With more than 955 million monthly active users, Facebook’s App Center is now available globally. The official confirmation came from a company’s PR representative that sent a message via Twitter. In …
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Facebook says 8.7% of users are fake
Last week Facebook announced during the first quarterly earnings report as a public company that there are 955 million monthly active users, as well as 543 million monthly active mobile users. Faceboo…
(more...)Survey Says 85% Of Americans Don’t Like Targeted Political Ads On Facebook
It seems that people living in the United States are against tailored political ads, which is a specific market that has grown in the last few months. The trend will continue this year as the U.S. get…
(more...)5 FREE Apps for Android Beginners
The main reason why Google’s Android is way ahead of the iOS from Apple as well as the Blackberry OS from RIM is the presence of the Android Market or the Google Play Store. There are more than four h…
(more...)Facebook privacy changes to involve users
In a departure from its previous stance, Facebook has announced that it will let its nearly 1 billion users vote on changes to the social network’s privacy policy. The changes that were announced some…
(more...)Facebook to Allow Under 13 Account Signups
Facebook has been strict so far and not allowed children under the age of 13 years into the popular social network. One of the primary reason for this approach is a concern for child safety. Internet …
(more...)Facebook opens new address in Dubai
Facebook has launched its first office in the Middle East on May 30, with an obvious aim to profit from up and coming advertisement businesses from Dubai as the Facebook stocks continue to sink on NAS…
(more...)Facebook Shares Fall Below $30
Though the US stock markets recovered from the last week’s fall, Facebook continues to receive severe beating in the financial world. Facebook’s shares further dipped by 9.28 percent to cl…
(more...)Facebook is Rumored to Be Buying Opera
While Facebook keeps struggling on the stock market, news is coming in that it is going to continue its buying spree. The latest rumors say that Facebook is in talks with Norwegian software company Op…
(more...)Facebook IPO Debacle – Mark Zuckerberg Faces Lawsuit
The long-awaited Facebook IPO has brought bad press for Facebook. The $10 billion IPO was the third biggest in the history of the United States. The carefully crafted IPO pricing meant that Facebook w…
(more...)Nasdaq takes responsibility for Facebook delay
Nasdaq is preparing to overhaul its IPO systems in order to handle stock offerings after the chief acknowledged that technical problems that were not identified earlier had affected trading of the Fac…
(more...)Why was Eduardo Saverin right to renounce his US citizenship
This past week saw a lot of controversy as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin gave up his citizenship of the US and moved to Singapore on the eve of the launch of the Facebook IPO that was expected t…
(more...)FTC to Scrutinize Facebook’s Instagram Deal
Federal Trade Commission is investigating the proposed Facebook’s Instagram deal. Facebook has struck deal with Instagram to buy it at a price of $1 billion. Financial Times has reported that su…
(more...)Reasons Why Facebook Bought Instagram
Facebook plans to go public with a stock offering of around $5 billion but it is making some strategic acquisitions before that. A few months ago it acquired Gowalla and now it has bought photo sharin…
(more...)Facebook Sets High Growth Target In Advertising
Facebook users will soon be witnessing an increased flow of advertisements on the world’s most popular social network. The ads would be flowing in all directions including mobile, newsfeed and e…
(more...)Congress Looking to Keep Tabs on Facebook Over New Privacy Controls
Over the years, Facebook has taken a lot of heat for their privacy control options. Facebook has a history of sharing users information without permission in a variety of different ways. In recent yea…
(more...)The Sims Now on Facebook
The Sims has long been a treasured game by millions of gamers. Now, The Sims has come out of beta testing and Facebook users can sign up and play one of their favorite games on their favorite social m…
(more...)Facebook Finally Offers Better Privacy Controls
Facebook may have over 250 million user accounts worldwide, but there are plenty of people who avoid the popular social media site. The main reason for the Facebook avoidance is concerns over privacy….
(more...)Skype to Buy GroupMe
Skype has announced that it is in talks to buy the group messaging company, GroupMe. Details of the deal have yet to be announced, but rumors are that Skype could be shelling out $85 million to close …
(more...)Linked In Bumps MySpace for #2 Spot
There is no denying that MySpace was the king of social media way before the terminology, or Facebook, ever existed. MySpace allowed users to friend each, comment on each other’s pages, display favori…
(more...)Ohanarama: Family Social Network
With the dangers of the Internet, it can be hard to find websites that are truly safe for our children. There are so many dangers lurking on the Internet from extreme situations like stalkers to frust…
(more...)Facebook adding video chat, redesigning chat interface
For the past several years we have seen Facebook raise to become the most used social networking site around the world. One the 6th of July this year, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, unveiled the n…
(more...)The End of Spam?
Beginning in August 2010, the amount of spam or junk email has taken a huge hit. It is causing the industry to wonder why spam has suddenly taken a dive and what caused it to have such a big decline. …
(more...)Google+ Wants To Be All That Facebook Is Not
During the last week of June, Google quietly launched their newest online social networking attempt. They are calling it Google+ and the company is hoping that the site will be able to rival the king …
(more...)The New Winklevoss Case – What’s It All About?
When the Winklevoss twins lost their case against Facebook, and decided not to take the matter to the Supreme Court, most people thought that the battle between them and the world’s favorite social ne…
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