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Almost Half of Americans Believe Facebook Is Just a Fad

By UCN on May 15, 2012 7:35 AM

Expectations for Facebook's long-term success were lower among younger adults. (AP Photo)

Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected asking price is too high.

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Happy Birthday Zuck! Facebook's Chief Executive Turns 28

By UCN on May 14, 2012 6:25 AM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on during a town hall style meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at Facebook headquarters on April 20, 2011 in Palo Alto, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America)

He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO.

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Facebook Opens Its Own App Store

By UCN on May 10, 2012 12:11 PM

Facebook has created its own 'App Centre', in which it will showcase the best apps across the web, all mobile platforms and on the social network.

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Facebook Could Raise Billions in IPO

By UCN on May 4, 2012 7:35 AM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to speak at a news conference at Facebook headquarters July 6, 2011 in Palo Alto, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America)

Investors hungry for details on Facebook's hotly anticipated IPO got a tasty morsel Thursday when the company set the price for for what will be one of the largest deals ever in U.S. history.

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Facebook Encourages Users to List Their Donor Status

By UCN on May 1, 2012 1:39 PM

Nearly 7,000 people in the United States die each year while waiting for an organ transplant. It is a number that Facebook hopes to lower with its vast network of 161 million members in this country.

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PepsiCo Partners with Social Networking Site for Twitter Concerts

By UCN on April 30, 2012 10:57 AM

PepsiCo Inc. is tweeting to a new generation of music lovers.

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Google Revamps Social Network to Make It Easier to Use

By UCN on April 12, 2012 4:06 AM

Google is tweaking its social network, Google Plus, to make it easier to use and to distinguish it from rival Facebook.

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Facebook Spends $1 Billion to Buy Instagram

By UCN on April 9, 2012 7:54 PM

Instagram is demonstrated on an iPhone Monday, April 9, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)

Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network's largest acquisition ever.

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Emails from Zuckerberg's Harvard Days Show the Business Side of Young CEO

By UCN on March 26, 2012 6:12 PM

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks to reporters at Harvard University November 7, 2011 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images North America)

Emails from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a client's delayed payments.

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Twitter to Help Choose New Archbishop of Canterbury

By UCN on March 25, 2012 7:52 AM

Spokesman for the Church of England said the invitation would be made through the church press but also through other media including the social networking site Twitter, where the CofE already posts news in nuggets of 140 characters or less. Tweeters and others will be asked to offer names and "views on the needs of the diocese of Canterbury and the wider community" (Alamy)

The Church of England is to use the social networking site Twitter to help select the new Archbishop of Canterbury

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