One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Facebook — for rich people (for just $9,000).
“I saw a need for an environment where you could talk about the finer things in life without backlash — an environment where people could share similar likes and experiences,” he said.
The hefty initiation fee, he said, “ensures that our membership remains exclusive, but also private.”
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Facebook’s autoplay video feature is destroying cell phone bills.
Want to save money on your phone bill? Make sure you turn off the “autoplay” setting on Facebook videos.
Smartphone users are at risk of maxing out their data plans if they don’t change this default setting in the Facebook app, which otherwise will automatically start streaming videos in the News Feed window.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Why Facebook is stockpiling Blu-ray discs.
Those data demands will only increase with time, particularly as personal cameras and smartphones become capable of capturing higher-quality images. That’s why Facebook engineers have developed a storage prototype using Blu-ray discs that they believe could greatly reduce the cost of archiving all that data.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Bloomberg published an article titled Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits.
Facebook Inc. will let advertisers know where a promotion was first viewed and when it led to a purchase by tracking users between their electronic devices, a tool that may reignite privacy concerns.
Marketers will be able to see the number of users that clicked on an ad, whether they used a smartphone, tablet or desktop computer, and which device was used to buy a product, Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said in a blog post today.
Source: Bloomberg
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. TechCrunch published an article titled Facebook Data Privacy Class Action Joined By 11,000 And Counting.
On Friday the Europe vs Facebook privacy campaign group kicked off a new legal initiative targeting Facebook – in the form of a class action lawsuit that’s inviting adult non-commercial Facebook users located anywhere outside the US and Canada to join in.
Today, the group told TechCrunch its civil action has pulled in some 11,000 participants so far, in the first weekend since launch. The largest proportion of participants (about 50%) are currently coming from German-speaking countries, followed by “high number” from the Netherlands, Finland and the UK.
“Reasonable numbers come from all European countries and South America,” added a Europe vs Facebook spokesperson.
Source: TechCrunch
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CBS St. Louis published an article titled 12-Year-Old Girl Suffers Severe Burns Taking Part In ‘Fire Challenge’ After Seeing Videos On Facebook.
A 12-year-old girl is the latest victim to suffer horrific burns taking part of the “fire challenge” she saw on Facebook and YouTube.
Daisey Schumer tells KFVS-TV that she was lit on fire after someone poured perfume on her.
“This person poured the perfume on my stomach and then I told her to stop. Then she lit the lighter and I was rolling on the ground, trying to get it out and it burned my back,” Daisey told KFVS.
Daisey and her friend, Danielle Carter, said they saw “fire challenge” videos before on Facebook and YouTube.
Source: CBS St. Louis
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Guardian published an article titled Is there a Rihanna sex tape? No, it’s a malware scam on Facebook.
There is no sex tape of Rihanna and her boyfriend doing the rounds online. You can’t see who’s been looking at your Facebook profile. And you can’t change your Facebook colour either.
This may all sound obvious, but according to antivirus firm Bitdefender, these are the most popular malware scams on the social network in 2014.
The company has published a list of the top 10 Facebook scams, with the fake app promising to tell you your Facebook views and visitors by far the most popular, accounting for 30.2% of bogus links it identified on the social network this year.
Source: The Guardian
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Woman files $123M suit against Facebook over photoshopped nude photos.
Houston woman Meryem Ali has filed a $123-million lawsuit against both Facebook and a former friend who posted a picture of her on an “imposter” Facebook profile under her name, according to Texas Lawyer.
Photographs “that depict the true face of plaintiff” were altered with Photoshop and “attached to false, phony, naked body shots, and at least one pose where there is plaintiff in a graphic pornographic-like photo,” states the complaint, which was filed on July 25 in Harris County.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Woman arrested after posting selfie of shoplifted dress.
A 27-year-old Illinois woman was arrested Monday after posting a selfie to Facebook showing off a dress that she allegedly stole from a local boutique.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. TechCrunch published an article titled Facebook Beats In Q2 With $2.91 Billion In Revenue, 62% Of Ad Revenue From Mobile, 1.32B Users.
Facebook’s earnings beat projections for the 8th quarter straight with $2.91B in revenue and $0.42EPS in Q2 2014. The service is growing about twice as fast on mobile compared to its services as a whole. Facebook now has 1.07 billion mobile monthly users, and 654 million daily mobile users. That helped it bring in 62% of its ad revenue from mobile. In total, Facebook now has 1.32 billion monthly users and 829 million daily users, or 63% of users returning each day. It beat Wall Street’s estimates of $2.81 billion in revenue and $0.32 EPS.
Source: TechCrunch
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