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Facebooks mysterious big idea Thursday event has netizens buzzing
Social media giant Facebook has created a mysterious event for Thursday, which is speculated to be the one where, the company would add video feature to its Instagram smartphone picture sharing service. Facebook acquired Instagram last year, but made it impossible for the users to integrate their images into tweets, following which Twitter launched Instagram-style smartphone photo sharing ...
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Helen Flanagan attacked on Twitter over nose job
Helen Flanagan, who had reportedly undergone a nose job in May, has been bombarded with fresh abuse on Twitter regarding the cosmetic surgery. Friends of the former 'Corrie' star have claimed that she only went under the knife after school bullies taunted her relentlessly about her nose, the Daily Star reported. Despite the claim, the 22-year-old actress, who has a turbulent relationship with ...
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Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan reveal first pic of daughter Everly
Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum debuted their newborn daughter, Everly, on their Facebook accounts on Sunday night. The former 'Step Up' co-stars welcomed their baby girl on May 31. 'The Vow' actor shared an image, which shows him holding his daughter with his wife by his side, and wrote "First Father's Day with my girls" along with it, People magazine reported. His wife ...
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Facebook adding video to Instagram
Facebook and Twitter aren't just for youngsters and celebrities. Such online social platforms can help you enhance your career by letting you showcase your ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg SKorean president discuss South Korean startups
SEOUL, South Korea -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia's fourth-largest economy. Park's office said Zuckerberg assured the South Korean leader that Facebook would continue to invest in the country, and he invited South Korean firms to jump on Facebook to reach ...
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [Blu-Ray]
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a curio of early-80s international cinema: A story about a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java set in the early years of World War II, it was produced by internationally minded British producer Jeremy Thomas (who has ... ...
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Facebook page created to bully taken down after call from police
NEWBERG, Ore. – No one is sure who created a Facebook page to bully kids at Newberg High School, but Facebook didn't take it down until KATU News, the district and finally the police called the social media giant. Those phone calls were enough to get Facebook's attention and have it take down a very hateful page that had been up since Saturday. The posts on "Nancy ...
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Offensive Facebook pages removed
Two Facebook pages containing demeaning comments about women have been taken down as the Australian Defence Force continues to investigate whether any of its members were ...
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Dunne breaks silence by taking to Twitter
Prime Minister John Key forced Mr Dunne to resign. Photo / Mark Mitchell United Future leader Peter Dunne has broken nearly two weeks of silence and is back on Twitter, but steering away from the scandal that ended his ministerial career. Mr Dunne said on Twitter that a magnificent rainbow over Wellington at present could be a good omen of thing to come. Mr Dunne resigned 11 days ...
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North Queensland soldiers social media investigation
THE Australian Defence Force is investigating claims soldiers in north Queensland posted derogatory comments about women on social media. It comes amid a separate, unrelated investigation into a scandal involving soldiers who allegedly filmed themselves having sex with fellow military personnel and civilians before sending the images to their colleagues.The latest scandal involves a ...
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Facebook users rise to 64m in Indonesia
Facebook has revealed it has 64 million users in Indonesia who actively access their accounts on a monthly basis and says this number puts the country in the social networking site's top five largest markets. It also plans to monetise this huge market by inviting small and medium-sized businesses to advertise on the popular site. "Those are our internal figures on monthly ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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