May 17, 2012

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 [...]

Beware Of Free iPad Scam On Facebook – Insensitive Rots Trying To Make Money On Steve Jobs Death

Steve Job Free iPad Scam

Greed has captured the imagination of scammers who are bent upon making money on the demise of Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer. They are offering free iPads to Facebook users and urging them to click on a link to register for free Apple product and then completing online surveys or enter gambling sites. The [...]

“Check In” To Your Facebook Account On Mobile Using Kasvopus

Kasvopus Check in Screen

Facebook recently launched a mobile application capable of serving almost all the mobile phones, from low end java based phones to smart-phones. Although Facebook For Mobile does serve the basic purpose of updating status, replying to comments, however those who own high end mobile phones look for much more than basic functionality. This is where [...]

Facebook For Every Phone: Mobile Application For All The Phones In The World!

Facebook For Mobile Homescreen

Facebook, hugely popular social networking website, has an interactive mobile website for getting its users hooked up to addictive platform. However the website has its own set of limitations and every other feature/function of Facebook cannot be cramped into mobile web version. For this reason, it has come up with a dedicated mobile applications for, [...]

Nokia Updates Facebook Application For Symbian^1 (S60v5) Mobile Phones

Nokia's Update For Facebook

Nokia has pushed an update for Symbian S60v5 (5230, 5800, N97 mini, 5233, etc) running mobile phones. Termed as Update For Facebook version 1.0, this update can be installed directly OTA using Software Updater application pre-installed in your Nokia phone or using Nokia Ovi Suite. This application update if of around 470 KB and will [...]

Airtel’s USSD Based Fonetwish: Access Facebook From Mobile For Free (No Internet Required)

Airtel USSD Facebook message

Airtel recently launched a unique USSD based service which allows Airtel customers to update their Facebook status messages, view/comment/’Like’ news feed, post on friends walls, find/add new friends, confirm friend requests, view notifications and more, directly from the mobile phone without the need of Internet connectivity! This means you will not be paying monthly/weekly/daily charges [...]