Private messages on Timeline? Facebook responds
Archived wall posts on Facebook Timeline.
/ Facebook/Chenda NgakUpdated 5:14 p.m. ET
(CBS News) Facebook users may want to check their privacy settings as soon as possible. Some users are reporting that private messages written on the social network are showing up on their Timelines. But Facebook says the allegations are not true.
According to Metro France, messages that were written between 2007 and 2009 are showing up on Facebook Timeline. Even when the messages are deleted, they still appear on the Timelines of recipients of private messages, the newspaper reports.
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Friend mining: Facebook preps for social search future
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Facebook to curb frictionless sharing
Facebook Timeline apps.
/ FacebookApparently, Facebook's manager of media partnerships, Andy Mitchell, told journalists at a Facebook and Social Journalism meetup in San Francisco that the social network is moving away from "passive sharing."
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Google buys Instagram-like app
Sample of a photograph edited by mobile photo-sharing app Snapseed.
/ Snapseed(CBS News) Google announced Monday that it has acquired Nik Software, makers of the photo editing app Snapseed.
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Winklevoss twins invest in social network SumZero
The Winklevoss in a recent TV commercial for pistachios.
/ YouTube(CNET) The Winklevoss twins, best known for their courtroom battles with Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, are taking another stab at the social-networking sector.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have made a $1 million investment SumZero, a social network aimed at professional investors, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company was founded in 2008 by former Harvard classmates Aalap Mahadevia and Divya Narendra, the latter of which was a party to the Winklevoss twins' lawsuit that claimed they were misled about Facebook's value.
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Mark Zuckerberg talks IPO, regrets at Disrupt SF
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, left, interviewing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2011.
/ CNET/James Martin(CBS News) Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg gave his first interview following the social network's rocky initial public offering.
CNET: Facebook co-founder and CEO talks at TechCrunch Disrupt Live
Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg kicks off roadshow
Facebook IPO, Zuckberg rings Nasdaq opening bell
Zuckerberg was interviewed by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Right off the bat, Arrington asked Zuckerberg about the fact that Facebook's stock lost half of its value.
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Questions loom for Zuckerberg in first post-IPO chat
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg leaves the presidential Elysee Palace after a meeting with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy in this May 25, 2011 file photo.
/ Berntrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images(CBS/AP) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is schedule to give his first interview Tuesday since the company's rocky initial public offering in May, and one question will surely be hanging over his head.
CNET: Facebook co-founder and CEO talks at TechCrunch Disrupt Live
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Facebook officially welcomes Instagram to family
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(CBS News) It's official! Instagram is now part of the Facebook family.
"Our deal with Facebook has closed," the Instagram team said in a blog post Thursday. The company went on to say that the team will move into Facebook's office and that the popular mobile app "isn't going anywhere."
Facebook to acquire Instagram for $1 billion
Facebook buys Instagram, now what?
How to follow the 2012 DNC on social media
Juan Gonzales from Holyoke, Mass., stands in front of stage display at the Democratic National Convention inside Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012.
/ AP Photo/David GoldmanFull coverage of the 2012 Democratic National Convention
The DNC is creating several opportunities for supporters to engage on social media networks. An official app on Facebook lets users tweet their nominations on Twitter, using the phrase "I nominate Barack Obama because..." and the hashtag #INominateDNC. A DNC 2012 app has been launched for iPhones and Android devices. The app lets users view the convention schedule, explore Charlotte and follow convention tweets.
Continue » Facebook gets OK to move forward with Instagram
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A fairness hearing, the last hurdle for Facebook before it could move forward with its Instagram deal, concluded today with the expected approval, a Facebook spokesperson has confirmed.
No other details were released.
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Facebook's oldest user: 101-year-old Calif. woman
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, left, pictured with Florence Detlor, center, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right.
/ Facebook/Sheryl Sandberg(CBS San Francisco) MENLO PARK, Calif. - Florence Detlor may have been born when William Howard Taft was President, but at the moment she is social media's it girl.
Facebook has confirmed, out of nearly one billion users, she is the oldest registered user of the social networking site at 101 years old.
Watch: Florence Detlor visits Facebook office
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Facebook faces app privacy ultimatum in Germany
Facebook App Center
/ FacebookUpdated 4:05 p.m. ET
(CBS News) Facebook faces a potential lawsuit for allegedly violating privacy laws in Germany.
According to reports by IDG News Service, the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV), an advocacy group, says that Facebook must stop giving users' private information to third-party applications until it obtains explicit consent.
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Facebook launching new, faster iPhone app
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Facebook Inc. says it's addressing those gripes, with the launch of a new, faster version of the app for Apple's iPhone and iPad on Thursday. Rather than add a slew of new features, the company said it rebuilt the application from scratch to make it speedier and less clunky.
Continue »German officials want Facebook to delete faces from its servers
Facebook's facial recognition capability tags images automatically on the social network.
/ CBS/iStockphoto/FacebookA German data protection official called Wednesday for social networking site Facebook to delete biometric profiles of people stored without their explicit consent, saying they breach European privacy rules.
Facebook "Not Abiding by Law" in Europe
Facebook to buy facial-recognition tech company Face.com
UnBaby.me deletes baby pictures from Facebook
Do you find this photo offensive? A new Chrome extension replaces baby photos with anything else of your choosing.
/ istockphotoA new Google Chrome extension sets out to replace photos in your Facebook news feed by swapping out cuddly kids with anything of your choosing.
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