The social network Facebook denies that they are developing a mobile phone, as said TechCrunch.com technology portal. Facebook, which has more than 500 million users, denied this version: “We are not developing phone. The current projects are aimed to deepen alliances with developers,” said Jaime Schopflin, a spokesman for the company. TechCrunch.com portal pointed out [...]
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2010
Diaspora Releases its Code, Will you quit Facebook?
Diaspora announced on its blog the availability of source code for developers. An alpha version for the general public is raised for the month of October. On Sept. 15, the four founders of the project announced on their blog the release of source code to developers. “It becomes a community project whose development is open [...]
10
2010
Facebook eclipsed Google
Online Social Network, Facebook has overshadowed Google, the search titan in internet surfing minutes. According to, online researcher comScore, Americans spent 685,000 hours or 41.1 million minutes on Facebook in August, compared with 39.8 million hours spent on Google. The third place was taken by Yahoo with 37.7 million minutes. comScore reported, Americans spent about [...]
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2010
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2010
Facebook or Diaspora, Take your pick
One more social network will be launched in mid-Sep. One More? Well not exactly. Named as Diaspora, the developers of this system – four students from New York aged 19-22 years who are as “big nerds – indicated on the blog that will be delivered in open source and start working on Sept. 15. Diaspora [...]
23
2010
Facebook “Q” : New opportunities for small businesses
Facebook and LinkedIn join to give strong competition to Yahoo, facebook launched a “question and answer” product, called Facebook Questions(Facebook Q & A). Although this type of product on the network is not unique, but more than 500 million users of Facebook will definitely get interested in this new approach .It may also create opportunities [...]
21
2010
Social site Hot Potato acquired by Facebook
Hot Potato, a Brooklyn-based company, specializing in geolocation multimedia phones has been acquired by the popular social networking site, Facebook. Hot Potato said on its blog, that the company will be “wrapping up operations,” and will no longer be accepting new user sign-ups. Hot Potato launched eight months ago is a social networking service that [...]
14
2010
Facebook Live video channel or Company’s PR channel
There is no doubt that live streaming is fashionable . Facebook has introduced a new application Channel The facebook Live. Facebook borrowed this idea from other channels and launched a facebook live channel which helps you out to see whats happening at the company’s HQ. Apparently, Facebook is using LiveStream, one of the most popular [...]
13
2010
Facebook introduces Facebook Live
The most popular and widely known social networking site, Facebook is all set to launch an official live streaming video channel called Facebook Live. The company said they’ll be using Facebook Live “to be your window into what’s new at Facebook.” Facebook Live is a channel committed to the occurrences of the social networking company [...]
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2010
Facebook defers IPO until 2012
The largest social network, Facebook is likely to defer its initial public offering, IPO until 2012 to scale up the company, including the number of users and revenues, reported Bloomberg referring to informed sources. Another year of growth will benefit the company image in the run-up to IPO, even if the pace is slow. In [...]