Tag Archives : Social network service

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 [...]

A few days ago, a new social networking web invaded just in time for lunch. Unlike what was thought the site is not focused on the relationship between friends, but the share of drinks, alcoholic or not. The site calls itself a community of people passionate about drinks and was created precisely so that Internet users in this area gastronomic adventurers [...]

In a text published on the blog for developers, Facebook admits that a data broker has paid the application developers to identify information of social network users. The finding is the result of an investigation by the social network team after complaints of privacy violations made by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal in October. The same text [...]

Facebook announced on Wednesday new features on its platform. Among them is the possibility of performing a backup of the information that is in the user profile, a panel for application management and also the creation of groups. The first new displays is the possibility of performing a backup of all information that is in the user profile, including [...]

Facebook is showing Google that can be as good – or better – than the leader. Google has been on top of all the rankings when it comes to attracting the most visitors and time spent on their sites, but Facebook has left its mark. The online research firm comScore said this week that in August, Facebook overtook Google in terms of time spent [...]

According to a survey recently released by comScore, only in June Twitter‘s website was accessed by more than 93 million users, an increase of 109% compared to last year. With this, the microblogging service earns the status of a social networking more accessible worldwide. “Today, almost three among four global Internet users accessing [...]

Approximately 200 000 smartphones and other devices based on the Google Android operating system are being sold each day, said Eric Schmidt, chief executive, on Wednesday, emphasizing the strong challenge this poses for rivals Apple iPhone. The world’s leading search engine is looking for new revenue opportunities, as growth slows in its core [...]

Focus in the games may be the way for Google to join the arena of social networks, as the online search giant tries to overcome a series of unsuccessful initiatives that left on the sidelines of this booming market. While the Facebook dominates the social networking market, industry experts say Google has a strong position to play more important role, [...]

A survey in the United States revealed data about iPad users in the general population. The tests were meant to show the personality, the demographics and interests of this group of consumers. According to the MyType, which via Facebook polls conducted between March and May with 20 000 people, owners of Apple’s tablet are “rich, well educated [...]

IPO stands for the words in English Initial Public Offering which means opening up the capital of a company in the stock market. Roughly, the company evaluates its worth, divide that figure in several pieces – called shares – and puts the pieces to be sold on the stock market. IPOs can be both good opportunities for making profits or can [...]