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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
For years, the U.S. companys dominance in the $10 billion social media industry was limited outside the English-speaking world by local copycats. Those sites are now losing traffic as Facebooks global reach, games and music drive membership. Hyves,...
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
A recently discovered copy of a 1995 interview with Steve Jobs shows the Apple co-founder at a healthier time not long before he rejoined and revitalized the company. There isnt much new in Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, which is being shown at...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
The social networking giant could announce a deal with the FTC as early as Monday over charges that it violated users' privacy when it changed default settings to make more of their information public. The settlement taps into growing public concern...
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The Motley Fool
| over 1 year ago
When it came to giving, philanthropy was never at the top of the late Steve Jobs' list. In his recently published official biography, author Walter Isaacson wrote how Jobs disdained those who tried to make public displays of philanthropy or think...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Must Read The short answer is that, if you're a business, you should be embracing all types of social media. It doesn't hurt to provide contact information and ways for consumers to give you feedback...And while there are several differences between...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 1 year ago
Q late CEO Steve Jobs need only listen to Sony SNE-N chief Sir Howard Stringer's comments during a briefing this week. Steve Jobs spent the last six years building iTunes and I spent the last five years building a platform so I can compete with Steve...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Facebook to seek consent for privacy changes, report Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has defended its privacy policies Privacy campaigners have welcomed a report that Facebook is to ask users to opt into any changes in the way it uses their...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Stay connected with cutting edge technology news Sample The social networking site is settling users' privacy claims that it violated when it changed default privacy settings to disclose more information than was previously made public, according to...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
The company is being investigated by the US FTC over privacy. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Facebook is finalising a settlement with US federal regulators over "deceptive" changes it made to its privacy policies in 2009 , the Wall...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are nearing a settlement over deceptive practices related to several Facebook features, including its privacy settings, according to two people briefed on the settlement. Under the agreement, Facebook would...
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
Facebook is nearing a settlement with federal regulators that would require the worlds most popular online hangout to obtain approval from its users before making changes that expose their profiles and activities to a wider audience, according to a...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
The proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is awaiting final approval from agency commissioners, would require Facebook to obtain "express affirmative consent" if Facebook makes "material retroactive changes," some of the...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Steve Jobs' biography has been on nearly every "best seller" list since it came busting through the gate. In the introduction, Isaacson recounts how the book first came to be in 2004; by Jobs asking him if he'd like to write the most comprehensive...
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Hollywood Reporter Film
| over 1 year ago
The Lost Interview' Preview Hits the Web (Video) The documentary hits theaters nationwide starting Nov. 16. PM PST 11/9/2011 by Philiana Ng share Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Steve Jobs The first teaser for Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview , a full-...
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The Economic Times
| over 1 year ago
When Sean Parker, the 31-year-old billionaire investor and creator of music-sharing service Napster, was helping Mark Zuckerberg build Facebook, only a few got in on the deal. Meet Anand Rajaraman , one of the very few early investors in Facebook, a...
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Valleywag
| over 1 year ago
But Mark Zuckerberg is still a little unclear on the whole concept of a high five, as evidenced by the above photo from his visit to Harvard earlier this week. The robotic Facebook CEO claims he is learning to better appreciate the human constructs...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The two Facebook executives outlined the company's business strategy for the next five years and pointed out key differences between Facebook and Apple, Microsoft , Google and Amazon. Through much of the program, the two Facebook executives largely...
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The Hindu
| over 1 year ago
November 9, 2011 Google has launched Google Plus pages to allow big brands to use the Google+ networking to reach out to their customers. Many experts view this as the company's first big step towards challenging Facebook's domination of the social...
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Perez Hilton
| over 1 year ago
He may have dropped out, but they were glad to have him back! Monday, Mark Zuckerberg made his first official visit to Harvard (above) since he dropped out back in 2004, and he was met with open arms! While back at his old stomping grounds, the...
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Africa Headlines
| over 1 year ago
Ciku Kimani 6 November 2011 In 2004, when then Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes launched Facebook, I bet they had no idea that it would be used to win elections and stalk ex-lovers, and that idle...
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The Dish Rag
| over 1 year ago
Charlie Rose's Monday show features an exclusive interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and CEO Sheryl Sandberg, where they addressed the often-discussed prospect of a Facebook IPO. Zuckerberg tells Rose that his interest in taking Facebook...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
The face of Facebook was in town Tuesday to recruit new talent, and Mark Zuckerberg certainly came to the right place. Carnegie Mellon University already has 57 alums working for the world's largest social networking site, mostly on the engineering...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
A recently discovered video copy of a 1995 interview with Steve Jobs shows the Apple co-founder at a healthier time, not long before he rejoined and revitalized the company.
There doesn't appear to be much new in "Steve Jobs: The Lost...
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New Zealand Herald
| over 1 year ago
Facebook has removed several rape "joke" pages, in an apparent u-turn from earlier comments dismissing them as "pub jokes". The pages, with names such as "You know she's playing hard to get when you need another roll of tape", prompted hundreds of...
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Venture Beat
| over 1 year ago
We've listened to 1.5 billion songs on Facebook already November 8, 2011 Jolie O'Dell Since the launch of Facebook's social music tools, Facebook users have listened to songs on Facebook 1.5 billion times. That's around two songs each for Facebook's...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Gates, who resigned from his CEO position at Microsoft in 2008, made the list largely because of the efforts he and his wife made with their philanthropic project called the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Only Barack Obama , Vladimir Putin, Hu...
