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1 in 6 Job Seekers Found Their Current Job via Social Media
A recent survey conducted by Jobvite suggests about 1 of 6 Americans found their most recent job via social media. In case you’re wondering, that amounts to around 22 million Americans. The fact that so many people found their last job on an actual social media site nowadays can’t be very surprising, especially since LinkedIn...
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Apple’s Steve Jobs Remembered by the Web
Tech messiah Steve Jobs is no longer with us, having succumbed to pancreatic cancer he had been fighting since 2004. Along with co-founder Steve Wozniak, Jobs built one of the biggest and the most commercially successful companies in the world, Apple Inc., and founded Pixar animation studios. Jobs’ passing came just a day after the newest iPhone...
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Facebook’s Relationship with Its Fans: It’s Complicated
Facebook has made big changes. Again. And the News Feeds yesterday were, unsurprisingly, bursting with complaints as many of the social-networking site’s 750 million users began noticing the adjustments. “This is absolutely the worst of the many wrong-headed ‘improvements’ you have made, and that’s quite a feat. I think Facebook’s usefulness to me has now been outstripped...
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U.K. Government Weighing The Options to Block Social Media
As a mean to quell riots, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has urged the authorities to consider blocking social-networking websites and messaging services during the country’s worst anarchism since the 1980s. Cameron said that the government – working together with police, the intelligence services and companies – should look at “whether it would be right to stop...
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Reports of Falling Traffic Denied by Facebook
Figures from social media blog Inside Facebook revealed that Facebook lost more than six million users in the United States, falling from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at the end of it.
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France Bans “Twitter” and “Facebook” from TV and Radio
While the Oxford Dictionaries Online is actively expanding into social networking — going so far as to add "Twittersphere" and "Unfollow" last week, France appears to be moving in the opposite direction.
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The Winklevosses Won’t Be Seeing Any More Money Out of Facebook
The billionaire's battle over the founding of Facebook is finally over.
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Facebook’s New Photo Viewer: Why Fix Something That’s Not Broken?
Facebook should stop trying to fix or improve things that don’t need fixing or improving. There was nothing wrong with the basic page browser that we all know and love, was there?
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Facebook Launches New Version of Its Q&A Tool
Facebook released a new version of its Questions feature yesterday, 8 months after its initial version was launched in July 2010.
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Now You Can Tag Others in Facebook Comments
Facebook has expanded its "@ mention tagging" feature, now letting you tag friends, pages, events or groups within comments, turning their names into clickable links by using a simple drop-down menu.
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The New Facebook App for the Lazy Stalker
Well, the next time he or she breaks up with that damned somebody, you'll be the first to know.
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Facebook Credits will Become the Official Coin of All Onsite Gaming
Facebook Credits will become mandatory on July 1, 2011.