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Facebook today released a security feature called “Trusted Contacts” as an optional way for people to recover their passwords with the help of their trusted friends. The company first introduced the concept to a small test group in 2011 under the name “trusted friends.” Facebook has renamed it “trusted contacts” and increased security. Trusted Contacts allows you to specify three to five Facebook friends to help you regain account access….

Facebook has acquired Parse, a cloud-based platform that provides scalable cross-platform services and tools for developers. “By making Parse a part of Facebook Platform, we want to enable developers to rapidly build apps that span mobile platforms and devices. Parse makes this possible by allowing developers to work with native objects that provide backend services for data storage, notifications, user management, and more. This removes the need to manage servers…

Facebook has added real-time dashboards for measuring the efficiency of its data center’s internal power and water use, the company announced April 18. Two dashboards monitor the company’s Prineville and Forest City, N.C. data centers, measuring both the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness of those facilities, in addition to the ambient temperature and humidity. So far, visitors to the Prineville and Forest City dashboards only see a…

Facebook  Founder Mark Zuckerberg  had announced about “Facebook Home”, a family of Facebook Apps. for Android Devices. “You’re going to be able to turn your Android phone into a great social device,” Zuckerberg said at the unveiling. “Our phones today are designed around apps, not people. We want to flip that around.” Facebook Home will put updates from Facebook right on the home screen via a feature called Cover Feed….

Zynga,the Online game publisher relaunched its website on Thursday, allowing users to play its games without first signing on to Facebook. ”All players will have the option to connect with Facebook and keep your game friends and game progress, while deciding what you share with your gaming community,” Zynga’s Cadir Lee wrote in a blog post. Tim Catlin, general manager of Zynga.com, told Reuters he believed Zynga’s players wanted to…

Facebook is planning to adopt Twitter’s iconic hashtag symbol,Wall Street Journal has said. Twitter added a hashtag search feature to make it easy for users to find messages focused on particular topic or interest. The hashtag, which appears as the # symbol.Users type the hashtag alongside a keyword – such as #Pope Francis. Now a days Facbook is introducing new changes.In January it introduced a revamped social search feature, dubbed Graph Search.Today Friday, March…

Facebook announced that it acquires the talented team behind Hot Studio, a top design agency based in San Francisco and New York. “We began working with Hot Studio on a few projects several months ago. Immediately, we recognized the synergy between our teams and their remarkable talents. Hot Studio has a sixteen-year history working with some of the world’s biggest and best brands. They have an intricate understanding of what…

Facebook announced on Thursday it has acquired Microsoft’s Atlas Advertiser Suite. Atlas is a leader in campaign management and measurement for marketers and agencies.It’s based in Seattle.Atlas team will continue to operate from there. “Today’s agreement brings us closer together in a way that benefits both Facebook and Atlas’ agency and marketer clients. Atlas clients should not see any change to the service they receive today, and we will continue…

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi tripped on the social network’s privacy settings. Randi Zuckerberg, older sister of Mark, posted a photo on Tuesday to her private timeline, showing her family’s reactions to the social network’s new Poke smartphone app. Callie Schweitzer, a marketing director at Vox Media, saw the picture in her Facebook feed and, thinking it was a public photo, reshared it on Twitter. Randi had posted it…

Google, Facebook ,Twitter and Yahoo all just released their year-in-review reports.If we see back Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about Whitney Houston ,royal princess, the latest iPad, iPhone,Gangnam Style,  Hurricane Sandy and a record-breaking skydiver Felix. Google: Google had released the Top Search Terms in this year 2012 as “Zeitgeist 2012″.   Whitney Houston was the “top trending” search of the year, according to Google.Korean rapper PSY’s “Gangnam Style” music video…