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Facebook App Simulates Dementia to Promote Awareness Facebook has allowed its users to collect memories, store photos, make connections, and keep up with their social lives. FaceDementia, a new app from Alzheimer's Research UK, uses those same abilities to help others understand the challenges of suffering from dementia. |
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Facebook to Buy Virtual Reality Headset Maker for $2 Billion On March 25, 2014, Facebook announced its plans to purchase Oculus VR, the company responsible for the virtual reality headset known as Rift, for roughly $2 billion. The high price tag—and surprise announcement—have many questioning what will happen with this new technology. |
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Facebook to Buy Messaging Startup Service WhatsApp for $19 Billion In an apparent move to reign over messaging on phones and online, Facebook is purchasing WhatsApp for $19 billion. The sum may seem astronomical, but analysts think the deal is a smart strategy on the social network's part to maintain its place as a mobile leader. So, what's up with WhatsApp? |
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Is "Erasable Internet" a Viable Future for the Internet? Snapchat's emergence creates an important separation in the Internet space—an Internet where the data stays forever and an Internet where the data is temporary—referred to as Erasable Internet. Are we headed toward an ephemeral Internet or continuing with one that is permanent? |
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Does Facebook Run the Risk of Gradually Getting Cannibalized? It can be argued that Facebook is running the risk of getting cannibalized by newer competitors who are smart enough not to take Facebook head on—given its humongous size—but instead are attacking it feature by feature. Anuj Magazine examines the risk for Facebook. |
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Snapchat Rejects $3B Offer—What This Says about Tech Startups Today What company would turn down a three-billion-dollar cash acquisition offer from Facebook? Snapchat would, and the reasons why are interesting. Unlike in the past, mobile technology offerings now don’t need a big parent company to become successful. Today's startups want to do it on their own. |
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The Pretty and the Ugly Sides of Social Networks When Job Hunting Among the benefits social networking has brought about is an important one—professional networking. While the avenues these platforms open up can be great, they also have drawbacks. Rajini Padmanaban examines both the pretty and the ugly sides of using social networks when job hunting. |
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Do You Want Facebook’s Facial Recognition to Remember You? When it comes to the growing use of facial recognition technology, some prefer that their face be forgotten rather than be digitally recognized, remembered, and used in random applications that they may not be aware of. Pamela Rentz looks at Facebook's use of facial recognition technology. |
