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Sep
20
2010

Facebook denies developing a mobile

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 [...]

Sep
16
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 [...]

Sep
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 [...]

Aug
31
2010

Google Another acquisition in the social games SocialDeck

Google target was SocialDeck, developer of games for iPhone, BlackBerry and Facebook. The maker of games for mobile phones SocialDeck was bought by Google last purchase date in a long series for the American giant of the Internet. SocialDeck joined the Google team. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and Google has not [...]

Aug
27
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 [...]

Aug
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 [...]

Aug
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 [...]

Aug
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 [...]

Aug
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 [...]

Jul
30
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 [...]