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A Facebook Search Engine to Rival Google? Users Dislike That Idea [Survey]

A Facebook Search Engine to Rival Google? Users Dislike That Idea [Survey]
Search Engine Watch
by Danny Goodwin, May 15, 2012 Comments A new survey finds 48 percent of respondents dislike the idea of Facebook launching its own search engine to directly compete with Google and Bing. The same survey also found Facebook could potentially capture 22 ...
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Facebook Redesigns Mobile To Make News Feed Photos 3X Larger, Less Squinty

Facebook Redesigns Mobile To Make News Feed Photos 3X Larger, Less Squinty
TechCrunch
If you're sick of interrupting your news feed reading to open and load photos, you'll like a new Facebook mobile site, iOS, and Android app redesign rolling out today that makes photos three times larger. Shares of single photos now look a lot like ...
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AP-CNBC Facebook IPO Poll — Complete Results & Analysis

AP-CNBC Facebook IPO Poll — Complete Results & Analysis
CNBC.com
The poll has a margin of error factor of plus or minus 3.9 percent. Here are the results: 1. Gauging the High Fliers of Tech A majority, 51 percent, of Americans have a favorable impression of Facebook, while 23 percent have an unfavorable impression.
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Why Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is a schmuck ZDNet (blog)

Why Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is a schmuck
ZDNet (blog)
By David Gewirtz | May 14, 2012, 10:12pm PDT Summary: In order to avoid paying taxes on his multi-billion dollar IPO windfall, Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, is renouncing his United States citizenship. Writing this article without profanity ...
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Early Facebook backers and their bets today

Early Facebook backers and their bets today
Reuters
(Reuters) - Facebook's earliest venture-capital backers, especially at once-downtrodden outfit Accel Partners, will have reason to celebrate come Friday when the world's biggest social network is set to debut on the Nasdaq at as much as a $100 billion ...
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Ahead of Facebook IPO, poll finds user distrust

Ahead of Facebook IPO, poll finds user distrust
USA TODAY
By Jesse Bergman and Kayla Tausche, CNBC.com Facebook's public offering will be the largest and perhaps most highly anticipated Internet deal in history. But faced with great expectations, Facebook is staring down some unnerving obstacles when it comes ...
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Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears

Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears
Houston Chronicle
Screens outside the Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. advertise for people to "Become a Fan" of the Theatre on Facebook is seen at the Los Angeles premiere of the film "What to Expect When You're Expecting," Monday, May 14, 2012, ...
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Facebook a cultural as well as business phenomenon

Facebook a cultural as well as business phenomenon
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Peter Delevett Two workers relax at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The company's trading debut is expected to be the biggest yet for an Internet company. Facebook has changed how business and society operate.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Top List of Youngest CEOs

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Top List of Youngest CEOs
ABC News
By SUSANNA KIM (@skimm) Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, turned 28 on Monday, just four days before his company is expected to have the biggest IPO ever. Zuckerberg holds many other records for his age. Forbes lists him as the second youngest ...
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Facebook App Store - Another Great Showcase For Web Apps

Facebook App Store - Another Great Showcase For Web Apps
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Uberflip, the cloud-based PDF enhancement tool, is already acquiring many users through the Google Chrome Store, and is eagerly awaiting the launch of Facebook App Center. Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) May 15, 2012 While e-commerce and tech giants like ...
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Half of Americans call Facebook a fad

Half of Americans call Facebook a fad
Fox News
Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected ...
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Breakthrough Solar Technology a Game Changer

Breakthrough Solar Technology a Game Changer
MarketWatch (press release)
"This is a technology that will change the world," says Tom Beck, president of SHEC Energy Corporation of Saskatoon. Beck says SHEC Energy has spent almost 16 years developing renewable energy technologies that have unbounded potential.
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HP Opens Technology Renewal Center in Scotland

HP Opens Technology Renewal Center in Scotland
MarketWatch (press release)
PALO ALTO, CA, May 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced the opening of a technology renewal center in Erskine, Scotland, enabling commercial HP customers to acquire certified legacy HP products and participate in equipment ...
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Technology helps keep seniors at home

Technology helps keep seniors at home
MiamiHerald.com
Technology is transforming the role of caregivers, making it easier for them to stay on top of their loved ones from afar. By Ana Veciana-Suarez Just as technology can track down a stolen car or guide us, turn by turn, to a new Chinese restaurant, ...
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HyperSolar's Breakthrough Technology Can Use Any Source of Water and Sunlight ...

HyperSolar's Breakthrough Technology Can Use Any Source of Water and Sunlight ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HyperSolar, Inc. (OBB:HYSR) , the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using water and sunlight, today announced that recent development breakthroughs will allow its ...
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Facebook Improves Mobile News Feed | WebProNews

Facebook Improves Mobile News Feed | WebProNews
By Mike Fossum
According to its mobile site, Facebook today launched a design upgrade to the News Feed for its iOS and Android mobile app. Photos are now up to three times larger, and posts span the entire screen, edge to edge. Multiple photos are also ...
WebProNews

Facebook launches improved mobile iOS and Android news feeds ...

Facebook launches improved mobile iOS and Android news feeds ...
By John Callaham
Facebook has launched new versions of its iOS and Android news feeds, along with a new site for mobile web users, that increases the size of pictures when seen in the news feed.
Neowin

Facebook Business Timelines: Good News for Small Business ...

Facebook Business Timelines: Good News for Small Business ...
By Ellen DePasquale
Any reputable business will have a website, and over the past 20 years, the design of business websites has evolved. As consumers, we have learned what pages we can expect to find on a website; home, about us, contact us, news, ...
Constant Contact Blogs

Facebook redesigns mobile News Feed to look more like Timeline ...

Facebook redesigns mobile News Feed to look more like Timeline ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook today announced a new design for its mobile News Feed that displays posts in individual boxes similar to how they appear on Timeline. As part of the redesign, photos now appear three times larger than before, which could make ...
Inside Facebook

Facebook's New Mobile News Feed Has Instagram's Fingerprints All ...

Facebook's New Mobile News Feed Has Instagram's Fingerprints All ...
By Mario Aguilar
When Facebook dropped $1 billion on Instagram we knew the company was very serious about photos on your mobile phone. We've already seen some Instagram-like photo filters, and starting today, Facebook's news feed is getting a nice ...
Gizmodo

Drishti-Soft Together With Esteemed Partners Organized an Evening

Drishti-Soft Together With Esteemed Partners Organized an Evening ...
IT News Online
... the first BPO that came to India was a voice-based center and if you consider ... is critical and that is why we still classify BPO's as call centers.

Facebook issues 'profits warning' as users switch to mobile

Facebook issues 'profits warning' as users switch to mobile
Telegraph.co.uk
By Christopher Williams, and Katherine Rushton A week before its Wall Street flotation, the social network issued what was effectively a profit warning. The company said the number of users accessing the social network on their smartphones and tablets ...
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The best times to share on social media websites

The best times to share on social media websites
Computer Business Review (blog)
The URL shortening service, bitly, has released data that reveals the best times to share on popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. The company studied how the day and time of content posted affects the amount and type of ...
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RIP Bluenity: Air France closes travel social network

RIP Bluenity: Air France closes travel social network
Tnooz
Another nail in the coffin perhaps of brand-run social networks with confirmation Bluenity, a platform developed by Air France, will be shut down. Air France says the Bluenity service will go offline from midday (CET) on Monday 14 May, ending what it ...
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We Are The Dads: a Free Social Network for Dads

We Are The Dads: a Free Social Network for Dads
PR.com (press release)
Wearethedads.com - a free social network for dads - has launched, giving dads-to-be and fathers a place where they can share, laugh and learn about all things dad-related. Goostrey, United Kingdom, May 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- www.wearethedads.com, ...
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Dos and Donts of Social Media Marketing

Dos and Donts of Social Media Marketing
Promotion World (press release)
by Christa joe joe Social media marketing is one of the most effective marketing strategies which most of the companies deploy these days. Just like conventional marketing and branding, most of the companies are indulging themselves in social media ...
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Social networking service Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed

Social networking service Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed
Stock Market Digital
Largest social networking site Facebook Inc's record initial public offering is already oversubscribed, the news reports said, citing a source familiar with share listing. This is days after the world's largest social network got on board on the ...
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Standard Marketing Ltd Responds to 2012 Data Regarding the Best Times of the ...

Standard Marketing Ltd Responds to 2012 Data Regarding the Best Times of the ...
PR Web (press release)
Recent data has been released identifying specific days and times where Social Media platforms receive the most traffic. Standard Marketing is suggesting that their clients maximize their Social Media efforts by following the time patterns of when ...
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How social media supports business events in emerging markets

How social media supports business events in emerging markets
Memeburn
By Lara Fawzy My first thoughts when sitting down to write a blog about emerging markets and social media was where to start? Social media is a huge topic and emerging markets are vast, so I'll narrow this down to using popular social media tools to ...
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Are social shares the new link building? The role of social media in search ...

Are social shares the new link building? The role of social media in search ...
The Drum
A recent experiment conducted by US search company TastyPlacement tested the impact social media can have on organic search results, taking into account Twitter followers, retweets, Facebook shares and Google+ activity. The key result was that +1s on ...
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Don't expect a better mobile Facebook experience anytime soon ...

Don't expect a better mobile Facebook experience anytime soon ...
Any given day, I can peruse my Facebook News Feed and find more than a few friends complaining about their Facebook experience via mobile. "Facebook for iPhone sucks! You would think a company as large as Facebook could afford a ...
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Facebook admits it doesn't know how mobile works — Tech News ...

Facebook admits it doesn't know how mobile works — Tech News ...
By Mathew Ingram
Instead of focusing on Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie, investors and analysts should pay more attention to what Facebook flagged in its latest securities filing: that its mobile business is underperforming on the ad-revenue front and it doesn't really know whether it can fix it.
Mobile

Woman Charged With Facebook Scam - News Story - WCYB Tri Cities

Woman Charged With Facebook Scam - News Story - WCYB Tri Cities
SCOTT COUNTY, Va. -- A Scott County, Virginia woman is facing felony charges for allegedly trying to raise money after claiming her daughter had cancer. Watch Video: Facebook Cancer Scam Thursday, May 10, 2012.
Tri-Cities TN/VA News 5 Headlines