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• A year after launch, how has Facebook Workplace fared?

  With 14,000 organizations worldwide using its business collaboration app, Facebook has a foothold in the enterprise, but it faces stiff competition on multiple fronts.

• How Facebook plans to bring Messenger to business

  Speaking at the Collision conference this week, Facebook’s Stan Chudnovsky said the company remains committed to making Messenger a multi-purpose platform.

• 2016's biggest social media stories

  Social media had undue, and dangerous, influence on the presidential election in 2016, and Microsoft closed one of the highest-profile acquisition in social media history. These are just two of CIO.com's picks for the most significant social stories of 2016.

• What Facebook's miscalculated metrics mean for marketers

  Facebook again admitted that it provided inaccurate metrics to its advertising and publishing partners, but the company also promised a number of fixes to the problem.

• Twitter dives as Facebook continues to thrive

  Facebook continues to defy expectations with incredible growth in virtually every important area of business success, and its accomplishments stand in stark contrast to Twitter's decidedly tepid performance.

• 3 big tests for Facebook at F8

  Facebook kicks off F8 this week with some big tasks that should dominate its efforts this year.

• Facebook's Canvas a ‘big moment’ for mobile ads

  Facebook yesterday announced a new full-screen, mobile ad format called Canvas that's designed to help advertisers engage customers with detailed brand experiences.

• How tech giants spread open source programming love

  Industry giants like Google, Facebook and Ericsson have already solved many of the large-scale problems that smaller companies are now facing.

• How a big U.K. bank uses Facebook at Work for collaboration

  Facebook for Work, the company's social network for business, has been available as a limited pilot for about a year, but the support of Royal Bank of Scotland helps legitimize the soon-to-be-released product for security-conscious organizations.

• Facebook (finally) goes beyond the 'Like' with new 'Reactions'

  Facebook is set to roll out a new way for users to interact, beyond comments and the simple 'Like' button. However, its new 'Reactions' emojis aren't the "Dislike" option many users want, and they attempt to solve a problem that may not have a solution.

• What CIOs can learn from Facebook's use of open source

  Facebook detailed its philosophy on open source at the company's annual @Scale developer conference this week. The company’s head of open source also shared some related advice for IT professionals.

• Will stock, hiring surge at a more transparent Google?

  Google's restructuring could finally deliver to Wall Street something it's been after for years: more insight into what the company is spending on things like Nest, drones and health research.

• Why you shouldn't accept every LinkedIn connection invite

  Next time you receive an invitation to connect on LinkedIn from someone unfamiliar, think twice before you accept. This is not only sound advice, it's part of LinkedIn's official rules. Section 8.2 of the site's user agreement specifies that members agree not to "invite people you do not know to join your network." While Facebook and Twitter are great for broadcasting random thoughts and bragging about your private life to complete strangers, LinkedIn is designed to be personal and relevant to your professional life.

• Why the open source business model is a failure

  Open source software companies must move to the Cloud and add proprietary code to their products to succeed. The current business model is recipe for failure.

• How Apple's privacy stance could give Google an AI edge

  "We at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make tradeoffs between privacy and security," said Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this month during an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) event where he was honored for corporate leadership. "We can and we must provide both in equal measure."