Facebook fired the latest shot in its scuffle with digital-video-recorder provider TiVo over the trademark to the thumbs-up icon typically associated with the social network’s likes feature.
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Facebook changed the icon that appears next to friends’ birthdays on users’ homepages into one resembling a birthday cake.
Facebook announced several updates to its app dashboard on the developer side, as well as the rollout of keyword search in its app center.
Facebook’s introduction earlier this month of icons depicting same-sex marriage drew the ire of religious activists in Russia, who mounted a campaign to ban the social network in the country.
Facebook followed up last year’s additions of in a civil union and in a domestic partnership as relationship status options with the introduction of new same-sex marriage icons, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced.
Facebook added another feature to its desktop chat function: an icon next to a user’s name that provides a link to their timeline when hovered over.
In an attempt to make information about advertising on the social network more readily accessible, Facebook has begun placing a small icon depicting the megaphone symbol it uses to represent its ad products next to the word “sponsored” above its ad units.
