Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Image Credit: Search Engine Journal Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest social networking website, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with an initial registration amount of $5 billion, according to reports from several financial news site on Thursday, February 2, 2012. According to reports, Facebook Inc. plans to list its shares under [...]
A huge number of Twitter users plan to launch a Twitter Blackout on Saturday, January 28, 2012, as a protest to the earlier announcement by Twitter that it would censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. Twitter Blackout symbol Image Credit: CNET As noted at technology news sites on Friday, various tweets in different languages with [...]
Facebook is being set to file for its initial public offering (IPO) as early as next week, with the social network reportedly worth between $75 billion to $100 billion, if the negotiations will push through. Facebookco-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg Image Credit: Paul Sakuma/AP According to Wall Street Journal on Friday, January 27, 2012, people [...]
Facebook Timeline will be mandatory for all users, which the last count to have reached over 800 millions, and everyone will be given a week to preview their status. Facebook Timeline Image Credit: Facebook.com According to the update by Facebook on its official blog on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Facebook Timeline, which was made available [...]
The voting for the two controversial US anti-piracy bills, SOPA and PIPA, has been postponed by the US Congress, two days after massive online protests particularly from Wikipedia and Google. A SOPA/PIPA protester in New York Image Credit: Andrew Bergmann/CNNMoney According to US news sites on Friday, January 20, 2012, the US Congress postponed indefinitely [...]
Google+ (or Google Plus), Google‘s social networking site, now has 90 million users worldwide, which was launched on June 28, 2011 but was opened to the public without invitation on September 20, 2011. Google+ icon Image Credit: Google As posted by Google CEO Larry Page on his official Google+ page on Friday, January 20, 2012, [...]
Updated: January 25, 2012 6:46 p.m. Read Facebook Timeline mandatory to all users over the next few weeks, a week to preview status A new set of Facebook Timeline apps were introduced on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, which are especially dedicated to users who love to cook, eat, travel, watch movies and many more. Sample [...]
A Lionel Richie “Hello” MTV that was recreated about 4 days ago, in which famous movie clips were added is now going viral, with the video shown below. According to the description on the video, which was uploaded at Vimeo, it was made by someone named Matthijs Vlot (username ant1mat3rie) and also appeared at Cinema.nl, [...]
Updated: January 21, 2012 2:00 a.m. Read SOPA and PIPA voting postponed by US Congress after massive online protests The PIPA/SOPA protest of various websites has started, with Google and Wikipedia among the most vocal ones about their strong opposition against the two US anti-piracy bills. As reported earlier, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that [...]
Jerry Yang has resigned from Yahoo!, the Internet company he co-founded in 1995, or 17 years ago, along with David Filo and served as a member of the Board of Directors since March 1995. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang Image Credit: EPA According to a post by Yahoo! on its official press site on Tuesday, January [...]
