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Facebook Touts Privacy Future, But Critics Question Sincerity

“Today we are going to talk about building a privacy-focused social platform,” said Mark Zuckerberg as he began his keynote address at this year’s F8 developer conference. Facebook’s soon-to-be 35-year old chief executive took the stage to introduce the world to what he hoped his creation could become, one that pressured its users to be […]

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Mark Zuckerberg To Make Case To Developers That Privacy Is A Good Thing

On a May morning, Mark Zuckerberg, weeks after an intense grilling by members of Congress, made what would be his first public address, telling a room full of developers: We have real challenges to address, but we have to keep [our optimism for the future] as well. And what I’ve learned this year is that […]

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Mark Zuckerberg Turns to Base, Pitches Continued Building as Way Forward

It’s a typical tactic that politicians utilize when they want support for a proposal they’re pitching — hold a rally in a part of their constituency where they have strong backing from their base. But this isn’t always limited to those in elected office. Even though he says he hasn’t set his sights on the […]

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Facebook’s Likely Message to Developers at F8: Hear Us Out

Facebook’s F8 developer conference is right around the corner (May 1-2) and while the past few years have been more celebratory and designed to further modernize the company’s ecosystem, the 2018 edition will likely be a bit subdued. Weighing on people’s minds is the latest controversy plaguing Facebook namely, how it uses our data. Whether […]

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Facebook Today: A Scary and New Intersection of Our Digital and Real Lives

“Build better communities” was one of the mantras featured on at least one of the screens on stage at this week’s F8 developer conference. Hosted by Facebook, the intent was to showcase the latest innovations within the company to get buy-in from developers on how it can further extend its quest to better connect us […]

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Rediscovering Parse’s Mission In A Mobile And Facebook World

  More than a year ago, Facebook made a purportedly $85 million acquisition offer to Parse. When the deal went through, some wondered what the social networking company would want with a service that specializes as a mobile backend-as-a-service (mBaaS). In fact, Parse’s competitors sought to take advantage of the confusion by offering a data […]

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Facebook’s Mobile Journey and its Quest to Further Integrate the Social Graph into Apps

We all know that Facebook is doing quite well as a public company. One need only look at its last quarterly earnings where the social networking company revealed that it had generated $2.5 billion in revenue, a 72 percent increase from a year ago. It has also grown quite a bit, maturing to become an […]