February 2, 2012

Facebook Embark On Mega-IPO Of Silicon Valley

Facebook IPO Speculation

Seeking to raise USD 5 billion, giant social networking site –  Facebook unveiled what is expected to be Silicon Valley’s largest ever initial public offering, but made it clear to outside investors that they will have little voice in its running, as founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will continue to exercise almost complete control. The [...]

No Need To Censor The Web – We Are Not In Medieval Age [Google Vs Govt. Of India]

Google VS Government Of India

Google is absolutely right when it says that it is not possible for the company to monitor everything on its website. Whatever arguments Google’s eminent battery of lawyers may put forth in the respective courts when the case against Google  and other companies shall come up for hearing, one thing is clear that these companies [...]

Chit Chat for Facebook Web Messenger: Besting Facebook Chat at Its Own Game

Chit Chat For Facebook Web Messenger

Judging by the comments on Facebook, it seems very few people are pleased with how the social network has integrated instant messaging. Most people complain that the interface is clunky and intrusive and even a little bit unreliable. Despite its drawbacks, Facebook Chat has some redeeming qualities and one of the most important is that [...]

Kobo’s Reading Life App Now Integrates With Facebook Timeline

Kobo

Kobo, a global leader in eReading with over 7 million users in over 170 countries worldwide, today announced the integration of Reading Life on the Kobo iOS eReading app with Facebook Timeline; elevating the traditionally solitary pastime of reading into a more dynamic activity to be shared with friends online. Kobo is proud to be one [...]

Push Facebook Notifications To Your Android Phone Via MB Notifications – Must Have App For Facebook Users [Review]

MB Notifications Home

If you are a facebook addict and have an Android running smartphone then you must be aware of the official facebook application, the progress that it has made in the past few updates and the horrible push notification system it has. Now, there are different android applications that can be used to access facebook on [...]

Facebook Planning To Come Out With US$10 Billion IPO In 2012

Facebook IPO Speculation

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the world’s largest social network – Facebook – headed by Mark Zuckerberg with more than 800 million users, is preparing to issue its first public stock offering in the second quarter of 2012. The Facebook IPO could be a $10 billion offering based on a $100 billion valuation of [...]

Facebook To Bring Out Smartphone In Association With Taiwan’s HTC – Will It Be Late Entrant?

HTC Facebook Phone

Time is the essence for making a product successful and right product at right time will only help you even if you are  billionaire social networking legend Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook has allied with Taiwan’s HTC to build a customized smartphone powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system, according to technology blog All Things Digital. The project, code named [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL Collaborate For Online Ad Deal – To Compete With Google, Facebook

Microsoft, Yahoo!, Aol Partnership

Recognizing how powerful Google (Adsense) and Facebook have become as Internet money making machines, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL are joining forces to sell online advertising. This alliance was announced on Tuesday, 8th November, 2011 and the three tech giants said they would pool their resources to sell leftover ad space beginning January, 2012. All the [...]

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Learnt A Lot From Steve Jobs

Zuckerberg For Apple

The 27 year old CEO/creator of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard University as a dropout with a novel idea. He received a rock-star welcome during his first official visit (to recruit for Facebook) since he left for California’s Silicon Valley in 2004. He made his recruitment pitch to 250 students at Harvard after a [...]

Facebook Prevents A Whopping 6,00,000 Daily Hacking Attempts!

Facebook Hack Attempts

Social networking website Facebook has said it prevents at least 600,000 attempts every day by hackers trying to break into user accounts, using stolen usernames and passwords. Facebook has an estimated 800 million users and receives over a billion login attempts every day. The hackers try to steal user information, spread frauds or send bogus offers [...]

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