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SurveyMonkey CEO, husband of Facebook’s Sandberg, dies

May 2, 2015 publisher brother, facebook, friends, paula-goldberg, reuters-global, suddenly-last, survey, two-wonderful

SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Dave Goldberg, died unexpectedly on Friday night, his brother wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday. “It’s with incredible shock and sadness that I’m letting our friends and family know that my amazing brother, Dave Goldberg, beloved husband of Sheryl Sandberg, father of two wonderful children, and son of Paula Goldberg, passed away suddenly last night,” Robert Goldberg wrote.

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Google, Facebook join Red Cross to find thousands missing after Nepal quake

April 27, 2015 admin boyfriend, facebook, families, massachusetts, nepal, news, safety-check, their-friends, thomson, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla and Joseph D’Urso NEW DELHI/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – German development worker Caroline Siebald and her boyfriend Charles Gertler, an American glaciologist, were on a rafting trip in Nepal when the earthquake struck and initially panicked about how to let their families know they were safe. After about 30 attempts, Gertler, 25, managed to get a phone call through to his mother in Massachusetts in the United States, and she registered them as safe on Facebook’s “Safety Check”.

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Facebook launches video calling in Messenger app

April 27, 2015 creative boyfriend, conde-nast, entertainment, facebook, launched-voice, logo-reflected, million-users, nepal, news, such-as-vogue, Technology, thomson, vanity-fair, video-calling

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc introduced free video calling in its Messenger phone app on Monday as the company seeks to transform its mobile messaging service into a full-featured platform with the same reach as its 1.4 billion user social network.

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Net neutrality row grows louder in India, Internet.org hit

April 16, 2015 creative accessed-on-pcs, berlin, bharti-airtel, display-screen, facebook, flagship-effort, growing-debate, norwegian, reliance

A group of India's leading technology and Internet firms has pulled out of Internet.org, Facebook's flagship effort to get billions more online, in a growing debate over free access and internet neutrality in the country. Net neutrality is the concept that all websites on the internet are treated equally. The debate over access and neutrality has grabbed headlines in India this week after leading telecom carrier Bharti Airtel announced a product through which mobile “app” makers pay for data usage to allow customers to use their apps for free

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Austrian student’s lawsuit vs Facebook bogged down in procedure

April 9, 2015 publisher admit-the-suit, angelika-gruber, data-activist, data-protection, facebook, hearings-began, install-further, investigation, millions, news-conference, schrems, social-networking, united, united-states, violating-their

By Shadia Nasralla and Angelika Gruber VIENNA (Reuters) – Facebook presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian court on Thursday trying to halt a class action lawsuit for 25,000 users that accuses the social media giant of violating their privacy. The first day of hearings began with a four-hour session in which Facebook's lawyers tried to convince the judge not to admit the suit brought by law student Max Schrems, 27, who is claiming 500 euros ($538) in damages for each user

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French broadcaster TV5Monde hacked: Yahoo News

April 8, 2015 publisher ankush, ankush-sharma, facebook, its-channels, millions, news-conference, schrems, social-networking, united, united-states, wednesday, yahoo

(Reuters) – French television network TV5Monde was hacked late on Wednesday by individuals claiming they support Islamic State, Yahoo News reported, citing a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP). The network was not able to broadcast from any of its channels and its social media sites and websites were “displaying claims of responsibility by Islamic State,” TV5Monde’s Director General Yves Bigot told AFP, according to the Yahoo report.

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Zynga must face U.S. lawsuit alleging fraud tied to IPO

March 26, 2015 creative facebook, francisco, lawsuit, over-the-next, price, receivers-used, research-arm, several-billion, told-the-house, video-streaming, zynga

Zynga Inc must face a lawsuit that accuses the gaming company known for its “FarmVille” game of defrauding shareholders about its prospects before and after its December 2011 initial public offering.

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Facebook brings apps, businesses to Messenger service

March 25, 2015 admin audience, chairwoman, different-apps, facebook, keynote, keynote-address, latest-effort, messenger, san, sports, street, zuckerberg

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Wednesday opened up its Messenger service for developers to create apps and for shoppers to communicate directly with retailers, as the Internet company seeks to expand its reach. The new features mark Facebook's latest effort to transform its mobile messaging service into a full-featured platform with the same pull with consumers and businesses as its flagship 1.4-billion user social network. Facebook unveiled the new features at its annual developer conference in San Francisco, for the first time allowing developers to create apps that function inside the Messenger service used by more than 600 million people.

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United Internet 2014 core profit up by a third on new customers

March 25, 2015 publisher contracts-rose, facebook, keynote, number, street, the-previous, united, wednesday

German internet service provider United Internet said on Wednesday its 2014 core profit had risen by more than a third due to record growth of new customers both organically and through acquisitions.

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PayPal to pay $7.7 mln in U.S. Treasury sanctions case

March 25, 2015 creative also-dismissed, blacklist-tied, contracts-rose, department, electronic, facebook, keynote, kursud-zafer, number, payments-firm, street, the-previous, the-sanctions, united, wednesday

PayPal, the electronic payments firm, agreed to pay $7.7 million to settle charges by the U.S. Treasury Department that it violated numerous sanctions programs against countries that include Iran, Cuba and Sudan, Treasury said on Wednesday. PayPal, owned by EBay Inc , did not adequately screen its transactions for U.S