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March 22, 2019 at 1:44 pm

Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest files for IPO

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pinterest is pinning its future on Wall Street, with the digital scrapbooking site on Friday filing for an initial public offering... Updated 4:02 pm

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March 21, 2019 at 9:24 am

Facebook left millions of passwords readable by employees

Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse. Updated 3:47 pm

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March 19, 2019 at 11:07 am

Facebook to overhaul ad targeting to prevent discrimination

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook will overhaul its ad-targeting systems to prevent discrimination in housing , credit and employment ads as part of a legal...

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In this undated image provided by Twitter the company’s director of curation Joanna Geary poses for a photo. Geary spoke with The Associated Press about serving a global audience that is Twitter. (Twitter via AP)

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February 11, 2019 at 6:00 am

Twitter’s curation director blurs the lines of work-life balance

Joanna Geary is in charge of showing users everything from the day’s biggest news events to quirky trends.

February 7, 2019 at 4:23 am

Twitter posts bigger 4Q profit, monthly user base slips

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter's revenue and profit and its daily user base all grew in the final three months of 2018, capping its first...

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February 7, 2019 at 1:26 am

Germany to Facebook: Stop forcing users to share their data

BERLIN (AP) — Facebook is pushing back against a German ruling that could make it harder for the company to combine data from all the...

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January 31, 2019 at 11:39 pm

Facebook removes 783 fake pages, accounts tied to Iran

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it has removed 783 Iran-linked pages, accounts and groups from its service for what it calls "coordinated inauthentic behavior."...

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FILE – This Feb. 19, 2014, file photo shows the Facebook app icon on an iPhone in New York. Facebook says Apple is restoring a key development tool that the iPhone maker disabled Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2019. Apple’s earlier move followed disclosure of a Facebook program that paid users, including teens, to download a “research” app that could extensively track peoples’ app and internet usage. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof, File) CAET240 CAET240

January 31, 2019 at 2:47 pm

Facebook says Apple is restoring a key developer tool

While Facebook engineers could still write code and work on iPhone apps during the shutoff, their ability to test them in the field was limited.

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January 31, 2019 at 12:44 pm

Facebook removes 783 fake pages, accounts tied to Iran

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it has removed 783 Iran-linked pages, accounts and groups from its service for what it calls "coordinated inauthentic behavior."...

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Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif., 2014 (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

January 30, 2019 at 1:44 pm

Facebook reports robust profit, revenue gains; stock rises

Facebook said Wednesday that it earned $6.9 billion, or $2.38 per share, in the October-December period.

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