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Facebook data shows NCAA tournament fan statistics in the US

, Mar 20th 2013 Discuss [0]

Remember last month when we showed you Facebook data of NFL fans across the US? It's back again, only this time it's all about the NCAA men's basketball tournament that just started yesterday. The data is from over 1 million Facebook users who have "liked" a fan page of one of the 68 teams in the tournament. Read The Full Story

Facebook study shows friends are a great network for job opportunities

, Mar 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

Those of you who are currently unemployed, or are looking to venture onto another job, apparently the best place to start looking is straight from your Facebook's friends list. Facebook's Moira Burke and Robert Kraut performed a study to determine whether your friends really are your best network in finding a new job, or if it's better to network with a group of distant acquaintances. Read The Full Story

Facebook blocks MessageMe users from its “Find Friends” feature

, Mar 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

MessageMe may be the new guy on the block, but it has been experienced phenomenal success since its launch. The app had launched a little over a week ago, and has already hit the number 2 position on iOS's Social Networking section. The app sees so much success, even in an over-saturated market of messaging apps, because its part of a social gaming company called LOLapps, which currently has over 50 million active users on Facebook. Read The Full Story

Facebook promotes ex-Mozilla engineer to CTO

, Mar 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook is going rampant with its changes. It has brought on a new targeted ad interface for marketers, a new and improved timeline, support for hashtags, and now a new Chief Technology Officer. Mike Schroepfer, previously the Senior Vice President of Engineering, has become the new CTO of Facebook, replacing interim CTOs Cory Ondrejka and Mike Vernal. It's still uncertain what Facebook will do with Ondrejka and Vernal. Read The Full Story

Mark Zuckerberg rated top CEO based on employee survey

, Mar 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

Career website Glassdoor has posted up its 2013 list of the 50 highest-rated CEOs, and Facebook big wig Mark Zuckerberg has topped the list, with a 99% approval rating from employees, which is up from an 85% approval rating last year. However, Apple CEO Tim Cook fell from the number one spot last year to 18th this year, with an approval rating of 93%, down from 97% last year. Read The Full Story

Facebook to add hashtags, says sources

, Mar 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

Hashtags have long been the domain of Twitter, where users utilize them alongside keywords to make searching and grouping easier. Over time, hashtags have become an embedded part of our vernacular, used as a part of speech to emphasize a particular aspect of the conversation, the speaker's setting, and other such things. As such, it only makes sense that Facebook would add the hashtag to its own service. Read The Full Story

Facebook introduces cleaner look to Timeline

, Mar 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook may have finally ignored the Timeline at the company's most recent press event when they unveiled the new News Feed that'll be coming shortly, but that doesn't mean they're not making changes. Facebook has introduced a cleaner look to Timeline, and they'll be slowly rolling out the new design over the coming weeks. Read The Full Story

Facebook reveals how the updated News Feed was developed

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

We've seen the new Facebook News Feed quite a few times lately, with all its redesigned goodness. While the features, changes, and other particulars have been detailed over the past weeks, Facebook has given us an alternative look into what went into the redesign - namely, a huge floor-to-ceiling paper storyboard and a stack of cards. Read The Full Story

Facebook Mobile DevCon 2013 revealed: Android and iOS on tap

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

The 2013 edition of Facebook's efforts to bring the developer universe into the social networking fold has been revealed, complete with several different events taking place around the world. The Facebook Mobile Developer Conference 2013 will be taking place on April the 18th in New York, on the 2nd of May in London, and all the way over in Seoul on the 7th of May. This series of events also goes by the name Facebook Mobile DevCon 2013, if you'd like to be short about it. Read The Full Story

Researchers predict IQ, age, and more using only Facebook Likes

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

Pretty much everyone is on Facebook today and odds are you are one of the masses who use the social network. Another thing that's common on the social network is clicking like on various things that interest you on the network. Those Likes apparently give way more about you and your personality than anyone may have imagined. Read The Full Story

Colin Powell’s Facebook hacker also breached Bush Family e-mail accounts

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

It turns out that Colin Powell's Facebook hack wasn't just an isolated incident performed by a 13-year old with good password-guessing skills. The hacker, who is known as Guccifer, is also the same hacker who breached e-mail accounts belonging to over a dozen of George W. Bush's friends and family members. He obtained "interesting e-mails", photos, list of home addresses, cell phone numbers, and more. The hacker even obtained the gate code to Bush's home. Read The Full Story

Google’s stock may break $1000 within a year

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

The folks over at RBC Capital Markets believes that Google's stock may surpass $1000 within the next 12 months. As of today, Google's stock is currently worth $835.04, so the $1000 figure may not be too far off. RBC states that it'd be more accurate to say that the stocks will reach around $950 within 12 months, but under good conditions, such as better advertising revenue, Google's stock can reach up to $1045. Read The Full Story
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