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Facebook's Graph Search is Incomplete

January 20, 2013
According to Facebook's new search feature, only two of my 526 friends like cats. Judging by the number of cat photos filling my feed every day, this is obviously not accurate ... read the FULL STORY.

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Former Engadget editor-in-chief quits Instagram, Facebook

December 31, 2012
Ryan Block, the former editor in chief of Engadget and the co-founder of Gdgt wasn’t upset by Instagram tweaks that may have led millions to leave, nor was he bothered by the concerns about privacy that have dogged social networking giant for years ... FULL STORY.
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Instagram users snap over photo selling to advertisers

December 18, 2012
Facebook is the focus of a new protest after altering the terms of service on its photo-sharing site Instagram, allowing the social networking service to sell photos people have uploaded or related information. 
 It’s hard to tell whether Instagram will experience a massive outflow of users, but the backlash has been plentiful and harsh. FULL STORY.
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Facebook lists user phone numbers for all to see

October 15, 2012

There's no easy way to look up someone's mobile-phone number. White pages? Nope. Directory assistance? Uh-uh.

It's something that drives telemarketers and pollsters crazy, as there are millions of people, especially young ones, who don't have any landlines and can't easily be reached by strangers.

But it turns out Facebook has been openly listing mobile numbers all along, as Indian security researcher Suriya Prakash discovered recently.

Needless to say, he wasn't happy about it.

"I would consider...
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Facebook to charge users to ‘promote’ posts to friends

October 5, 2012

Facebook wants you to advertise … to your friends.

The world’s largest social network, which announced Thursday that it has crossed the billion-user mark, has struggled to make money from its enormous pool of users. The solution: Turning individual users into advertisers.

“I thought it was a joke at first, to be honest,” explained Cameron Yuill, founder of digital media technology company AdGent. “Now they’re going to charge me $7 to tell my friends something?”

Facebook announced W...
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Facebook stock falls after Barron's says it's 'still too pricey'

September 30, 2012
The Associated Press 
NEW YORK -- Facebook Inc.'s stock fell almost nine per cent Monday after an article in the financial magazine Barron's said it is "still too pricey" despite a sharp decline since its initial public offering.

Though Facebook's stock has plunged since its May IPO, Andrew Bary at Barron's said the stock trades at "high multiples of both sales and earnings, even as uncertainty about the outlook for its business grows."

At issue is the shift of Facebook's massive user base to mo...
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Facebook Co-Founder Moskovitz's Daily Stock Sales

August 30, 2012
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has been selling 150,000 shares of Facebook stock a day out of the hundreds of millions that he owns. So far, he has shed 1.35 million shares for proceeds of $26.2 million, at prices ranging from $18.79 to $20.08.  Moskovitz was Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate when they founded Facebook in 2004. Moskovitz, 28, left Facebook in 2008 and started Asana, whose software helps manage projects.  He has been disclosing the sales every three days. He did not sel...
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