Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! News

	Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! News
	Syrian Electronic Army Adds Financial Times to Its Social Media Hacks The Financial Times became the latest news agency to fall prey to the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group which has claimed the social media scalps of the AP, The Onion, the BBC, and NPR, perhaps signaling that news outlets should be more like The Onion and come clean about how they're getting hacked. Read More » Ore. bill guards workers' social media passwords The Oregon Legislature has passed a bill barring bosses from demanding employees or job applicants turn over their Facebook passwords and other social media login information. In a 56 -3 vote on Thursday, ... Read More » The Former Head of the FCC Is Now on Twitter Julius Genachowski may no longer be a public servant. But that doesn't mean he's out of the public eye. On his last day as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Genachowski launched his own Twitter account. Of the four tweets he's posted so far, though, only one of them was written from his own account: Read More » Syrian hackers compromise FT blogs, Twitter feeds LONDON (AP) — A clutch of blogs and Twitter accounts maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which often attacks media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels. Read More » Facebook's first year as a public company: By the numbers A look at how the social giant has fared on Wall Street Read More » Saudi Twitter Users Have More to Worry About Than Going to Hell for Tweeting Twitter was amused earlier today by reports of a Saudi Arabian sheikh dooming Twitter users to a loss of "this world and his afterlife." What to an American observer seems like inexplicable hyperbole may actually be an escalation of attempts to crackdown on a key tool for dissent. Read More » Google Glass adds key apps, including CNN, Twitter, Facebook and Evernote On the second day of Google's I/O Developers conference, the company announced the availability of more "glassware" applications for its heavily hyped wearable computing device. Google Glass applications including CNN, Elle, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Evernote are available now to early Glass adopters, The New York Times reported. The applications join Path and The New York Times' own app, which were previously the only other third-party apps available for the device. Each application will bring something unique to Google Glass. The CNN application, for example, allows users to be notified with news alerts for a specific topic, while the Evernote app will let users send notes, such as a grocery list, to Glass for reference later on. Read More » Facebook, Twitter apps come to Glass, Google's wearable computer By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social networking services Facebook Inc and Twitter are coming to Google Glass, the wearable computer made by the Internet search company. Google Inc announced on Thursday a half-dozen apps specially designed to work on its Glass devices. News network CNN, fashion magazine Elle, as well as online apps Tumblr and Evernote were among the half-dozen new apps for Glass unveiled during Google's annual developer conference in San Francisco. ... Read More » Why Miley Cyrus Refused To Delete Her Maxim Hot 100 Tweet Miley Cyrus continues to be untamable! Read More » College grads think Microsoft is a better place to work than Amazon or Facebook College graduates would love to land a job at Google, Apple or one of the many startups in Silicon Valley. But according to a survey from Universum Global, there are quite a few students who would prefer the rainy days in Washington over working in the golden state. The American Student Survey asked students from five different fields of study — business, engineering, IT, natural sciences and liberal arts — about their ideal company to work for. Companies such as Google and Apple unsurprisingly topped the charts in almost all categories, however there were some surprising results: Microsoft consistently outranked both Facebook and Amazon. The company ranked higher than Amazon in all fields of study and even higher than Apple in IT. Students Read More » Bahrain convicts 6 of Twitter insults MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A lawyer says Bahraini courts have sentenced six people to a year in prison on charges of making Twitter posts deemed offensive to the Gulf nation's king. Read More » Facebook VP, former Diageo exec join Hertz board Rental car company Hertz Global Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that a Facebook marketing executive and a former executive with alcohol maker Diageo have been elected to its board. Carolyn Everson is a marketing ... Read More » Bahrain court jails six for insulting king on Twitter DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court jailed six people for a year on Wednesday for insulting King Hamad bin Issa al Khalifa in messages on the microblogging site Twitter, the official news agency said. The six were accused of writing remarks "undermining the values and traditions of Bahrain's society towards the king on Twitter," the Bahrain News Agency quoted the head of the public prosecutor's office, Nayef Youssef, as saying in a statement. ... Read More » As China's social media takes off, Beijing's censorship campaign heats up Chinese government censors are silencing influential opponents by shutting down their social media accounts on the pretext of a campaign against online rumors, victims of the practice say. Read More » Google+ seemingly still a ghost town; brands continue to prefer Facebook, Twitter Google announced last fall that its social networking site was home to 400 million members with more than 100 million active monthly users. Despite these numbers, many people are apparently continuing to ignore Google+, a service that has been labeled a ghost town. Perhaps even more concerning is Google's inability to win over brands and businesses that have instead turned to connect with customers on competing websites. "The main reason we are more active on Facebook than Google+ is because that is where our customers and our target demographic are spending their time," said Dave Gilboa, the co-founder of online eyewear company Warby Parker, said to Reuters. Data from Nielsen Media Research revealed that in March the average U.S. Google+ user spent a mere Read More » Google's new Android boss says software like Facebook Home could be blocked Android will likely always be open source, but just how open the platform will remain is an ongoing question. In a recent interview with Wired, Google's new Android boss covered a lot of bases. He discussed the future of Android and dispelled speculation that it might merge with Chrome OS, but he also gave a somewhat unexpected answer to a question that many industry watchers have pondered for some time now: Just how open will Android be in the future? From Wired's recent interview with Sundar Pichai: Some people worry that Google might respond to Facebook Home by blocking this kind of approach in a future release. We want to be a very, very open platform, but we want a way by Read More » Social Roulette Is the Best (and Scariest) Way to Delete Your Facebook Account If you have suicidal Facebook tendencies — as in, you want off the social network but just can't bare to part with your photos, wall posts, and all those precious, precious likes — then you should probably try playing the new game Social Roulette. Read More » The Facebook Phone Is Reportedly Dead The end of the Facebook phone is nearing. Five weeks after Facebook debuted the HTC First — and four days after AT&T dropped the price on the phone to less than a dollar (with contract) — the joint venture appears to be unraveling. Tech blog BGR reported on Monday morning that AT&T officials are planning to discontinue the phone due to the poor sales, and return any unsold phones to its Taiwanese manufacturer, HTC. ... Read More » Facebook's billion-dollar Waze deal reportedly hits a serious snag Facebook's bid to buy social navigation company Waze has seemingly hit a serious snag that has stalled the deal for the time being. Calcalist, the Israeli newspaper that first broke news of Facebook's plans to acquire Waze, has followed up its original report with news that the two companies are having problems coming to terms in a few key areas. The biggest issue appears to be Facebook's desire to shutter Waze's Israel-base research and development center and transfer several key Waze employees to Facebook's U.S. headquarters. According to the paper's sources, Waze CEO Noam Bardin and company founders Ehud Shabtai, Uri Levine and Amir Shinar insist that the firm's main R&D center should remain operational and they want to keep all of their employees Read More » No Home for Facebook at AT&T: HTC First to be discontinued The HTC First, or "Facebook phone" as many prefer to call it, is officially a flop. It certainly wasn't a good sign when AT&T dropped the price of HTC's First to $0.99 just one month after its debut, and now BGR has confirmed that HTC and Facebook's little experiment is nearing its end. BGR has learned from a trusted source that sales of the HTC First have been shockingly bad. So bad, in fact, that AT&T has already decided to discontinue the phone. Our source at AT&T has confirmed that the HTC First, which is the first smartphone to ship with Facebook Home pre-installed, will soon be discontinued and unsold inventory will be returned to HTC. How much unsold inventory Read More » Another reason for Facebook Home's rough start: The team behind it didn't fully understand Android Facebook Home gave the world its first glimpse at the future of Facebook's mobile strategy, and it shows a huge amount of promise. The flood of poor reviews from early adopters showed that Facebook still has a lot of work to do to tweak the software, however. According to a new report, part of the reason so many Android users disliked the first version of Facebook Home is because not everyone on the team behind the new Android software was well-suited to build Home. One of the reasons Home was received poorly was the face that it completely hides several of Android's key functions like real-time data available in widgets, docks and app folders. According to TechCrunch, these features are Read More » 9 suspected criminals who got themselves caught via social media [Updated] Sometimes oversharing on the internet does more than just annoy your friends. It can even land you in jail Read More » NBC promotes fall season with Twitter contest NBC is giving the public more than just a new slate of programming. There are prizes to be had, too. The network said Sunday that it's holding a Twitter-based sweepstakes linked to its fall schedule presentation ... Read More » Facebook owns up to Home flaws, vows to push out quick fixes It's difficult to tell whether Facebook Home has been successful or not since it has been downloaded more than 1 million times so far but has also been bombed with negative reviews that could mean it has a short shelf life. Technology Review reports that Facebook is acknowledging that its first attempt at creating its own Android overlay has some flaws and it is vowing to fix them in future releases. Among other things, Technology Review says that Facebook is adding "a launcher that makes it easier to see your non-Facebook apps and doesn't reorganize them," "a way to create folders of apps within the launcher" and "a dock at the bottom of the screen that gives you quick access Read More » Where do Twitter's racist users live? Probably closer than you think Read More » Is Facebook barking up the wrong tree with Home? Is Facebook doing its homework? We trust that Facebook is analyzing usage stats when deciding which handsets to address with its Home rollout, but it seems odd that Samsung's Galaxy S4 and the HTC One, which both became supported by Home on Friday, would be high on the list of devices used by hardcore Facebook addicts — the ones Home is likely best suited for. Home is an immersive software suite that takes over an Android phone's home screen and app launcher, replacing them with a river of Facebook photos and a new launcher that provides quick access to various Facebook features. Could a Facebook takeover possibly be something the average Galaxy S4 or HTC One user is looking for? Read More » Facebook's Emerging Markets: Brazil, Mexico & Your Dad The tales of Facebook's demise have been greatly exaggerated. And that growth is not just outside the United States. New research expects Facebook users to grow by at least 30 percent this year, reaching a total of 1.26 billion global users by next year. Read More » Social media raises concern about Disney trademark ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — When Lalo Alcaraz learned this week that Disney was seeking to trademark "Dia de los Muertos," the name of the traditional "Day of the Dead" celebrated by millions in Mexico and the U.S., the cartoonist had an idea. Read More » How Facebook could save Nokia's skin in emerging markets With Nokia's share of handset sales in emerging markets under assault, the company may have an unlikely white knight come to its rescue: Facebook. No, Facebook isn't planning to release a version of Facebook Home for Lumia models anytime soon but Quartz's Leo Mirani explains that Facebook is bringing some features to Nokia's $99 line of new Asha phones that could make them very attractive to first-time handset buyers. In particular, Mirani says that the new Asha 501 comes with "free data for Facebook if consumers use one of the wireless carriers that have agreed" to provide it. This is crucial because Facebook has really taken off in important emerging markets India and Brazil, and Nokia is hoping that customers Read More » Facebook in talks to buy Israel's Waze for up to $1 billion: report TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, business daily Calcalist reported on Thursday. The deal, which would be Facebook's largest acquisition, would give the social networking company a mapping service and allow it to better compete with Google Inc and Apple Inc. Maps and navigation services have become a key asset for technology companies as consumers increasingly adopt smartphones and other mobile devices. ... Read More » HTC's Facebook-centric First deemed 'pretty much dead' The Facebook-centric HTC First may be little more than a month old but that hasn't stopped some analysts from already writing its obituary. Benzinga points us to new research from Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry, who estimates that the HTC First sold less than 10,000 units in its first three days of availability and who says the smartphone is "pretty much dead" despite its short time on the market. Facebook and HTC announced the First in April as a device to showcase Facebook's new Facebook Home overlay for Android that essentially takes over Android home screens and replaces them with Facebook content. But Chowdhry says that the phone has been a massive dud so far "probably because it does not have a Read More » Police: Doc attacked girlfriend over Facebook post MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a plastic surgeon in Miami attacked his girlfriend for several hours over a Facebook posting, forcing her head into a toilet and stuffing a rag in the woman's mouth at one point. Read More »