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Facebook CEO meets SKorean president

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, shakes hands with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a meeting at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Zuckerberg arrived Monday for a visit that reportedly also includes meetings with Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jay-yong to discuss ways to enhance cooperation between the world's largest social networking service firm and the world's biggest technology manufacturer.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.

Posted: June 18th, 2013 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Mysterious Facebook event sparks online buzz

In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, file photo, a Facebook User Operations Safety Team worker looks at reviews at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook's top attorney says that after a week of negotiations with U.S. security officials, the company is allowed to make new revelations about government orders for user data, Friday, June 14, 2013. AP

A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service.

Posted: June 18th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Facebook, Skype keep absent dads in touch

facebook-father's day poster

For as long as Daisy Sande can remember, she has never spent Father’s Day with her dad. From the time her father first arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1983 to try his luck as an overseas Filipino worker (OFW), he has never left the Arab state, except to visit his family during vacations.

Posted: June 16th, 2013 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Facebook reveals details of US data requests

In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, file photo, a Facebook User Operations Safety Team worker looks at reviews at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook's top attorney says that after a week of negotiations with U.S. security officials, the company is allowed to make new revelations about government orders for user data, Friday, June 14, 2013. AP

Facebook revealed Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal.

Posted: June 15th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Most parents monitor kids on Facebook—study

ILLUSTRATION BY ELIZALDE V. PUSUNG

Some two-thirds of American parents monitor their children’s Facebook activities, but a large percentage say they trust their youngsters to manage on their own, a study showed Thursday.

Posted: June 13th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Facebook adds Twitter-style hashtags for topics

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Facebook on Wednesday added Twitter-style hashtags to help the more than one billion members of the social network tune into topics of interest at the leading social network.

Posted: June 13th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Facebook shareholders vent ire over sagging stock

Facebook shareholders on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, grilled leaders of the social network regarding how they planned to revive the company's stock and protect user privacy from snoops including US spy agencies. AP

Facebook shareholders on Tuesday grilled leaders of the social network regarding how they planned to revive the company’s stock and protect user privacy from snoops including US spy agencies.

Posted: June 12th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Smartphone life shakes up website world

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Internet giants from Google and Facebook to Yahoo and Zynga are scrambling to adapt to an online world where people reach for smartphones or tablets instead of traditional computers.

Posted: June 10th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Facebook, Google disown US spying

cartoon, june 9, 2013

Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet’s most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency (NSA) unfettered access to e-mail and other personal information transmitted on various online services.

Posted: June 9th, 2013 in Headlines,Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Facebook invite gets a ‘dislike’

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A group calling itself Canada Immigration had “friended” him on Facebook and offered him a job overseas. As it happened, the man they were enticing with job offers and inviting to “like” their page was Hans Cacdac, head of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), who immediately noticed that the recruitment agency did not have POEA accreditation.

Posted: June 9th, 2013 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Silicon Valley at front line of global cyber war

President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping. AP

Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state’s Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers.

Posted: June 4th, 2013 in Headlines,Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Facebook revamps guidelines after rape protests

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Facebook has announced it is updating its policies on “harmful and hateful” content after a campaign complaining it was allowing jokes and other offensive comments about rape and domestic abuse.

Posted: May 30th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Pakistan cops rescue Facebook kidnap teen

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Police in Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi on Monday rescued a teenage boy who was kidnapped for a half-million dollar ransom after apparently being lured through Facebook, officers and relatives said.

Posted: May 27th, 2013 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

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