Facebook reached the pinnacle of social networking by grabbing attention of a billion people around the world. The company has registered 1 Billion monthly global users, a recent report said. CEO Mark Zuckerberg was also there to comment on the milestone achieved. “Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing […]
Oct 5 2012 | Posted in
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The creator of Farmville, Zynga released the guidance for third quarter earnings on Thursday, citing lower revenues for the term due to lack of interest in its online games. Moreover, the company also announced that it will write down in tune of $95 Million as impairment charges on its recently purchased game developing company OMGPOP. […]
Oct 5 2012 | Posted in
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The National Commission on Informatics and Liberties (CNIL), which ensures the protection of consumer data in France, has given his support to the social network Facebook in the controversy over the publication of alleged private messages. The agency accepts the explanation from the company about the change in the privacy practices that led to the broadcasting […]
Oct 4 2012 | Posted in
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The Californian company in the U.S. today released a new service of selling gifts through their social network, which is a step forward in the company of Mark Zuckerberg in his attempt to convince Wall Street that they still can attract good investments in near future. “Users can receive Gifts by using our exciting new […]
Oct 1 2012 | Posted in
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Travel industry is facing a hard time in churning profits from social media networks. Being in the recreation industry, travel agencies are the most likely candidates to convert a social network like Facebook and Twitter into a money-making machine. However, recent report from PhoCusWright says that percentage of users being referred to a travel booking […]
Sep 28 2012 | Posted in
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Google shares were up nearly 2 percent on Monday to $749.38, exceeding the record hike since November 2011. The stock has seen an upward trend for past ten weeks and is still counting. The main reason for the hot streak that Google is running is its intelligent investment in different ventures and a profitable business […]
Sep 26 2012 | Posted in
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Facebook shares were down 8.4 percent in the afternoon trading on Monday after one Wall Street newspaper published a critique on the company’s stock. Out of the 40 analysts covering The Social Network at Wall Street, one has the view that its share price is much over rated. The article blatantly compared FB’s stock value […]
Sep 25 2012 | Posted in
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Apple released the iOS 6 in July concurrently with the release of new MacBook Pro with Retina Display and Mac OS X Mountain Lion. However, the mobile operating system did not have worth companion back then. Now that the new iPhone 5 has been unleashed by Apple, experts are incising the new OS as well. […]
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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Starting the addition, first we will move to the all-new Maps app. Apple has certain done a great job in replacing the old Google Maps app with its own home-bred maps application. It brings some new additions to the iPhone, which cannot be said the same for the overall market. The turn-by-turn navigation feature in […]
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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As demonstrated in presentation on its official launch and iPhone 5’s launch, it gets the users everything from latest movies playing in theatres, favourite shows on TV, latest sports scores to booking reservations in restaurants. Another new feature iOS 6 houses is the Passbook, Apple’s attempt against NFC-based (near-field communications) Google Wallet. The only difference […]
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
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The search engine giants, Google, are set to close their music service in China on October 19 after competing with the local leaders “Baidu Inc”, for almost three years. Baidu, a famous musical service in China, has been dominating the Chinese market ever since the U.S. search engine installed their office in Hong Kong to circumvent […]
Sep 22 2012 | Posted in
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On directives of the Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, the Ministry of Information Technology (IT) has blocked video sharing website YouTube after it declined to the remove the anti-Islam video. A statement issued by the premier said, “The block will remain in place until the anti-Islam film is removed. Blasphemous content will not be tolerated […]
Sep 18 2012 | Posted in
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