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brace yourselves Facebook changes are coming I'm Richard Carey and this is your cnet update facebook will change the look of the mean newsfeed the social network is having an event on thursday March 7th to show up some sort of new layout you might also hear about a change to your profile because users in New Zealand have seen their profiles change and Facebook always seems to test these things first in New Zealand I don't have any new zealand friends but the tech blog the next web has a writer over there who shared this screenshot it shows new timeline headers and some column switch ups but there's something more when a link to a story is posted now Facebook is throwing in a button for you to like the page the link came from so if i post a link to a cnet story it'll say hey you should like the cnet page pushy pushy Facebook we'll find out in a few days if these changes are coming everywhere and Facebook isn't the only one Donnie new spring designs google is testing a new element on its main search page a little grid icon that will link to gmail google maps youtube and other products instead of using the black navigation bar on top which has been around since 2011 in other news Groupons founder and CEO Andrew Mason has been fired because well the company has not been performing well financially the stock has dropped greatly since a peak in 2011 and as the captain he takes responsibility for the ship but be sure to read his farewell memo to his staff there's this geeky wit and charm about it for example he makes a battletoads reference and if you kids never played battletoads take it from me it was a crazy hard game you know maybe groupon with some more deals if they made more battletoads references well in the meantime Groupon gets a two-for-one CEO dl to replace Mason the executive chairman and the vice chairman will be in turn co-ceos until a replacement is named the Amazon Prime video library continues to grow with a new deal to show Food Network and Travel Channel shows so subscribers yeah now can get your fill of Guy Fieri and we got a few apps to end the show adobe has finally released a photoshop touch app for smartphones and it's got all the features of the tablet version so if you gotta do a little touch-up on that photo before you Instagram now you can it costs five dollars and is available for iOS and Android but no support for Windows Phone yeah Windows Phone users still have to put up with being behind on apps the Twitter app for Windows Phone just got an upgrade and it's going to give it the navigation features everyone else had for a while now but it still doesn't have tools for editing photos or managing lists that's your tech news update for more details on these stories you can find them at the blog cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey