The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority chairman told Reuters that regulators are planning to review the allegations that Facebook’s own underwriter: Morgan Stanley shared negative news with big investors. “The allegations, if true, are a matter of regulatory concern” to FINRA and SEC, Ketchum told Reuters. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, speaking to reporters said: “I think there is a lot of reason to have confidence in our markets and in the integrity of how they operate, but there are issues that we need to look...
After the rocking up and down IPO starting, TPM reports that Facebook has quietly been testing a new look for user profiles or “Timeline” feature. Whereas, CNET also got the confirmation in an email statement: “We can confirm this is a small test, but don’t have anything further to share at this time.” Facebook Timeline New The new look moves...
TorrentFreak reports that The Pirate Bay has launched a site that help subscribers to not to suffer from the recent blockades in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. The new site is designed in such a way that it will optimize to work with proxies, if in case its Internet Protocol address gets blocked. “In most countries where The Pirate...
The social giant has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the Facebook’s “Sponsored Stories” feature publicized users’ “likes” without actually compensating the users or providing users the ability to opt-out from it. The terms of the settlement have not been rolled out in court filings however asking for comment on the settlement, Facebook’s representative declined. The story started last year when five Facebook members sued the social giant, over the “Sponsored Stories” feature violates their right to...
Facebook while starting the first day of trading experienced delays due to the glitches and intense demand that accompanied social network’s initial public offering listing over on which Nasdaq chief executive Robert Greifeld on Sunday acknowledged design problems with Nasdaq’s technology. Maryland-based investor Phillip Goldberg sued the Nasdaq stock exchange...
Facebook while starting the first day of trading experienced delays due to the glitches and intense demand that accompanied social network’s initial public offering listing over on which Nasdaq chief executive Robert Greifeld on Sunday acknowledged design problems with Nasdaq’s technology. What an interesting piece coming up is that a Maryland-based investor...
Mozilla launched “Mozilla Webmaker,” a new program to help people everywhere make, learn and play using the open building blocks of the web. The program will focus on the goal to help million of people moving from using the web to making the web. The organization with the help of new tools to use, projects to create and events to join, would like to help the world...
The social giant has announced that people will be able to access the App Center from Facebook’s iOS app, Android app as well as m.facebook.com. After someone clicks the install button on your mobile app detail page, they’ll be logged in and redirected to your app. Furthermore, if someone already installed your native app, we automatically open your app, passing...
Microsoft through it blog post stated that from now onwards in order to download, buy, update or review apps in Marketplace, user required Windows Phone 7.5 on phones. The change applies to both the phone and web Marketplace storefronts. “Most phones are already running Windows Phone 7.5, which was released last fall, and so most of you won’t notice anything different about how the Marketplace works,” Microsoft’s director of program management, Mazhar Mohammed, said in a blog post. “However, if your phone...
According to NPD DisplaySearch, Apple shipped nearly 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1’12, accounting for 118% Y/Y shipment growth. Nearly 80% of Apple’s mobile PC shipments were iPads, which reached over 13.6 million units in the quarter, for 162% Y/Y growth. Total mobile PC shipments in Q1’12 were 76.2 million units, a seasonal drop of 15% compared to Q4’11. Shipments grew 30% Y/Y, with tablet PCs growing 124% Y/Y and notebooks and mini-notes growing 12%. Talking about regional perspective, the China market stood out with Q/Q shipment...
