Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Facebook obtains money transmitter licenses in 15 states

Facebook holds money transmitter licenses in at least 15 states, according to an analysis by American Banker . In it’s filing for an initial public offering, Facebook said it applied for certain money transmitter licenses and planned to apply for more in the U.S.

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Sources: Facebook to replace premium ads with page post units

Facebook plans to require its premium homepage ads to be in page post format, according to a document leaked to GigaOm . We’ve independently confirmed the news with someone briefed on the matter. The format change is not a major departure from what was previously available to advertisers working directly with Facebook, but it does show an emphasis on page content rather than traditional ad copy

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Facebook seeks to improve iOS app discovery

Facebook added additional settings to help native iOS applications get traffic from the mobile News Feed, search and other avenues, the company announced today in a blog post . Developers can optimize distribution by allowing single sign-on and deep linking

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Facebook seeks to improve iOS app discovery

Facebook added additional settings to help native iOS applications get traffic from the mobile News Feed, search and other avenues, the company announced today in a blog post . Developers can optimize distribution by allowing single sign-on and deep linking.

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More media sites integrate Open Graph as social readers grow

MSNBC.com, The Daily Show, The Huffington Post, MTV News and other media companies launched Open Graph integrations last week to enable site visitors to share their activity back on Facebook. With the announcement of the new apps, Facebook revealed statistics about existing media partners who are seeing success with Timeline: More than 25 million people have opted in to the Yahoo News Social Bar in the past three month

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More media sites integrate Open Graph as social readers grow

MSNBC.com, The Daily Show, The Huffington Post, MTV News and other media companies launched Open Graph integrations last week to enable site visitors to share their activity back on Facebook. With the announcement of the new apps, Facebook revealed statistics about existing media partners who are seeing success with Timeline: More than 25 million people have opted in to the Yahoo News Social Bar in the past three month.

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Facebook Roundup: fellowship, Africa, shareholders, Windows Phone, more

Facebook announces 2012 fellows  - Facebook announced  12 picks for its Fellowship Program this week. The company had about 300 applicants for the positions which include a year’s worth of tuition, a $30,000 stipend, $5,000 for travel and $2,500 for a computer. Fellows have specialties including mobile computing, computer networking and cloud computing, machine learning, storage systems, search, distributed systems, programming language technology, computer security, programming languages, computer security, distributed data storage and programming languages and computer security

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Santorum gains most new fans; Gingrich gets Timeline this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker

Rick Santorum continues to gain more new Facebook Likes per day than other Republican primary candidates.

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Facebook tests ‘suggested guests’ for events

Some Facebook users now see a “suggested guests” module on events they plan to attend. Suggested guests are listed on the right side of the event page along with an invite button

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Facebook starts verifying popular accounts

Facebook will allow a small number of public figures to verify their accounts beginning today, a spokesperson from the company confirms. Users with verified accounts will appear more often in “People To Subscribe To” recommendations on the site, but unlike on Twitter and Google+, there will be no visual indication that a profile is official. These users will also have the option to display their more well-known pseudonyms, if applicable

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