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As Facebook buys Strobe, Tilde embraces its Web tech - CNET

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As Facebook buys Strobe, Tilde embraces its Web tech
CNET
Facebook has acquired Strobe, a startup focused on the open-source SproutCore software--but CNET has learned that a new startup called Tilde looks to be picking up where Strobe is ...
Facebook acquires app developer co StrobeTimes of India
Facebook hires mobile tech teamReuters India
Facebook buys Strobe to shore up smartphone offeringsEconomic Times
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Written on 09 November 2011 by facebook - Google News under Uncategorized with Comments Off
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Facebook Acquires HTML5 App Delivery Network Strobe, SproutCore Lives On - TechCrunch

Facebook Acquires HTML5 App Delivery Network Strobe, SproutCore Lives On
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Learn More Facebook has apparently completed yet another small acquisition, snapping up HTML5 app distribution platform company Strobe. In a blog post, Strobe founder (and creator of open source JavaScript framework SproutCore) Charles Jolley says the ...

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Written on 08 November 2011 by facebook - Google News under Uncategorized with Comments Off
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CIA Following Twitter And Facebook To Analyze Public Opinion, Predict Major Events - Huffington Post

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CIA Following Twitter And Facebook To Analyze Public Opinion, Predict Major Events
Huffington Post
At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms – anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to ...
Use Twitter, Facebook Often? The CIA may be WatchingFox News

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AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook - The Associated Press

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AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook
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At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to ...
Use Twitter, Facebook Often? The CIA may be WatchingFox News
Twitter, Facebook are catching CIA's attentionWashington Post
CIA's "Vengeful Librarians" follow tweets and monitor facebookExaminer.com
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Why fear of Facebook is not enough for rivals to succeed — Tech …

New social networks -- such as the newly launched Unthink, as well as the open-source Diaspora -- are pitching themselves as alternatives for those who are upset with or afraid of Facebook. But as Myspace found out, ...
Written on 26 October 2011 by Mathew Ingram under Uncategorized with Comments Off
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How Facebook moved 30 petabytes of Hadoop data — Cloud Computing News

For anyone who didn't know, Facebook is a huge Hadoop user, and it does some very cool things to stretch the open source big data platform to meet Facebook's unique needs. Today, it detailed how it migrated its ...
Written on 27 July 2011 by Derrick Harris under Uncategorized with Comments Off
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