Tag Archives : Facebook

Facebook yesterday launched a new service named  Facebook Stories at facebookstories.com, a Web site that, according to Facebook, is dedicated to sharing “some of the most extraordinary, quirky, and thought-provoking stories and ideas from people around the world who make up the social graph.” Facebook might be banking on this new service to boost its public opinion and stock price.   Facebook [...]

Facebook’s stock price plunged to a below US $20, almost half the price it debuted at in May. Facebook shares are down more than 4% today, falling to as low as $19.82. When Facebook first listed on May 18, its shares opened at just over US $42. Facebook valuation was touted to be US $100 billion-plus prior to the IPO. The latest figures put the company’s market cap at around US $43 billion which [...]

Facebook has a total of 83 million accounts on the website which are bogus. It accounts for 8.7% of the total users, of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts, 2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are “undesirable” accounts or simply put –  spam. This was revealed through Facebook’s form 10-Q filing with the US SEC for the quarterly period that ended last June 30, 2012. The [...]

Microsoft’s announced Outlook.com on Tuesday , a new online email service which gives its email application a much-needed makeover, it cleans up the inbox user interface and adds several social networking features . Outlook.com will exist separately from Hotmail, feature-wise,  the email features are basically the same across the two services,visually –  Outlook.com is everything Hotmail [...]

Facebook has announced on Monday that it will roll out a new tool for thumbing through galleries across the site, presenting photos in a new square format with the option to highlight certain shots to increase their visibility on the page. “Now when you click Photos at the top of your timeline, you’ll see larger pictures that fill up the page. You can use the menu to find shots you’re tagged [...]

58 percent of people in UK send text messages each day, that’s way ahead of 47 percent who prefer making phone calls according to a study by Ofcom, the Independent regulator for the UK communications industries. The change in communication is being driven by the growth of smartphones, and Ofcom found that more than one quarter of adults (27 per cent) and close to half of teenagers (47 per cent) [...]

It’s about time Facebook – more than four months since it introduced the Timeline design for desktop, Facebook has started rolling out the Timeline design for pages to its mobile versions this week. Earlier the mobile version of Facebook Pages would display only the profile picture for the Page, along with  the category and amount of likes the page had along with a Like button. Timeline [...]

After Twitter introduced iOS integration last month, how could Facebook not get on the bandwagon, earlier today Facebook launched OS-level integration on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. A new iOS Dev Center was also revealed, so that developers have easy access the tools and resources  to build varied social apps for iOS. The key features of the new code are superior user session management, ready-to-use [...]

If you have been eagerly pinning for Facebook App Centre which was launched almost a month ago in the US, your prayers are now answered. Facebook has now launched it over in the UK. Facebook App Centre  makes it easier for its members  to find games, music services and media content. It had more than 600 apps available from day one – including Instagram, Spotify Pinterest and Draw Something. The [...]

Kindle for the Web Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size [...]