via:mashable(yahoo) Facebook’s sliding stock price has at least one hedge fund manager predicting a dismal decade ahead for the social network. “In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared,” Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson told the CNBC show Squawk on the Street on Monday. […]
via News92Fm.Com A Camp Pendleton Marine who criticized President Obama on Facebook is facing an “other than honorable discharge,” a move his lawyer said is an infringement on the tea party supporter’s right to free speech. A federal judge on Friday rejected Sgt. Gary Stein’s injunction to halt a military tribunal’s recommendation that he receive […]
SEATTLE — Here’s another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It’s a great place to find a kidney. SEE ALSO: Why Ron Paul Got A Free Pass Between the kid photos and reminiscences about high school, more and more pleas for help from people with failing kidneys are popping up. Facebook […]
Ramie Grimmer, the daughter of Rachelle Grimmer the woman who killed herself and shot her two children after being denied welfare at a benefits office in Laredo, Texas has died from her wounds. Before she died Ramie Grimmer posted “May Die 3day on her Facebook page. The New York Daily News reports: Her 10-year-old brother, […]
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Reports have surfaced again in the past week that Facebook is working on a phone. The latest news on the long-rumored project is that Facebook has abandoned its plan to work on both the hardware and software, as Apple does, and instead will partner with hardware manufacturer HTC. The Facebook phone’s software, […]
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Porn, violent images and other graphic pieces of content are spreading across Facebook in what appears to be a widespread and ugly spam attack. Graham Cluley, a consultant with Web security firm Sophos, said Tuesday that “explicit and violent” images had been flooding theNews Feeds of Facebook users for the past […]
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Need more evidence that Facebook’s real-name-only policy has its flaws? Well, here you go: A few days ago, Facebook allegedly kicked famous author Salman Rushdie off of its social network, and then asked him to change his posted name to Ahmed if he wanted to return. Read More
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No, not the business. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social network had surpassed 750 million users in July (although there's no telling how many of those are pets), and the company is on track to collect more than $4 billion in sales this year, mostly from advertising.
(Mashable) -- Facebook plans to roll out a major redesign of user profiles at its f8 developer conference this week, Mashable has learned.
