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It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head. 
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Excerpted from Tim Karr: “Internet.org isn’t the Internet. It’s an enclosed digital domain that doesn’t benefit the poor so much as it pads Facebook’s bottom line. Imagine the benefits of a billion new subscribers for a company whose business is built on harvesting user data. As Facebook pushes Internet.org from continent to continent, backlash against …
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Ce n'est pas là une nouvelle prédiction "catastrophe" de Nostradamus mais bien le constat de plusieurs chercheurs : le temps est compté pour l'Internet. Plus pr&
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New research suggests more Australians are using social media to get jobs.
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SOCIAL media giant Facebook yesterday presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian ...
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Facebook is facing a lawsuit over the way it uses data for its facial recognition features.
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You may already conduct important baby-elephant–related business on Facebook Messenger, but the chat service may be eligible for a whole other level of serious communication.
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Whatsapp has also confirmed to release the Whatsapp calling feature for Windows Mobile based smartphones.
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This weekend Facebook has unveiled a new set of interactive help guides for users, covering everything from making sure you're protected against spam messages to checking on login requests.
Lindsey Sherman's curator insight,
April 6, 2015 10:59 AM
If you have to create a guide to explain security settings, perhaps you should focus on creating a better user experience instead. It shouldn't be that complicated.
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The people you love to interact with on Facebook may not be the same people you'd ever want to have dinner with. Is that OK?
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Pending content deals with New York Times and other trusted news providers could help revive the legitimate journalism business.
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Patenting everything is so 2005. Companies like Facebook and Tesla Motors have followed the lead of open-source software, and now expose hardware designs possibly worth millions.
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Legislative debate regarding expanding the H-1B visa program is heating up in the U.S. Senate. H-1B visas allow foreign workers—specifically those in technical roles—to legally work in the United States.
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Facebook's Free Internet Limits Poor Users AllAfrica.com Rufus Pollock, president and co-founder of data access advocacy group Open Knowledge, says that by limiting people's experience of the internet to specific sites services, Internet.org...
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As opposition to Internet.org spreads from continent to continent, local groups point to better ways to get people online.
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The nude, one of the oldest and most recurrent subjects in the art world, has led to the suspension of many Facebook accounts over the years. One recent and widely reported example was the account of Jerry Saltz, an art critic from New York Magazine. Last month, his account was suspended because he shared images deemed inappropriate, according to the network's terms of service.
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A class action data privacy lawsuit that’s being brought against Facebook in Europe — for participation in the NSA’s PRISM dragnet surveillance program, among other alleged data protection violations — gets its first preparatory court hearing today...
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Facebook showed plans recently for drone aircraft that beam lasers of high-speed data to remote parts of the world
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Facebook may have plans to add a WhatsApp button to its own app soon, if leaked pictures of the feature in an Android app beta are real. The social network bought WhatsApp for a hefty sum, but has so far left it to its own devices.
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Savvy tech critic talks outrage culture, surveillance and the power we give Google & Facebook to moderate our lives
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Ello, the social network that received a tremendous amount of media attention last year as a "Facebook killer," has raised another $5 million in funding.
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Facebook’s move to turn Messenger into a platform for third-parties has been one of the company’s most important decisions to date. Mobile messaging is a pivotal trend that will shape the way billions of people consumer the internet.
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For heavy Facebook users, let alone social media gurus, the idea that Facebook’s news feed is filtered by an algorithm is very, very old news. But a majority of everyday Facebook users in a recent study had no idea that Facebook constructs their experience, pushing certain posts into their stream and leaving others out. And worse, many participants blamed themselves, not Facebook’s software, when friends or family disappeared from their news feeds.
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Mark Zuckerberg, through Facebook, has started an initiative called Internet.org that aims to bring the web to places lacking access. Just one problem; it seems the plan is meant to benefit Facebook more than anyone else.
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