Facebook IPO Investor Scam Leads to Arrest of Three Men (1)

Facebook IPO Investor Scam Leads to Arrest of Three Men (1)

Three men who claimed they had special access to Facebook Inc. (FB) shares before its initial public offering last year were charged with defrauding an investor of $6.7 million. Eliyahu Weinstein, 37, Alex Schleider, 47, and Aaron Muschel, 63, were ?
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Restaurant featured on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares in viral social ?

The couple decided to reject opinions and ideas offered by chef Ramsey and owners Amy and Samy have hit out at anonymous comments from viewers and trolls with angry social media posts. Trouble kicked off on the first day of filming at the restaurant ?
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HTC First aka ?Facebook Phone? Reportedly Already to be ?

Just a little over a month ago, Facebook held a press event in Menlo Park at their headquarters to announce a partnership with HTC and AT&T. The child of that partnership was the HTC First, priced at just $99 and the first device to come ?Droid Life
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Chinese Social Media ? More Than Just Weibo

For most of the world, Facebook is the definitive social network site. In China, where Facebook is banned, it is not so. Having its roots in Facebook, Renren is the largest real-name social network in China, with Kaixin001 in close second. Gaining a ?
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Can Big Data Cure Your Churn Rate?

In fact, social media platforms, such as Facebook Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, have sparked a dramatic increase in the rapid rate of business and purchase decision, as well as increased expectations in customer service. As a result, business ?
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10 fun facts about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

In October 2010, Zuckerberg took a bunch of Facebook staffers to a public theater to see ?The Social Network,? the movie about the founding of Facebook. In public comments afterward, he criticized the film's portrayal of him as someone who invented ?
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Facebook 1Q earnings, revenue grow, mobile ads up ? Yahoo ?

From Yahoo! Finance: NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook's net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue, ?
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Facebook hijacking malware: Microsoft issues warning

?There may be more to this threat because it can change its messages, URLs, Facebook pages and other activity at any time,? noted Microsoft researcher Jonathan San Jose. ?In any case, we recommend you always keep your security products updated with ?
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Rumor: AT&T Dumping the HTC First Facebook Phone ? Tom's Hardware

The unnamed sources also said that AT&T sales representatives do not like the Facebook Home Android launcher or the actual First phone itself, and are doing very little to sell the handset to customers. It's likely AT&T dropped the device down to less ?
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Android Facebook app update lets you delete comments on the go

Many Facebook users have criticized the Facebook application as lacking in stability and functionality. In fact, the Android Facebook application was so bad that Facebook forced its own employees to use Android devices so they can work the kinks out of ?
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Facebook, Waze and the Falling Cost of Mapping Technology

mobile-phone-map-search Facebook is reportedly in serious talks to buy social mapping app Waze for a whopping $1 billion in cash and stock, an acquisition that would underscore the growing importance of mapping and navigation functionality to the Web's ?
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Facebook remains top social network, Google+, YouTube battle for second

Behind Facebook, things get more interesting. There are numerous companies fighting it out for second place with Google+ out front at 26-percent of Internet users. Google+!? Yes, Google+. As eMarketer states, ?In the US, Google+ gets limited attention, ?
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How Facebook's Acquisition Of Instagram Has Hurt Brands That Use ?

After Facebook acquired Instagram in September, one of its first major policy changes was to drop support for photo-sharing on Twitter ? ostensibly a rival to Instagram for photo-sharing. That had a pronounced effect, according to data from ?Business Insider
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'Women's Health' Incorporates Facebook Into 2013 National Women's Health ?

Facebook is a key component of the campaign by Women's Health to support National Women's Health Week, which runs through Saturday, as the magazine is using the social network to feature video chats, original videos, and interviews with Facebook ?
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LinkedIn v. Facebook: Tale of Two IPOs

LinkedIn (LNKD) and Facebook (FB) will celebrate the anniversaries of their IPOs just a few days apart this week. But their experiences as publicly traded companies couldn't be more different. LinkedIn promotes its service as a stepping-stone to a more ?
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Didier Drogba responds to Fenerbahce fans' racial taunts on Galatasaray's ?

Drogba later responded to the apparent racial taunt on Galatasaray's Facebook page, noting that both of Fenerbahce's goal were scored by Cameroon striker Pierro Webo. Said Drogba: ''You call me monkey but you cried when Chelsea beat Fenerbah?e in ?
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Women's Health Mag Promotes Challenges via Facebook

This week, Women's Health Magazine, in conjunction with Facebook, is seeking to harness the motivational power of social media with the launch of an online campaign timed to coincide with National Women's Health Week (May 12-18) that urges women to ?
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Facebook's coming video ads run the risk of 'MySpacing' the world's most ?

Facebook's coming video ads will be disruptive, interrupt people, and run the risk of Facebook becoming the very social network it supplanted, according to at least one online advertising executive. ?Facebook won the MySpace battle because of better ?
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Temple Shooter Used Internet to Further?

Page was active on social media, having at least two Facebook pages, under the names ?Wade Hammer? and ?Jackboot,? and was typical of others who used the Internet to become increasingly radical, the warrant said. ?FBI experts believe the Internet ?
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STUDY: Facebook Reigns Supreme In South Asia

Among the 3,000 social media users from those countries polled, Facebook finished as the No. 1 answer for the question, ?Which social networking site do you use the most?? Zing was No. 2 in Vietnam, while Twitter earned the silver medal in the ?
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Google+ struggles to win over brands, a vital step to true Facebook challenge

The average U.S. visitor to Google+ spent 6 minutes 47 seconds on the site in March, versus more than 6 hours on Facebook.com, according to Nielsen Media Research, though the data does not include activity on the social networks' mobile apps. ?The main ?
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No More FOMO: Fear of Missing Out Linked to Dissatisfaction

But what's bad for individuals may just be good for Facebook: People high in FOMO were also more likely to use social media, seemingly driven by a need to see what's going on when they're not around. ?Fear of missing out acts as an important kind of ?
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Does Facebook Need a New CEO?

It was one thing ? and the appropriate thing ? for Mark Zuckerberg to admit that Facebook missed on mobile, but it's entirely another to use sleight-of-English-language on the whole We will not do a smartphone thing. And it's even worse to, for all ?
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Sheilas' Wheels Facebook distribution extends to broker platform

Sheilas' Wheels started offering its motor insurance policy through Facebook last March. Since then, the insurer has worked with CDL to link the Facebook app to the Strata platform in so Sheilas' Wheels Broker can return a quotation to the customer.
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Facebook's $1 Billion Bid To Buy Israeli Startup Waze May Be About To Fall Apart

?Facebook conditioned the deal on the liquidation of Waze's activity in Israel and the relocation of some of its employees to Facebook's San Francisco headquarters.? This isn't the first time Waze has been caught up in $1 billion acquisition rumors ?
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Firefox 21 Gets Even More Social

For example, if you browse to Facebook's Messenger for Firefox page, all you have to do is press the ?Turn On? button. Mozilla, the non-profit maker of the browser, announced the new version in a blog post today. ?Mozilla developed the Social API to ?
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Google+ Persuades Major Brands to be more Active ? Social Barrel

Thus, companies have more activity on Facebook because their target audience and customers spend most of their time there. While firms do create Google+ pages for their websites and enjoy the fact that its services assimilate well with Google search ?
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Gas Pump Prank Fake: 'The Smoking Gun' Says Video is Bogus, Who Cares?

Adopting watchdog journalist tactics usually reserved for political scandals of huge consequence, they dug up two-year-old video clips, used clothing item analysis, looked into the couple's employment histories and personal Facebook pages ? all to ?
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Device Updates May 6-13: T-Mobile Galaxy S III Android 4.1.2 Update Rolling Out

Website: http://androidspin.com/ Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Man? G+ Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107272007? Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/DaveePena. Other Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFilmJu? T-Mobile ?
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Malicious browser extensions are hijacking Facebook accounts ? Help Net Security

It then tries to ?Like? and post a comment on a Facebook page advertising the Chevrolet Celta produced by General Motors do Brasil, then attempts to promote it and contests that supposedly award it to the winners via messages that contain links to a ?
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Google+ over-the-air app install prompts accepted by 40 percent of users

At that time there was talk of v3.0 adding the ability to sign in to apps using your Google+ account. That feature was set to compete with Facebook Connect, which is another service that allows the user to login without having to create an entirely new ?
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Emperor Social by Martin Crumlish and Greg Jacob is Out and Making a Splash ?

Emperor Social, the newly released Facebook Page builder by Martin Crumlish and Greg Jacob is an easy drag-and-drop software that creates professional FB pages without writing a single piece of code. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on ?
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New Albany, Kroger deal will help relocate firehouse

If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in ?
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Israeli TV Network Marks Return Of HBO's 'Game Of Thrones' With Meme App ?

Readers: Would you like to see apps similar to Game of Memes on the Facebook pages of your favorite TV shows? Related Stories. 'Women's Health' Incorporates Facebook Into 2013 National Women's Health Week Efforts ? Facebook To Users: 'Add Your ?
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Facebook brings Photo Viewer button to updated iOS app ? Tech2

Facebook has upped its iOS app to version 6.1.1 and introduced a bunch of new features. The new Photo viewer button on the app will allow users to save, share or make profile pictures. This is great since earlier iOS users could only like, comment or ?
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Facebook-Setting url request for facebook in android ? Que Forum

I've succesfully sent request facebook with this code protected void sendRequest (String id_user){ Facebook facebook = new Facebook(APP_ID);
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Facebook phone flops as American operator set to cull HTC First

BGR has learned from a trusted source at AT&T that ?sales of the HTC First have been shockingly bad,? prompting the operator to remove the latest attempt to create a Facebook phone from its future plans. HTC has an agreement in place with AT&T for the ?
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Update Your Facebook Status And Comment Using Google Glass And Your ?

We wrote about an app for Google Glass that let you share photos to Facebook, but another one has come out that has a way more interesting feature, the ability to create status messages or comment on on the social network with the sound of your voice.
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Facebook smartphone, HTC First appears in troubled waters ? The Mobile Indian

The HTC First smartphone features the new Facebook Home interface along with several enhancements specific only to that device. HTC First was HTC and Facebook's third attempt to push a social network centric smartphone to the enthusiast consumers.
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CHAPTER 13: Connecting Joomla and Facebook > Create a ?

CHAPTER 13: Connecting Joomla and Facebook ? Create a Facebook Fan Page -
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Facebook Blocks Nakba Group Page ? Activists

A Facebook page promoting Nakba commemoration events in Jaffa was temporarily blocked overnight, Palestinian activists said Monday. Fatima Huleiwi, an activist with Jaffa Youth, told Ma'an that it was not the first time that Facebook had blocked the ?
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Give Facebook a facelift

It's the first thing that comes to mind when you say the words ?social network?, but using Facebook on your smartphone isn't the best experience. While the official app has seen some tweaks along the way (Timeline being the best example), the fact is ?
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$6.7M Facebook Stock Scam Uncovered in New Jersey ? New Jersey 101.5

The FBI and the IRS-Criminal Investigation team arrested three men at their homes this morning on charges they stole approximately $6.7 million from an investor, in part by claiming special access to shares in the social media company Facebook Inc ?
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What?! Who?! 'How I Met Your Mother' fans react to big mom reveal

Not that everyone wants to know this mom better. Sharon Palmer admitted her ?hope is still for Robin!!? And she's not alone. That sentiment was echoed by many on ?How I Met Your Mother's? official Facebook page. But at least one fan thought the real ?
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Meet Ahmed Angel, the poutiest, most heavily airbrushed man on the internet.

Angel's Facebook pages variously list his occupation as a student and a doctor. Hmmm. According to Yahoo, Angel is Iraqi-born and prides himself on being a ?superstar? in the Middle East, Europe and Russia. But like many a pretty face, he's got his ?
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HTC First, AKA The Facebook Phone, Is Already Being Discontinued

The problem largely boiled down to the fact that Facebook Home was just too broken a version of Android. So few Facebook employees use Android in the first place that they didn't realize the appeal largely lies in how customizable the system is ?
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New options for breast cancer surgery ? USA Today

New techniques are faster, gentler and less disfiguring. (May 14). Post to Facebook. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Tweeted! A tweet has been posted to your Twitter account. Sent! A link has been sent to your friend's email address.
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Medio Encourages App Developers to "Fire Their Ad Networks" with the Launch ?

K-Invite facilitates one-to-one social sharing between friends via SMS, email, Facebook and Twitter, and allows application owners to reward users for successfully referring their friends. ?The economics of acquiring users from traditional ad networks ?
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Three Arrested in Facebook Stock Scam

In the hype surrounding Facebook's initial public offering, federal prosecutors say Eliyahu Weinstein and Alex Schleider of New Jersey and Aaron Muschel of New York ?took advantage of the buzz?to fleece unsuspecting investors.? Court records say the ?
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Facebook Completes One-Column Timeline Rollout ? The Next Web

Yet everyone realized this was Facebook's way of admitting the previous two-column design for posts simply wasn't working. In case you've abandoned the service, here's the new one-column Timeline (posts appear on the right side, and only on the right ?
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HTC First sales dismal, AT&T to stop selling the first Facebook Home phone ?

Facebook unveiled Home with much fanfare last month, and alongside Facebook Home came the first phone with the app pre-installed, the HTC First. The phone went on sale on US operator AT&T on April 12, and before the phone could be available to a ?
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Roger Federer faces pesky foe in new ad

Roger Federer posted on Facebook this week a random picture of a fly on the wall. Now we know why: The post was a tease for his new Nike ad, which involves Federer's struggling to kill a fly in his house. How does that saying go? Those who live in ?
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Cost of a click

A self-confessed Facebook beginner has found out the hard way how important it is to be careful when giving out credit card details online. Hugh Rose from Tangowahine started a business Facebook page to market his Milly Moo milking jugs to a wider ?
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Facebook beta app logo for iOS upsets uses

Many iOS users took to this social network to express their reaction to the logo, with one commenting: 'What in all of abomination is that new Facebook logo? Who is smoking crack' and another adding equally dramatically: 'New fb logo is ugly 1/10 awful ?
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Alia Bhatt Unveils Maybelline's New Collection

Statistics Report. Published on May 14, 2013. Alia Bhatt Unveils Maybelline's New Collection. For more Bollywood: Log on to http://www.businessofcinema.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Businessofcinema Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BOCLive ?
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How to keep a student news site updated with RebelMouse

It pulls from the user's Twitter and Facebook feeds (among others) and creates a page that showcases social content or organizes content around a single topic or user. The pages can be hosted at RebelMouse (this is mine) or integrated in a site built ?
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nventive launches the ultimate Facebook experience on Windows 8

SocialNV leverages all the core Windows 8 features to offer the best Facebook experience on the platform. ?SocialNV is our answer to the gap which we believe previously existed in the Windows 8 app store. Windows 8 and Windows Phone have both played ?
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PM UPDATE: How to vote for the Swon Brothers

On Facebook via The Voice Live Facebook App, Zeebox or NBC apps. ? By downloading the Swon Brothers' eligible song from iTunes. ? Online at www.nbc.com/the-voice/vote . ? Sprint customers can vote via text by sending the keyword 5 to 8642 for the ?
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Eight Reasons High School Students Should be on LinkedIn

I'm giving this advice with a caveat: I have heard anecdotally that admissions offices routinely Google college applicants and scrutinize Facebook pages. But I called seven admissions offices at random, including the University of Chicago, Haverford ?
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Firefox 21: New Social Providers, Open Source Fonts on Android ? The Next Web

Mozilla's first partner in its social endeavor was Facebook, not just because it's the world's largest social network, but also because the company helped flesh out the API. Ever since December 2012, when the two officially flipped the switch, Firefox ?
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Facebook Using the "We only use iPhones" Excuse Again as AT&T Kills off the ?

However the excuse is getting a little old as they are still trying to use it now. Facebook is claiming that their new Facebook Home app accidentally removed features that Android users have come to expect in their phones because of their iPhone ?
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KakaoHome is a Facebook Home alternative for Korea's biggest messaging ?

The Korean startup behind the massively popular messaging app KakaoTalk has just released KakaoHome ? a launcher that lets you quickly reply to KakaoTalk messages without having to open the app, somewhat like Facebook Home's vaunted Chat ?
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STUDY: Your Facebook Page May Be Bipolar

Facebook page administrators, beware: There is a possibility that your pages are bipolar, according to a study of some 300,000 pages of small and midsized businesses by social media automated agency BuzzSpice. BuzzSpice found that 72 percent of the ?
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Facebook Now Lets You Rate Movies, TV, And Books As It Completes Roll Out ?

Facebook first started testing the new Sections in mid-March as part of the rollout of a redesigned Timeline with all user posts in the right column. Lined up down the left column, you can select which content types and specific apps get their own Section.
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Delete unwanted Facebook comments using the Android app ? CNET

You no longer have to rely on the Web site to delete comments on Facebook. Read this article by Jason Cipriani on CNET.
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Facebook Shoots Social Roulette Game Dead

Looking for a reason to ditch Facebook, but can't quite seem to pull the trigger? The easy way out seems to have come and gone this weekend. Social Roulette, a game of chance that offers a one-in-six possibility of deleting your social network account ?
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Video shows McDonald's confrontation

A video has emerged of a man egging on a motorist to drive into protesters outside a Dunedin McDonald's, before saying he would ''bring my truck down with the bullbars''. The video was posted on Facebook following the Unite Union protest, dubbed a ?
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Microsoft detects new malware targeting Facebook users ? ? AME Info

Microsoft has warned users about a new piece of malware masquerading as a Google Chrome extension and Firefox add-on is making the rounds, threatening to hijack Facebook accounts, Cnet has reported. First detected in Brazil, ?AMEinfo.com Latest News
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Tech Q&A: Can Facebook videos be a scam?

When you try to install the ?driver,? you share the scam video with all your friends so they'll be tricked. When you see a video on Facebook, do a search for the video on YouTube or Google. If you can't find the video, it's probably a scam. You can ?
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Microsoft boldly adds Google to list of chat services in Outlook.com & SkyDrive

In a move to get more people to try its sleek email app Outlook.com, Microsoft has smartly added Google to its list of chat services, joining Facebook and Skype chat. Microsoft recently announced that Outlook.com now has more than 400 million active ?
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Sara Bareilles' ?Brave? Video: Watch People Dance Bravely

The bravest thing about the video, though, is that Bareilles is wearing a black-and-white polka dot blouse on top of black-and-white pants that are covered in cursive writing. ? Let us know in the comments below, or hit us up on Facebook and Twitter ?
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Top 5 favorite Hawaii snacks: HAWAII Magazine Facebook poll results

We'll be posting our next poll question on HAWAII Magazine's Facebook page in the days ahead, so join soon if you haven't yet. OK, now, here we go. Here's the top five countdown of our Facebook ohana's favorite Hawaii snacks. No. 5. SHAVE ICE ?
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Singita axes ranger after drunk man charges elephant

The following statement was posted on Singita's Facebook page on Monday: ?Very disturbing video footage in the social media arena has been brought to our attention and we are conducting a serious investigation into the background of what took place.
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Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto Talk 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

? popular science fiction franchise and opens in theaters on May 17th. Interviewer: Katherine Tulich Video Editor: Jami Philbrick IAR Managing Editor: Jami Philbrick Twitter: @iamROGUE. Facebook: www.facebook.com/iamrogue. URL: www.iamrogue.com ?
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