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Facebook revealed on Friday that it has obtained nearly $2 billion in legal judgments against spammers, and talked extensively about how it won't put up with fake likes and other s...

Facebook May Soon Wade into Healthcare

When I say preventative care applications and health support communities, you say ... Facebook? Facebook, eternal tracker of all things you, is planning a move into the healthca...

Facebook Changes Its Research Approach After Controversial Experiment

You'll probably recall the controversy Facebook found itself in a few months ago when it was discovered that an experiment it conducted a couple years ago manipulated people's emot...

Twitter Is Funding A New MIT Lab For ‘Social Machines’

The MIT Media Lab announced that it has secured a five-year, $10 million investment from Twitter, which will provide access to its real-time, public steam of tweets as well as the...

Twilight Is Back, and Coming to a … Facebook Near You

Twilight isn't dead, y'all. Like its sparkly subject matter, the series lives eternal – and will be coming to a Facebook news feed near you. Lionsgate...

Reddit Raises New $50 Million Round Of Funding

Reddit said on Tuesday that it has closed a new $50 million round of outside funding led by Y Combinator President Sam Altman with participation from Sequoia Capital's Alfred Lin a...

LinkedIn Gives Pulse News Reader A Big Refresh

LinkedIn announced a redesign of Pulse, its news reader product, which it acquired last year, and then replaced LinkedIn Today with. "Our new design is a purposeful one," said...

Orkut Officially Dies After Ten Years

Google announced in June that it would shut down its original social networking service Orkut after ten years of exi...

Netflix Looks For ‘Official Instagrammers’

Instagram has become an important part of online marketing, and companies are now looking for more ways to utilize it. Netflix just announced that it's looking for a few people to...

LinkedIn Changes Terms of Service

LinkedIn announced that it is making some changes to its Terms of Service on October 23rd. The company has rewritten its user agreement to make it easier to read and understand, an...

Instagram’s Hyperlapse Gets Front-Facing Camera Support

A new update - version 1.1 - for Instagram's Hyperlapse app is available in Apple's App store, and it adds what must have been a commonly requested feature - support for front-faci...

Everything Facebook Has Said Over The Past Year About News Feed Ranking

You've probably noticed that the organic reach of your Facebook Page posts has declined significantly over the past year or so. Probably not coincidentally, Facebook has been runni...

Facebook Monthly Fee Hoax Resurfaces, Is Still Incredibly Stupid

"Facebook is a free site and will never require that you pay to continue using the site." You may not trust Facebook all of the time, but you should tr...

Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Pissing Off His Neighbors with Round-the-Clock Construction

According to his neighbors, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spent way too long and way too much turning a $10 million "fixer-upper" into a "fortress." According to a report in...

Getty Launches Photo Viewing, Sharing App Stream

Getty Images announced the launch of a new mobile app called Stream, which lets consumers view and share its photos. This is the company's first consumer app. Getty seems to be...

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