Washington: Want to avoid being "unfriended" by your friends on Facebook? Then, just start responding to posts on your wall, researchers say. Researchers at Arizona State University in the US found that following some simple but unspoken rules - such as responding to messages, avoiding disrespecting people and not posting controversial pictures, can help one stay in friends' good graces always on social networking sites. Study researcher Erin Bryant and...
06:29 PM, May 01, 2012
New York: Facebook wants to help you share your organs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says US and UK users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their Facebook Timelines. And those, who are not organ donors, can find links to official organ donation registries and instantly enroll. "We want...
06:08 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Reportedly, the social-networking giant Facebook is going to introduce a new 'life-saving' feature that has the power to save lives. According to reports, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, is slated to announce details about this new feature in an exclusive interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, which is scheduled to be telecasted on Tuesday. Zuckerberg is believed to flash the tool at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters. While Zuckerbegr...
04:31 PM, May 01, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo is bringing out more artillery in its patent battle with Facebook. It is adding new allegations of intellectual property theft to its six-week-old lawsuit against Facebook. In court papers filed Friday, Yahoo Inc. now says Facebook's online social network infringes on 12 of its Internet patents, up from 10. Yahoo also denied allegation that it has been infringing on 10 of Facebook's patents and accused its rival...
12:26 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Chicago: Last year, the buzzword in e-commerce was Groupon Inc and its myriad of competitors that offered daily online coupons to entice shoppers in a down economy. Now, the latest fashion in retail is social gifting, where people get together on Facebook to buy each other gifts. Start-ups such as Sweden-based Wrapp, which is launching its US business on Monday, are getting millions of dollars in venture-capital funding, and retailers...
10:52 AM, Apr 30, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Dustin Moskovitz is by many accounts the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But the 27-year-old isn't sipping champagne in the Caribbean. Instead he's thrown himself back into San Francisco's startup mix, even as Facebook's looming IPO seems likely to send his wealth spiraling even higher. Moskovitz and his friend Justin Rosenstein, a former Facebooker himself worth $150 million, head a company called...
10:40 AM, Apr 30, 2012
London: An American woman was banned from Facebook after she posted photos of her son affected with Down's syndrome. The social network, which termed the pictures "inappropriate", has now apologised. Down's syndrome is a condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is associated with a delay in cognitive ability and physical growth, and a particular set of facial characteristics. Diana Cornwell -...
12:19 PM, Apr 28, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million for hundreds of patents that originated with AOL, beefing up its intellectual property arsenal. The deal gives social network Facebook 650 patents and patent applications and license to another 275 patents and applications. It comes shortly before Facebook is expected to have the largest initial public offering in Silicon Valley history. Patents have become a top priority for technology companies as...
10:39 AM, Apr 24, 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
San Francisco: Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million in cash for hundreds of patents recently sold by AOL, the social networking company's latest move to bulk up its intellectual property in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Yahoo. The deal, shortly before Facebook is expected to have the largest initial public offering in Silicon Valley history, will give the social network 650 patents and patent applications, as well...
01:50 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Kolkata: A central minister said that social media like Facebook and Twitter were now a reality and had become a fact of life and not an 'embarrassment'. "The issue is not of embarrassment. The issue is that social media has become a reality and has become a fact of life." union law minister Salman Khurshid said here when told that social media like Facebook and Twitter were causing embarrassment to...
11:38 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Kolkata: A central minister on Saturday said that social media like Facebook and Twitter were now a reality and had become a fact of life and not an 'embarrassment'. "The issue is not of embarrassment. The issue is that social media has become a reality and has become a fact of life", union law minister Salman Khurshid said in Kolkata when told that social media like Facebook and Twitter were...
06:59 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Houston: Social networking site Facebook has unveiled changes to its new terms of service, tweaking earlier drafts in an apparent effort to ease users' concerns about privacy and how their information is used. Based on the feedback from users, Facebook released a new set of proposed changes on Friday and offered more detailed explanation of its revisions. Since 2009 the social network has taken a unique approach with its "Statements...
10:37 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Hyderabad: City boy Vishal Madipalli, who recently returned home after completing his masters degree in Science from the UK, was arrested by the Cyber Crime police in connection with uploading obscene videos of his girl friend on social networking site Facebook. He was produced before the court and sent to remand. According to police, the accused had an affair with a girl and he took her facebook account password. Later,...
11:26 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Basirhat: In a combative mood after a string of bad publicity on handling different issues, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said no amount of negative publicity would deter her from her goal of bringing development for the people. "No one can deter Mamata Banerjee in serving you. I will prove to those who are out to tarnish our government through a campaign of lies, wrong. No amount...
09:16 PM, Apr 19, 2012
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