(Credit: Google Street View Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) As so many struggle with the ins and outs of advertising cars on Facebook, one piece of sublime inspiration from Sweden might show there are other media with more promise. An employee of Fiat near Stockholm, Sweden noticed that Google’s fine Street View drivers were making a sweep of the area. As the Daily Mail reports it , he drove a Fiat 500 and parked it in front of Volkswagen’s HQ in Sodertalje, around 30 miles south of Stockholm. He thought it might make for a fun picture when the Street View car came around. He was right

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The General Motors page on Facebook. (Credit: Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings/CNET) Yesterday, word broke that General Motors ended $10 million in Facebook ad spending after determining the ads didn’t work for it. The timing of the original WSJ story on the subject was spectacular, coming as it did just three days before Facebook’s IPO. Now folks sympathetic to Facebook are firing back at the automaker, saying GM ran a lousy Facebook campaign and ignored the social network’s advice. Which is not terribly surprising when you think about it, since the GM story has ignited a wider debate about the utility of corporate ad spending on Facebook at about the worst moment possible so far as the company and its backers are concerned

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The Fisker Karma (Credit: Fisker Automotive) Fisker Automotive received worrying news last week when a Karma sedan burned in a house fire in Texas. The cause is still being investigated, according to the company. The fire started shortly after a new Karma owner parked the car in a garage, according to a report in Autoweek . A fire investigator told Autoweek that the Karma, which was not plugged in, was the origin of the fire, but the cause was not known. Fisker released a statement saying that the electric car’s battery pack was intact and “does not appear to be a contributing factor in this incident.” The Fisker Karma is a luxury sports car that runs on electric motors and has a gasoline engine to extend the driving range

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Fisker Karma involved in house fire but battery not cause