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Workers Injured at Facebook Construction Site in California
Apr 28 2017 // Authorities say work has halted at a Facebook building under construction after an equipment failure caused part of the structure to collapse, injuring two workers. KNTV reported two construction workers were injured after...
Personal Trainers Can Now Buy Policies from Next Insurance via Chatbot on Facebook
Mar 15 2017 // Next Insurance, a digital insurance company for small businesses, has launched a chatbot that enables personal trainers to quote and buy liability insurance via Facebook Messenger. Next said it partnered with chatbot...
Facebook Co-Founder Leads Financing for Online Health Insurance Startup
Feb 10 2017 // Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Group has led a new financing round for a Singapore-based online health insurance service that values the startup at $100 million. Singaporean government...
Facebook Takes Search Warrant Challenge to New York’s Top Court
Feb 9 2017 // Facebook and Manhattan prosecutors went to New York state’s highest court Tuesday to settle a legal dispute over search warrants for users’ accounts, a closely watched case with big implications for online...
Facebook Virtual Reality Unit Faces $500M Jury Verdict for Copyright Infringement
Feb 2 2017 // A U.S. jury in Texas on Wednesday ordered Facebook Inc., its virtual reality unit Oculus, and other defendants to pay a combined $500 million to ZeniMax Media Inc., a video game publisher that says Oculus stole its...
Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Targets Content ‘Liable to Incite’ Terrorism
Dec 27 2016 // Israeli courts could demand that companies such as Facebook Inc. remove content deemed as incitement, under a bill that that will head for parliamentary approval amid concerns about free speech. The law would give Israel...
Twitter, Google, Facebook Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims’ Families
Dec 21 2016 // The families of three men killed at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub have sued Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. in federal court, accusing the companies of providing “material...
U.S. Investigators Blame Autopilot in Facebook’s Big Drone Crash
Dec 19 2016 // The wing on Facebook Inc.’s experimental high-altitude drone broke last summer in Arizona after the massive aircraft hit an updraft and its autopilot overcompensated seconds before touchdown on its maiden flight, a...
Facebook Drone’s ‘Structural Failure’ Under Investigation
Nov 22 2016 // A U.S. safety agency is investigating an accident involving a massive experimental drone Facebook Inc. is developing to bring the internet to remote areas of the world. No one was hurt in the incident, which came during...
Search is on For Suspects Behind Southeast Wildfires, 2 Arrested in Kentucky
Nov 14 2016 // A wannabe weatherman was jailed for arson after admitting he started a wildfire to draw attention to his selfie videos on Facebook, his town’s police chief said Friday. Meanwhile, a Georgia sheriff appealed for help...
Facebook, Google Amassing of ‘Faceprints’ Facing Legal Challenges
Oct 26 2016 // Facebook Inc.’s software knows your face almost as well as your mother does. And like mom, it isn’t asking your permission to do what it wants with old photos. While millions of internet users embrace the...
Facebook Claims ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Terrorist Activity
Sep 28 2016 // Lawyers for Facebook Inc. on Tuesday sought to assure a U.S. judge overseeing lawsuits by victims of militant attacks in the Middle East that it took a “zero tolerance” approach to any communications that may...
Judge Claims Facebook Not Taking Terrorism Threat Seriously
Sep 23 2016 // A federal judge slammed Facebook Inc., saying the social media giant might not be doing enough to deter terrorists from using its platform. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, New York, also accused...
Judge Nixes Users’ Privacy Class Action Against Facebook
Sep 6 2016 // Facebook Inc. defeated a bid for a group lawsuit claiming the company illegally gave its users’ personal information to advertisers, with a judge ruling the plaintiffs didn’t have enough in common to pursue a...
101 Sales, Marketing, and Agency Management Ideas
Aug 22 2016 // Emotional Connections.Great brands avoid selling products. Great salespeople cultivate emotional connections with customers. —Harvard Business Review, August 2016 How to Increase Sales.Discuss all coverages applicable...
Data Centers’ Use of Water for Cooling Has Investors Concerned
Aug 11 2016 // Data centers, used by governments and large corporations to house their computer systems, have one big environmental problem: They get hot. To keep them from overheating, large data centers can pump hundreds of millions of...
Indianapolis Suburb Settles Facebook Free Speech Lawsuit
Aug 9 2016 // An Indianapolis suburb has settled a lawsuit accusing it of violating free speech rights when it removed two women’s critical comments on its Facebook page. Court documents show the plaintiffs will receive nearly...
Pittsburgh Newscaster Sues Station Over Firing for Facebook Comments
Jun 22 2016 // A Pittsburgh newscaster fired after her comments in a Facebook post about a shooting were deemed racially insensitive sued her former employer on Monday, saying the television station let her go because she is white. Wendy...
Google, Facebook, Twitter Sued by Father of Victim of Paris Terrorist Attack
Jun 21 2016 // The father of a young woman killed in the Paris massacre last November is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, claiming that the companies provided “material support” to extremists in violation of the...
Facebook Must Face Claims Its Photo Tagging Violates Biometric Privacy
May 6 2016 // Facebook Inc. users who say the social network’s facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight. A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook’s request to...
