Facebook has plunged in value to well below its offer price, two days after its shares were floated in New York. So what does this mean for the social networking site?
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s telecommunications regulators shut down Twitter for about eight hours Sunday because the social networking site would not remove content the government found objectionable to Muslims, but the nation’s prime minister stepped in to reverse the ban, officials said. Read full article > >
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Pakistan blocks, then restores, Twitter access
Salamworld, a social networking site with Islamic influences, is due to launch in July with the hope of challenging Facebook’s supremacy.
Olympic bosses admit their ban on spectators posting videos and images on social networking sites will be unenforceable.
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Olympics powerless over web video
If the new romantic comedy “ Think Like a Man ” seems ultra-clear about its message — don’t hate the player, change the game — that’s because it’s based on the hugely popular self-help relationship book “ Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man .” Read full article > >
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Steve Harvey discusses what men and women think about love
Seeking to address criticism of its privacy practices, the social networking site said it would provide a downloadable archive of the many types of data on individuals that it stores and tracks.
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Facebook Offers More Disclosure to Users
T his is a story about Felicia Day. Right now, 30 percent-ish of you are squealing with besotted fan-girldom and fan-boydom. The other 70 percent of you do not know what a Felicia Day is. “That’s probably more like 90 percent,” she says. “Whenever I go to a meeting at a studio lot, it’s always the IT guy or the assistant or the accountant who knows me. And then the executives look at me, like, ‘I don’t know why I’m meeting with you.’ ” Read full article > >
Pinterest, the newly hot social networking site, has answered some questions about copyright permissions and how the company thinks about sharing. In a statement, the company said that it believes that it is protected under the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and that it is committed to quickly responding to alleged copyright issues. Other companies, such as YouTube, adopt a similar strategy on content posted to their Web sites. Read full article > >
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Pinterest addresses copyright concerns
Yahoo has reportedly filed a patent suit against Facebook, saying that the social network is infringing on technologies that are the “foundation of our business.” It had been previously reported that Yahoo had demanded that Facebook pay licensing fees for at least 10 patents, and had threatened the IPO-bound social network with legal action if they could not come to a settlement. According to the court filing, the patents deal with technologies for advertising, privacy, social networking, messaging and allowing users to customize their Web experience. Read full article > >
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Yahoo files patent suit against Facebook
Zynga has added Slingo, the old-school online game launched in 1996, to its social gaming lineup. Slingo has been around for about 15 years, said Slingo general manager Eric Lamendola in an interview with The Post on Wednesday, but combining the game’s brand with the social networking options that Zynga offers through Facebook made a lot of sense to the company. Read full article > >
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Zynga adds Slingo to its stable of games
Facebook took its first steps toward going public this week, and observers think its valuation might be as much as $100 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, its founder, owns 28 percent of the company, so that would instantly making him one of the 10 or 15 richest individuals in America. In this essay from October, 2010, I considered how much credit Zuckerberg deserves for social networking phenomenon that has led to his incredible success. Read full article > >
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Facebook will begin the process of becoming a publicly-listed company this week, valuing the social networking site at between $75bn and $100bn, reports suggest.
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Facebook ‘prepares to go public’
As a flood of family photos, videos and holiday greetings hits the Internet this time of year, online users will be swarming the social networking and photo-sharing sites that have become the personal scrapbooks of our time. But in the shaky and often promiscuous business of the Web, where companies fold and merge at astonishing speed, you can’t always trust that those sites will take long-term care of your digital treasures. Read full article > >
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As Web sites come and go, so too could the information you entrust them with
A data-driven culture, which has been at the root of Zynga’s success, could become a serious liability, several former senior employees warn.
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DealBook: Zynga’s Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain
As Web sites come and go, so too could the information you entrust them with
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
