All the headlines from our Facebook Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2014 // When Nigeria was hit by its first outbreak of the Ebola virus, health workers monitoring suspected cases armed themselves with mobile phones and an Android app that cut the time it took to report the onset of symptoms.The...
Oct 6 2014 // I was recently driving toward Tahoe and passed a vacant billboard. In bold lettering against a blank white background a sign proudly proclaimed, “2.2 Million Views a Month.” Since I had just met with a client...
Aug 13 2014 // Facebook’s fight against prosecutors over nearly 400 search warrants for users’ postings and other data is drawing support from other social media companies and civil libertarians.Lawyers for Foursquare,...
Aug 4 2014 // A former Greenville, Mississippi police officer wants a federal appeals court to reinstate her wrongful firing lawsuit against city.Oral arguments are Sept 3 before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans....
Jun 27 2014 // Facebook Inc. was ordered by a judge last year to turn over account information of 381 users who were investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney in New York for cheating to obtain disability benefits.Facebook, the...
May 19 2014 // Facebook wants companies to pay up.In the past few years, major social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have started pushing businesses toward promoted posts, paid advertisements, and sponsored...
May 13 2014 // Maui County in Hawaii is settling a federal lawsuit that alleged unconstitutional interference with a Facebook page.Settlement terms include the county paying $25,000 in attorneys’ fees and damages and re-writing its...
Apr 21 2014 // Today’s generation is all about social networking. Social networking has become the most popular way to network and promote business. And in the current “tech savvy” environment it’s becoming...
Apr 3 2014 // Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, changed how China shops. Now the man driving its blockbuster U.S. stock sale wants to transform the rest of the country’s services industry, adding new users to...
Mar 27 2014 // Sammy Wasem was 15 when he started a Ferrari fan page that would become one of the most popular car sites on Facebook. Six years later, he is in a legal battle with his favorite Italian sports-car maker in a case that may...
Mar 13 2014 // Melody Holeman has no TV and lives in such a rural part of the Oklahoma Panhandle that she can’t even pick up a signal on the weather radio that the Red Cross gave her.When powerful storms barrel through the area,...
Mar 4 2014 // A Florida teenager’s Facebook post has cost her father an $80,000 legal settlement. The Palm Beach Post reported that the father had sued a Miami-area preparatory school for age discrimination after he lost his job...
Dec 19 2013 // Facebook Inc. and the underwriters of its May 2012 initial public offering must face a class-action lawsuit by investors claiming the company misled them about its financial condition, a judge ruled.U.S. District Judge...
Dec 17 2013 // Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. must face some of the negligence and securities law claims by investors who alleged they suffered $500 million in damages from the exchange’s handling of Facebook Inc.’s May 2012 initial...
Dec 11 2013 // A federal judge has ruled against a former police officer who argued in a lawsuit that Greenville officials violated her free speech rights by firing her over comments posted on a social networking site.Former Sgt. Susan...
Nov 26 2013 // A South Florida woman is suing the Black Entertainment Television network in a dispute over a Facebook page she developed to promote the show “The Game.”Attorneys for Stacey Mattocks, who lives in Broward...
Nov 5 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand Facebook Inc.’s $9.5 million class action settlement over allegations the social networking company’s defunct “Beacon” service violated its members’...
Oct 31 2013 // A Dothan, Alabama judge is considering whether city officials acted appropriately in upholding disciplinary action against a police officer for Facebook posts she made.Circuit Judge Butch Binford heard arguments in the...
Sep 18 2013 // Using Facebook Inc.’s “Like” feature to show support for a candidate in an election is speech protected under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said, handing a victory to the social...
Sep 4 2013 // This post is part of a series on insurance marketing and training sponsored by Astonish.Just a few years ago, most businesses thought their social media marketing job was done just by creating a Facebook page and therefore...