Facebook: Bug jeopardized email addresses, phone numbers of 6M users + MORE

A recent bug on Facebook exposed the phone numbers and email addresses of roughly 6 million users, the site reported late Friday on its blog. Facebook claims that they have no evidence that the bug was exploited maliciously, and has since been fixed. Affected users have been notified via email, and Facebook has notified regulators in the U…

While you’ve been busy updating your company’s Facebook page, keeping your customers up to date through Twitter and posting the latest corporate video on YouTube, we’ve been reporting on the latest in social media news for businesses large and small.
In case you’ve missed any of it, here’s a recap of this week’s breaking stories…

The beauty of organization is efficiency, especially when it comes to product. At close to 1 million offerings, Apple’s App Store is full of great inventory, but with most of it hidden in the store’s setup, developers and consumers are missing out
OttoCat is an automatic categorization system looking to reinvent the way we search and find apps…

Snapjoy, the online photo storage service that Dropbox acquired in December, has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down. The company noted the information in a blog post, as well as in an email it’s currently sending out to users (I am among them: I’m copying the text below)…

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Google and Waze, two of the leading companies in the mapping industry, may be a match made in heaven. But Google’s $1.1 billion acquisition of the social driving company has, not surprisingly, signaled some alarm bells with antitrust authorities…

New Web-based technology might make leaking data easier and more secure in the future. Researchers in Germany are developing a platform based on Internet ads to help whistleblowers like Edward Snowden leak top-secret information without their activities being caught out online.
AdLeaks is a system that is being designed to minimize the footprint of leaking information online in order to avoid the gaze of wide-reaching, international monitoring systems — such as those that the US is reported to use to keep track of overseas and domestic Internet traffic…

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Video Now on Instagram: Instagram users now have another way to share stories: video. “When you go to […