Imo.im, which is known to be with the name as the “multi-platform free instant messaging” service for both web and mobile devices is all set to launch its own real-time social network, starting from today. The network can be accessible currently only through its website, but the company is working towards making the feature integrate into its mobile applications,...
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking website, is now costing its advertising clients 23% more per 1000 impressions than as compared to the start of 2011, as per the report from TBG Digital. The TBG Digital Q4 2011 Facebook Advertising Report looked at Facebook’s 326 billion advert impressions it got, ran by 266 of its clients across 205 countries around the world. As per the TBG Digital analysis, there is an average increase of CPC’s in US by 10%. This could point to increasing demand as more brands are doing advertising...
BlablaCar, a European social carpooling marketplace, has successfully raised $10 million from Accel Partners and existing investors ISAI and Cabiedes & Partners. The total funding that the company has raised is $12.5 million so far. BlablaCar, a website in which drivers can register, publish their trips and contact other members who are making the same trip...
Possible chances seem to be there that, Facebook, World’s largest social network, IPO is likely to come in the third week of May, report confirms. Mentioning multiple sources, All Things D mentioned that social networking giant will file its public offering somewhere by next month, given the review by the SEC, the whole process will takes three to four months. The...
Beepl, on the line of Quora, opened its social question and answer platform for the public starting from Monday. The company is in full aims to challenge Quora and other similar sites. For signing up, Users can sign in to Beepl with their social network account i.e. with Facebook and Twitter accounts. Once a user has logged in his/her details, Beepl scans their social...
Protest against Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) legislation has been gathering pace in past few days, organized by the different online advocacy groups. Adding a new name into the not-to-called as clear protest, the world’s largest social network, Facebook, has scheduled a fancy invite-only event in San Francisco this...
With more than 800 million users, Facebook is arguably the most dominant social networking platform in the world. The social network’s popularity keeps on increasing day by day resulting into a prime target for cybercriminals. An average, 50 percent of Facebook’s more than 800M+ users, log on to Facebook during any given day. With this, one can imagine or even...
Obama Administration is debating a real issues concerning online piracy by responding back over the weekend, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the Protect IP Act and the Online Protection and Digital Enforcement Act (OPEN). Yesterday came words from White House that a key House hearing originally scheduled for Wednesday will be delayed till there is a “consensus”...
I Can Has Cheezburger, the website best known for its power as one of the World’s largest comedy networks, turn five last week, sharing exactly 14,683 lolz, after launching in 2007. “Reaching our fifth anniversary means that we’re not just seen as a cat website company,” Cheezburger editor in chief Emily Huh mentioned. She also added that, “It’s amazing...
According to an estimate from Gregory Lyons, iCrossing, if Facebook continues at the same rate, it will hit a billion users mark by August 2012. The company claimed that it has 800 million users in September, so it’s not surprising that the world’s largest social network achieve the billion marks. Using a process of linear regression on the data from the end of...
