Here it is: the social gaming giant Zynga is back with plans of bringing up a next version of its famous FarmVille game. Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Technology Media and Telecom conference, Zynga CFO Dave Wehner was asked about an updated version of FarmVille. He said: We haven’t announced anything about an updated version of FarmVille. Clearly, that’s an important franchise for us and it’s an important category for our users, and we’ll want to continue to serve that category well but we haven’t announced...
We reported last week that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship as per an internal revenue service reports. But the real reasons for Saverin’s move may have to do with more than taxes, according to publications Time and the Wall Street Journal, Saverin renounced his citizenship way back in September of last year, and now lives in Singapore, which doesn’t levy a capital gains tax. “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it’s completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook...
Firefox has come up with a new and exciting feature name as Reset Firefox – Yes, Resetting the whole of your Firefox – surprised and/or started thinking that how it can be possible. The feature works by migrating bookmarks, passwords, cookies and form data to a new default profile, followed with killing the previous one and you have got a fresh and clean Firefox...
DigiTimes reports that Apple has recently placed huge orders (about 50% of the total chips) for mobile DRAM memory with Elpida Memory’s 12-inch plant in Hiroshima, Japan, lopped $10 billion off Samsung’s market value, according to Reuters. The news results in bringing Samsung’s share down by 6 percent, whipping $10 billion off the market value on Wednesday...
Pinterest has reportedly to have its lead investor: Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce site that could invest $50 million in $100 million round that would value Pinterest at $1.5 billion, reports AllThingsD. The new funding round, as well as the new investors, is expected to be announced today, according to the report. Pinterest, launched back in 2010 has raised...
With Oracle and Google trial entering into the third phase, Judge William Alsulp asked the companies attorneys to provide a brief stating that where the trial could go next. Discussing the facts and figures of the trial, all of this also depends on whether or not the judge rules if the 37 Java APIs are copyrightable in the first place. If the judge decides that the SSO of the APIs are not copyrightable, then he could award the statutory damages to Oracle. If this happens, the trial will move to the United States Court of Appeals for the...
Facebook has unveiled two new features to Insights – App Ratings and Negative Feedback in order to provide developer the better ways to monitor positive and negative aspects of their apps. Metrics can be viewed for a day, week, month, or a custom date range. App Ratings are based on a five-star scale, and also showed up your Apple Center and on app detail page....
9to5Mac reports that Facebook has released Pages Manager for iPhone, which is available right now in New Zealand, and will be out in the U.S. soon. The app features fan pages, Facebook’s insights for tracking analytics data, and the total number of people who have been exposed to your brand through the page. Here’s the description: Pages Manager helps admins...
Facebook has reportedly scheduled an all-night long hackathon for Thursday at its Menlo Park headquarters, just a day before the social giant goes public. Best part of hackathon is that it will end with Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq bell turning the company into a public company. The social giant has set up an internal Event page which has already over 1,000 saying that they are going to be part of it. “We want to get everyone together and remind ourselves that this company is about building things,”...
After showing a lot of potential numbers and gifting California a gift of whooping $12 million, Hitwise is the latest to join and decided to share 10 of its own statistics about the social giant. Here are 15 stats for the May 18th IPO: Facebook.com received 9% of all US Internet visits in April 2012. Facebook.com received more than 1.6 billion visits a week and averaged more than 229 million US visits a day for the year-to-date. 1 in every 5 page views in the US occurred on Facebook.com. Facebook.com has received more than 400 billion...
