Facebook has re-worded its vulnerability disclosure policy to calm fears bug submitters would be subject to legal action. – Facebook has updated its bug disclosure policy in a bid to get more researchers to come forward with security vulnerabilities.
Facebook has long encouraged researchers to let the company know about security issues they uncover and give the social networking giant time to address them before going …
The WSJ investigated 101 apps for the iPhone and Android smartphones and found that many of them share personal details with ad firms without asking the user’s permission. The study found that Pandora was one of the apps that shared many details on the user. The Facebook app for iPhone was updated recently to version [...]
Mark Zuckerbergs honor as Time Magazines Person of the Year is a simple acknowledgement that in a few short years he built Facebook into a global social phenomenon. – Now that Mark Zuckerberg has been given the rare honor of being named Time Magazines Person of the Year,
perhaps its time to reflect on how this young man moved from creating
a Website to help college students connect to building Facebook into a
global social and cultural phenomenon. According to…
Facebook will launch tag suggestions, a feature that uses facial recognition software to surface friends of friends on the social network, where 100 million photos are uploaded each day. – Looking to make life easier for users who apply 100 million tags daily to
photos on its social network, Facebook Dec. 15 said it is adding tag
suggestions that use facial recognition software.
The new tag suggestions help users easily tag batches of photos that contain
many of the same people. T…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Times Person of the Year, following other tech magnates such as Andy Grove, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. – Time magazine clicked “Like” on Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg, naming him its 2010 Person of the Year. Previous tech luminaries to
make that list include Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, former Intel CEO Andy
Grove, and Microsoft magnate Bill Gates, who shared the honor with his wife
Melinda and U2…
Apple’s iPad and iPhone 4 took the No. 4 spot in Facebook’s 2010 Memology, joining the Google Zeitgeist and Twitter top trends in popularity this year. – The iPad earned something of a sweep in 2010, as the
tablet computer made its way into the top trend lists of leading Internet
powers Google, Twitter and Facebook.
Facebook Dec. 14 revealed 2010 Memology, list of top
trends culled from analyzing status updates published by the social network’s
…
Police chiefs have reported that crimes linked to Facebook have reached more than 100,000 across Britain in the last five years. Police chiefs in 16 forces made the revelation, claiming that 7,545 calls from the public since January were concerned with the social networking site. Callers have alerted officers to alleged acts of terrorism, sudden [...]
Google and Facebook are now seems like having cold war for betterment of user and in respect of data import, export and other features conveniently provided to the user.
Facebook dipped a toe into the world of mergers and acquisitions when it acquired Parakey in July 2007, grabbing Firefox co-creators Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt. After a quiet 2008 in which it grabbed several top Google employees, including current COO Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook surprised folks when it picked up FriendFeed in August 2009. FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor went on to become Facebook’s CTO. Now with more than 500 million users worldwide, 2010 was a break-out year for Facebook in the M&A department. The social network acquired 10 small Web service providers. Eight of these were confirmed, one was pending and so far Facebook hasnt confirmed whether it has closed the 10th acquisition. But as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, the company is quietly picking up these startups for the talent, not for the Web services they’ve built. When Facebook buys one of these little guys, the startups tend to shut down within a month or so. On the one hand, Facebook is snuffing out enterprising Web services. But in some cases, Facebook is hiring folks who will build bigger, better versions of those Web services within the context of the world’s supreme social network. The eWEEK slide show looks at the companies Facebook picked up in 2010. – …
Americans are almost twice as likely to follow 10 or more brands in social outlets than Canadians are. – Consumers are very willing to follow brands, though most do so to find
coupons or deals, according to the results of Empathica’s latest Consumer
Insights research. Six in 10 consumers indicated they follow at least one brand
via a social network such as Facebook or Twitter, and 40 percent of peop…
Facebook is adding an application dashboard for mobile users that will give them a more detailed view into what applications are accessing their data. – Facebook is bringing new privacy controls and visibility
to the more than 200 million people accessing the social network through
their mobile devices.
During the next few weeks, Facebook plans to roll out a new application
dashboard to mobile users. According to Facebook, the dashboard wi…
Facebook offered a sneak peek at its new profile pages, putting users’ photos front and center across the top of the Web pages, under cursory personal info about the user, including birth date, education, location, relationship status and other info Facebook engineer Josh Wiseman classified as "conversation starters." Then comes a strip of five photos that serve as snapshots to users’ lives. Recall that the existing system stores photos under a tab. A greater emphasis has been placed on getting users to flesh out work and education details. We’re not sure this will increase engagement, but it will certainly create a more visually appealing profile because of all the pictures put front and center. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed the changes on CBS’s "60 Minutes" Dec. 5. eWEEK walks through the changes, which users can opt into when offered. Facebook said it is rolling out the changes gradually and plans to get it to everyone by early next year. – …
Giving his verdict on the Hollywood movie ‘The Social Network,’ Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, has denied that he set up the company in order to “get girls”. The movie portrayed the world”s youngest billionaire in an unflattering light and suggested he was motivated after his girlfriend dumped him. Zuckerberg, 26, who refused to [...]
As you log into your Facebook account, youll soon notice the option to switch to the newest edition. The social networking site has revamped the profile pages, which features a strip of your tagged photos across the top of the page now, instead of under your profile picture. The pages will also allow users to summarize at the top of each page who they are by listing where youre from, where you live now, what you do for work, and what you like. Facebook will be gradually rolling out this new redesign over the next year, but each user has the option to switch to it immediately if they like; The New York Times is reporting that Facebook is rumored to be renting space on Madison Avenue in New York City. The social networking site already has a small office in the Big Apple, but is said to be upgrading to as much as 150,000 square feet, which could suggest that Facebook may be planning to employ as many as 600 people in New York City, expanding its sales and operations departments on the East Coast. Currently, Facebook has 15 open positions in New York City; And if you were following the buzz last week about Google supposedly shelling out $6 billion dollars to purchase the site Groupon, the latter has turned the offer down. The Chicago-based localized shopping Web service apparently decided that its best move is to remain independent for the time being; Google is still on the move though, recently acquiring two other companies: Widevine and speech synthesis startup Phonetic Arts. Regarding Widevine, Google is looking to bolster is YouTube Web site with video optimization and digital rights management technology. Then theres Phonetic Arts, whose software samples human speech and tailors it for computers; WikiLeaks is on the run. With mounting government pressure from France and the United States, hosting and DNS providers are backing away from the site, forcing WikiLeaks to keep moving in order to stay online. On Dec 2, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman issued a statement that asks what "Web service providers will do in the future to ensure that their services are not used to distribute stolen, classified information." This move by the senator has made many companies nervous, including some like Amazon and Tableau Public, which have since cut ties with WikiLeaks.
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Former president has hourlong informal discussion with CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Live and for a live audience of employees. – During his eight-year-long presidency, President George W. Bush paid not a single visit to the San Francisco Peninsula.
But he did manage to find a reason to visit Palo Alto on Nov. 29, 2010, nearly two years after he left office. That would be for an Webcast appearance with CEO Mark Zuckerberg a…
A rogue application that promises to allow Facebook users to know who visited their profile page is circulating the social network. – A new iteration of an old scam has surfaced on Facebook pushing a fake application that promises to enable users to see who has visited their Facebook page.
The problem – Facebook does not allow this capability. According to Sophos, the app is spreading across the social network with messages that …
A look back at the security news of the past week touched Facebook, Gmail and exploit code for a vulnerability exploited by the infamous Stuxnet worm. –
The week may have been cut short for some due to
Thanksgiving, but the security news machine kept churning nonetheless.
A report by security firm BitDefender highlighted the
challenge of malicious links and malware on Facebook. According to BitDefender,
more than 20 percent of the people usin…
Facebook Messages isn’t likely to replace users’ e-mail accounts, according to a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal. Still, analysts believe it will have an impact. – More than 62 percent of over 3,680 participants in a recent online poll said
they wouldn’t use Facebook Messages as their primary e-mail service.
Some 17 percent of respondents in the poll, conducted by the Wall Street Journal, said they would use
Messages as their main e-mail, while 20 percent s…
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are slowly gaining ground in politics too – in fact, many wonder if the social networking sites could predict election results. In November”s elections, the candidate who more people “liked” on Facebook won in 71 percent of Senate elections. Twitter was even more accurate, with the candidates [...]
