DAVOS Forum News, Jan 27, 2012 (2)

Davos head offers to meet with Occupy protesters; UN rights chief calls for ... Washington Post DAVOS, Switzerland — The head of the World Economic Forum on Friday invited members of the “Occupy” movement to meet him in person, to discuss their concerns about the exclusive gathering of global business and government leaders. See all stories on this topic »

Davos doubts center on EU, world economy UPI.com DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- High-powered talks at the World Economic Forum in the scenic Swiss resort of Davos have failed to dispel anxieties and gloom over the future of global economy and immediate and pressing concerns in Europe over the ... See all stories on this topic »

DAVOS: Shell CEO: Current US Gas Prices Won't Drive Shale Investment Fox Business DAVOS, Switzerland -(Dow Jones)- Investment in shale gas won't be sustained if US natural gas benchmarks stay at their currently depressed levels, Shell Chief Executive Peter Voser said Friday. "The current prices of gas are obviously are not a price ... See all stories on this topic »

Davos 2012: Greece close to crucial debt deal, says Rehn Telegraph.co.uk By Angela Monaghan, in Davos Olli Rehn told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos: “The next three days will be very crucial for the eurozone over the next three years. “We are very close to agreeing a private sector deal in Greece, ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Ackermann Era Ends at Davos as Deutsche Bank Chief Cedes Power BusinessWeek By Aaron Kirchfeld (PHOTO: Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann speaks to an attendee during day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe.) Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- For Josef Ackermann, head of Germany's ... See all stories on this topic »

DAVOS: FSA Turner Sees Need To Make Banks Hold Equity-Convertible Bonds Fox Business DAVOS, Switzerland -(Dow Jones)- The profound challenges that regulators will face in winding down a complex, global, systemically important bank will demand the use of "bail-in-able" bonds that convert to equity in the event of a crisis, ... See all stories on this topic »

  

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FACEBOOK News, Jan 27, 2012

Facebook poised for IPO
CBS News
Assuming the report is accurate, it would mark the end of the frenzied guessing game surrounding Facebook's plans. The when-will-they-go IPO guessing has been a favorite parlor game around Silicon Valley for the last several years and became a favorite ...
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Facebook and state sue alleged clickjacking spammer BBC News Facebook is suing a marketing firm, accusing it of "spreading spam through misleading and deceptive tactics". Adscend Media is alleged to have carried out "clickjacking". The practice involves placing posts on the social network which include code that ... See all stories on this topic »

BBC News

Facebook's Timeline Soon Will Be Mandatory
InformationWeek
Facebook announced Tuesday that it is switching all users to Timeline "over the next few weeks." Timeline is Facebook's new interface to better display all of a user's posting and pictures that are mostly sitting dormant on its servers.
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FTC head calls out Facebook, Google on Data Privacy Day
msnbc.com
By Helen AS Popkin Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill didn't spareFacebook in her speech opening a forum on Data Privacy Day — even though the event was live-streamed by the social network, in conjunction with the National Cyber Security Counsel.
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Facebook, Twitter taking over
ESPN
"I didn't know doodly-squat about Facebook and Twitter," the former Georgia Tech, Alabama and Kentucky coach said. Then Curry discovered that any one of his recruits could be reached at any time through social media. The next day, Curry had a Facebook ...
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Facebook's Investors Poised For Record Jackpot
Wall Street Journal
By PUI-WING TAM And SHAYNDI RAICE Facebook Inc. is set to unleash massive paydays in the venture-capital industry—including a potential record-breaking $9 billion jackpot for one venture firm. Facebook is expected to file to go public soon, ...
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Facebook Scammers Redirect Victims Through Amazon's Cloud
PCWorld
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure. One Facebook survey scam recently ...
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Facebook Public Offering Is Inevitable, Parker Says
Washington Post
27 (Bloomberg) -- Sean Parker, former president of Facebook Inc., co-founder of Napster Inc. and an investor in Spotify Ltd., talks about the "inevitability" of an initial public offering by Facebook. Parker, speaking with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg ...
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Ariz. cop's Facebook pic targeting Obama probed
CBS News
Police officer's Facebook page in which a T-shirt bearing President Obama's image appears to have been used for target practice. (Facebook) PEORIA, Ariz. - The Secret Service is investigating a picture that was posted on an Arizona police officer's ...
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Why Did Facebook Hire a Managing Editor?
PC Magazine
By Leslie Horn Facebook has hired a managing editor, but it's not planning to start a news vertical. The Business Insider on Thursday pointed out thatFacebook landed Bloomberg's former social media director, Dan Fletcher, as its managing editor.
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Facebook and Twitter would be exempt from regulation hints Lord Justice Leveson Telegraph.co.uk Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter would be exempt from any new regulations governing the media, Lord Justice Leveson has hinted. By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter The chairman of the inquiry into press standards said there was a ... See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Woman starts Facebook page to help find missing toddler
WIS
By Jody Barr - email COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A Columbia woman has created a facebook page to help keep the story alive for a boy who's been missing since Thanksgiving. T'nae Parker hopes the "Find Amir Jennings"Facebook page helps keep this story in ...
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Facebook testing seven ads per webpage
ZDNet (blog)
By Emil Protalinski | January 27, 2012, 1:11pm PST Facebook has started showing some users up to seven ads on one webpage. Previously, the social networking giant wouldn't show more than six. In fact, the Facebook Help Center still says six is the ...
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Facebook Timeline poll: 'Overwhelming negative'
msnbc.com
Facebook, iPhone, Twitter and Wii. Technology evolves at the speed of light. Msnbc.com's tech reporters look at the gadgets, games and innovations changing our world. By Suzanne Choney Sophos Security polled more than 4000 Facebook users about the new ...
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Facebook: What Privacy?
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman visits Mean Street with a simple message: all those whiners who bemoan a loss of privacy on Facebookshould just get over it. Photo: Reuters.
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Google+ Opens to Teens in Race Against Facebook Mobiledia By Sandy Fitzgerald | Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:52 am Google+ is now accepting teens, but the site's added security measures may make it difficult to compete against Facebook. Google's social network, which began last summer, now includes new features that ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobiledia

Facebook Wants to Own Your Social Graph
Mashable
Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore sat down with Facebook's Vice President of Partnerships Dan Rose as part of Mashable's Documented@Davos program. They talked about Facebook's increasing number of partnerships with websites and apps thanks to ...
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Facebook Action Specs Targeting in Social Ads Tool
YouTube
Action specs targeting is a new type of targeting for Facebook Ads. It allows marketers and advertisers to target ads towards people (and friends of those people) who have made an open graph action in an application or website.
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Friday Reads: Facebook, Nike, Apple and Google
Forbes
Mashable.com explores what happens to your digital life after death in the post, “Facebook After Death: What Should the Law Say?” “Only five states — Oklahoma, Idaho, Rhode Island, Indiana and Connecticut — have created laws governing digital asset ...
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Bayern Munich Publicity Stunt of Signing 'a Spectacular Name' Live on Facebook ...
NESN.com
The envelope reportedly had the users' Facebook profile pictures on it as well as their own name on the back of a Bayern Munich No. 8 jersey. A new post on Bayern Munich's Facebook page read, "Dear fans, you probably already noticed, that we did not ...
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Google, Facebook Jack Up Lobbying Spending in D.C.
HispanicBusiness.com
On the Internet, Google (GOOG) and Facebook have both become superpowers. But until recently, they have often looked more like 90-pound weaklings in Washington, DC That is changing rapidly as Google andFacebook increase their spending on lobbying.
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NYSE, Nasdaq battle for Facebook listing New York Post By MARK DeCAMBRE and GARETT SLOANE Bitter rivals Duncan Niederauer's New York Stock Exchange and Robert Greifeld's Nasdaq are locked in a heated battle for Facebook'slisting when the privately held social-networking giant attempts to raise an ... See all stories on this topic »

New York Post

'Being Latino' This Week on Facebook
Fox News
Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet This week on Being Latino on Facebook: Latinos on TV, rice and beans, Mitt Romney, and Afro-Latinos, and immigration. When compared to the rise in the number of Latinos now living in the US, TV shows are still ...
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Newark Told to Produce Facebook-Pledge Papers
ABC News
New Jersey's largest city must produce a list of documents related to its $100 million public schools pledge from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. A judge issued the ruling as part of a lawsuit brought by a group representing Newark schoolchildren ...
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Angry Birds visit Facebook this Valentine's Hindustan Times Your favorite Angry Birds is hitting social network site Facebookon this Valentine's Day. The birds will come flying to the midst of more than 800 million Facebook users on February 14th this year, with an official launch in Jakarta, ... See all stories on this topic »

Hindustan Times

Lady Gaga Set To Launch Social Network Site | FACEBOOK News ... What's LADY GAGA planning? Apparently, something bigger thanFACEBOOK and GOOGLE. The new offering is called "BACKPLANE," with a website of www.littlemonsters.com, and it's expected to file its IPO soon. BUSINESSINSIDER ... Latest Net News from AllAccess.com

Facebook To Submit IPO Filing Wednesday: Breaking - Signal News By Chilton Tippin New sources suggest that Facebook is thinking about submitting its IPO filing on Wednesday, February 1. Signal News

Facebook hires Bloomberg social media editor « Talking Biz News By Chris Roush Dan Fletcher, the social media editor at Bloomberg News, has been hired byFacebook to be its managing editor, reports Kevin Lincoln of Business Insider. Lincoln writes, “Both Fletcher and sources at Facebook confirmed that Fletcher will ... Talking Biz News

Report: Facebook IPO filing could come next week | The Associated ... By The Associated Press Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report. Examiner Nation RSS

Facebook Asks Reporters to Sign Non-Disclosure ... - Media News Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising. mediabistro.com: Media News

Oregon Backs Off Tax Ruling That Angered Facebook - News Story ... Oregon tax authorities are backing away from a ruling that created a rift between the state and Facebook, but a Central Oregon lawmaker will press ahead at February legislative session with a bill to address the tax issue. Thursday, January 26 ... KTVZ.com - Local Headlines

Facebook May File For IPO February 1, WSJ Reports By The Huffington Post News Editors TheAtlantic Facebook is close to hiring Morgan Stanley for a $100 billion IPO http://t.co/1slR40Hi via @theatlanticwire · 19 minutes ... mediatwit FacebookReadies IPO Filing for Next Week - http://t.co/0dwqGgNL http://t.co/6HBLqX0x Big news. The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Secret Service probes bullet-ridden Obama image on Facebook ... PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the origins of a photo on an Arizona police officer's Facebook page that shows a group of armed youths posing in the desert with what appears to be a bullet-ridden image of ... Greensboro, NC Winston-Salem,...

Facebook access for employers - Eyewitness News Interaction By WABC Would you want a potential employer looking at your Facebook page? One New York investment firm says they will no longer be accepting applications for open positions, and will strictly base new hires on "Web presence”. Eyewitness News ... Eyewitness News Interaction

The Inside Shuffle – Playtech Expands, Facebook Considers Real ... The Inside Shuffle - Liv Boeree dominates at PokerStars Women, Boyd gaming at issue with NV tax laws, online gaming laws are on the table, and the Aussie Millions Main Event winds down to 12. PokerWorks | Poker News

Facebook to Require New Timeline Profile for Users - ABC News Whether they like or not, all Facebook users will be forced to use the new profile called "Timeline" in the next couple of weeks. abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-require.../story?id...

USA TODAY launches Facebook news app USA TODAY has launched its first social news app for Facebook Timeline. - USATODAY.com. content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/.../1

Anonymous Denies Plans to Take Down Facebook | News ... Anonymous on Monday denied that it was planning to take down Facebookon Jan. 28. www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399217,00.asp

4 Facebook Tips to Cut News Feed Noise CIO.com As Facebook green-lights more Timeline apps, expect your News Feed to get even more crowded. Here are four easy ways to bury the clutter and bring to the ... www.cio.com/.../4_Facebook_Tips_to_Cut_News_Feed_Noise...

Facebook News Feed Posts Move Thumbnails Around - All Facebook Some news feed posts today display the poster's thumbnail image above the posting text, while other items continue to include the thumbnails in the regular ... www.allfacebook.com/facebook-news-feed-posts-2012-01

Facebook Aims For IPO Filing Next Week: Report Updated: Social networking giant Facebook is looking to file its S-1 for an initial public offering next week, as early as Wednesday, according to the Wall ... www.forbes.com/.../facebook-aims-for-ipo-filing-next-week-r...

Ads Pop Up in Facebook News Feeds | The Involver Blog Facebook users are now seeing paid advertisements, once relegated to the right- hand side column of the page, coming up in their News Feeds among their ... blog.involver.com/2012/.../ads-pop-up-in-facebook-news-fee...

Social Media Stocks Rally on Facebook News - TheStreet Zynga, Pandora and LinkedIn were just some of the companies that saw big gains on Friday. www.thestreet.com/_.../social-media-stocks-rally-on-facebook-...

Facebook News Feeds Are More Influential Than Pages New data revealed that Facebook users spend more time in the News Feed than any other part of the social network. sproutsocial.com/insights/2012/.../facebook-consumer-behavio...

Disable facebook news feed? / Windows questions / Discussion ... I only want to connect to facebook chat and be notified if I get a message.in my facebook inbox. I'm not interested in how many unread news items I have. help.trillian.im/discussions/.../1857-disable-facebook-news-fee...

  

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