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Facebook's Paper app is looking less and less like Facebook

The Verge - With Paper, Facebook set out to prove that it could "think small," rebuilding itself from the ground up for mobile devices. This meant removing lots of clutter, and in some cases, leaving...

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Here's Why Your Old High School Friends Are Unfriending You On Facebook

Huffington Post - If you're on Facebook, you probably have at least one former high school classmate who seems to never stop overloading your News Feed with crazy political rants or unnecessarily...

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Facebook to cover your news feed with even more auto-play video ads

TechRadar - Facebook is plummeting further and further down the ad-driven rabbit hole, and in its most recent earnings call the social network said it wants auto-play video ads to be a common sight in...

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Week in Tech: Week in Tech: Apple TV grows, iPad slows, and Facebook explodes...

TechRadar - This week's been all about the numbers: Apple's sales figures, Facebook's user numbers and Lytro's new camera which delivers 1080 x 1080 pixels of light ray goodness. That's not all: Sony's...

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Here's Everything Facebook Just Announced At Its Big Developer Conference (FB)

Business Insider - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just delivered what amounts to a massive cultural change for the social network. Soon, users will be able to utilize an anonymous login function. It will...

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Quantcast CEO Claims Adtech's Hot New $5 Billion Trend Is Ripping Off Clients

Business Insider - The hottest new trend in adtech is "RTB," or real-time bidding. And it's often a way to rip off advertisers, according to Konrad Feldman, CEO of Quantcast, one of the larger players...

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Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag...

TechCrunch -  Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer can...

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How to sort your Facebook feed by time on mobile

Computerworld - Weddings. Job promotions. News articles. Facebook thinks it knows what the best stories are to drop in your news feed. But some users might want to see things their own way.

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How to sort your Facebook feed by time on mobile

PC World - Weddings. Job promotions. News articles. Facebook thinks it knows what the best stories are to drop in your news feed. But some users might want to see things their own way. As an...

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We Got A Look Inside The 45-Day Planning Process That Goes Into Creating A...

Business Insider - Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have become increasingly crowded with branded accounts seeking their attention. Every few seconds, your favorite brands are tweeting at you. But what...

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Facebook cutting back on spammy auto-posts

KSPR ABC Springfield - For the second time in just over a week, Facebook has done an about-face on a feature that has bothered some users for a while. Fewer automatic posts will be showing up in your...

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WhatsApp Provides A Huge Chunk Of USA Today's Traffic (FB)

Business Insider - More evidence has emerged that Facebook's decision to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp — the mobile messaging app that has almost no data on its users and, aside from a 99 cent annual...

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What Kind of Privacy Pipe Is Facebook Smoking? Consumers Don't Want Targeted Ads

Huffington Post - There you go again, Facebook. Adding to its long history of whittling away its users' privacy, the social network had said it will soon adopt the practice that many web sites already...

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Facebook Experimented on Random Users to Study Newsfeed Emotions

Gizmodo - Spend time with a Debbie Downer, and you'll likely end up feeling blue. Turns out, the same is true digitally: Facebook's new study says this "emotional contagion" works just as strongly...

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Facebook Manipulated User News Feeds To Create Emotional Responses

Forbes - Facebook conducted a massive psychological experiment on 689,003 users, manipulating their news feeds to assess the effects on their emotions.    The details of the experiment were published...

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Why Facebook was messing with your news feed

WUSA CBS Washington DC - Facebook has generated anger among members of its social network after a study surfaced tied to its users' news feeds.         

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Facebook's Emotion Manipulation Reminds Me Of That Clash Song

Forbes - This weekend the discussion turned toward something you probably knew: Facebook can seriously mess with your News Feed and will even do it for science now and then. If you have followed my...

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Facebook treats you like a lab rat

KSPR ABC Springfield - You can be angry and upset with Facebook after it manipulated its users' emotions as part of a study. But you shouldn't be surprised. After all, experiments on users are...

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Facebook's emotional experiment not worth the outrage

San Francisco Chronicle - Somewhere in Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, a team of eggheads secretly plotted to make you happy or sad by posting uplifting or depressing content on your news feed. In...

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Facebook 101: How to Understand and Tweak Your News Feed

Wall Street Journal - From nearly the beginning, Facebook has had to clear up confusion about how the news feed works. Here is an introductory guide – a News Feed 101 – to what powers the social...

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