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Facebook Cash Can Fuel Oculus VR Growth, CEO Says

Facebook Cash Can Fuel Oculus VR Growth, CEO Says

April 10, 2014

By Mike Denison Capital News Service (MCT) COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Tech innovator Brendan Iribe has a penchant for ambitious goals. His first company aimed to make software better than what Microsoft...

Social Media: Fun AND Idiotic

Joe Lose, Writer April 5, 2014

It's no secret the vast majority of Americans are on Facebook and/or Twitter.  Other than those main two, there's a multitude of other social media tools that let everyone see your stupid selfies and...

Privacy Groups Urge FTC To Probe Facebook’s Deal To Buy WhatsApp

Privacy Groups Urge FTC To Probe Facebook’s Deal To Buy WhatsApp

March 6, 2014

By Jessica Guynn Los Angeles Times (MCT) SAN FRANCISCO — The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate...

Online Dating: To Friend or Not to Friend

September 5, 2013

Now that Facebook has taken over the world, it’s hard to know the appropriate “friending” etiquette as it relates to the dating scene. I get this question all the time – “Should I friend someone...

Facebook Opens Polls, Users Vote Against Privacy-policy Changes

SAN FRANCISCO -- Twenty-four hours after Facebook opened the polls, more than 100,000 users have cast their votes 10 to 1 against Facebook's proposed changes to its policies. That includes a proposal that...

Team Jack: An Inspiration

Team Jack: An Inspiration

Olivia Shoemaker, Reporter October 9, 2012

Jack Hoffman and his family have inspired people across the Husker nation and beyond. At only age 6, the Atkinson, Nebraska native was diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer. After suffering through...

You Can Quote Me on Ethics

Nikita Rector, Editor in Chief October 9, 2012

Many people are afraid to talk to reporters or writers for fear of being misquoted or taken advantage of. Anyone with a background in journalism knows how to handle an interview, as well as how to properly...

Have a Tattoo? You Judge Too.

Nikita Rector, Editor in Chief April 26, 2012

"When people get tattoos and spend 98% of their time complaining about how society "judges" them." Facebook user Michaela Volk posted on April 11, 2012. This made me stop and think: yes, quite often...

Technology Hooked

Technology Hooked

Britt Young, News Editor April 19, 2012

Fifteen years ago bag phones were in cars and the internet was scarcely used by students in the Midwestern schools.  Moving the present, some people are so involved with technology they can not live without...

Contest: The Most Beautiful Teenager in the World

Brittney Means, Opinion Editor March 29, 2012

There is a page on facebook encouraging teens all over the world to put up pictures of themselves to see how many “likes” they get. The page has over 107,000 likes and almost 80,000 facebookers...

Tighter online privacy rules for preteens proposed

Jim Puzzanghera, Jessica Guynn (MCT) September 15, 2011

WASHINGTON — Many preteens have dived into the expanding worlds of social networks and smartphone apps, but federal rules designed to protect their privacy are still in the era of Web portals and flip...

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