Start screen Live Tile," Microsoft's Michael Stroh said in the company's <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/12/23/official-facebook-app-for-windows-phone-gets-better-notifications-new-live-tiles.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold !important; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><strong style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;">official blog</strong>,</a> Monday.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The updated Facebook app for Windows Phone 8 supports 30 new languages, bringing the total to 50. The latest update is one of the biggest WP8 has received in a long time. The new features come after the software giant testing them in the beta versions, which is also available in Windows Phone Store.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The app has also received some bug fixes and performance upgrades. The updated app can be downloaded for free via <strong style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/facebook/82a23635-5bd9-df11-a844-00237de2db9e" rel="nofollow" style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Windows Phone Store.</a></strong></span></div> <div style="line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"> <i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Via : </span><a href="http://www.hngn.com/articles/20475/20131226/facebook-update-windows-phone-8-brings-improved-primary-tiles-secondary.htm">Hngn</a></span></i></div>

Microsoft has released a new version of the Facebook app for Windows Phone 8

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T-Mobile prepaid offering free access Facebook

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYXgYHz7OLWeHzEIRuN0b9EChI7tuEeCaV6cKTKjaMk1gL1-FJc-Qu6AXC7fFy7QwAMb6YXvQwpvYxsc5uHe6JQ4oqvtpkvPexACm1O4d6MsTcqEaPHlOEFJkqVukHjJfROKL0Mk81fokX/s1600/fbhedimg_630px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYXgYHz7OLWeHzEIRuN0b9EChI7tuEeCaV6cKTKjaMk1gL1-FJc-Qu6AXC7fFy7QwAMb6YXvQwpvYxsc5uHe6JQ4oqvtpkvPexACm1O4d6MsTcqEaPHlOEFJkqVukHjJfROKL0Mk81fokX/s320/fbhedimg_630px.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"> free access Facebook</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Look, we understand: You absolutely <em>have to</em> know what Jimmy ate for lunch. And that Marissa is, "Ugh, just so sick of this week already." And Jason's only a "maybe" to the office holiday party? <em>Who does that guy even think he is?</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><br /></em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><b>Dont Miss </b>: </em></span><a href="http://www.itrumors.net/2013/12/mark-zuckerberg-will-sell-about-23.html" itemprop="url" style="color: #252525; line-height: normal; opacity: 0.75; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Mark Zuckerberg will sell about $2.3 billion in Facebook Inc. shares to pay a tax bill</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sorry, sorry -- we nearly forgot to tell you that T-Mobile's prepaid brand, GoSmart Mobile, has joined forces with Facebook to offer unfettered access to The Social Network™. Even if you don't pay for data, GoSmart Mobile will still allow Facebook and Facebook Messenger access. You'll never miss another link to "28 signs you've lived in New York City too long" again!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Don't Miss </b>: <a href="http://www.itrumors.net/2013/12/facebook-home-gets-year-end-update.html" itemprop="url" style="color: #252525; line-height: normal; opacity: 0.75; text-decoration: none;">Facebook Home Gets Year-End Update</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whether the Facebook access will be speedy is another question altogether; it's not actually clear which network users will access it through, and GoSmart is a prepaid service aimed at bringing down mobile costs over offering blazing fast speeds. Either way, free is free, right?</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.euroinvestor.com/news/2013/12/23/gosmart-mobile-joins-with-facebook-to-deliver-free-unlimited-facebook-for-all-customers-even-if-they-dont-have-a-data-plan/12637567" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">T-Mobile</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Via : <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/23/t-mobile-prepaid-free-facebook/">Engadget</a></span></div>

T-Mobile prepaid offering free access Facebook

 free access Facebook Look, we understand: You absolutely  have to  know what Jimmy ate for lunch. And that Marissa is, "Ugh, just so s...

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Mark Zuckerberg will sell about $2.3 billion in Facebook Inc. shares to pay a tax bill

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFkii4S2As9Cgj7maatz58HmHwa8pWKsKlzWecajus7jh1aMydzXKfgWNINco8NiOzVd2BBwgUafVCPZHKqusAm4cJRgp8MvaFd3kN87yF4BJyu1U2vKYtjEF52oa3gYCLV7zq5uC2g64B/s1600/facebook_share.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFkii4S2As9Cgj7maatz58HmHwa8pWKsKlzWecajus7jh1aMydzXKfgWNINco8NiOzVd2BBwgUafVCPZHKqusAm4cJRgp8MvaFd3kN87yF4BJyu1U2vKYtjEF52oa3gYCLV7zq5uC2g64B/s320/facebook_share.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span class="media-abs">Mark Zuckerberg speaks during an onstage interview with James Bennet of the Atlantic Magazine</span></i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Facebook Inc founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.4 million shares worth about $2.3 billion to pay a tax bill, as part of an offering by the social network of 70 million Class A common shares.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Facebook shares, which have doubled in value this year, were down 4 percent at $53.54 before the bell.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Zuckerberg's sale will reduce his voting power to 56.1 percent from 58.8 percent, the company said in a filing on Thursday.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Facebook said it expects Zuckerberg to use most of the net proceeds from the sale to satisfy taxes related to the exercise of an option to buy 60 million Class B shares.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Each Class A share is entitled to one vote, while Class B shares are entitled to 10 votes and are convertible at any time into one Class A share.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Board member Marc Andreessen will also sell 1.65 million Class A shares, while Facebook will sell 27 million.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Barclays are joint bookrunners for the offering.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Via : <a href="http://news.msn.com/science-technology/zuckerberg-to-sell-414-million-facebook-shares">MSN </a></i></span></span>

Mark Zuckerberg will sell about $2.3 billion in Facebook Inc. shares to pay a tax bill

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Facebook Home Gets Year-End Update

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzK07nxL5O9xtRGD6ciKewEggGN4aMtjt4cIbX6XF3c4TllKfksOWJnfmWGaEjt2uaA8fcdncoNWEQRNZU1qqZJsZ1oAToLAg8V7XbLwQeW9r-dri0soFQ_YNsY8TRz_qsoGTat3H5Skz/s1600/facebook-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzK07nxL5O9xtRGD6ciKewEggGN4aMtjt4cIbX6XF3c4TllKfksOWJnfmWGaEjt2uaA8fcdncoNWEQRNZU1qqZJsZ1oAToLAg8V7XbLwQeW9r-dri0soFQ_YNsY8TRz_qsoGTat3H5Skz/s1600/facebook-logo.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Facebook Logo</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook on Thursday rolled out an update for its Home app, bringing new features for the new lock screen and several other handy improvements.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the latest version of Home, the first thing you'll see when you wake up your phone is your lock screen featuring a background you choose. At the bottom of the screen, you'll see the time, date, and weather.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook on Thursday posted a YouTube video showing off all the new features. From your lock screen, you can swipe to the right to view featured Facebook posts and press and hold on a photo to zoom out or double tap to like it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Having control over what you see in Home is important, so we've made it easy for you to personalize your experience," Facebook software engineer Jenny Yuen said in the video.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From your lock screen, press the vertical "…" button to access Settings, where you can choose which apps you want to connect to Cover Feed, including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Flickr. After doing so, you'll see posts from those apps in your Cover Feed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the Settings menu, you can also personalize your wallpaper with Facebook photos you have taken, photos of just your close friends, or photos of all friends. When you're browsing through photos you can quickly hide images you don't want to see with same vertical "…" button.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grab the latest version of Facebook Home from <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.home&hl=en">Google Play.</a></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via : <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2428638,00.asp?google_editors_picks=true">PCMag</a></span></i>

Facebook Home Gets Year-End Update

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How to 'dislike' something on Facebook

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WAjy2YWDITIH1IW6QSYbSBakkC2EuwlHTZcw1Tp3-7OAxfYtgbK8RWUlofjmc5iRThve4AYaQtjT8an-50wKI6MJIGz-KRYt47V2TrCjeT9ZZA1qxhn9ttg4MLxPPbvuZF8Up0kkjye_/s1600/Facebook_Messenger_Dislike_610x436.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WAjy2YWDITIH1IW6QSYbSBakkC2EuwlHTZcw1Tp3-7OAxfYtgbK8RWUlofjmc5iRThve4AYaQtjT8an-50wKI6MJIGz-KRYt47V2TrCjeT9ZZA1qxhn9ttg4MLxPPbvuZF8Up0kkjye_/s320/Facebook_Messenger_Dislike_610x436.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For years Facebook users have been asking for the ability to dislike a post on the social network. It only makes sense users would want to express disapproval for some of the posts they're subjected to. Up until now, Facebook hasn't provided an easy way to do this short of leaving a nasty comment.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier this week, Facebook finally gave in and provided a method for users to show displeasure. But instead of providing a dislike button on status updates, Facebook has released a sticker pack for Facebook Messenger that includes a thumbs-down icon, as first reported by<a href="http://allfacebook.com/like-stickers_b127738" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AllFacebook</a>.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can download the new sticker pack for free using the Facebook Messenger app on either an <a href="http://download.cnet.com/Facebook-Messenger/3000-12941_4-75542855.html" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone</a> or <a href="http://download.cnet.com/Facebook-Messenger/3000-12941_4-75542969.html" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android</a> device. Of course the sticker pack is also available through Messenger when chatting using the Web site.</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to the thumbs-down or "dislike" sticker, you'll find variations of the thumbs-up icon that's come to symbolize to a Facebook Like.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57615994-285/how-to-dislike-something-on-facebook...messenger/" target="_blank">CNET</a></span></i></div>

How to 'dislike' something on Facebook

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Facebook stop twitter with SportStream

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVxAg_U5PPB0QqdewdHCNA-iL1p8d2MbhQxmpe4WeAaWyBvzVOFNxGjCuzwY4fX2fSSIhVBY4RJrRA6vqIAUIM5YMW_FbIwwG47kBgl3q9yDIMpbK2UkBCOW_f8aZMeEqo37zcGzOHFiQ/s1600/facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVxAg_U5PPB0QqdewdHCNA-iL1p8d2MbhQxmpe4WeAaWyBvzVOFNxGjCuzwY4fX2fSSIhVBY4RJrRA6vqIAUIM5YMW_FbIwwG47kBgl3q9yDIMpbK2UkBCOW_f8aZMeEqo37zcGzOHFiQ/s400/facebook.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Facebook</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook and twitter are both widely regarded as very important websites, and not at all time-wasting dumping grounds for cat and baby pictures. Perhaps feeling that twitter was stealing some of their real-time coverage mojo, Facebook recently announced that they re-tooled the newsfeed feature to promote more actual news. Now, they’re upping the ante with their acquisition of SportStream, a startup company whose app promises up to the minute coverage of sporting events.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to their <a href="http://sportstream.com/about/" style="color: #f20000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">website</a>, “SportStream is built in San Francisco, by a group of die-hard sports fans dedicated to combining their love of sports and technology. The company’s patent-pending technology surfaces the highest quality tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram media, stats, news and more for every league, game, team and player across sports.”</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook has yet to comment on the acquisition on their press website. However, according to a press release on the SportStream website, “Facebook sees the value in our technologies and team, and we’re excited to be a part of their continued investment in their platform. With this next step for SportStream, we’ll have greater resources to continue to do what we do best.”</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The company, founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Paul Allen, aggregates social chatter and updates in a personalized social feed for sports fans. The website states that with the acquisition, they intend to scale and further develop tools and capabilities.</span>

Facebook stop twitter with SportStream

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Facebook Nears All-Time High As Instagram Begins To Pay Off

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVl1Z25RvfdR1DCz9LhGzi1-BlU-O8M3iJ1AwJwc6xlQjdySpUi7Lw87PzsqQqyBWQSGRsuu0yJbZlILJvHIHQBD7qqcmqiwoYUjL4Qz99x7X80ZbNRG3vQ5Z1iq5NxHs2irOmDem5Zo/s1600/CC.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVl1Z25RvfdR1DCz9LhGzi1-BlU-O8M3iJ1AwJwc6xlQjdySpUi7Lw87PzsqQqyBWQSGRsuu0yJbZlILJvHIHQBD7qqcmqiwoYUjL4Qz99x7X80ZbNRG3vQ5Z1iq5NxHs2irOmDem5Zo/s400/CC.PNG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Facebook Nears</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-right: 161.65625px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook continued its nearly month-long march up this week, as investors grow increasingly bullish about the social network’s potential. Besides being added to the S&P 500, Facebook is finally seeing its $1 billion purchase of photo-sharing site Instagram begin to pay off.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-right: 161.65625px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On Thursday, Instagram announced new features under the title Instagram Direct that will allow private group messaging. Users will be able to send photos to a select group, rather than expose them publicly, and chat about the images as well. The move comes as the competition for private message services heats up. Snapchat rejected a $3 billion all-cash offer from Facebook to go it alone, and Twitter pumped new life into its direct messaging service recently as well.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-right: 161.65625px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“We believe Instagram Direct has the potential to drive greater engagement among existing users and could bring new users to the platform that may have shied away from the prior, more public sharing model,” <a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/ubs/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UBS</a> <span class="quotecard_hook initialized" data-exchange="NYSE" data-naturalid="fred/company/4472" data-quotes-closing="18.3" data-quotes-now="18.25" data-ticker="UBS" data-type="organization" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wrapper decrease" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="ticker" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UBS</span> <span class="change" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-0.27%</span></span></span> analyst Eric Sheridan wrote in a new note.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-right: 161.65625px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Instagram’s initial wave of ads in the News Feeds also showed promise uniting bringing advertisers together with users. UBS cites a study by Curalate that found paid posts generated an average of 32x more Likes than typical brand posts.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-right: 161.65625px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beyond Instagram, Facebook’s new roll-out of auto-play News Feed video and gif posts on Apple's <span class="quotecard_hook initialized" data-exchange="NASDAQ" data-naturalid="fred/company/280" data-quotes-closing="560.677" data-quotes-now="554.5" data-ticker="AAPL" data-type="organization" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wrapper decrease" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="ticker" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AAP</span><span class="ticker" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span> <span class="change" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-1.1%</span></span></span> iOS and Google's <span class="quotecard_hook initialized" data-exchange="NASDAQ" data-naturalid="fred/company/1821" data-quotes-closing="1069.71" data-quotes-now="1060.79" data-ticker="GOOG" data-type="organization" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wrapper decrease" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="ticker" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GOOG</span> <span class="change" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-0.83%</span></span></span> Android platforms has great potential as a money-making source online. Sheridan believes that the new video product could be a test ahead of a broader video advertising rollout. He has a Buy rating on the stock, with a price target of $62.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-right: 161.65625px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As of 11:52am EST, Facebook stock was up 9.57% on the week. The share price, touching above $52.50, is nearing Facebook’s all-time high of $54.22 set back in October.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-right: 161.65625px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Via:<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/12/13/facebook-nears-all-time-high-as-instagram-begins-to-pay-off/?partner=yahootix"> Forbes</a></i></span></div>

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Facebook wants To Dominate Mobile Video Ads

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxg3osNAu4Nl-__W5lex-_wIRFVHVRXq_tJOehYAmiONhIR0BDDnVrt8jNpGUtIHywx9dIicWxDE_J5wcmJp64Mi8qQPOVGgpk-vwRBk6gyCu4EM9XJooVBVWdScw6xcPeSZey-TrgXxYG/s320/gty_facebook_ll_130821_16x9_992.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;"><i>Facebook</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxg3osNAu4Nl-__W5lex-_wIRFVHVRXq_tJOehYAmiONhIR0BDDnVrt8jNpGUtIHywx9dIicWxDE_J5wcmJp64Mi8qQPOVGgpk-vwRBk6gyCu4EM9XJooVBVWdScw6xcPeSZey-TrgXxYG/s1600/gty_facebook_ll_130821_16x9_992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook’s taking on an unlikely target: YouTube.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The social network is not planning to become a video Website, but a leaked pitch deck <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/13/facebook-vs-tv-and-youtube/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">published by TechCrunch</a> indicates that Facebook would like to be advertisers’ go-to for mobile video ad spend. The presentation, “Facebook for Business: Video on Facebook,” delves into the stats that bolster its claim.</span></div><div class="what-to-do" style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="what-to-do-header" style="border: 0px none; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What to Do:</span></span><strong style="border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use Facebook with other ad campaigns to maximize effectiveness. Consider Facebook especially when targeting millennials. Compare analytics from Facebook and YouTube campaigns to determine best practices for different demographics and products.</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why Facebook? Three reasons: First, changing consumer behavior means that marketers should “be where people are. Secondly, it allows them to “reach all of the people who matter to you.” Finally, Facebook’s News Feed is “the most engaging digital real estate.”</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="tweet" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; display: table; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px none; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook claims its ads are 60 percent more accurately targeted than the competition.</span></em></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first element, changing consumer behavior, refers to the fact that television is “no longer a guaranteed audience.” According to eMarketer, people will spend more time on digital media than on TV in 2013. Nielsen, which has long released the TV ratings that advertisers depend upon for media buys, recently announced that it would <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/business/media/nielsen-to-measure-twitter-chatter-about-tv.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">incorporate Twitter messages </a>to create a new metric for rating TV shows based on social engagement.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That digital media includes Facebook. The company reports that people check their phone 100 times a day, and Facebook 10 to 15 times each day. Facebook and Instagram make up 21 percent of total time spent on mobile. In general, eMarketer reports that more than 28 percent of time spent online or on a smartphone is <a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Key-Trends-2014-Always-On-Means-Always-Social/1010448" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spent on social networking</a>. Social networking ad spending, which was 8.5 percent of total U.S. ad spend in 2012, is projected to hit 12.2 percent by 2015. Digital ad spending in general, which will be $9.5 billion in 2013, is expected to reach<a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Retailers-Digital-Ad-Spending-Reach-Record-Levels-2013/1010418" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> $13.8 billion by 2017</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 22px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A second element, “targeted reach,” is basically a testament to the 179 million people who use Facebook each month. Per day, it’s 128 million people, 101 million of which are on mobile. Television, according to Nielsen ratings, reaches less people ages 18 to 24 each day than Facebook does. Further, Facebook claims that it can deliver “incremental reach” above TV, increasing its reach primarily among 25- to 34-year-olds, and especially during the day, when it increases reach 125 to 160 percent.</span></div>

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iPhone : Heyday app is the anti-Facebook

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtrDMhxvjRMY_1yN-0qPyPjTl9mByx95Z23fihUMkr1lwx9V6E0Gnb3RqcQaqq12kVkem9yJ86bB3p9pZngwF3tF4NfAKywUqkEWk8kREkrCaICUrZcJTOn-49c6FpN44UxzqeQp5v6S2g/s1600/iPhone+anti+facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtrDMhxvjRMY_1yN-0qPyPjTl9mByx95Z23fihUMkr1lwx9V6E0Gnb3RqcQaqq12kVkem9yJ86bB3p9pZngwF3tF4NfAKywUqkEWk8kREkrCaICUrZcJTOn-49c6FpN44UxzqeQp5v6S2g/s1600/iPhone+anti+facebook.jpg" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Heyday will create a virtual journal including all of the places you have visited and the photos you have taken</i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is where a <a href="http://www.hey.co/index" target="_blank">new iOS app called Heyday</a> comes in. It combs through your past photos and automatically logs your location data to create a personalized journal — all for your eyes only. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's kind of like Facebook Timeline, except that everything is private by default. Heyday co-founder and CEO Siqi Chen told NBC News that he was inspired after talking to users of both Facebook and <a href="https://foursquare.com/" target="_blank">Foursquare</a>, a social media app that lets you share your location with people you know. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"About half of the Foursquare users we talked to had accounts with no friends," he said. "And with Facebook , users were tired of people over-sharing with things like baby and vacation photos. There weren't that many products that helped people remember their lives for themselves."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Creating your own journal is pretty easy. After downloading the app from iTunes, I had my own virtual scrapbook up in around five minutes. After letting Heyday access my photos and location info, I didn't have to do anything — I just waited for the app to automatically assemble colorful collages filled with snapshots that I had taken over the life of my phone. Heyday pretty much does all of the work, choosing photos with faces or lots of color in them, and leaving out duplicates and pictures that are too dark.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then, you are free to edit individual photos and albums, add labels, privately tag your friends and jazz up pictures with 18 different filters. And, yes, you can share them on Facebook or Twitter if you feel like it. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Everything is stored locally on your phone, which helps the journals scroll quickly and smoothly. (Information is backed up on the company's servers, an option that can be switched off from within the app). </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Chen, speaking from his office in San Francisco, sounded somewhat existential in explaining why Hey, Inc. started work on the app 18 months ago. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"It fulfills an itch that users didn't know they had until Heyday," he said. "If you forget what you did a year ago, you basically forget that you forgot, so that time that you lived disappears. We think that's really sad."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i> Source : <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/heyday-app-anti-facebook-iphone-2D11702474">NBC News</a></i></span></span>

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Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and LinkedIn have formed an alliance called the Reform Government Surveillance group for NSA muzzle

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZp-i5PYgtSas2bsD-jNIMzqvsyRLCXnFKrFR0FJUdUldWs35grQCE3Q6I7J9iMdZqfduiEw6JfQloLvyFcCAyu4j5SmviYxFUyBaedoMa2t70MYlupP2ZU6McBX5b67vJGrvig-Mxrq-5/s1600/it-security-v1-620x465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZp-i5PYgtSas2bsD-jNIMzqvsyRLCXnFKrFR0FJUdUldWs35grQCE3Q6I7J9iMdZqfduiEw6JfQloLvyFcCAyu4j5SmviYxFUyBaedoMa2t70MYlupP2ZU6McBX5b67vJGrvig-Mxrq-5/s1600/it-security-v1-620x465.jpg" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eight companies, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and LinkedIn have formed an alliance called the Reform Government Surveillance group. Although usually fierce competitors, the group have come together in agreement over the U.S. government's spying programs -- brought to light by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden -- and have formally requested "wide-scale changes" to the regime.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Snowden's revelations have included alleged wiretapping, the storage of phone call records illegally, fibre-optic cable infiltration used to monitor communication on an international scale, and the use of malware to monitor computer networks by the U.S. agency.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to the <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-collects-5-billion-cell-location-records-a-day-snowden-leaks-say-7000023942/">latest document leak</a>, the NSA is gathering close to 5 billion records a day on cellular devices worldwide. The <em>Washington Post</em> says large amounts of domestic data is "incidentally" recorded, which allows the agency to track millions of people worldwide based on how and where mobile devices are used.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the <a href="http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/">alliance's website</a>, an open letter to President Obama and Congress signed by the firms acknowledges that governments have "a duty to protect their citizens," but argues that Snowden's information leaks over the practices of the NSA and U.S. government in wholesale spying have highlighted "the urgent need to reform government surveillance practices worldwide."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25297044">the revelations show</a> a "real need for greater disclosure and new limits on how governments collect information." Brad Smith, Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft said that "surveillance should address specific, suspicious targets under defined legal process rather than bulk collection of Internet communications."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Marissa Meyer, CEO of Yahoo, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/major-tech-companies-unite-to-call-for-new-limits-on-surveillance/2013/12/08/530f0fd4-6051-11e3-bf45-61f69f54fc5f_story.html">said</a> "recent revelations about government surveillance activities have shaken the trust of our users, and it is time for the United States government to act to restore the confidence of citizens around the world." Google CEO and chairman Larry Page commented that user data security was "critical" for firms, but this has been "undermined by the apparent wholesale collection of data, in secret and without independent oversight, by many governments around the world."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"The balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual -- rights that are enshrined in our Constitution," the letter states. "This undermines the freedoms we all cherish. It's time for a change."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The U.S. President agrees to an extent. During a recent appearance on MSNBC's <em>Hardball</em>, Obama said that he plans to "propose some self-restraint on the NSA," and push for "some reforms that that can give people more confidence." At the interview, Obama said:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"All of us spend more and more of our lives in cyberspace. We've got to be in there in some way to protect the American people, even as we're making sure the government doesn't abuse it. The Snowden exposures have identified some areas of legitimate concern, but some of it has also been highly sensationalized.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The people at the NSA generally are looking out for the safety of the American people. They are not interested in reading your emails or text messages, and that's not something that's done."</span></span><br /> </blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The company alliance states that they are all taking steps to keep user data secure, including the deployment of encryption technology to scupper "unauthorized surveillance on our networks," and plan to push back government requests to ensure they are both legal and reasonable.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-apple-google-facebook-call-for-nsa-muzzle-7000024074/">ZDNet </a></i></span></span>

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Facebook '3 times more popular than Twitter' on mobile

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD0n3Cwi5S75mhztJFo4KQat0ToooPB6Pg2D_BPFlOaOPaIiQ11AngnoIv_IP_pOPpWc6QZSSlAbIUpLvHieIHKBGTymRrkXjQjVL9C98mnk12H6COIMzGlKgcExNmEsZh_1dm9a93pE_/s1600/fb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD0n3Cwi5S75mhztJFo4KQat0ToooPB6Pg2D_BPFlOaOPaIiQ11AngnoIv_IP_pOPpWc6QZSSlAbIUpLvHieIHKBGTymRrkXjQjVL9C98mnk12H6COIMzGlKgcExNmEsZh_1dm9a93pE_/s1600/fb.jpg" /></a></span></span></div><div class="firstPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Facebook is more than three times as popular as Twitter on mobile and a host of other apps, according to a survey. </span></span></div><div class="secondPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of smartphone buyers asked to name the three most frequently used apps on their mobile phones, 45 per cent said Facebook, while 13 per cent said Twitter and 11 per cent said Candy Crush Saga, the popular mobile game. </span></span></div><div class="thirdPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The survey of 500 phones buyers in the US between June and September of this year shows that Facebook is unchallenged as the leading app on smartphones, according to the company which conducted the research. </span></span></div><div class="fourthPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mike Levin, co-founder of Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), said: “Facebook just dominates mobile phones, in terms of most frequent use, not just downloads. </span></span></div><div class="fifthPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“For most other apps, including some well-known ones like YouTube and Pandora, fewer than 10 per cent of phone buyers included them among the most frequently used”. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10496812/Facebook-three-times-more-popular-than-Twitter-on-mobile.html">Telegraph </a></i></span></span></div>

Facebook '3 times more popular than Twitter' on mobile

Facebook is more than three times as popular as Twitter on mobile and a host of other apps, according to a survey. Of smartphone buyers ...

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Massive hack stolen 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzOmzyowanYhEvyOqVVhPQlJPeBVvu3W7XlR0P6NDX1mhPTfGnfW9XNsjOPCQEw232GYo0QwdjCB0tA6hmYhsGVPo39az-C4wV8LgZXj1FbF5aTEkppw1Xc64kVHWqKLZwkxwI1sh9kFo/s1600/131204130551-facebook-password-620xa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzOmzyowanYhEvyOqVVhPQlJPeBVvu3W7XlR0P6NDX1mhPTfGnfW9XNsjOPCQEw232GYo0QwdjCB0tA6hmYhsGVPo39az-C4wV8LgZXj1FbF5aTEkppw1Xc64kVHWqKLZwkxwI1sh9kFo/s1600/131204130551-facebook-password-620xa.jpg" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Massive hack stolen  2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords </i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a report released this week.</span></span></span></h2><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The massive data breach was a result of keylogging software maliciously installed on an untold number of computers around the world, researchers at cybersecurity firm <a href="https://www.trustwave.com/" target="_blank">Trustwave</a> said. The virus was capturing log-in credentials for key websites over the past month and sending those usernames and passwords to a server controlled by the hackers. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> On Nov. 24, Trustwave researchers tracked that server, located in the Netherlands. They discovered compromised credentials for more than 93,000 websites, including: </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span> <br /><ul><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">318,000 <span>Facebook</span>  accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">60,000 <span>Yahoo</span>  accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">22,000 <span>Twitter</span>  accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">9,000 Odnoklassniki accounts (a Russian social network)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">8,000 <span>ADP</span> <span></span> accounts (ADP says it counted 2,400)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">8,000 <span>LinkedIn  </span><span></span>accounts</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/passwords-stolen/">CNN </a></i></span></span><br />

Massive hack stolen 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords

Massive hack stolen  2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million acc...

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