Source: Jon Swartz / USA Today SAN FRANCISCO — Hashtags are coming to Facebook today. The feature, made so popular on Twitter to add context and shared interests to tweets, will be clickable on Facebook. Hashtags are also a staple of Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest. When a user clicks on a hashtag within their Facebook [...]
Source: Matt Krantz / USA Today The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the Nasdaq with violating securities laws during the May 2012 IPO of Facebook, hitting it with a $10 million fine, the largest charged to an exchange. Facebook, the No. 1 social networking site that went public a year ago, was plagued with trading errors [...]
Source: Reuters / NBC News AT&T Inc has cut the price of the HTC First phone, which is preloaded with Facebook Inc applications, to 99 cents from $99.99 less than a month after the phone’s launch. AT&T, the No. 2 U.S. mobile service provider, said the price cut took effect on Wednesday. The company is [...]
Source: AP / ABC News J.C. Penney is sorry and it wants your business back. That’s the gist of its latest ad, a public “mea culpa” which the mid-priced department-store put on its YouTube and Facebook pages. The ad, titled “It’s no secret,” shows shots of women working, playing with their children and doing other [...]
Source: Brett Molina / USA Today The “Facebook phone” is finally available, but how quickly will it make friends with consumers? Starting today, owners of select Android smartphones can download Facebook Home, a new interface with a suite of apps that ties users more closely to the social network. Home includes Cover Feed, transforming the user’s home [...]
Source: Erica Fink and Laurie Segall / CNN Money “Pimps are professional exploiters,” says Andrea Powell, executive director of Fair Girls, an organization that helps victims of sex trafficking. “Often they’re just spamming a whole bunch of girls with messages like, ‘Hey, you look cute. I could be your boyfriend.’” That’s one way Justin Strom — aka [...]
Source: Elahe Izadi / National Journal When a mass shooting occurs, the National Rifle Association’s communications shop typically goes dark, particularly its highly visible social media channels. That has certainly been the case post-Newtown. The organization’s Facebook page, with its more than 1.7 million likes, has been hidden with users being redirected to Facebook’s homepage. Its Twitter account, with more [...]
Source: Julee Wilson / The Huffington Post he news that Louisiana television station KTBS fired meteorologist Rhonda Lee is getting a lot of folks … well, fired up. Twitter is ablaze with outraged comments like “KTBS owes Rhonda Lee an apology & shld [sic] give her back her job!” and “sistah just can’t win!!! Meteorologist fired for responding to [...]
Source: theGrio A California woman has been fired from her job as an ice cream store manager after she referred to President Barack Obama with a racial slur on Facebook and wrote “maybe he will get assassinated.” Denise Helms, 22, of Turlock, posted the Facebook statement on Tuesday night after Obama won re-election to a [...]
Source: CNET / CBS News Facebook, under pressure to show its power as an advertising medium, is urging advertisers to consider the bigger picture instead of measuring success with the number of clicks an ad gets. The company says that a majority of sales come from people who see, but don’t necessarily click on, online [...]
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