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Tweet Facebook wants you to try to hack into its site — and if you succeed, it will pay you for the details. Facebook said this week that that it has paid out more than $40,000 under its new "bug bounty" security initiative. Launched three weeks ago, Facebook’s program invites security researchers — both the [&hellip
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Tweet While propensity to click-through on Facebook is positively correlated with age, propensity to like is not, according to data released in August 2011 by Facebook marketing consulting firm SocialCode. Age has a strong positive effect on whether a user will click, but has a less pronounced opposite effect on the likelihood of them becoming [&hellip
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Tweet A meeting on Thursday between the British government and Internet communications firms was friendly, not confrontational, according to people from the organizations that took part in the meeting. At the meeting, the government "did not seek any additional powers to close down social media networks," the British Home Office, the government’s home security department, [&hellip
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Tweet Google has struck its biggest ever deal – to buy Motorola’s smartphone and tablet business for $12.5 billion in cash. Both companies say the move will give a ‘supercharge’ to Google’s Android platform. Android-based devices, which include Motorola’s smartphones and tablets – are the major rivals to Apple’s iPhone and iPad. As such, the [&hellip
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Tweet Facebook lawyers have revealed evidence they say proves a New York man fabricated a contract that he says entitles him to part ownership of the $US50 billion ($A47.68 billion) social network. Included in an after-hours court filing is an image of a two-page contract signed by Paul Ceglia of Wellsville, New York, and Facebook [&hellip