New Delhi: About a month and a half following the announcement that it is acquiring Instagram and a week after a lacklustre IPO, Facebook has launched a camera app called Facebook Camera. Facebook says the new mobile app, initially available the Apple iPhone, will make sharing of photos on Facebook faster. Users can also see their friends' latest photos at one place. "Now you can quickly share multiple photos all...
06:15 AM, May 25, 2012
Agra: A six-month-old baby died after she was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Kukhthala village in the district, police said. The baby girl was taken out on Monday night by a 26-year-old youth named Lohare, who used to visit the house frequently, police said. After the accused did not return with the baby, the family went in search of the child and later filed a police complaint against him....
04:55 PM, May 23, 2012
California: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose limited role in promoting the No. 1 social network's market debut has drawn criticism, laid out its growth strategy to investors on Friday, saying that transforming its mobile and advertising experience are top priorities in 2012. Integrating online apps more strongly into Facebook is also a major goal, he told hundreds of investors at an event that capped the first week of Facebook's cross-country...
10:54 AM, May 12, 2012
California: The US Federal Trade Commission has reached out to Google Inc and Twitter in an investigation into Facebook Inc's $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing service Instagram, a source familiar with the probe told Reuters. It was not immediately clear what specific information the FTC was looking for, the source said. The Commission automatically initiates a review of any acquisition of significant size. The acquisition of the top photo-sharing service...
11:35 AM, May 11, 2012
Jaipur: In Rajasthan, the rift in the BJP's state unit is out in the open. The party high command summoned former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to Delhi, after she threatened to quit over another leader's proposed yatra. "I will quit the party if Kataria goes ahead with his yatra," Vasundhara said. Vasundhara had threatened to leave the BJP objecting to RSS backed leader Gulabchand Kataria's proposed "Lok Jagran Yatra" in...
09:30 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: In Rajasthan, the rift in the BJP's state unit is out in the open. Forty-two MLAs supporting Opposition Leader Vasundhara Raje have offered to quit. This after a very dramatic party meeting on Saturday night where leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje threatened to quit. Raje has been summoned to Delhi by the party high command on the emerging political crisis. Raje made the...
03:10 PM, May 06, 2012
Vasundhara Raje has threatened to quit the party over objection to senior party leader Gulab Chand Kataria's proposed Lok Jagran Yatra. ...
08:22 AM, May 06, 2012
Jaipur: In dramatic developments reflecting intense feud in Rajasthan BJP, Leader of the Opposition Vasundhara Raje on Saturday threatened to quit the party objecting to a political campaign proposed by senior party leader Gulabchand Kataria who later decided to give up the move. At a meeting of the state party core committee, Raje said she would resign from the party's membership if Kataria did not withdraw his decision to take...
12:58 AM, May 06, 2012
Guwahati: In one of the worst boat tragedies in Assam, 100 people, including women and children, drowned and over 100 went missing when a packed steamer carrying over 300 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river after being caught in a severe storm midstream in Dhubri district of Assam on Monday. Deputy Commissioner Kumud Chandra Kalita said the bodies of 100 victims were recovered by the BSF and the National Disaster...
11:10 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Guwahati: At least 35 people were drowned and many more were missing when a boat carrying 250 people capsized in the Brahmaputra river in Assam's Dhubri district on Monday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed condolence and ordered all possible assistance in relief operations. Reports said that three army columns including two medicals teams are involved in the rescue operation. According to reports, it was one of the worst ferry disasters...
08:30 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Washington: In an incident which appears be a perfect plot for any reality-based fiction work, an American college dropout after being brutally attacked by a group of street robbers has turned a mathematics genius. It happened after 41-year-old Jason Padgett's brain was damaged in a brutal attack by muggers. He was left concussed after being ambushed outside a karaoke club and repeatedly kicked in the head, the Daily Mail reported....
02:16 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Lebanon: I'm one of the millions of smartphone owners addicted to Instagram, the free camera app that makes tweaking and sharing photos miraculously easy. While it's wildly popular and the target of Facebook's $1 billion takeover deal, Instagram isn't the only camera app worth having. I've been hooked on taking photos on my iPhone and sharing them using Instagram since I bought my first iPhone last fall. With Instagram, I...
08:12 AM, Apr 26, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc reported its first quarter-to-quarter revenue slide in at least two years, a sign that the social network's sizzling growth may be cooling as it prepares to go public in the biggest ever Internet IPO. The company blamed the first-quarter decline, which surprised some on Wall Street, on seasonal advertising trends. "It was a faster slowdown than we would have guessed," said Brian Wieser, an analyst with...
03:49 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New York: I was skeptical, even horrified, when I first heard about the photo-sharing craze Instagram more than a year ago. As a journalist trained to reject alterations in words and pictures, I didn't get the concept of a social network built around modifying photos. I quickly warmed up once I gave Instagram a try this week, after Facebook announced plans to buy the free service for $1 billion. I...
10:24 AM, Apr 12, 2012
New York: Poor Instagram users. First, their beloved photo-sharing application moves from iPhone-only exclusivity to the Android phone masses. A week later, Facebook swallows up the tiny startup behind the app for $1 billion. The purchase sparked worries that Facebook might shutter Instagram or change it for the worse by harvesting their personal information or shoving ads into their carefully curated photo streams. "I've tried very hard not to be...
10:24 AM, Apr 11, 2012
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