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So What If Facebook's For Old People? That's Great

2014-02-04 22:33:16| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Facebook just turned 10, and it's maturing nicely. A social network for grownups has a real future ahead of it.

On Paper, Facebook's a Different Story

2014-01-31 18:01:07| TechNewsWorld

Facebook on Thursday announced next week's launch of Paper, a free app for iOS that combines user and curated content into a personalized news medium. Users can create stories as well as receive stories based on their interests and organized into sections. The sections cover everything from sports, world news and animal pictures to business, photography and food.

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Microsoft contributes cloud server designs for Facebook's Open Compute Project

2014-01-28 13:54:26| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help standardize and reduce hardware costs. The Redmond, Wash., tech company is also contributing system management source code to the project. It said it aimed to create an open source software community in the Open Compute Project.

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Engineer nets $33,500 -- Facebook's biggest bug bounty

2014-01-23 13:37:12| InfoWorld: Top News

Last November Reginaldo Silva, a computer engineer in Brazil, found one of the worst kinds of vulnerabilities in Facebook's software. It has netted him the biggest bug bounty the social network has ever paid out, but while he's not complaining, it wasn't quite the windfall he hoped for. The bug related to code used for OpenID, an authentication system that lets people use the same login credentials for multiple online services.

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