Who says Google is hoarding Silicon Valley’s tech talent? In July of 2007, Gideon Yu, a Valley train-hopper with stints at Yahoo and then YouTube, resigned from his position at the video-sharing site shortly after it was acquired by the search engine to become CFO of Facebook. A few months later, Benjamin “bling” Ling, described as one of “Larry and Sergey’s golden boys,” left Google to run Facebook’s platform program. Then this past March, Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s vice president of global online sales and operations, bailed to join the social network as chief operating officer.
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The ability to control how much information is available to the public has long been one of Facebook’s core principles. It was this very feature, for example, that Facebook used to distinguish itself from other social networks back when it first launched.
Of course, the ensuing years proved that protecting the privacy of its users was [...]
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The controversy over Facebook’s Beacon advertising system may have been laid to rest last December, but its memory lingers on.
Today brings news of the first lawsuit over the service and, oddly enough, it wasn’t filed against Facebook. It was filed against Blockbuster. Facebook member Cathryn Elaine Harris is suing the video chain Blockbuster (BBI) for [...]
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It’s been nary a month since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the social network’s first privacy scandal, and already the site seems poised to embark on its second. According to a new study out of the University of Virginia, many of Facebook’s most popular applications access far more personal user data than is necessary.
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This morning Ask.com became the Internet’s least intrusive search engine. Too bad it’s also one of least used. Because with a 2.9% share of the search market, few are likely to pay much mind to the title.
That said, “AskEraser,” which allows users to delete their search queries and related data (IP address, user ID, session [...]
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What Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lacks in foresight, he certainly makes up for in disingenuous hair-shirt remorse. After two weeks of hue and cry over Facebook’s month-old Beacon advertising system and its disregard for member privacy, Zuckerberg today apologized for the company’s misstep and announced some of the fundamental changes to Beacon that users [...]
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