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Facebook announced Friday that it is making offers available to Android users. In April, Facebook made mobile offers available to iOS users.

Facebook is appealing a ruling made last year over a dispute regarding a Facebook like as free and protected speech.

This week, Trent & Co. is hiring a social media community manager, while Costume SuperCenter needs a social media/Internet marketing analyst.

Digital ads and television ads are the most effective in driving viewers to interact with brands’ presences on Facebook and other social networks, according to the results of a recent survey of 2,577 U.

Myriad reports have said that Facebook has a problem with teen users eschewing the site for social networks such as Tumblr.

Sigmund Freud is famous for making society’s understanding of the conscious mind versus the unconscious mind popular.

On May 18, 2012, Facebook became a publicly traded company. Facebook’s stock has had some definite peaks and valleys since then.

Many of Facebook’s more than 1 billion monthly active users would agree — the site is great, but could use some improvement.

The box art for Capcom’s upcoming game offering, Resident Evil Revelations, features one of the main characters, Jill Valentine, fearfully looking through a porthole.

News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch used Twitter to tweak Facebook on the eve of the first anniversary of its initial public offering, comparing Facebook to ill-fated social network MySpace.

Facebook launched a new page, Research Publications at Facebook, which serves as a portal for scientific papers by Facebook staffers and other researchers.

Two of the National Basketball Association’s marquee franchises are moving in starkly different directions when it comes to movement in people talking about this on Facebook for the past week, according to sister page PageData, as the defending champions, the Miami Heat, nearly doubled the PTAT gain of its nearest competitor, while the Los Angeles Lakers, after barely qualifying for the playoffs and being swept out of the first round, lost more than double the PTAT of the next team on the list.

Social media agency Pandemic Labs created its own take on Facebook analytics from scratch, resulting in Watchtower, a comprehensive tool that allows page administrators to analyze their pages, as well as those of their competitors.

Mass Relevance, a social integration platform that worked with Facebook and CNN for Election Insights, announced Thursday that it has integrated 25 billion pieces of content into visualizations on TV, billboards, stadium displays, websites, mobile applications, and more.

Facebook recently wondered if younger married women were more apt to keep or change their last names after marriage (at least on Facebook).

While there have been two unofficial Facebook applications for Google Glass, Google announced Thursday at its I/O conference that an official Facebook app is coming to the high-tech specs.

Facebook continues to look out for its users who are part of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community, using a post on its Facebook Safety page to promote “What LGBT Communities Should Know About Online Safety,” a tip sheet from the LGBT Technology Partnership, Stop Think Connect, and the National Cyber Security Alliance.

To build the redesigned News Feed, Facebook designers quarantined themselves into a plush living room-style office with a live feed of users testing out the new product.

Facebook users hoping to keep their accounts flea-free will be heartened by the news that flea- and tick-control product Frontline Plus launched a cross-platform advertising campaign on King.

Who doesn’t love a good shortcut, especially when it comes to Facebook and other social networks? Social analytics firm Quintly compiled a list of shortcuts for Facebook — as well as Twitter, YouTube, and Google Plus — in the infographic below.