Facebook Hit With Porn Spam Attack
Facebook says a “coordinated spam attack” caused a series of pornographic and violent images to be posted to users’ accounts. The images, posted on Monday, include explicit pictures of...
View ArticleFTC Takes on Text Message Spam With Eight Lawsuits
It may be illegal to send text spam, but that hasn't stopped companies from bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of text messages. Cracking down on the practice, the Federal Trade Commission...
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Del Monte Solves the 'Fresh From the Can' Problem
Life has never been a bowl of peaches for canned-food brands. Even if you look past the fact that canning arose as a cheap and easy way for Napoleon to feed his armies, canned foods have a dubious...
View ArticleYouTube Comments Vandalized by Troll Art
YouTube comments have devolved into a forum for phallic art. Google has admitted its new commenting system has led to some unintended consequences, like pornographic pixel portraits. In September,...
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Will Instagram's Direct Inbox Become the New Playground for Spam and Perverts?
For Instagram users like myself, today is a day of mixed blessings. Thanks to new features announced this morning, we can finally have private conversations in the app, but Instagram is also adding...
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Snapchat: Sorry for All the Spam
The more the Internet changes—with services like Snapchat—the more it stays the same, with nuisances like spam. The Snapchat team, headed by Evan Spiegel, acknowledged a wave of spam that is annoying...
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Facebook Just Downgraded 3 Types of Spammy Posts
Facebook, in its constant News Feed vigilance, is now going after spam with its latest edict telling page administrators to end shady posting tactics just to expand their reach. This is yet another...
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All Those Kik Pics From Strangers Will Now Be Blurred
Mobile messaging app Kik is giving users new controls to protect against unwanted anonymous advances, the company said today. The app will censor images from strangers to limit lewd content being...
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The World Eats 3 Cans of Spam Every Second
London in late December 1942 wasn’t a very merry place. The blitz had dragged into its second year, damaging or destroying nearly a million buildings. Londoners slept in the Underground each night....
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Instagram Is Now Bigger Than Twitter With 300 Million Monthly Users
Instagram now has 300 million monthly users, picking up 100 million since March. The photo- and video-sharing app has surpassed Twitter's official user count of 284 million. Facebook's companion...
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Here Are the Brands Whose Follower Counts Were Hit Hardest in Instagram's...
The great Instagram purge of the past 24 hours hit Justin Bieber hardest—3.5 million lost followers—but some of social media's biggest brands felt the sting of loss, too. National Geographic, Nike,...
View ArticleHow to Kill Spam
Researchers at the University of California have found spam’s weakness. A team of computer scientists discovered that 95 percent of credit card transactions for spam deals were handled by just three...
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8 Food Marketing Trends You Need to Know About Right Now
Called the Organic Valley Coffee Shop, this unique pop-up store opened in Manhattan a few weeks ago to lines a dozen deep. The caffeine-seeking crowd didn't know, but soon found out, that the joint...
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