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Facebook 's 21-Year-Old Wunderkind Leaves for Google

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. hired Michael Sayman for an internship when he was 17 years old, and gave him a full-time engineering job at 18. Now, the wunderkind is leaving for Alphabet Inc.’s Google. He turned 21 last week.
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Publish Date:29/August/2017 | 05:29

Facebook Usage Among Teens Set to Drop in U.S., EMarketer Says

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. is lucky it owns Instagram. This year, the world’s largest social network will see a decline among teen users in the U.S., according to a forecast by EMarketer. It’s the first time the research company has predicted a fall in Facebook usage for any age group.
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Publish Date:22/August/2017 | 04:54

Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. is working on a video chat device for the home -- the first major hardware product from its experimental Building 8 lab.
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Publish Date:02/August/2017 | 04:31

Google, Facebook show power of ad duopoly as rivals stumble

EghtesadOnline: Quarterly results from Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc provided fresh evidence this week that the digital advertising market is effectively a duopoly, a dynamic with deep implications for two of Silicon Valley's titans.
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Publish Date:29/July/2017 | 05:59

House panel wants Google, Facebook , AT&T CEOs to testify on internet rules

EghtesadOnline: The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday asked chief executives from companies representing the two sides of the net neutrality debate, including Alphabet, Facebook , AT&T and Verizon, to testify at a Sept. 7 hearing.
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Publish Date:26/July/2017 | 06:03

Facebook Plans to Unveil a $200 Wireless Oculus VR Headset for 2018

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. is taking another stab at turning its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset into a mass-market phenomenon. Later this year, the company plans to unveil a cheaper, wireless device that the company is betting will popularize VR the way Apple did the smartphone.
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Publish Date:14/July/2017 | 11:13

Facebook , Twitter Are Said to Seek World Cup Clips From Fox

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Snap Inc. are seeking online rights to video highlights from next year’s World Cup, soccer’s most popular tournament, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Publish Date:06/July/2017 | 20:27

Facebook fights U.S. gag order that it says chills free speech

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc is challenging a gag order from a U.S. court that is preventing the company from talking about three government search warrants that it said pose a threat to freedom of speech, according to court documents.
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Publish Date:04/July/2017 | 05:26

Facebook changes algorithm to curb 'tiny group' of spammers

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc said on Friday it was changing the computer algorithm behind its News Feed to limit the reach of people known to frequently blast out links to clickbait stories, sensationalist websites and misinformation.
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Publish Date:01/July/2017 | 06:06

Facebook Briefed U.K. Government on Counter-Terrorism Effort

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc.’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg briefed U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd on the social network’s counter-terrorism efforts Friday, the company said in an emailed statement describing the meeting as "constructive."
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Publish Date:25/June/2017 | 04:45

Facebook ’s Oculus Fights Sales Ban for VR Rift Headset

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. wants a federal judge to let it continue sales of its virtual-reality headsets even though a jury said the social-media giant’s Oculus unit stole another company’s computer code.
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Publish Date:21/June/2017 | 04:24

Facebook Enlists AI, Human Experts in New Push Against Terrorism

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. has hired more than 150 counterterrorism experts and is increasingly using artificial intelligence that can understand language and analyze images to try to keep terrorists from using the social network for recruiting and propaganda.
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Publish Date:15/June/2017 | 22:00

Google and Facebook Join Cities in Challenging Trump on Climate

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. are among dozens of companies that pledged their support for policies combating climate change following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord.
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Publish Date:06/June/2017 | 08:47

Major U.S. tech firms press Congress for internet surveillance reforms

EghtesadOnline: Facebook , Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase government transparency.
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Publish Date:28/May/2017 | 05:19

Facebook leaked documents show types of content it allows: Guardian

EghtesadOnline: Leaked Facebook Inc documents show how the social media company moderates issues such as hate speech, terrorism, pornography and self-harm on its platform, the Guardian reported, citing internal guidelines seen by the newspaper.
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Publish Date:22/May/2017 | 05:27
Snapchat’s user growth is slowing. Prepare for the deluxe ads.

Snap Unveils New Camera Ads Trying to Stay Ahead of Facebook

EghtesadOnline: On Cinco de Mayo, millions of Snapchat users willingly turned their selfies into an ad for Taco Bell. The app’s augmented-reality camera filter, known on the service as a Lens, let them see their heads in the shape of a giant, wobbling hardshell taco, with lettuce and tomato poking out and the fast-food chain’s logo in the corner of the shot. In the one day it was available, the filter racked up about 224 million views.
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Publish Date:16/May/2017 | 05:50

Sandberg Called `Hypocrite' as Facebook , Google Shield Pay Data

EghtesadOnline: When Grace Anderson prints out her resume, she notices 20 percent of it is missing. Still, her qualifications are so good that she’s offered the job she seeks by a man who says, "We think you’ll be pleased with the offer -- that we gave someone else. You’ll be making 20 percent less."
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Publish Date:15/April/2017 | 05:19
Search giant is letting partners and publishers decide what's true, what's false and what's in between.

Google Brings Fake News Fact-Checking to Search Results

EghtesadOnline: First fact-checking came to Facebook Inc. Now it's coming to Google. The world's largest search engine is rolling out a new feature that places "Fact Check" tags on snippets of articles in its News results. The Alphabet Inc. unit had already run limited tests. On Friday, it extended the capability to every listing in its News pages and massive search catalog.
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Publish Date:08/April/2017 | 04:46