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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch.

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Facebook Looks At The Face For In-Store Payments
Facebook Looks At The Face For In-Store Payments
November 10, 2017  |  Facebook

Facebook may be gunning to introduce facial recognition software for in-store payments at retail locations, as presaged by a patent application published Thursday (Nov. 9) with the...

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The Frightful Five: iPhone X Delivers, AmazonFresh Doesn’t
The Frightful Five: iPhone X Delivers, AmazonFresh Doesn’t
November 10, 2017  |  Retail

Apple dominated the news this week, with the new iPhone X making headlines (and animoji karaoke taking Twitter by storm — although the actual, intended function...

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Facebook Adds Home Rentals To Marketplace
Facebook Adds Home Rentals To Marketplace
November 10, 2017  |  Facebook

Facebook is teaming up with Apartment List and Zumper to bring real estate listings to its Marketplace retail platform. According to news from Engadget, citing the social...

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Facebook Messenger P2P Expands To UK, France
Facebook Messenger P2P Expands To UK, France
November 07, 2017  |  Facebook

The big challenge with peer-to-peer (P2P) payments has always been ubiquity. Many platforms have made like-to-like transfers fast, easy and secure. But when users need...

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1M People Duped By Fake WhatsApp
1M People Duped By Fake WhatsApp
November 07, 2017  |  News

Google’s app store was infiltrated by a fake WhatsApp application late last week that more than 1 million people downloaded. According to a news report...

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Video Taps Into Short Attention Spans With Direct Path To Purchase
Video Taps Into Short Attention Spans With Direct Path To Purchase
November 06, 2017  |  eCommerce

Five hours a day. Some of us barely sleep that many hours, but for the average consumer, that’s how much time is spent in front...

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Social Networks Are Increasingly America’s Favorite News Source
Social Networks Are Increasingly America’s Favorite News Source
November 06, 2017  |  Social Commerce

Americans, according to the newest research from Pew, are increasingly likely to seek their news out on social media.  Around a quarter of American adults...

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Big Tech Firms Sizzle, Star-Backed ICOs Fizzle
Big Tech Firms Sizzle, Star-Backed ICOs Fizzle
November 03, 2017  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

It was a week that showed mobility in mobile-ad companies, at least as stock prices were concerned. Consumers seem ready to spread some holiday cheer...

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The Frightful Five: Monster Valuation
The Frightful Five: Monster Valuation
November 03, 2017  |  Retail

The total combined value of the Frightful Five — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — is indeed a frightful amount, most recently tallied at $3.3 trillion:...

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