Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Facebook founder battles his demons
Its director has likened the film to the classic tale of media ambition, "Citizen Kane"9-years-old made into a movie," he said00-million donation to the trouble schools of Newark, New Jersey just days before the film was released
Facebook works on creating smartphone devices
Facebook is working with mobile phone maker INQ Mobile Ltd to create two smartphone devices that may have a network tie up with AT&T Inc, Bloomberg said, citing three people familiar with the matter1 and the United States in the second half of the year, the report said Privately held Facebook said previously that it was not building its [...]
Swiss chocoholics are sweet rival for Facebook
The world's first virtual community dedicated purely to chocolate, launched last week in Switzerland, gives cyber-networkers the chance to satisfy their sweet tooth as their friend network grows5 countries worldwide800s and is still home to producers such as KitKat-maker Nestle, Barry Callebaut and Lindt & Spruengli -- famed for its [...]
Facebook beats Google websites in time spent
US Web surfers are spending more time socialising on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc percent of their time, putting Yahoo third in terms of time spent browsing2 per cent on Yahoo2 percent To be sure, there's wiggle room in these estimates, which comScore bases on a combination of [...]
Facebook adds remote logout security feature
Social networking major Facebook announced on Thursday that it is rolling out a new security feature that allows users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer With this new security feature, Facebook expects to address the problem that many of the PC users who forget to log out of their account The feature is currently [...]
Rahul Gandhi has 67,921 followers on Facebook
Rahul Gandhi is a hit on Facebook people which could be among the largest for any leader in the country on the popular social networking site7,469 people listed as followers and another page named as "Priyanka Gandhi politician" having 163 followers,283 people liking it while another page with politician listed along with her name has 503 [...]
Google polishes real-time search, launches site
Google Inc launched a website on Thursday for users who want to sift through news, comments and other information on the Internet in real time, letting them follow conversations on social network hubs such as Facebook and Twitter in one place5 percent late Thursday afternoon
Aircraft for sale on Facebook
From being a bonding tool for college students to becoming a social networking utility boasting of more than 500 million active users, Facebook has indeed come a long way2 Indian aircraft-including choppers-for sale and five aircraft deals have already taken place by a Kochi-based company K Air Charter35 crore, is the approximate cost of a new [...]
Facebook overtakes Orkut in India: comScore
Internet giant Google's social networking platform Orkut has lost yet another turf to the surge of Facebook79 per cent versus year ago6 per cent in the same time period0, more than 33 million Internet users aged 15 and above visited social networking sites in India, representing 84 per cent of the total Internet audience3 per cent, social [...]
Facebook Projected to Overtake Google
If current projections hold, within 18 months, Facebook will overtake Google to become the most visited website in the world8 months, it might be the biggest website in the world2, the social networking website will surpass Google as the top site in the world50 million unique visitors per day, while Facebook is around 125 million: an increase [...]
Facebook Execs Do Not ‘Like’ the Facebook Movie
After an early screening of David Fincher’s The Social Network, due out October 1, Facebook execs are dismissing the movie as fiction
Facebook Fights Privacy Concerns
The launch of Facebook Inc8 of a "here now" feature, which broadcasts one's location to a wide set of Facebook users also in that pace Facebook complied, and Places automatically limits sharing such information just to those minors' confirmed friends "We appreciate the fact that you actually took our advice," Mr Magid told Facebook's Ms [...]
Facebook Announces Geolocation Product
Facebook’s long-awaited and often discussed location-based software that allows users to check-in, has officially been debuted after months of rumors and speculation Dubbed Facebook Places, the app will debut The new service will require the use of a smartphone with W3 geolocation, but users with the app can also tag friends to the same [...]
Google vs. Facebook on Places
Google Inc00 or fewer employees spent $35 billion to $40 billion in all forms of local advertising in the UKelsey, a local-media advisory firmKelsey, estimates that about 1 a day, according to Mr0 billion search queries were executed through Google last month, according to comScore Inc Now Facebook is asking businesses to create a Place page on [...]
Facebook adds location-based feature
Facebook users carrying their smart phones will soon be able to "check in" to real-world locations such as bars, parks and live concerts as the social network makes its first foray into the location services craze "Where are you" is joining "What's on your mind" as Facebook lets its users declare their whereabouts to their friends and people [...]
Facebook does not support Google Web plan
New York: In an emerging battle over regulating Internet access, companies are taking sides Facebook, one of the companies that has flourished on the open Internet, indicated Wednesday that it did not support a proposal by Google and Verizon that critics say could let providers of Internet access chip away at that openness Meanwhile an [...]
Call your Facebook friends for free with new app
New York: Vonage, a pioneer of home phone service over the Internet, has a new application for the iPhone and Android phones that provides free calls between Facebook users The application is another step in the industrywide move away from today's phone system and its numbers and toward Internet calling Vonage Mobile for Facebook is [...]
Facebook and Twitter’s new rival, Tumblr
New York: By now, plenty of traditional media companies have hopped on the social media bandwagon, pumping out news updates on Facebook and Twitter0,000-follower count,0005 billion page views Items posted on Tumblr can also ripple out to far-flung corners of the Web When The New Yorker posted the Escher-inspired oil-spill-themed cover [...]
Facebook tops 500 million users
New York: Facebook, the social network created in the dormitories of Harvard six years ago, said on Wednesday that it now had 500 million members00-point scale, which placed it in the bottom 5 percent of the companies covered in the index Facebook's popularity has also spurred competition from the likes of Google, which views the billions [...]
As Facebook users die, ghosts reach out
New York: Courtney Purvin got a shock when she visited Facebook last month The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend who played piano at her wedding four years ago The friend had died in April "It kind of freaked me out a bit," she said "It was like he was coming back from the dead" Facebook, the [...]
