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Facebook Unveils An All New FB  Profile Layout Called, ‘Facebook Timeline’ At F8 Conference

Facebook Unveils An All New FB Profile Layout Called, ‘Facebook Timeline’ At F8 Conference

When it comes to social networking, there is no doubt that the top spot is claimed and retained by Facebook that in its seven years of operation has amassed a staggering 750 million plus users and continues to the social networking behemoth. Now, at the annual F8 conference, Facebook has unveiled an all-new revamp for the users’ profiles in the [...]
Facebook To Bring In-Browser Video Chat In Collaboration With Skype

Facebook To Bring In-Browser Video Chat In Collaboration With Skype

The most cherished and widely used social networking service on the web, Facebook,has been sending you invites to a handful of journalists for a special event that is scheduled to be held next week. This entire week, the Internet was buzzing about the ‘amazing’ announcement that was to come from Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg at the event. Now, [...]
Mark Zuckerberg Races Ahead of the Google Guys to become Third Richest Tech Titan

Mark Zuckerberg Races Ahead of the Google Guys to become Third Richest Tech Titan

GSV Capital, a publicly traded closed-end mutual fund, buying 225,000 shares of the social networking giant Facebook at an average price of $29.28 per share has stirred the markets big time. Since the news started doing the rounds of the market, the Faecebook stocks have gained 40% and have traded even higher on the secondary market. Forbes had estimated [...]
Twitter will add paid tweets in timelines

Twitter will add paid tweets in timelines

Twitter started placing advertisements on the timeline, according to the Financial Times. The addition of the “paid tweets” – a euphemism for advertising – the service can frustrate many users, while also attracts companies that want to reach some of the roughly 300 million users. Twitter executives have met with strategists [...]
Google & Facebook Eyeing A Critical Partnership With VoIP King, Skype

Google & Facebook Eyeing A Critical Partnership With VoIP King, Skype

Believe it or not, one of the most revered VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service on the web, Skype, just came under the graces of two of the biggest names on the online realm, the search giant, Google Inc. and the social networking behemoth, Facebook, where in both the companies are now vying to get into a strategic deal with the king of VoIP, [...]
Facebook Announces The Launch Of ‘The Open Compute Project’ For More Energy Efficient Computing

Facebook Announces The Launch Of ‘The Open Compute Project’ For More Energy Efficient Computing

One of the biggest names in the social networking realm, Facebook, has now announced its intensions of actively participating in the computer hardware industry. After conquering the online realm with more than 600 million users on the social network, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg at a press event at the FB headquarters announced an all new project [...]
250 thousand profiles were “stolen” from Facebook

250 thousand profiles were “stolen” from Facebook

Who watched ‘The Social Network‘ should remember Mark Zuckerberg hacking sites for pictures of his colleagues at Harvard for an early prototype of Facebook, in order to evaluate who the most beautiful on the university. Likewise, Zuckerberg did when was young, the creators of Face-to-site Facebook.net ‘scraped’ data and photographs [...]
Live Messenger and Facebook together

Live Messenger and Facebook together

Takes effect today the full integration between Facebook and Live Messenger, Microsoft’s instant messenger. Since September 2010 the Messenger users in 13 countries were able to interact with their Facebook contacts. The difference now is the Messenger function within the social network of Mark Zuckerberg, as an application. The user needs from [...]
Facebook: money and divorce

Facebook: money and divorce

Facebook announced on Sunday raising $ 1.5 billion in investments, bringing the enterprise value of approximately $ 50 billion. The value of $ 1.5 billion was achieved in two phases. At first, in December, Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, of Russian origin, have invested $ 500 million purchase of Class A common stock Facebook Today’s [...]
Facebook pays $ 8.5 million for the domain fb.com

Facebook pays $ 8.5 million for the domain fb.com

How much cost a domain, that you put at the address in your browser? The answer is quite simple: it depends. The more simple and relevant for the domain name, the more it will cost. Three months ago, the address “sex.com” was sold for $ 13 million, a record. Last year, Facebook decided to buy the “fb.com” and paid $ 8.5 million [...]