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http://pop.to/20t , Crowd Factory Raises $6.5M – Crowd Factory, the crowd-powered marketing app company, announced this week that it had secured $6.5 million from Storm Ventures, according to a company press release.
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first advertising sales chief Mike Murphy left the
company in October to take time off, but now he’s
back. Specifically he’ll be doing part-time ad consulting
with the Facebook and Zynga, according to AllThingsD.
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set to improve its tablet interface, Facebook CTO Bret
Taylor told TechCrunch this week. That might not
mean native apps, but it does mean some interface
changes: “We could do more with click-targets,” he
said about the current interface on the iPad. “Certain elements are very small.”
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payments on top of Verizon’s Wireless
network. Verizon is set to offer its
customers the iPhone in February.
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million in damages after a U.S. District Court judge found that a spammer had
accessed users’ login information and used it to spam other users.
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Internet, are reportedly being blocked by the government in Egypt in an attempt to
quell protests there. Facebook confirmed to Reuters a drop in Egyptian traffic
Thursday.
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Internet censors, literally tried to steal everyone’s Facebook password in that country
using code that recorded user login information when they accessed their accounts.
Facebook first noticed glitches in December, heard anecdotes about profiles being
deleted, and noticed things were awry in January. In an interesting profile, The
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running.
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earlier in the week and it turned out that a bug in
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Insurers Use Facebook to Detect Fraud - Insurance companies are now using
Facebook to find out whether or not people are lying to them. For example, one
woman took a medical leave from her job, began receiving disability payments, but
then was cut off when Facebook photos showed her “frolicking at a beach and hanging
out at a a pub,” The Los Angeles Times reported. Similar stories have been appearing
in recent years.
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information.
Facebook Used Professionally in Japan – “Facebook is Japan’s LinkedIn,” is the title
of an interesting post by paul McMahon, who writes that Facebook’s requirement that
users be identified with their real names discourages use as a social network, but this
fact also has gotten users to adapt Facebook as a professional network.
State of the Union Chatter on Facebook - The day of President Barack Obama’s State
of the Union address, Facebook was abuzz with discussion about the speech and
related topics. The U.S. Politics Page on Facebook published a post with some
breakdown: Spending was the most-discussed topic, along with jobs, debt and health
care; education was a big one, too, and certain politicos got more attention than
others.
Facebook A Tech Partner with Sundance - The Sundance Film Festival has partnered
with Facebook to bring technical expertise to the festival’s participants. Specifically,
Facebook will offer Sundance Institute alumni advice, educational info and best
practices on how to engage fans on the social network.
‘The Social Network’ Nabs 8 Oscar Noms – “The Social Network” movie, also
referred to as “The Facebook Movie,” was nominated for eight Oscars, including best
picture, best actor, best director and best screenplay adaptation.
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