New Delhi: Continuing with its tradition of getting wrangled into privacy issues with new features, Facebook has launched pages for couples. Much like the recently revamped friendship pages, the Facebook couples pages are joint digital profiles for couples that tracks all Facebook content connecting the two users in a relationship. The couples pages not only combine photos and posts in which a user and his/her partner are tagged but also...
09:15 AM, Nov 14, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter says it mistakenly reset the passwords of some users as part of a routine security check-up. Thursday's mix-up triggered warnings on technology blogs and in tweets that the online messaging service had been attacked by computer hackers. Twitter sought to clear up the confusion with a post on its website a few hours after it sent out emails alerting some users that their accounts had been compromised....
07:44 AM, Nov 09, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter users flocked to the micro-messaging network this week as Hurricane Sandy swept through the eastern US seaboard, sending more than 20 million tweets about the storm between Saturday and Thursday, the company said. This far exceeds the 13.7 million tweets sent during the Super Bowl in February, typically the largest media event of the year. Founded in 2006, Twitter has sought to position itself as a "second...
02:58 PM, Nov 03, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and two other executives at the social networking company sold millions of dollars worth of stock this week as restrictions on insider trading expired. Sandberg netted about $7.44 million by selling roughly 353,000 Facebook shares on Wednesday, according to a filing with the SEC on Friday. Sandberg still owns roughly 20 million vested shares of Facebook stock, including shares held in her...
01:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook users upset with the two-column layout of the Facebook Timeline, may have some reason to cheer. According to Inside Facebook, the social networking service is testing a new design with a small percentage of users that has the posts in one column instead of the current format where posts are staggered in two columns. There is also a narrower right column which displays activity modules. The timeline...
05:17 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Bangalore: Facebook Inc's shares headed towards their biggest one-day jump on Wednesday after the company reported a surprising rise in mobile advertising, easing concerns it was having trouble capitalizing on soaring use of smartphones and tablets. Facebook shares, sold for $38 each in their initial public offering in May, were up 20 per cent at $23.61 in late morning trade. The stock was the top per centage gainer on the...
12:21 AM, Oct 25, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc posted a 32 per cent jump in third-quarter revenue to $1.26 billion, as the company reignited advertising growth with the help of larger-than-expected gains in mobile. The company's shares leapt 9 per cent to $21.22 in after-hours trading on Tuesday. Advertising revenue increased 36 per cent year-on-year to $1.09 billion, but revenue from its payments and other businesses increased just 13 per cent to $176 million....
02:21 AM, Oct 24, 2012
London: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that if the social networking website had not worked out he would have probably landed at Microsoft. "I probably would have taken an engineering job...(and) always had a lot of respect for Microsoft," he told Paul Graham, a co-founder of the tech venture capital fun Y Combinator, during a 45-minute interview before an audience of 1,700 at Stanford's Memorial Hall. "A lot of...
02:38 AM, Oct 23, 2012
To mark the occasion of it achieving a billion monthly active users, Facebook released a video titled 'The Things That Connect Us' on Thursday that, somewhat abstractly, seeks to illustrate its ubiquity and utility in connecting people to one another. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, 21 Grams and Amores Perros), the video starts off with an empty red chair suspended in midair in a forest. Then it moves to...
06:09 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New York: More than a billion people now log into Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing. That's double the 500 million it hit in July 2010 - what now seems like a lifetime but was a little more than two years ago. August 2008 marked another big juncture, 100 million...
06:05 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook is now a billion users strong. Facebook's CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the milestone on his Facebook profile. "This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honour of serving you," Zuckerberg posted. "Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I...
05:32 PM, Oct 04, 2012
New York: Facebook is rolling out a service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another. Facebook Gifts launched on Thursday to a subset of users in the US and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other. Users will be able to click on a "gifts" icon...
06:05 AM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: The cyberspace is abuzz with people commenting on the rumoured romance between Bilawal Bhutto, the 24-year-old scion of Pakistan's 'first' family, and Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, the 35-year-old mother of two who is married to Firoze Gulzar, one of Pakistan's most influential businessmen. While someone from Pakistan on Twitter suggested that if Hina actually got married to Bilawal, "here is what her name would be- Hina...
10:35 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Dublin: Facebook has tightened up its privacy controls sufficiently to satisfy a review by the body that regulates the social networking company outside North America, removing the immediate threat of legal challenges. The world's biggest social network makes most of its money from advertising, but has to walk a fine line to avoid giving its over 950 million users the impression it is invading their privacy to boost revenue. It...
11:43 AM, Sep 22, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter will soon roll out a free tool for users to handpick and publish selections of tweets, reflecting the company's commitment to remain a neutral, interactive platform rather than become a media company, CEO Dick Costolo said on Friday. The new tool will allow users, including journalists, to manually curate and display tweets to accompany breaking news events. "We've known for a long time that for events in...
11:35 AM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: Apparently inspired by the cover image on the Facebook timeline, Twitter has also introduced an header photo to Twitter user profiles. The new header photo will be visible on profiles on the Twitter website as well as the iPad, iPhone and Android apps. On the iPhone, Android and iPad, Twitter has also added the photo stream below the user's most recent tweets. The microblogging leader has also announced...
07:03 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New York: The Winklevoss twins, best known for their legal battle against Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook Inc, have invested in SumZero, a social network company aimed at professional investors, The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have put $1 million into SumZero, which was founded by fellow Harvard University alumni Divya Narendra and Aalap Mahadevia in 2008, the article said. Narendra was an...
11:24 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday asked the Centre to block the anti-Islam video on social networking sites as it could trigger law and order problem in the state. "We have requested the nodal agency in the Union IT ministry to block the video," state Home Secretary BR Sharma said. He said the content of the video was deemed offensive and could trigger law and order problems in the...
01:23 AM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be a major hacking incident at Pinterest, the popular pinboard-style social photo sharing website. Many users have reported that their Pinterest accounts have been hacked into and spam posted on their boards. The incident seems to have taken place last night. There is still no information regarding the incident on Pinterest's official blog or Twitter account but numerous Pinterest users are reporting breaches on Twitter...
08:39 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Over two years after making his debut on Twitter, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar is taking strike on Facebook. The Little Master's Facebook page, at the time of posting this report, has got over 410,000 likes. Tendulkar welcomed his fans to a Facebook page with a video message. "I'll like to welcome you to my Facebook family. As a child I always dreamt of playing cricket for India and...
02:43 PM, Sep 10, 2012
