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Facebook has announced that thousands of journalists now use Facebook’s Subscribe feature, including 50 reporters from The New York Times and 90 from the Washington Post.  The feature launched four months back in a target to weaken Twitter’s look-alike subscribe feature. Subscriber has enabled mainly the journalist’s community of viewers and readers to get...

Facebook – the world’s largest social networking website was down yesterday (Pacific Time). The Hacker Group Anonymous after the takedown of content sharing website Megaupload attacked many of government and big companies website. In their recent outrage, according to the video on YouTube said that hacker group threatens Facebook January 28. However the AnonOps...

Google, the world’s search engine giant and Twitter, world’s largest micro-blogging website both are known pretty well in webosphere. But if we see from over the past few weeks the relation between the two soaring-up. The two have been fighting each other over the Google’s new social-search feature, “Search Plus Your World”. Chris Dixon on his blog ignited...

Google starting from today offering its service “Google Offers” in five additional cities – Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa. Google Offers was first launched in Portland offering national deals. Google Offers is services that allow you to discover, buy and redeem great deals with your Android phone. You can find variety of discounts...

Facebook, the world’s largest social networking website, facing a three-day suspension of trading on secondary market this week, Bloomberg reported. The company which is heading towards its giant Initial public offering of $100 billion – that is due for late may. Transactions won’t be processed by Facebook’s attorneys at Fenwick and West LLC – starting from today till January 27. The social networking site is facing a three-day suspension of trading on secondary markets this week. “Facebook and companies who do this don’t...

Tiny Tower developers, NimbleBit, launched an arm through the series of tweets against the social network game company, Zynga. Zynga recently launched a new iOS game that somehow looks a lot similar to Tiny Tower. The new game, Dream Heights, is available only in Canada so far. Zynga earlier even tried to buy out the company NimbleBit – but they refused the offer. The...

Graffiti artist David Choe, who was commissioned to paint the walls at Facebook new headquarters, incorporated a stick figure painted by the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg into a mohawked trollish creature wearing a wife beater with a raised fist. Zuckerberg added his touch to a graffiti wall at world’s largest social networking website company Facebook headquarters. ...

Dasient, a Sunnyvale-based internet security firm, on Monday through its company blog announced that it had been acquired by micro-blogging website, Twitter. The purchase deal price was not disclosed in the company’s post. The company was founded in 2008, is the brainchild of Neil Daswani and Shariq Rivzi. “Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology,...

Google+, so far, asked users to select the name they commonly use in real life – trying to make online sharing more like real world sharing. Google+ with a new move will allow users to bring their nicknames, pseudonyms, and other identities onto the social network. As per Bradley Horowitz, VP Product at Google+, Google+ post said that, “When we analyze the set...

“Again we must say that we will not attack #Facebook! Again the mass media lie,” the group tweeted from the @AnonOps feed. Anonymous on Monday denied that it was planning to take down Facebook on January 28. Facebook attack news start spreading like a fire, when individuals claiming to be a part of Anonymous posted a YouTube video that called on supporters...