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ThingLink Brings Interactive Image-Tagging to Facebook

Finnish startup ThingLink has announced the latest feature for its image-tagging platform, with ThingLink Tabs for Facebook letting users create an interactive Page from any photo. We first reported on…

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Google+ Brand Pages Growing 4X Faster than Twitter

Last week, we took a look at a report that showed that the most popular pages on Google+ were becoming more consumer-focused. Now, according to a recent report from Socialbakers,…

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Facebook Faces Calls for Stricter User Authentication in India

Facebook is facing calls to increase the level of authentication it asks of users in India, adding to the pressure that it is under with two legal cases pushing it,…

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British Facebook Hacker Jailed for Eight Months

Many hackers will tell you that they aren’t trying to cause any issues when they’re sniffing around areas of a site that are off-limits. Some do it for the thrill,…

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Power.com Responds To Facebook's Victory In Court

Earlier today, we broke the news about Facebook winning a 2008 lawsuit filed against Power Ventures, the owner of former social networking hub Power.com. Yesterday, a court ruled that Power…

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Facebook Fights The Power.com, Wins Legal Battle

We’ve received word that Facebook has emerged victorious in court after a long legal tussle with Power Ventures, the VC-backed company behind now-defunct (and up for sale) social networking hub…

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Facebook May Also Face Trademark Woes in China

As Apple feels the pressurefrom Chinese authorities over its disputed iPad trademark case against Proview, other technology companies — including Facebook — have begun questioning the legitimacy of their intellectual…

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Facebook's Timeline Connecting Younger Audience to Media Outlets

In a blog post today, Facebook announced some new apps that are utilizing its Timeline functionality, all of them being media related. The company also reported some interesting statistics for…

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Indian Music Service Rockets with Facebook Social Graph

Indian music service Saavn has just completed a month as a Facebook Open Graph partner with some very impressive results from the period. During the first 30 days following the…

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Orange Expands its Text-based Facebook Service in Africa

Today Orange announced a new initiative which aims to make it easier for African mobile subscribers to access Facebook on the go. A first for the continent, Orange is using…

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Australian Film Set for US Debut via Facebook

Facebook is about to get it first box office coup as Tomorrow, When the War Began, an Australian smash hit title, is to become the first film to be released on…

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Facebook Drives 10-times More Video-Shares Than Twitter

New figures reveal that video-viewing across connected TVs and mobile devices is rising sharply, and could pave the way for online video viewing to hit new heights in 2012. Digital…

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In Germany: A Manhunt on Facebook

Imagine a murder in your neighbourhood. The police release a photofit. They put it on Facebook. You see it and recognise the murderer: it’s you. That’s what citizens of the German…

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Social Bizzle: 'Facebook for Business'...on a Bus

Lee Fuller is co-founder of Social Media My Business, or ‘Social Bizzle’, an online Facebook-training platform for enterprises. Nothing particularly noteworthy about that in itself, but the guys behind it…

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Men are From Foursquare, Women are From Facebook

“The battle of the sexes has raged for centuries, and today men and women use social media in very different ways based on the same underlying human characteristics.” Men are…