Topic: Facebook

Teens Are Turning Away from Facebook Because Tumblr Is Real, and Parent-Free

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Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network's blue confines are looking for something more... authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 23, 2012

Facebook's Faster iPhone App Isn't Fast Enough

Facebooks says its Facebook iOS app update makes the notoriously slow iPhone version of the social network "twice as fast as the previous version when launching the app, scrolling through News Feed and opening photos in feed," per an announcement on their website. But is it fast enough?

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 21, 2012

Facebook Doesn't Want to Talk About Ads Anymore

Amid Facebook's falling stock price, and word that its biggest investor has sold almost all his shares in the social network, Facebook's director of developer products Doug Purdy gave The New York Times' Somini Sengupta a vision for the company, which was surprisingly vague on the advertising part. 

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By Dashiell Bennett

Aug 21, 2012

Peter Thiel Cashes Out Most of His Facebook Stock

Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's earliest and most important investors, has unloaded most of his stock in the company, which is leading some analysts to worry that he may be giving up on the social network.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 20, 2012

Was Instagram Savvy or Stupid When Negotiating with Facebook?

With Facebook's stock decline, the people who sold Instagram have also lost a considerable amount of their company's value because of poor negotiating tactics described by DealBook's Steven M. Davidoff

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 20, 2012

Will Pinterest Suffer From the Same Over-Hype as Groupon?

With investors pulling their money out of Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga, one might be tempted to call this tech bubble burst, but other Internet start-ups have caught the attention of the venture capital world, keeping this thing going.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Aug 17, 2012

Stat of the Day

Facebook is Now Worth Half its Original IPO Value

Ah, remember Facebook's IPO in May? Those were the good old days for the company, which is now worth just half of its IPO-day valuation, according to Bloomberg.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 17, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg Is in Pain

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about money, so why does he find the Facebook stock failure so "painful?"

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 16, 2012

Seeing the Good in Facebook's Falling Stock Price

Today's the day that a whole new group of Facebook shareholders were allowed to sell their stock and, as expected, it has hurt the already ailing stock's value.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 16, 2012

Facebook Finally, Really Deletes Your Deleted Photos

Finally, when we delete an embarrassing image from our Facebook lives, it will be wiped from Facebook's servers in a "reasonable amount of time," Facebook told Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng, who has been following the saga since 2009. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 15, 2012

Facebook's Fix for Its Ad Woes: Fewer Likes, More User Data

As a result of working closer with brands to fix its unappealing advertising strategy, Facebook has realized that "likes" aren't good enough. 

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By Jen Doll

Aug 9, 2012

Precious Parents and Why You Can't Say 'STFU' in The New York Times

There's a piece in The New York Times that indicates we're in a whole new phase of preciousness about what we should allow ourselves to be exposed to on the Internet, and there's a parallel story that relates to The New York Times itself. 

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Facebook's New Social Gambling May Be Just the Boost It Needs

Facebook could find better growth for its slow-going Facebook Payments revenue line, after it debuts paid gambling games on its platform from Tuesday.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 3, 2012

What Does Facebook's $20 Stock Price Mean?

Yesterday Facebook's stock fell below $20.00 before ending the day at $20.04, an all-time low for the ever-shrinking stock.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Aug 2, 2012

Stat of the Day

83 Million Facebook Users Are Not Real People

Wondering just who everyone is on Facebook? Well, wonder about 83 million fewer of them.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 2, 2012

The Hacker Way Doesn't Always Win at Facebook

In a negotiation gone sour between Facebook and developer Dalton Caldwell, the tensions between the socia media giant's business and technological sides played out, and this time Mark Zuckerberg's "hacker way" lost. 

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By Adam Martin

Aug 1, 2012

Facebook Says Its 2011 Carbon Footprint is the Same as a Latte per User

Facebook released a report about its carbon footprint on Wednesday, estimating that each user's annual impact while using the site is about the same as a medium latte or three large bananas, which, as The Guardian points out, is significantly lower than Google's estimated carbon footprint per user.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 31, 2012

Facebook's Save It Later Feature Isn't an Instapaper Copycat (Yet)

Facebook has a new feature that sounds a lot like what Instapaper does, but so far, it isn't nearly as useful.

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By Connor Simpson

Jul 28, 2012

Apple and Twitter Might Be Getting In Bed Together

Apple and Twitter have a great relationship. Their relationship is so great, in fact, that Apple executives have spoken with Twitter about making an investment somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars range. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 27, 2012

Amazon and Facebook: A Tale of Two Mediocre Earnings Reports

Yesterday after markets closed both Facebook and Amazon reported earnings that should have had similar effects, yet Facebook disappointed and Amazon didn't.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 26, 2012

Facebook Earnings Beat Wall Street by Just Enough

Facebook has passed its first test as a public company, announcing $1.18 billion in revenue, which is a smidge above the $1.14 expected.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 26, 2012

How to Prepare for Facebook's First Earnings Report

This afternoon at 4 p.m. Facebook will report its first earnings report since it went public in May, giving us all sorts of information, like financials goodies and user stats, that it's never had to divulge before.

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By Connor Simpson

Jul 25, 2012

Zynga Is Dragging Facebook Down with It

Zynga's second-quarter earnings report didn't go very well today, and now the stock is plummeting in after hours trading. It's having an interesting side effect, though: Facebook's stock is going down with it. 

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By David Wagner

Jul 24, 2012

Comment of the Day

The Limitations of 'Liking'

As journalists, we're naturally interested in what the Associated Press' new social media guidelines have to say about "liking" on Facebook. It turns out our readers are, too. 

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By Esther Zuckerman

Jul 23, 2012

Trimming the Times

Spying at the Olympics, The Virgin Mary in Jersey, and 'Uncle Vanya'

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 20, 2012

Is the Tech IPO Back, or Just Back for Some?

Both Kayak.com, an online travel booking site, and Palo Alto Networks, a network security company, made their market debuts this morning, the first tech IPOs since Facebook's abysmal debut. Their performances don't look anything like Facebook's.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 20, 2012

The Decline of Google (and the Internet's) Ad Business

A third quarter in a row of cost-per-click decline for Google advertising makes this an unsettling norm not only for the search company, but also for Internet advertising efforts elsewhere.

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By Connor Simpson

Jul 18, 2012

Al Franken Doesn't Like Facebook's Facial Recognition Software

Everyone gets freaked about technology sometimes, screaming "Skynet is coming! Skynet is coming!" even though we know that's not true. Facial recognition software freaks people out ("The machines can recognize us!" they say), and today Facebook sparred with congress over their new software. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 17, 2012

Uh Oh, Facebook Is Losing Its Popularity

Facebook today saw a drop in two main metrics of popularity: number of friends and likability, which presents particular problems for the social network because popularity is what it sells.

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By David Wagner

Jul 13, 2012

Dave Eggers Is All Wet; Neil Gaiman Announces a 'Sandman' Prequel

Today in books and publishing: Dave Eggers likes to read in the tub; play matchmaker in a new Jane Austen Facebook game; you'll never guess which BDSM-themed book is making waves in India; and Neil Gaiman announces a Sandman prequel. 

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By Esther Zuckerman

Jul 11, 2012

Trimming the Times

Comedy in Haiti, Greece's Extremists, and Wisconsin's Nude Beach

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By David Wagner

Jul 10, 2012

Comment of the Day

Checking Your Phone During Yoga: 'More Than a Little Arrogant'

A number of commenters were miffed by the news that a yoga instructor was recently fired for her no-phones-during-class policy. It's not only inconsiderate, they argued, it's defeating the whole purpose—how do you expect to clear your mind and cleanse your body while manically checking your inbox? 

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jul 10, 2012

Yoga Teacher Fired for Wanting Facebook Employee to Turn Off Her Phone

A yoga instructor reportedly lost her job teaching classes on Facebook's campus, because of her overly strict policy of insisting that students not use cellphones during class

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 9, 2012

Facebook Is Stable Enough for Kayak to IPO Now

After delaying its IPO for almost two years and canceling its most recent investor roadshow following Facebook's disastrous IPO, Kayak has finally priced its valuation this morning. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 6, 2012

Sexism at Facebook Is What Made It Facebook

With another early female Facebook employee refuting Facebook's sexist culture, The Atlantic Wire spoke with Boy Kings author Katherine Losse, who gave us a little clarification on her interpretation of life at Facebook as it related to women.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 6, 2012

Facebook and Yahoo Decide to Play Nice

A happy ending for the patent war Facebook entered with Yahoo earlier this year, with the final settlement including an expanded partnership between the two companies, sources tell AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 5, 2012

The WELL Explains Everything Wrong with Facebook, The Internet

The news last week The WELL, what many consider the first ever online social network, faces impending doom, has inspired Mike Barthel to write a history of Internet politics over at The Awl, explaining the conflicts modern social networks, like Facebook, face today.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 5, 2012

Profitability Isn't So Important in Tech Bubble 2.0

Here's an interesting sign of the times: The tech companies that have gone public in tech bubble 2.0 may have big revenue streams, but don't make profits, according to statistics put together by IPO Dashboard.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 3, 2012

Can General Motors' Return Help Facebook Save Face?

Since General Motors has come to symbolize everything that's wrong with Facebook's business model, it's no wonder the social network is attempting to win the carmaker's ad dollars back.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 2, 2012

How to Avoid a Facebook E-mail Address Book Takeover

Facebook's @facebook.com e-mail address takeover is worse than just an unwanted default change for some, who have had their entire phone address book populated with @Facebook.com e-mail addresses, replacing previous contact information.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 2, 2012

It's Complicated: Facebook and NASDAQ's Bad Romance

In the weeks following Facebook's botched debut on the NASDAQ market the two have had a nasty, complicated, break-up—almost.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 29, 2012

The Difference Between 'Like' and 'Want' on Facebook

With word that Facebook is testing a 'want' button to add to its stock of verbs, it got us wondering: How can we choose between the old standby 'like' and its not so distinct brother "want"?

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By Peter Maass, ProPublica

Jun 28, 2012

How College Students Scoop the Feds on Online Privacy Violations

If it seems odd that a federal regulator was scooped by a sleep-deprived student, get used to it, because the federal government is often the last to know about digital invasions of your privacy.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 27, 2012

Will Facebook Stock Turn Around This Year?

Given Facebook's general downhill slide since its IPO, some analysts are being optimistic about the future of the stock.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 26, 2012

People Sure Like This Creepy Site That Makes Your Facebook Status Public

After 27 hours up and running this stalker website with the appropriately creepy name We Know What You're Doing ...  has gotten over 100,000 unique visitors, according to a tweet from 18-year-old founder Callum Haywood, which says something disturbing about our society.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 25, 2012

Facebook Picks Its Token Female Board Member

Facebook finally made the appointment it needed to change its shameful billionaire boys club to a slightly less shameful boys club, appointing COO Sheryl Sandberg to the board of directors Monday afternoon.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 25, 2012

Email: Another Annoying Default Facebook Setting to Change

In a pushy move, Facebook just made the Facebook email address you probably didn't even know you had the default email address on your timeline, hoping to push users to its messaging service.

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By Connor Simpson

Jun 23, 2012

Facebook's Complicated Lady Problems

An excerpt from a new book about Facebook in the Wall Street Journal is shedding more light on how the company got rid of some of the ickier aspects of how women were treated after hiring Sheryl Sandberg. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 22, 2012

No More Unwitting Personal Lubricant Endorsements on Facebook

Following unfortunate user-endorsements like the one from Facebook user Nick Bergus, whose joke made him the face of Passion Natural Water-Based Lubricant, Facebook has made its Sponsored Stories advertising set-up more transparent.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 19, 2012

Let Them Tweet Cake: Lavish Party Reveals Selfish Tech Bubble

It's no secret that there's a lot of money flowing into (but not out of) Silicon Valley, yet the tech scenesters are trying awfully hard to keep their spending under wraps.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jun 19, 2012

At Least One Big Advertiser Has Faith in Facebook

After the unfortunate timing of General Motor's withdrawal of its Facebook ad-dollars, the social network just got an unexpected endorsement from Coca-Cola, which said it will stick with its precarious model.

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