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Facebook's Instagram acquisition green-lighted by UK's OFT

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  • Posted August 15, 2012, 11:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
  • Facebook’s first hurdle in its acquisition of Instagram has been cleared after the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) passed the merger. The regulator said the acquisition would not substantially lessen competition for consumers in the country, or place the social…

Facebook testing the waters of online gambling with Bingo Friendzy

Facebook testing the waters of online gambling with Bingo Friendzy
  • Posted August 7, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Facebook is venturing into the world of online gambling with the release of their first gaming app that allows players to wager real money on the outcome of the game. The game, developed by London-based studio Gamesys, is called Bingo…

Tech Tip of the Week: Using IFTTT, Plus a Dozen Recipes to Get You Started

Tech Tip of the Week: Using IFTTT, Plus a Dozen Recipes to Get You Started
  • Posted August 5, 2012, 11:43 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, The Web
  • IFTTT (If This Then That) lets you automate tasks between popular web services such as Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, Facebook, Instapaper, and many others. IFTTT works by telling it what task you want carried out, what will trigger this task, and it will put it into action for you.

    A common example would be to have your Instagram pictures automatically backed up on your Dropbox or Box account. Certainly useful, but there's also more specific things you can do with it. For example, say I want to keep up with how a certain country is doing in the London 2012 Olympics.

8.7% of Facebook users aren't real people, jury's out on the other 91.3%

8.7% of Facebook users aren
  • Posted August 2, 2012, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • In its first public earnings report last week, Facebook revealed that its active userbase increased 29% on-year to 955 million people, with about 552 million using the service daily, up 32%. However, according to information released in its 10-Q filing this week, approximately 8.7%...

Startup discovers 80% of Facebook ad clicks coming from bots

Startup discovers 80% of Facebook ad clicks coming from bots
  • Posted July 31, 2012, 11:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • A small startup known as Limited Run has publically decided to withdraw their presence from Facebook over concerns about the social network’s advertising practices. According to Limited Run, only 20 percent of ad clicks actually come from real people; the…

Facebook posts Q2 loss, has 955 million active monthly users

Facebook posts Q2 loss, has 955 million active monthly users
  • Posted July 27, 2012, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Shares in Facebook fell to a record-low $23.94 in after-hours trading last night, a drop of 11%, after the company reported a loss in its second quarter financial results. This was the firm’s first report since being publicly floated on…

Rumor: Facebook and HTC to release smartphone by mid-2013

Rumor: Facebook and HTC to release smartphone by mid-2013
  • Posted July 26, 2012, 3:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • More rumors pointing at a joint effort by HTC and Facebook to build a smartphone have surfaced, this time via several anonymous sources speaking to Bloomberg. It's reported that the smartphone was originally planned to arrive later this year but…

Google Takeout lets users merge Google+ accounts

Google Takeout lets users merge Google+ accounts
  • Posted July 13, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Shortly after Google+ was introduced for Google Apps users, the company promised a migration tool which would allow those users to transfer data from their personal account to their Google Apps account. Several months have passed, but the search giant…

Facebook closing Face.com APIs and Klik app

Facebook closing Face.com APIs and Klik app
  • Posted July 9, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Facebook acquired facial recognition technology company Face.com last month in a deal that was rumored to be valued around $100 million. The social network is already making headway with the new purchase by closing some of the key products from…

Facebook promises quick fix for smartphone email sync bug

Facebook promises quick fix for smartphone email sync bug
  • Posted July 4, 2012, 12:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
  • Facebook has landed itself in hot water with its users for a second week in a row, after a bug caused those using Facebook's sync tools to lose contacts from their smartphone address books. This follows the social networking giant's…

Facebook "want" button coming soon, says developer

Facebook "want" button coming soon, says developer
  • Posted June 29, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Facebook already allows members to express themselves in a number of different ways, from posting basic status updates and liking things to sharing what songs you are listening to and even sharing your organ donor status. But according to developer…

TS Community: Login with Facebook or Twitter, Windows 8 giveaway winner

TS Community: Login with Facebook or Twitter, Windows 8 giveaway winner
  • Posted June 28, 2012, 8:30 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot Weekly
  • Thanks to everyone for reviving the Windows 8 discussion thread and congratulations to Marnomancer for winning our giveaway! As promised, we'll buy a license as soon as preorders open, which should hopefully be soon. Although most of you share obvious concerns over...

Rumor: RIM to split handset and messaging services into two companies

Rumor: RIM to split handset and messaging services into two companies
  • Posted June 25, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Research in Motion has been fighting an uphill battle to remain relevant in the handset market for a number of years but according to one report, they will soon concede defeat. RIM is planning to divide their handset and messaging…

UK's Office of Fair Trading to investigate $1bn Instagram deal

UK
  • Posted June 25, 2012, 10:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Facebook's April announcement of its planned $1 billion purchase of Instagram due to concerns that the social networking giant could unfairly exert control over the competition by restricting the uploading…

Facebook buys facial recognition technology company Face.com

Facebook buys facial recognition technology company Face.com
  • Posted June 18, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Facebook has acquired facial recognition technology company Face.com for an undisclosed amount of money. Such a deal was rumored to be in the works last month for around $100 million, making Face.com the first post-IPO acquisition by the social networking…

Facebook donates $10m to charity to settle "Sponsored Story" lawsuit

Facebook donates $10m to charity to settle "Sponsored Story" lawsuit
  • Posted June 18, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • Facebook settled a lawsuit last month that could have seen the social network compensate one out of every three users in the US but details of the settlement were only made available over the weekend. Zuckerberg and company agreed to…

iOS 6 brings new Map app, Siri updates, FaceTime over 3G, more

iOS 6 brings new Map app, Siri updates, FaceTime over 3G, more
  • Posted June 11, 2012, 3:29 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Apple
  • As expected, Apple unveiled the latest iteration of its mobile operating system during today's Worldwide Developer Conference. The changes include improvements to Siri, which has been criticized for being too beta-like, the introduction of Apple's own Map app, the integration…

Facebook launches App Center for web and mobile users

Facebook launches App Center for web and mobile users
  • Posted June 8, 2012, 10:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • Facebook officially launched its own app store late Thursday with a collection of free social apps for the web as well as Android and iOS mobile platforms. The move comes as the company looks to capitalize on the increasing number…

Nasdaq planning to compensate brokers for Facebook IPO trading glitch

Nasdaq planning to compensate brokers for Facebook IPO trading glitch
  • Posted June 6, 2012, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Officials at Nasdaq are preparing to offer compensation to firms that lost money due to a computer glitch on the opening morning of Facebook’s IPO. It’s been estimated that traders lost a collective sum of over $100 million but the…

SimCity reboot set for February 2013, SimCity Social announced for Facebook

SimCity reboot set for February 2013, SimCity Social announced for Facebook
  • Posted June 5, 2012, 6:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming With Video
  • Earlier this year, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, EA first announced that a new SimCity game was in the works. Details regarding availability were kept under wraps at the time, but now the company has come forward…

Facebook replaces Chrome recommendation with Opera, foreshadowing?

Facebook replaces Chrome recommendation with Opera, foreshadowing?
  • Posted May 31, 2012, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Facebook has reportedly dropped their support for Google’s Chrome web browser, instead replacing it with Opera on their recommended browser list. The move could signal that a rumored acquisition of the browser maker is nearly complete.

Sources say Face.com will be Facebook's first post-IPO acquisition

Sources say Face.com will be Facebook
  • Posted May 30, 2012, 8:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • Several sources are claiming that Face.com will be the first acquisition for Facebook in the post-IPO world. The buying price is said to be solid at $100 million and a deal is already well underway, according to TechCrunch.

Facebook headhunts Apple engineers for 3rd smartphone attempt

Facebook headhunts Apple engineers for 3rd smartphone attempt
  • Posted May 28, 2012, 1:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • According to the New York Times, citing multiple unnamed sources, Facebook has hired more than half a dozen former Apple engineers with experience working on the iPhone in order to create its own smartphone software and hardware in response to…

Weekend tech reading: Facebook to buy Opera for its own browser?

Weekend tech reading: Facebook to buy Opera for its own browser?
  • Posted May 27, 2012, 2:06 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Facebook browser that would allow you keep up to date with your social life from in-built plug-ins and features on the menu bar could be on the cards. Pocket-lint has heard from one of its trusted sources that the social networking giant is looking to buy Opera Software...

After five days, Facebook ranks as worst IPO flop of the decade

After five days, Facebook ranks as worst IPO flop of the decade
  • Posted May 25, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Facebook’s introduction on the Nasdaq certainly hasn’t lived up to the hype leading up to last Friday and the current forecast isn’t looking much better. The stock is down 16 percent from its IPO price, prompting Bloomberg to declare it…

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