For that reason, Facebook has revamped the security of the website and on the scale of 0-100 defined by PrivacyChoice in their privacy tool, PrivacyScore, it scored a whopping 94. Its major counterpart in the business of social network in the internet, Google + scored exactly 85. In fact, the whole network of Google, Inc. […]
Feb 21 2012 | Posted in
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Anyone using Google in its English version (the. com instead of. s) will see that the results of their searches have changed slightly. If you have a profile on Google + , you will also notice that there are new options to filter the results, among which especially one called Your World and photos of your contacts to filter content generated by […]
Feb 14 2012 | Posted in
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Neuroethology group Cajal Institute, CSIC has launched a Facebook application to study visual intelligence. This is an application that offers a series of games, all based on the estimated number of pencils that appear in images. The game asks to spend just three minutes to the users. Polavieja Gonzalo Garcia, who runs the studio with […]
Feb 10 2012 | Posted in
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Greenpeace has noted that the great technology and Internet companies are not following them in terms of their environmental policy. In their latest rankings, Google have climbed up to the first place while Apple and Facebook are struggling at the moment. "It has not demonstrated leadership or elected to pursue market opportunities to drive IT energy solutions that […]
Feb 9 2012 | Posted in
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Facebook is on the verge of going pubic this summer. The new name, Facebook, Inc., will certainly help the company in getting to the dazzling heights with extra cash worth around $5 Billion. On the other hand the social network also has other tricks up its sleeve to compete not only on internet but also […]
Feb 7 2012 | Posted in
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Zynga’s rally fizzled Wednesday, and if you’d listened to Sterne Agee’s Arvind Bhatia, it never would have happened at all. Bhatia began to question the business model behind the world’s biggest social-games creator even before its public debut last December. Zynga then spent much of January below its IPO price, but now enjoys an average […]
Feb 7 2012 | Posted in
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Bhatia will look at Zynga’s daily traffic, too, which was down some 6% in December and up just 2.8% for the year, according to Appdata.com, which tracks Facebook applications’ traffic. If Zynga fails to bring in new users—people possibly more willing to pay—it must turn existing users into payers. Bhatia doubts Zynga could do that […]
Feb 7 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Facebook’s corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest U.S. investors, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. The pension fund, which has a portfolio valued at around $145 billion, is planning […]
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Google and Facebook have had to withdraw their content considered harmful to the religious sentiments in India. They have removed content from Indian domain websites, in response of a warrant issued by a civil judge in New Delhi. "The review team has looked at the content and disabled this content from the local domains of […]
Feb 6 2012 | Posted in
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With Facebook now in registration for an initial public offering, the question is top of mind for investors in technology stocks. Facebook generated $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, and a cool $1 billion in net income. If the conventional wisdom is right, and Facebook goes public with a $100 billion market cap, that makes […]
Feb 6 2012 | Posted in
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But let’s do a little more math. In calendar 2011 – not their September fiscal year – Apple had revenue of $127.8 billion, and profits of $33 billion. Ergo, the company is trading at 3.4x trailing revenues, and 13x trailing profits. Back out the $100 billion or so Apple now has in cash, and the […]
Feb 6 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp. Landing an executive with Everson’s pedigree was a coup – prior to Microsoft, she was […]
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