Facebook Reverses Stance — Again — On Violent Viral Video

Sometimes figuring out the fine line between free expression and overly objectionable content is harder than you’d think. Just ask Facebook, which on Tuesday reversed a stance it took just 24 hours previously and removed from its network a violent video that had been circulating wildly. On Monday,...

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Facebook Study Tracks Matriculation to Matrimony

College bound? You could end up graduating with more than just a degree. Nearly one-third of all married United States college graduates on Facebook went to the same college as their partners, according to a new study from Facebook’s data science team. And aside from that, about 15 percent of...

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The houses that Facebook built are coming to Menlo Park

Company housing has bad historical precedents and worse contemporary examples.  by Casey Johnston Facebook revealed plans Wednesday to build a $120 million, 394-unit housing community near its Menlo Park, California, offices. The development, named Anton Menlo, will in part address the housing shortage in the area—employees often inquire about where...

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‘The Circle’ Author Dave Eggers Denies Reading Facebook Memoir That He’s Accused Of Plagiarizing

One of the weirder things to come out of all the discussion around Dave Eggers’ upcoming novel The Circle (which focuses on life at a fictional tech company) has been the accusation by Kate Losse that parts of Eggers’ book are lifted from The Boy Kings, her memoir of her experience as an...

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Facebook Says Its Mobile App Ads Work, So It’s Making More of Them

One big reason that investors like Facebook again: The company looks like it has figured out how to make money — a lot of money — on mobile. One big reason Facebook looks like it has figured out mobile: App-install ads, which developers use to encourage Facebook users to download their software...

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Facebook Hires New U.S. Sales Boss

Facebook has a new executive running its U.S. sales team: David Lawenda, who ran sales at Univision for five years until he left last summer, will report to sales boss Carolyn Everson. Lawenda fills a vacancy left by Tom Arrix, who left Facebook in July after a seven-year run. READ...

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In Race With Twitter, Facebook, Like, Fluffs Its Social TV Numbers

On the same day that Twitter and Nielsen are debuting their first TV Ratings report emerging from the two companies’ partnership, Facebook is slyly releasing official numbers designed to give its own TV efforts a boost. Facebook claims that AMC’s hot “Breaking Bad” finale was a hit across its social...

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All public Facebook posts ever made are now searchable

It's still subject to privacy controls, but Graph Search's new reach is deep. by Casey Johnston Facebook Graph Search now includes posts and status updates in its results, according to a Facebook blog post Monday. Such searches will accept modifiers like time—“All of my posts from 2012” for instance—location, or people...

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Flurry Names Former Facebook VP Grady Burnett as COO

Flurry, a mobile app analytics and advertising platform, announced Monday that it has named Grady Burnett as its chief operating officer. Before his new position, Burnett spent more than four years at Facebook as vice president of global sales and operations, working to grow the social giant’s international...

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Should Facebook Start Its Own Version Of Google Ventures?

by LEENA RAO & Josh Constine Over the past year, Facebook has seen its fair share of departures from employees and executives who are either starting a VC fund or camping out at a firm to figure out what their next startup or company will be. In the...

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Facebook admits it needs to improve News Feed ads

Facebook has admitted it needs to bring more relevant ads to users News Feed's to make sure people are seeing adverts they actually care about In an official blog post, Facebook has admitted it wants to "deliver the right content to the right people at the right time". Users...

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Facebook Tweaks News Feed Algorithm to Show More Relevant Ads

Facebook on Friday announced a slight change to its News Feed algorithm that aims to give greater weight to user feedback on undesirable ads. From now on, Facebook will try to show more relevant advertisements to users inside the News Feed, which may mean fewer ads delivered. Facebook’s goal for...

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