Forbes richest list 2013 Credit: Forbes The Forbes 2013 list of billionaires has increased to 1,426 individuals, about 210 more than last year’s lineup. About 30 percent of the world’s billionaires are from the US with 442. Other top sources of billionaires were from the Asia-Pacific and Europe with 386 and 366 respectively. Mexico‘s telecom [...]
Marguerite Joseph: Woman, 104, Lies About Age Credit: Facebook A 104-year-old woman lies about her age on Facebook due to the social networking site’s limitation. As of posting, Facebook‘s age field can only accept up to 99. Marguerite Joseph, from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, revealed that she cannot published her actual age because it exceeds the [...]
Facebook pays no tax for 2012, and will instead receive a tax refund from the US federal government amounting to $429 million. This is despite the fact that the social networking site had a profit of almost $1 billion that year, according to a report by Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) on Thursday, February 14, [...]
“Newborn” photos of a 13-year-old boy have gone viral after they were posted on Facebook. The photos, as shown below, are not actually photos of a newborn baby, and the 13-year old boy, is not actually newly born. The newborn 13-year-old photos Credit: Kelli Higgins Photography Facebook Page The boy in the photo is 13-year-old [...]
Who among us will agree to be paid $200 to quit Facebook? Well, this is what a teenage girl recently did, after she entered into an agreement with her father, that she will leave the social site for five months in exchange of money. In fact, they put it into paper and signed them, as [...]
Oprah Winfrey injured her back muscle after she lifted a birthday gift from Tyler Perry on Tuesday, January 29, 2013. The celebrity talk show host confirmed on Twitter that she got injured by the bunch of flower from Perry, that was delivered at her mansion in Montecito, California. Oprah tweeted that she is “In bed [...]
A black marlin sinks a fishing boat off the coast of Panama, according to initial reports on Thursday, January 31, 2013. Several images of the partially capsized sport-fishing boat were posted on Facebook and immediately went viral. There were no reported injuries related to the sinking incident. Some clarifications about the incident, however, were made [...]
Facebook might pay some of its users to up to $10 each, as part of its settlement over the Sponsored Stories advertising class action lawsuit filed against them back in April 2011. This is after the giant social networking site recently agreed to pay and sent a legal notice to affected users. But then, it [...]
An eighth-grade student in Vietnam has been suspended for Facebook post, several Vietnamese news sites reported on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. According to Thanh Nien News, Nguyen Thanh Vy of Ly Tu Trong Secondary School in Quang Nam Province‘s Tam Ky town has been suspended for one year after posting a parody in Facebook “insulting [...]
A Zuckerberg family photo with Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg‘s sister, went publicly after someone posted it on Twitter, thinking that it there will be no problem sharing it. Randi, who posted the photo on her official Facebook page, complained of online etiquette; and the issue sparked a debate on Facebook‘s privacy settings. Randi Zuckerberg, Mark [...]