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While teenagers may not be enthusiastic about Facebook, the company has a fan in Ashton Kutcher. The actor and angel investor, who is set to play Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs, recently spoke at the CTIA Conference in Las Vegas, saying that Twitter is too crowded and that Facebook has actually effectively placed its advertisements.

This week, Tango is hiring a senior software engineer client, and Tradeshift needs an enterprise sales engineer.

Universal Studios’ Fast & Furious 6 opens in theaters Friday, and content related to the feature film also makes its debut on Cie Games’ social automotive title, Car Town, as part of a partnership between the game developer and Universal Partnerships & Licensing.

Facebook Global Head of Brand Design Paul Adams is leaving the social network to become head of product design at startup customer-interaction-tracking tool provider Intercom, where he will work out of the Dublin office, TechCrunch reported.

When Facebook released version 2.0 of its Pages Manager for iOS application earlier this month, it temporarily removed access to post insights such as clicks and people talking about this.

Facebook brands working with Preferred Marketing Developers that have access to its ads application-programming interface can now specify time ranges shorter than the default of 14 days for the social network’s action spec targeting capability, sister blog Inside Facebook reported.

The National Basketball Association is down to its final four teams, with the San Antonio Spurs holding a two games to none lead over the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference finals, while the defending champions, the Miami Heat, lead the Indiana Pacers one game to none in the Eastern Conference finals.

Facebook’s talks to potentially acquire satellite navigation startup Waze may have hit a Google-sized fork in the road, as Bloomberg reports that the search-engine giant has thrown its hat into the Israeli company’s ring.

Memorial Day is a time to remember those who served our country, but Memorial Day weekend is also the unofficial kickoff of grilling season, and digital intelligence firm TrackMaven decided to focus on the grilling equivalent of accessories, analyzing the Facebook pages of 12 condiments from May 1 through 21.

A few high-profile executives sold some of their Facebook stock Thursday. Securities and Exchange Commission filings show that Facebook Chief Technology Officer Michael Schroepfer, Chief Accounting Officer Jas Athwal, Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman, and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg all cashed in some Facebook stock.