Tag: Facebook
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Do your due diligence before using someone else’s content online
The Financial Times reports on an interesting legal dispute between British luxury fashion house Burberry and the estate of actor Humphrey Bogart that highlights the copyright minefield businesses can be faced with on using images online. Burberry used a still…
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Tuning out the politics on Facebook
Since joining Facebook in April 2007, one thing I like using it for is keeping in touch, sometimes connecting, with many American friends, colleagues and acquaintances. They’re typically a lively crowd, lots of commentary and opinion on topics of mutual…
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Like a Tesco product on Facebook, get loyalty points
BrandRepublic reports that UK retailing giant Tesco has launched a trial promotion that rewards Facebook users with points in its Clubcard customer loyalty programme if they ‘like’ a product in Tesco’s online supermarket, Tesco Direct. […] Tesco currently has 839,703…
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Facebook could be a standard feature in credit scoring
German news magazine Der Spiegel reports that Germany’s largest credit agency plans to mine Facebook and other social networking sites in search of information that could help the agency determine what effect online relationships may have on people’s abilities to…
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Social media: word of mouth at scale
Among some compelling metrics about Facebook’s contributions to Europe’s economies last year – led by $15.3 billion value and 230,000 jobs – is this description of social media by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: […] She argued that we’re living in…