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Facebook teaches us yet again that technology is a tool, not a toy

Once again, Facebook can’t seem to get out of its own way. Some of its problems both known and new this week are of its own making, and some are just, well like your mom said, the company you keep.

Tech and Innovation

Facebook partners with Carolina Code School to fund coding boot camp scholarships

The social networking giant announced on Wednesday that it will fund scholarships for 25 people to attend the Greenville-based coding school.

Tech and Innovation

Facebook to hold Community Boost program at Greenville ONE Center

The program aims to provide the nation’s small businesses and workers with the digital skills they need to “compete in the new mobile economy," the social media giant said in a news release.

Tech and Innovation

The takeaway from Cambridge Analytica: trust doesn’t cut it with third-party vendors

There's almost no way you don't know something about the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook snafu.

Tech and Innovation

Geek-speak obscures tech issues important to businesses

Algorithms, chip vulnerabilities, “viewable-only organic reach,” and “speculative execution side-channel attacks.” It’s geek-speak run amok, and no one can blame you flicking past posts on Meltdown, Spectre, and Facebook News…

Economic Development

Facebook Boost Program coming to Greenville

The program, announced in November by Facebook’s co-founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, aims to provide the nation’s small businesses and workers with the digital skills they need to “compete in the new mobile economy.”

Business News

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