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A Facebook Page Says “Barack Obama Must Die” and then defends it by saying they're only stating a scientific fact that he must die someday.
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Social media has been fun...but how much money is in it? Popular sites like Facebook and Twitter are working to capitalize on our screen time, now moving beyond online advertising and into online shopping itself. Will these sites master e-commerce?
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At first, it seems like the height of corporate generosity: Facebook is paying the salary of a local police officer, allowing the "Facebook Cop" to assist in community education and helping businesses plan for crises. But is this a conflict of interest?
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The only Facebook page with more likes than Shakira is Facebook's own Facebook page, as the popular Colombian singer hits an all time high of over 100 million likes.
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There is only one word that can describe Joe Nichols' most recent country music chart success: "Yeah," and ironically enough that is the title of his latest No. 1 single.
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While the purchase of Oculus VR by Facebook was announced back in March of this year, this past July 15, the State of California Dept. of Business Oversight conducted a 'Fairness Hearing' to ensure stock holders were protected in the transaction.
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A San Francisco police officer has become the newest Internet viral photo sensation after his photo was posted on Facebook by an admirer.
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Ever get a little sick of Facebook? Or a lot? Of the time you spend on it? Of the hours Facebook sucks up that produce few if any tangible results? If so then there is a cause you might want to make friends with.
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It’s a small experiment where we ask people to take a break from Facebook and report to us how they feel and how they spend their free time.
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Oslo -
Three brothers have put together a short film, outlining the miseries of life in the Facebook age. It seems to have struck a chord, as in less than a month, the video has received almost 7 million views.
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There has never been an event - sports or otherwise - as popular on Facebook as this year's World Cup. As of today, there have been 1 billion World Cup-related posts, likes, and comments since the event began on June 12.
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Kansas City -
Revelers became mourners when a woman’s life was cut tragically short in a vehicle en route to her own bachelorette party.
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Minneapolis -
A man in Minnesota was arrested, after allegedly logging into Facebook, but not logging out, on his victim's computer. Reportedly, some are scratching their head, and police are laughing over the incident.
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Saint Paul -
An individual steals a bunch of valuables from a man's house, logs on to Facebook using his computer, but then forgets to log off, leading the police to the suspect.
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The $19 billion acquisition of text messaging app WhatsApp by Facebook earlier this year did more than cement some new billionaires and expand Facebook’s every growing portfolio, it validated the Internet communication market.
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A frightened 10-year-old girl turns to social media for help when a tree crashes on top of her father during a thunderstorm.
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Good news for consumer and enterprise Blackberry users as over 240,000 new apps will arrive to Blackberry's AppWorld. Blackberry has partnered up with Amazon as a cost-cutting technique to bring more apps to users.
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Jeremy Meek, who was arrested in Stockholm recently, wouldn't have dreamed that thousands of women all over the world would swoon over his mug shot minutes after the Stockholm police posted it on their Facebook page. But that is exactly what happened.
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Facebook's website was inaccessible for many of its 1.3 billion users for around 15 minutes today. People trying to log on to the site were faced with a message saying: "Something went wrong. We're working to get it fixed as soon as we can."
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Facebook has recently started a program to read your browser history and preferences. This data will be sent to major companies so they can market products towards you.
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Tuscaloosa -
A 19-year-old woman from Tuscaloosa, Ala. was arrested Monday after her aunt discovered she was plotting to have a stranger she met on Facebook kill her and her family.
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The CIA has finally joined Twitter and Facebook. While they dig themselves out of a rock and join 2014, it is time to look back at five actions committed by the CIA that is bound to increase their likes.
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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has opened its first official accounts on Twitter and Facebook. The aim is for the spy agency to "engage directly with the public."
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Griffin -
Around 24 middle school students in Spalding County, Atlanta have been suspended from school this week for a Facebook post that prompted students to break the school's dress code during the final week of classes.
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Facebook made the default setting public for a period of five years. It has now reversed its policy to make it a private profile initially after criticisms about publicity of people who do not want to be public.
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Facebook is reportedly building a new video-sharing service of its own to enable it to directly compete against the immensely-popular Snapchat.
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Longview -
A woman in her 30s is in police custody after being outed for posing as a 15-year-old teenager for almost an entire school year.
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Stephen Sutton, the British teenager famous for raising £3 million, has died peacefully in his sleep, his mother has revealed.
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The messaging service Snapchat has settled with U.S. regulators over charges it deceived users when it promised their messages would disappear.
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Washington -
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Holdings Inc. moved closer to becoming a public company in the United States on Tuesday when it filed its IPO prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Facebook celebrates its IPO on the Nasdaq
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Facebook celebrates its IPO on the Nasdaq
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a press conference at his company's head office
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The new News Feed on Facebook
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facebook on a smartphone
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Follow the simple steps and you will have your profile updated in minutes.
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An example of the new Timeline profile on Facebook
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Photo of Charity Ann Johnson (alias: Charity Stevens/Charite), courtesy of Facebook.
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Facebook update with 1 million comments
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Example of an email sent to some Facebook users affected by a data exposure
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Using Facebook on a smartphone
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The California Dept. of Business Oversight conducted a fairness hearing on July 15, 2014, to ensure that the purchase of Oculus VR by Facebook was "fair, just and equitable." "This was done to help protect the shareholders of Oculus since the sale at just over $3.9 million dollars involved a transaction of both cash and Facebook stocks," said CA Dept. of Business Oversight communications director, Mark Leyes.
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In 2010 Facebook launched a site called "Facebook Stories" as a way to mark the 500-million user milestone.
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