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Article | 4/03/2013 Facebook gets down to business on mobile
After spending the past six months talking about prioritizing its business around mobile platforms, Facebook says it's time to get down to business.
Article | 1/03/2013 Facebook's News Feed will get a new look
Facebook is giving its News Feed section "a new look" and is planning to reveal the changes next week during an invite-only media event.
Article | 1/03/2013 Japan's DoCoMo launches Twitter-based Yellow Pages
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has launched a Twitter-based Yellow Pages service that offers information about regions around the country.
Article | 28/02/2013 Facebook confirms buying Microsoft's Atlas to boost ad sales
Facebook is buying Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad analysis platform, in a move that should increase its advertising revenue and give market...
Article | 28/02/2013 Facebook shutters Vintage Camera's access
Facebook has blocked Vintage Camera, an Instagram-like photo app, from accessing its API (application programming interface). The move follows the rec...
Article | 28/02/2013 Facebook expands custom audiences tool to help with ad targeting
Facebook is allowing its advertisers to work with third-party marketing firms to help better target their ads on its social network.
Article | 27/02/2013 Facebook to fix bug leaking users' phone numbers
Facebook is rolling out a patch to fix a rare bug in its API that had apparently been leaking users' phone numbers to app developers.
Article | 27/02/2013 Who owns that Twitter account?
Noah Kravitz built up quite a following at PhoneDog, a mobile-phone news and reviews website. By late 2010 his @PhoneDog_Noah Twitter account had amas...
Article | 27/02/2013 In Pictures: 10 tech company social media bloopers
It’s been quite the month for corporate social media activity. Both Burger King and Jeep have seen their Twitter accounts hijacked, with hilarious res...
Article | 26/02/2013 Google cozies up to developers with Google+ Sign-In
Google is making it easier for app developers to connect with users on its social network through Google+ Sign-In, a new feature that allows people to...
Article | 26/02/2013 Twitter rival App.net aims to extend reach with 'freemium' model
App.net, the social networking platform that launched as an ad-free alternative to Twitter, is looking to expand its user base by offering a free acco...
Article | 25/02/2013 Trend Micro adds Facebook scanner to mobile security suite
Trend Micro is adding the often confusing world of Facebook privacy settings to a new version of its flagship security software.
Article | 22/02/2013 Facebook reports Page Insights bugs, fix on the way
Facebook is working to correct a series of technical glitches it recently discovered in its Page Insights service causing erroneous activity data to b...
Article | 22/02/2013 Facebook said to fix OAuth-based account hijacking flaw
Facebook has patched a serious vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to easily gain access to private user account data and control accounts...
Article | 21/02/2013 Facebook engineers identify Graph Search's big data challenges
Facebook’s engineers have many challenges ahead of them as they work to scale up Graph Search, the site’s new social search tool. One stumbling block:...