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Facebook app update tips terrible smartphone
This week the folks at Facebook have updated their Android application to a version that adds two icons to the app tray and in doing so tips how a Facebook phone with HTC will end up working later this year. Though HTC has already created several Facebook Button devices - starting last year at MWC 2011, they've now reportedly got plans to make a more full-fledged Facebook device later this year. This does not stick with their plan to stay small with the models and the HTC One series of course, and also doesn't bode well given the relatively negative feedback the new Facebook app integration has received over the past 24 hours.
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Facebook Antivirus Marketplace offers protection
There's nothing like a good reminder that computing isn't always safe, and Facebook, McAfee, Norton and others have done just that today with their new "Antivirus Marketplace." This new section of Facebook has taken the safety of your computer - not just on the web, but everywhere, to a new level with free downloads of McAfee software directly from your Facebook page. This is cross-branding at it's best, ladies and gentlemen, let's have a look.
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Facebook IPO expected to face delays
The date for the Facebook IPO hasn’t even been made official yet, but already it’s being threatened by delays, according to sources familiar with the matter. CNBC reports that Zuckerberg and co have been so focused on acquisitions than they haven’t prepared themselves for the IPO. The current rumored date is May 17th, although these new developments mean it could happen towards the end of May.
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HTC-made Facebook phones in Q3 insist insiders
Perennial rumors of a Facebook phone have reawakened, with industry sources claiming HTC is producing a device for the social network as a way of reestablishing industry heft after Samsung's rise in prominence. Unlike existing Facebook-enabled handsets, such as HTC's own ChaCha and Salsa, the new Facebook phone will "have a platform exclusive to Facebook" DigiTimes reports, and include all the functionality currently enjoyed on the desktop version.
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Facebook’s Asana initiates paid Premium
It appears that the folks once responsible for pieces of Facebook's original development have taken their next project, Asana, to the next level. This task assignment and list-making environment is now able to work with more than just its first set of teams of 30 people and moves to a "Workspace" that'll cost users cash. Higher tiers include up to 50 members, 75, and 100, all starting at $300 a month. This update also includes Priority Support and Project-level Permissions for NDA and non-public sharing.
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Facebook for Windows Phone to see major update
One of the main attractions of Windows Phone is social networking functions built into the OS, like Twitter and Facebook. While that’s great for the casual user, you might need the Facebook app for Windows Phone if you’re doing some seriously friend management or commenting furiously on things. The next update to the Facebook app will bring it to version 2.5, and add some handy features based on user feedback.
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Facebook eclipses 900 million users
The number of Facebook accounts is almost equal to the entire population of Africa. In fact, it's about the same as one-seventh of the entire global population. Of course, not all of those people actually log on to the social networking site on a regular basis, but around 60% of them are in fact checking in to Facebook each and every day. That's a retention rate that sites with 1/100 that volume of users pray for. In other words, believe it or not, there is still room for the site to grow.
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Facebook’s patent purchases simplified
It was revealed today by Facebook that they'd be picking up nearly 1,000 patents, patent applications, and licenses for patents from Microsoft, the latter company having purchased these and more from AOL last year. Facebook's renewed search and purchase mission this spring, it should be no secret, comes amid their current spat with Yahoo over patents both companies say the other has infringed. Facebook's purchase of patents today from Microsoft is said to be a continuation of a deal that was forged last year when it was Microsoft who picked up an "all or nothing" package from AOL for $1 billion USD.
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Facebook earnings turn to Instagram and Yahoo
There's something to be said about a company as seemingly fantastically successful as Facebook in regards to earnings which show growth over the year, but not over the quarter. That appears to be the case with Facebook here in their Q1 earnings report which has them at $1.06 billion revenues here in the first fiscal quarter of 2012, this up from $731 million during the same quarter last year but down from $1.131 billion the last quarter of 2011. That said, Facebook's earnings call has many similar shows of ups and downs, including how it's about to deal with Instagram.
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Facebook and Microsoft reach $550m deal over AOL patents
Microsoft and Facebook have announced an agreement that would see Facebook making use of some of Microsoft’s patent portfolio recently acquired from AOL. Facebook has agreed to purchase the patents for $550 million. Microsoft purchased around 925 patents from AOL as part of the original deal, and will be selling around 650 patents to Facebook.
Privacyscore scans Facebook apps for privacy rating
While it may soon be worth a gazillion dollars, there are many out there still scared to death by Facebook and certain privacy issues, not to mention the large numbers of apps and sites across the web that use your Facebook as a passport of sorts. PrivacyChoice is hoping to alleviate such fears, today launching a Privacyscore app for Facebook. The app will let users see which Facebook apps protect their privacy, and which don’t.
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