Category: Social Media / Websites
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What’s New With Video and Music on Facebook
Facebook Newsroom – 3.19.18 (3.13.19) Today at SXSW, we’re sharing updates on how we’re bringing people together around video and music on Facebook — from Original shows to new features for Watch Party, and more ways to share music. Read more: What’s New With Video and Music on Facebook
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A Note From Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Newsroom – 3.15.19 (3.14.19) Hey everyone — I want to share some important updates as we organize our company to build out the privacy-focused social platform I discussed in my note last week. Embarking on this new vision represents the start of a new chapter for us. Source: A Note From Mark Zuckerberg
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iOS Phishing Scam Steals Facebook Logins
Avast Blog – 3.14.19 (3.12.19) A new cyber-scam collecting social media account logins is making its way through iOS devices, fooling users with its realistic-looking login process, which is really a video simulation. Unsuspecting victims are entering their Facebook credentials into the fake login screen, which then sends the credentials straight to the malware’s C&C…
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Can we trust Zuckerberg’s change of heart?
NordVPN Blog – 3.11.19 (3.8.19) For once, most of the whole world can agree on something, and that is their dislike of Facebook. Various governmental bodies are investigating the company, advertisers are leaving the platform, and many of its users feel deceived and betrayed. Read more: Can we trust Zuckerberg’s change of heart?
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How I started traveling the world on my own, thanks to Google
Google Blog – 3.11.19 (3.10.19) I took my first solo vacation in June 2017, and the experience changed my life. After countless searches of Norway’s beautiful landscapes on Google Images, I decided to make the trip there all by myself. The following year, I took my second solo trip, this time to New Zealand. After that,…
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Don’t Laugh, But Facebook Now Says It Wants to Protect Your Privacy
Acronis Blog – 3.10.19 (3.8.19) Did you hear the one about the company that notoriously abused its customers’ private data for years, then suddenly started claiming that it’s all about privacy? It’s no joke, and far from a laughing matter for consumer privacy advocates. Read more: Don’t Laugh, But Facebook Now Says It Wants to…
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There’s still time to plan your perfect spring break trip
Google Blog – 3.8.19 (3.7.19) Spring is in the air—and for lots of people, that means spring break is right around the corner. If you haven’t booked a trip yet, you can try out our travel insights tool to see flight price trends for popular routes or find out which cities have hotel deals during spring break.…
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Introducing ‘Hello Monday’: LinkedIn’s New Podcast About Our Rapidly Changing Work Lives
LinkedIn Blog – 3.5.19 (3.4.19) Monday’s are about to get a whole lot better. Today, the LinkedIn editorial team is sharing the first episode of our new, 13-week podcast, called Hello Monday. Hello Monday is a show where Senior Editor at Large Jessi Hempel (that’s me) investigates how the nature of work is changing, and how…
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Cracking Down on the Sale of Fake Accounts, Likes and Followers
Facebook Newsroom – 3.5.19 (3.1.19) Today, Facebook and Instagram filed a lawsuit in US federal court against four companies and three people based in the People’s Republic of China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes and followers. They did this on both Facebook and Instagram as well as other online service providers including…
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A Big Day for the Internet: W3C Standardizes WebAuthn
Yubico Blog – 3.5.19 (3.4.19) Today’s standardization of WebAuthn by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) marks a milestone in the history of open authentication standards and internet security, and Yubico is excited to be a part of it. Through close collaboration with the global internet standards community and the internet giants, Google and Microsoft, we achieved the near-impossible: the…