Houston: Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site, has turned eight. With an estimated 845 million active subscribers, the social networking giant still continues to grow, since its launch on February 4, 2004 and is most likely to have 1 billion users by August this year. While, the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg is best known as the man who built Facebook, the company has three other co-founders, all college...
12:57 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Munich: Twitter is much more than a social network and has no time to waste worrying about newcomers like Google+ as it becomes more important as an information service and builds its advertising business, co-founder Jack Dorsey said on Sunday. "We have a lot to concern ourselves with, just building Twitter," Dorsey said when asked at a technology conference whether he was worried that Google's own fledgling social network would...
10:31 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear petitions filed by Facebook and Google on Monday in the objectionable content case. The companies had challenged a trial court summons for allegedly webcasting objectionable material. Google and Facebook, along with 16 other websites are facing criminal proceedings. Google and Facebook had argued that it is impossible for them to prescreen content with billions of users accessing websites every day and that...
07:30 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Washington: US regulators looking at whether Google manipulates its search results to favour its own products have expanded the probe to include Google+, the search giant's new social networking tool, a source familiar with the probe said on Friday. Google+, which was launched in June, offers many of the capabilities available on Twitter and on Facebook. Google announced on Tuesday new features aimed at making search results more personalised. As...
11:17 AM, Jan 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Government has given sanction for the prosecution of 21 social networking sites like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo India in the ongoing spat between the companies and the Government of India over content regulation. The Centre told a Delhi court on Friday that there is sufficient material to proceed against the 21 social networking sites for offences of promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national...
01:58 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday barred social networking sites from allowing content that hurts religious sentiments. The court observed that websites now have content which is defamatory and derogatory to communities. The court prohibited sites from allowing content which is using gods and goddesses for defamatory purposes. The order has been sent to Google India, Facebook, Yahoo India and YouTube. ...
08:05 PM, Dec 21, 2011
London: A 30-year-old Canadian woman has come up with a social networking website exclusively for females. The site Luluvise.com bans males from joining, the Daily Mail reported. It connects though other networking websites LinkedIn and Facebook. Since its launch Wednesday, it already has 1,000 users in 69 countries. "Luluvise uses Facebook to make registration easier. We do not post to walls or make Luluvise information public anywhere or to other...
12:24 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Sydney: Social networking may be promoting alcohol use among young people in so subtle a manner that users are not even aware of it. "It (social networking) is being employed to organise events, communicate with people while out drinking, and enabling participants to share photos of their socialising and drinking online," said Antonia Lyons, associate professor in psychology at Massey University who led the study. Lyons said the research has...
12:10 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: It seems that Facebook has rolled up sleeves to always stay ahead of its rivals. This year, Facebook has rolled out scores of new features to users' profiles and now it has announced one more update. The social networking giant has now increased the limit of Facebook status updates to more than 60,000 characters. Facebooks Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik, in a blog post, said that "In September,...
12:01 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Tokyo: Twitter Inc. and Japan's biggest homegrown social networking site mixi Inc. joined forces Wednesday to strengthen their ground against a rapidly expanding Facebook. For Twitter, the partnership with a local social network could point to a new strategy as the San Francisco-based microblogging service seeks to accelerate global growth. Japan is the company's second-biggest market after the US and has served as a key international testing ground of sorts....
10:27 AM, Dec 01, 2011
California: Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a co-founder of the startup social networking site Diaspora that put an emphasis on privacy and user-control, has died, a company spokesman said Monday. He was 22. The cause of Zhitomirskiy's death in San Francisco wasn't immediately known, and neither the company nor the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office would release details. "Ilya was a great guy. He was a visionary, he was a co-founder of a...
09:01 AM, Nov 15, 2011
Washington: Young people are having a harder time keeping their profile pages and email accounts secure, especially from prankster friends. And although many treat hacking or spying as a joke, nearly half who have been victims were upset by it. An Associated Press-MTV poll finds 3 in 10 teens and young adults have had people get into their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or other Internet accounts and either impersonate or spy...
01:57 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New York: Google+ is still no Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace, but its decision to open its services to all users is already paying dividends. Experian Hitwise, a market research company, reports that the site's market share in the social media world increased 1,269 per cent last week. Yes, you read that correctly. Not 12. Not 69. Not even 269. 1,269 per cent. Those 15 million visits to the site...
09:18 AM, Sep 28, 2011
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