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Facebook Hires Sheryl Sandberg

Jo — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:44:49 +0000

Facebook Hires Top Google Exec As COO

Facebook Inc. has hired Google Inc’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to provide to the site with better management and advertising.Sandberg was Google’s vice president of global online sales and operations for the past six years.Sheryl said in an interview :

“Mark is inspiring,” “He has more clarity and vision than just about anyone I ever met.”
“I am certainly not leaving Google because there is anything wrong there,” “I think Google’s best days are still ahead.”

Match.com Joins Facebook

Jo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:44:36 +0000

Dating Web site Match.com has joined Facebook in hopes of making new connections between the users.
Facebook plans to launch two new features one called Little Black Book and another named Match My Friends that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than 15 million Match members and to the roughly 58 million active users of Facebook.
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Facebook Banned In Syria

Jo — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:47:59 +0000

Facebook has been banned in Syria because authorities fear that Israeli might infiltrate the Syrian social networks via the Net .Syrians have not been able to access Facebook for more than two weeks.The Lebanon’s daily As-Safir revealed:

That Facebook was blocked on Nov. 18. It said the authorities took the step because Israelis have been entering Syria-based groups.

Syrian officials were not available for comment Friday because of the Muslim weekend.

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Facebook Ad Program Angers Users

Jo — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:10:00 +0000

Facebook users are complaining that the newly added marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see.
Many members of the website reported that they have noticed a small box that appears on a corner of their Web browsers following purchases at Fandango, Overstock and other online retailers.
The box alerts users that information is about to be shared with Facebook unless they click on “No Thanks.”but they can easily miss it if they quickly click away to visit a friend’s page or check e-mail.
Matthew Helfgott, 20, a college student who discovered his girlfriend just bought him black leather gloves from Overstock for Hanukkah said:
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Microsoft Beats Google In Battle To Invest In Facebook

Jo — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:49:06 +0000

Microsoft has payed $240 million for 1.6 percent stake of the social-networking website Facebook, that is valued at $15 billion..
The deal grants Microsoft exclusive access to ~~spam~~ advertise on Facebook’s platform.
Microsoft already has numerous U.S. ad contracts and is now looking forward to sell internationally.
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