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Facebook profile leads to Marion County gang arrests

Two members of a Marion County criminal street gang were arrested with the help of social media, according to deputies.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Seattle Times

Inslee signs Facebook job password bill

Washington has become the fifth state this year to sign into law protections of social media passwords at the workplace and job interviews Gov.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Jay Inslee, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Startups, Social Software, US Governors, Lake Stevens, WA

Daily Political

Rolando Gomez Publishes "Socially Smart: Twitter Plus Facebook,...

Rolando Gomez, world famous photographer, author and lecturer, has released "Socially Smart: Twitter Plus Facebook, Marketing Multipliers and Brand Boosters." This book builds on his popular university and trade show lectures on "Internet Strategies and Guerilla Marketing." In it, Rolando shares everything he has learned from successfully using ... (more)

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Startups, Social Software, Marketing, Guerilla Marketing, Barnes & Noble

Law.com

Judge Orders Parties to Hire Neutral Expert to Probe Facebook

Granting limited discovery in a social media dispute, a Lancaster County judge has ordered the parties in a personal injury case to hire a "neutral forensic computer expert" to review the plaintiff's private Facebook page during a 17-day window in which the defendants claim the woman alleging injuries was photographed playing in the snow.

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USA Today

Teens say they are in control of online privacy, image

Teens are posting more and more personal information on social media sites, but most also are taking formal and informal measures to protect their online privacy and reputations, a new survey finds.

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Related Topix: Privacy, Startups, Social Software, Twitter

WTHR-TV Indianapolis

Los Angeles picking mayor after low-drama campaign

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, Tax, US News, Tea Party, Startups, Train Disaster

Long Island Business News

Poll: Teens migrating from Facebook to Twitter

A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on Facebook .

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Sunday Times

High-rise bottle thrower a Facebook hit

Police are investigating a "foolish" video showing a teenager throwing a bottle at a car from the fourth storey of a Perth car park.

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ITworld

40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids

Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Startups, Social Software, Printers, Stanford University

Mon May 20, 2013

Patch.com

Have You Met the 'People of the CTA?'

Glenview might not be part of the CTA's train network, but there's still something familiar about the ever growing Facebook group People of the CTA.

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Related Topix: Glenview, IL, Startups, Social Software

Hollywood Reporter

Eminem's Music Publisher Suing Facebook

The complaint filed in Michigan federal court not only accuses the popular social network of lifting one of Eminem's songs for the April launch of a new application called "Facebook Home," but tells the story of how Facebook's advertising company attempted to use Eminem to attract the liking of Mark Zuckerberg , and how, when threatened with ... (more)

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Related Topix: Eminem, Rap, Celebrities, Startups, Social Software, Advertising

KEPR CBS 19

A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.

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The Hartford Courant

Yahoo To Acquire Tumblr For $1.1 Billion Cash

Yahoo Inc said it is buying blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the struggling Internet pioneer a much-needed platform in social media to reach a younger generation of users.

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, Tumblr, Blog News

CBC News

More details on double homicide victims

Some family and friends of Natasha Jeffrey, the victim of a homicide, are taking to Facebook to express their grief.

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Switched

Teens Raped Girl, Put Video On Facebook

A judge ordered Justin Applewhite, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Scandale Fritz, 16, each held on $900,000 bond.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Startups, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Texas

Sun May 19, 2013

Lancashire Evening Post

Lancashire Police Facebook fans name new horse

More than 230 people voted online to give the Irish Draught breed the name after a poll was run on the mounted branch's social network page.

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Forth One

Daft Punk: One More Time's Rom...

The artist's sister said in social network posts that he died at home in Austin, Texas, on May 7, although the news took time to filter through to his friends and collaborators in the music world.

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Related Topix: Electronic, Daft Punk, Austin, TX, Romanthony, House, Startups, Social Software

EDGE

Nyc LGBT Center and Anti-Violence Project Announce Community Events to Respond to Recent Violence

The New York City Anti Violence Project and LGBT Center announced via social media yesterday that a rally and Community Safety Night will be held next week in response to the recent ash of anti-gay violence across the city that lead to Saturday night's attack and murder of Marc Carson in Greenwich Village.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Greenwich Village (New York, NY), Startups, Social Software

WPTZ-TV Plattsburgh

Winklevoss twins are Bitcoin bulls

The Winklevoss brothers' legal battle with Facebook over the social network's messy creation made them rich.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Publishing, Media, New Times

KTKZ-AM Sacramento

Hits and misses in Facebook's history

Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.

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