Facebook has fastened the seat belts to launch a tool that will enable users to subscribe to “interests”. In couple of weeks’ time users will find the interest list on the home page’s left hand side bar. The entire new view will appear upon clicking that certain list, which will be comprised of a list’s [...]
Is Yahoo following the footsteps of Proview Technology to receive hard cash from Facebook after involving the social network into a patent battle? Previously, Apple has been dragged into a trademark dispute by Proview in China costing the Cupertino a severe headache. Yahoo has come up with over 10 patents including the privacy controls, news [...]
We have witnessed how Twitter has formed into an influential social media power with its role in London riots, and Middle East’s chaotic situation. Yandex, a renowned Russian search engine, has formed an agreement with Twitter to show its Tweets in the search results instantly as we all know the capacity Tweets hold to break [...]
Everyone in these days wants to get a bite of Facebook, either by loosing himself in the mist of social networking or by hacking the giant. Glenn Mangham, a 26 year old British student of software development was detained by the authorities over hacking into the internal systems of Facebook. Facebook took a notice of [...]
Twitter has admitted to copying the entire address books of smartphone users and storing the data on its servers, often without securing their consent. The microblogging site gets access to the address book when users click on the “Find Friends” feature on the Twitter smart phone app, including iPhone and Android versions. Twitter has said [...]
Purchases of private company shares reached record volumes on secondary markets last year, spurred by strong demand for Facebook and other social media companies. However, the pace will likely slow significantly this year, as more companies on investors’ most-sought-after lists go public. Those are conclusions from a year-in-review report to be released today by NYPPEX, [...]
In what may be the first test of Twitter‘s new international censorship strategy, Brazil is suing the company over tweets that warn drivers of police roadblocks and speed traps. The suit, filed in a federal court in Goias by the attorney general’s office, is also going after users who compose the tweets. Brazil’s government is levying fines of $290,000 [...]
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg may owe up to a staggering $2 billion in taxes, but will still emerge a billionaire, when the social networking site comes up for its initial public offering (IPO) late this year, according to reports. The massive tax bill may result from Zuckerberg’s plans to exercise company stock options valued at an estimated $5 [...]
The halls of Britain’s Supreme Court are becoming a bit more high-tech, as the highest court in the land joins Twitter. The Supreme Court has launched http://twitter.com/UKSupremeCourt on the microblogging site to issue realtime news on its latest judgments, court spokesman Ben Wilson said. Wilson called the move an extension of the court’s commitment to [...]
Lady Gaga is all set to launch her own social networking website, littlemonsters.com, for her fans. The 25 years old singer is the first to have 18 million followers on Twitter and she is using her technology skills to bring her fans to her own network. Gaga has acquired the services of a startup, Backplane, [...]
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