Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it had left “hundreds of millions” of users’ passwords exposed in plain text, potentially visible to the company’s employees, marking another major privacy and security headache for a tech giant already under fire for mishandling people’s personal information. Facebook... Continue reading at 'Baltimore Sun'
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-21 20:35:00 UTC ]
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In May, Facebook started testing its Instant Articles feature, allowing select news publishers to publish full stories directly on Facebook’s mobile apps. Today, Facebook announced that it had started rolling out Instant Articles to everyone using Facebook’s iOS app. Because Instant Articles can... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kik, a chat app that claims 40% of U.S. teenagers as users, announced a $50-million investment Tuesday from Chinese tech company Tencent that values the start-up at $1 billion. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Now that Facebook is getting into streaming (soon for non-celebs too) and even Google/YouTube is taking notice, the folks at Twitter-owned Periscope are publishing some stats to let us know where the bar is for live video apps. In a blog post on Me... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Belgian privacy commission launches lawsuit after warning over alleged privacy law breaches over tracking of users and non-users for adsThe Belgian privacy commission is taking Facebook to court for its alleged “trampling” over Belgian and European privacy law.The lawsuit will be heard in a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You might find yourself browsing more than the shelves at your local store, if Facebook knows you’re there. It’s expanding a location-aware program that will let businesses pop information into the top of your news feed. Place Tips lets brick-and-mortar stores send information to people’s News... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook study considered the political leanings of news posts by US users before determining which posts were reached via the site’s social algorithmsThe algorithms used by Facebook to filter news posts have an effect on the information seen by users – but not nearly as much as the choices made... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Woven Digital, the publisher behind Uproxx, views Facebook as its primary video-distribution vehicle. It drew more than 20 million views across 10 videos in April, far more than on YouTube or its own site. While Facebook has yet to introduce a video ad product for publishers, Woven CEO Scott... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just one year after rebranding from Glam Media, Mode Media is bringing all of its brands together on one site where it hopes to build the "largest native feed distribution platform outside of Facebook." At its second Digital Content NewFronts presentation today, Mode unveiled its new... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What if there were an ad that you just couldn't draw your eyes from? It's oddly captivating, almost hypnotic, and it would halt your thumb from scrolling farther down your Facebook feed. There's one such creative format that is only now catching on as the digital world's equivalent of the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Keith Moerer, Director of Apple's iBookstore, revealed that Apple's iBookstore is growing at a million users per month and has seen 1 billion downloads. The post Apple’s iBookstore Growing at One Million Users Per Month appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Students at MIT, Stanford, and elsewhere are learning to build technology products with user well-being in mind.Facebook sparked outrage this summer when it published results of a study conducted on unwitting users. The study looked at whether people who were shown more positive or negative... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you’re like me, you might stroll past a local coffee shop or book store numerous times before you notice it’s there or go inside. Facebook thinks an ad might give that extra nudge.On Tuesday, the company began rolling out a new feature for local advertising that lets businesses target users... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is taking the wraps off its mobile ad network after saying the early results helped lead to big gains for apps like Shazam and game makers like Glu Mobile, the developer behind Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. The company said today that the Facebook Audience Network is now open to all... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google was supposed to uproot digital advertising's foundation. But Facebook may beat the search giant to the punch.Confirming what has become advertising's latest worst-kept secret, Facebook said it will begin applying its user data to ads shown outside the social network through a retooled... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What titles most shaped the site's readers? Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings—and the Bible. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you use Facebook and found yourself momentarily feeling either better or worse in early 2012, an algorithm may have caused your shift in mood. And that's what has some social media users upset today. A controversial research study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has gotten plenty of flack for its privacy practices, but here’s a new way to distrust the social media service: It may be playing with your emotions. As reported by The A.V. Club, in January 2012, Facebook adjusted its newsfeed algorithm for several hundred thousand users to see how... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With its eye firmly fixed on a return to profitability, Sony's been making extensive cuts to its business arms in recent days (bye bye, VAIO!). So it's no surprise the company would train that cost-cutting eye onto another underperforming unit -- its... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week, the US government finally relented on letting technology companies publish more detail about national security requests; today, some bigger firms are taking advantage of the looser rules. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Yahoo have updated ... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Company plans enhanced discovery and search tools to explore the 5m magazines already createdPersonalised digital magazine app Flipboard is aiming to pass 150 million users in 2014, thanks to enhanced discovery and search tools that will allow users to better explore the 5m individual online... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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