Stories by: Cameron Scott

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Menlo Park city council advances Facebook expansion plans 30 May, 2012 18:12:29

The Menlo Park, California, city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve Facebook's plan to expand its headquarters in the city, pending a final procedural vote at its next meeting on June 5.
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Nearly a fifth of U.S. PCs have no virus protection, McAfee finds 30 May, 2012 05:29:12

A McAfee study of PCs around the world found that 17 percent had no antivirus protection, and the U.S. outpaced the average with 19 percent of PCs unprotected.
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Rumored Facebook purchase of Face.com spotlights facial recognition technology 30 May, 2012 00:52:00

Whether or not Facebook acquires facial recognition services provider Face.com, as rumors say it will, the persistence of the speculation calls attention to the expanding use of the technology in social applications.
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Facebook beefs up mobile photo sharing with Camera 24 May, 2012 18:56:00

Facebook introduced its own mobile photo app, Camera, on Thursday, bringing richer photo-sharing features to the platform even before the company closes its deal to acquire the popular photo-sharing app Instagram.
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Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app 24 May, 2012 00:01:31

Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.
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McAfee reports big spike in malware 23 May, 2012 20:08:31

PC malware had its "busiest quarter in recent history," according to McAfee's quarterly security report released Wednesday.
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Facebook to settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories 23 May, 2012 10:47:23

Facebook is to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that accused it of appropriating its users' likenesses for its Sponsored Stories advertising feature, according to a court document filed Tuesday.
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Supreme Court lets stand $675,000 fine for music downloads 22 May, 2012 07:08:51

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider the petition of Joel Tenenbaum, a former doctoral student at Boston University who faces a fine of US$675,000 for illegally downloading 30 songs.
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Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma 19 May, 2012 09:43:00

The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.
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ITC bans import of infringing Motorola Android devices 19 May, 2012 09:32:36

The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an import ban Friday on any Android devices from Motorola that infringe one of Microsoft's patents.
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Google search will incorporate 'knowledge graph' into main search results 17 May, 2012 03:00:24

Google will begin in the next few days to incorporate the "knowledge graph" it has been building for two years into its search results .