But its not just Google and Facebook mixing data to find trends and make decisions, it’s data collected by any technology and used by automobiles, high-tech home sensors, insurance providers, employers, retail sites and political parties. Lately, however, it is social sites, fed with user-created content, dominating the privacy news. Those sites have a thirst […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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This week, the European Commission proposed new online privacy rules that give users among other protections the right to ask for the deletion of information about them on sites such as Facebook and Google. The proposal, which if passed into law would go into effect in 2014, would have global implications. “Companies will have to […]
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Simpson is working with the World Wide Web Consortium on a “do not track” standard. Giving that sense of control back to users might just be a wave that could catch on. This week in the wake of Google’s new privacy policy, an informal Washington Post survey of nearly 14,000 readers showed nearly 66% were […]
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Facebook is planning to initiate the filing for their firs Initial Public Offering this year. The Securities and Exchange Commission will be taking the social network’s financial statements under consideration. So far the vitals of getting into the stock market are strong for Facebook. The reputation is good although Mark Zuckerberg and company has been […]
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Facebook has “revenues,” not profits, of $4.3 billion. If the company becomes valued at $100 billion, and had zero expenses, it would take you 23 years to get your money back. Of course, there are expenses, which means that profits are a lot less, last year around $1 billion. So, at a valuation of $100 […]
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Facebook, Inc. is on the verge of initiating the procedure of filing at Securities and Exchange Commission, US. The new stride into the corporate world is going to raise as much as $10 Billion from Initial Public Offering. This opens up new horizons for the social network to widen the span of their operations. The […]
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Twitter had earlier announced their new policy to withhold publication of messages, containing illegal and offensive thoughts, in certain countries and restricted their freedom of expression. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the limits of freedom of expression." The social network revealed their policy in a short note. […]
Jan 29 2012 | Posted in
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Internet is an inexpensive way to interact with people and make contacts. Over the years, many companies have brought the tools to the masses to run their lives online and it has been effective. However, the current economic scenario has put hurdles in the way of new entrants. Moreover, sustaining a business is one big […]
Jan 20 2012 | Posted in
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Facebook unveiled Open Graph at F8 2011last fall, which is now available for developers interested in building apparently any lifestyle application they wish. Facebook is strongly supporting its Timeline project with two major product announcements. First, Facebook has signed over 60 new partners that are integrating with the social network to help the users to […]
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This might be another step further in making the company a profitable enterprise prior to going public. The media and application development partnerships might evade the opprobrium the social network had been attracting of late. Many experts have been of the opinion that Facebook has no permanent and satisfactory tools to increase the profits from […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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Wikipedia has shut down its English-language service for 24 hours protesting against anti-piracy bills that according to critics might amount to censorship. A bleak statement on Wikipedia website states, “Imagine a World without Free Knowledge, for over a decade; we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right […]
Once rumoured to initiate the filing process in December, Facebook—the social network—is nowhere near the process to go public. The anticipated Initial Public Offering from the company is expected at the end of the second half of calendar year 2012. However, if Facebook needs to go public by the end of May or somewhere in […]
Jan 17 2012 | Posted in
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