Last week I asked, "Is Facebook an unsafe environment for business?", questioning CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to somewhat ignore developers' concerns for the greater (company) good. Turns out I ...

Keyboard clattering, Francis Slaughter, a Green Valley High School junior, logs into Facebook after he comes home from school. His eyes reflect the flickering glow from the screen as he pulls up ...

Less than two years after Facebook opened its Web site to external developers, more than 52,000 applications have been created, a volume that is prompting the company to simplify how its members find ...

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Facebook-connected apps are usually disregarded by users. A person holds an iPhone displaying the Facebook app logo in front of a computer screen showing the facebook login page on August 3, 2016 in ...

Slide is one of the largest third-party application developers on leading social network Facebook, and both share an investor in venture firm the Founders Fund. But all that apparently wasn’t enough ...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg was joined by Netflix's Reed Hastings and Spotify's Daniel Ex onstage at the company's F8 event to demonstrate how users can now share what they're watching and listening to. By ...

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Like a growing number of professionals, I am a new Facebook user; one just experiencing the joys of reconnecting with friends, responding to their messages, and posting pictures. And like my kids, who ...

Since I added the New York Times News Quiz Facebook Application to my Facebook page last fall, I have been envisioning what kind of Poynter Facebook Application we might create. But even with my basic ...

According to recent figures noted by Justin Smith at Inside Facebook (and supported by very similar figures posted at Adonomics), Slide, RockYou, and LinkedIn own the top four Facebook applications.

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