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Facebook and Google agree to Indian censorship demands

Chris Davies, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook and Google have deleted content in India after the Delhi High Court ordered them to remove what's been described as material offensive to Muslims, Hindus and Christians. The contentious religious content spread on Facebook, ZDNet reports, and was discoverable through Google searching, a private complaint alleged back in December, and could "corrupt minds", resulting in higher court justice Suresh Kait threatening China-style blocking if the sites did not comply with take-down requests. Read The Full Story

Deleted Facebook pics still available after three years in some cases

Shane McGlaun, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

I think many people understand today that the photos they put on Facebook and other social networking sites can be used against them by employers when searching for a new job. I'm sure a lot of people posting pictures to Facebook have thought better of it after a few hours, days, or weeks and then went back and deleted the photo. The catch is that the photo may be deleted from your profile and as it turns out, often the photos are still the Facebook servers and accessible. Read The Full Story

Artist David Choe celebrates massive Facebook cash windfall

Chris Burns, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

One of the biggest cash winners in the IPO for Facebook here early in 2012 is an artist by the name of David Choe, and without a doubt he'll be the one enjoying it the most. As he writes in his humble blogspot blog today "I get up and see my picture of the New York Times and I find out that I'm the most highest paid decorator alive." That's got to feel nice, or perhaps bittersweet in a way, for a fellow who's already been around the world selling his priceless artworks under the title Graffiti Artist. Read The Full Story

RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge app pairs sports and social: Hands-on

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Rugby-loving couch potatoes beware: RBS expects you to flex your brain, if not your muscles, during the Six Nations tournament this year. The sports-sponsoring bank has created an interactive quiz, fixtures and social app for 2012, with game-related questions, score tables and Facebook integration for those particularly competitive. Available in versions for iPad, iPhone, Android and Facebook, we grabbed some hands-on time with the free Live Challenge app before its full release.

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Facebook mobile ads incoming: Video and coupons tipped [Update: Denied]

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook's mobile advertising push is incoming, marketing agencies suggest, as the social network attempts to close off one of its weak spots ahead of the much-anticipated IPO. The dramatic rise in mobile users who, currently, don't see any adverts whatsoever was cited in Facebook's IPO documentation as one of the company's key weaknesses, meaning paradoxically that even as membership increased, revenues could dip. Not for much longer, though, with agency Razorfish confirming to Digiday that it was involved in Facebook ad pilots for mobile. Read The Full Story

Facebook’s IPO filing sends Zynga stock soaring

Shane McGlaun, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

The big story this week has been the Facebook IPO filing that is set to make a bunch of early employees at the social network millionaires. The Facebook IPO filing also showed how important game developer Zynga was to the money Facebook earns. The filing showed that Zynga accounted for 12% of Facebook's 2011 revenue. That means that to some extent profits for Facebook and profits at Zynga are intertwined. Read The Full Story

Facebook IPO’s biggest winner may be artist David Choe

Chris Burns, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Back when Facebook was limited to its first couple of campuses here in the USA, artist David Choe was commissioned to paint their interiors in exchange for stock options instead of cash. As you can imagine, this was the correct choice made by the artist to choose the stocks and wait this long to cash them in, because instead of the “thousands” of dollars he would have gotten back in 2005 and 2007, he now has right around $200 million USD in stock value. That’s some major cash for a fellow who, though he certainly isn’t doing bad on his own, will be blowing this cash on some fabulous swag in the near future.

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Facebook’s IPO, webOS and the Perfect Social Phone

Chris Davies, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook’s IPO filing gave us an inkling of how much money the social network expects to make when it floats this year, but also a hint of what it could spend it on: the first true Facebook Phone. In among the lengthy IPO documentation were not only details of Facebook’s existing achievements in mobile but a map of the challenges yet to come along with Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest fears for the future. $100m is enough to stage a big attack on the mobile market, though, and there’s one obvious place to start: HP’s webOS.