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A More Wiretap-Friendly Web?
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – The U.S. government is hoping to make key internet services such as Google and Facebook more wiretap-friendly. According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, a government task force is helping craft legislation that would see...

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Facebook Constructing Data Center in Iowa
Friday, April 26th, 2013THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Top social networking provider Facebook on Monday announced its intention to build a data center in Altoona, Iowa – marking the company’s fourth. Facebook currently maintains facilities in Oregon, North Carolina and Sweden. “In the coming...

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When Hybrid Clouds Meets Big Data
Monday, April 8th, 2013Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Big data can refer to any large amount of data in any form. It could be data that is somewhat structured in a more traditional database sense, or it could be a completely unstructured collection of files. Regardless of the...

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Facebook Rolling Out News Feed Overhaul
Thursday, March 7th, 2013THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Social giant Facebook on Thursday was expected to roll out a fresh new design for its News Feed – the primary screen users receive when logging in that displays such things as friend status updates, photo...

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Facebook Invests in Ads with Atlas Buy
Friday, March 1st, 2013THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Following a high profile buy of Instagram last year, Facebook on Thursday continued expanding its portfolio, announcing that it would acquire Microsoft’s Atlas Advertiser Suite. The social network, meanwhile, explained the reasoning behind the bid in...

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Facebook Employees Hit with Malware Exploit
Monday, February 18th, 2013THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Facebook hasn’t really had to endure many problems from the wrath of hackers – but on Friday, the top social site detailed a sophisticated attack that threatened its network. The issue was apparently discovered in January...

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Facebook Will Add Promo Feature to Profiles
Thursday, October 4th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Want to make your Facebook posts more prominently displayed on the social site? Facebook has a plan – but it could cost you something extra. The network will begin charging users to use its promote feature...

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Facebook Sets Clean Energy Goal for 2015
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Top social networking giant Facebook’s infrastructure is backed by state of the art data center facilities located in Prineville, Oregon and Forest City, North Carolina. Surely providing for more than 950 million users is a hefty...

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Facebook Buys Face.com, Bolstering Facial Regocnition
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – The controversial capability known as facial recognition could be set for even higher attention. On Monday, facial recognition provider Face.com revealed that it had been acquired by social networking giant Facebook. “Our mission is and has...

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Leveraging the Power of Social Media
Saturday, May 19th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Many hosting users who are new to e-commerce often approach it with the mistaken belief that launching a website will automatically draw in customers. Perhaps they heard a voice calling them in the night, “If you build it, they will...

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