Facebook, the world’s largest social networking website, has hired Bloomberg former social media director Dan Fletcher. Fletcher will work with the social giant as its managing editor. Forbes in December mentioned Bloomberg’s Dan Fletcher as one of the FORBES 30 under 30 in Media category. Fletcher graduated from Northwestern University in 2009, where he majored...
According to a job posting on the Federal Business Opportunities website, the FBI is gearing up to create a tool that will crawl social media site including Facebook, Twitter and others so as to prepare for the worst – emergencies before they actually happen. The application should be able to spider through public content posted on social networks across the web. “The...
In an ongoing fight against spammers and scammers, Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna announced that have filed dual lawsuits against the co-owners of Adscend Media LLC, an ad network, which Facebook says is known to support “clickjacking” schemes, and other forms of tricking users into giving up personally identifiable information or money. “We don’t ‘like’ schemes that illegally trick Facebook users into giving up personal information or paying for unwanted subscription services through spam,” McKenna...
With just a week passed when Apple reported its highest quarterly earnings of record $46.3 billion in revenue, the company is still find itself somewhere in reports of labor abuses among its suppliers. The company employs around 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas. There are also those employees who works with the company on contract basis like...
Changing a design is termed to be as “good”, but what if changing the design again and again to be called as – YouTube, the video sharing website redesign its homepage with update to certain aspects of its site. Starting from this week, the site kicked off changes in the site including updates to Browse Pages, Video Editor and Video Manager. The new Browse page...
Twitter announced in its blog post that to limit the content according to specified countries’ freedom of expression – the company added ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country – while keeping it available in the rest of the world. A year ago, the company having more emphasize on “The Tweets Must Flow” in which, “The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact … almost every country in the world agrees that freedom of expression is a human right. Many countries also agree...
Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. released their net revenues of $3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, comparable to the fourth quarter of 2010. The GAAP net loss in the fourth quarter of 2011 was $80 million, or $0.27 per share, compared to net earnings of $80 million, or $0.27 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2010. On a non-GAAP basis, net earnings in the...
The closure of Megaupload takes a step further – this time not by the feds or US government but by the Pirates of Catalonia who are planning to sue the FBI over the content sharing site takedown. The group initiative is an initial step for legitimate internet users to help defend themselves from the legal abuses promoted by those wishing to aggressively lock away...
Have you ever wondered that the data (the content) you put in on the world’s largest search engine giant is of worth how much? A new research finds people puts up over $5,000 worth of personal information a year to Google in lieu of its “free services” – the search engine giant offers. Michael Fertik, CEO and founder of Reputation.com, says personal information can be worth between $50 and $5,000 per person per year to advertisers and market researchers, depending on how much they spend and how useful the information is to third...
Nokia and Microsoft have “been silent” from quite a longer time about their Windows Phone partnership – but with the announcement of Finnish mobile maker, Nokia’s Q4 2011 earnings report, it’s confirmed that the companies were in partnership – Microsoft paid $250 million to Nokia for adopting Windows Phone. “Our broad strategic agreement with Microsoft...
