Amid a series of speculations erupting across the web on Facebook trying out their own payment gateway, the news seems to be getting stronger day by day. Anther such news has come up, this time it says it is confirmed, that the social networking firm is indeed testing a new payment product that would go
Continue readingFacebook coming up with mobile games publishing and distribution, announces the same in its pilot program
Facebook has launched a pilot program recently which is a mobile games publishing project to boost its revenue from advertisements. The social networking firm has been reportedly toying around with the idea of launching a distribution platform for mobile games for small and medium scale gaming developers. The initiative was made public in a official
Continue readingFacebook experimenting Trending Topics, Graph Search now available everywhere in US English
Facebook has been working on its highly anticipated search feature, launched recently to users, and this time the company has started off with another experiment called Trending Topics. It will show the hottest topic going around in networks in a Timeline card that will be shown in the newsfeed of users. The feature comes inline
Continue readingFacebook has awarded over $1 million in reward to Bug Bounty hunters, reveals in its homepage
With the rise in world wide web usage and the potentiality of internet reaching new heights every single day, i-security has become the utmost concern for all stakeholders. Facebook, world’s largest social network, has taken this matter seriously and this is quite evident from the the numbers that has come up from its Bug Bounty
Continue readingPromotional videos to be shown in Newsfeed, Facebook plans it Youtube-style
Yes. If proven true, the latest tweaking from Facebook could be a 15-seconds television style ad that the company plans to add to its Newsfeed to be shown to users when they log in to their accounts. This could land up to a potentially lucrative advertising option for companies to launch their products and services
Continue readingFacebook to invest $1.6 Billion by this year, Revenue up by 51%
Facebook, the largest social network in world wide web, has announced that it will make capital investment worth $ 1.6 billion this year. The company, on the verge of global expansion, with users thronging worldwide especially in emerging markets like India and Brazil, had recently posted a net income of $333 million for the quarter
Continue readingFiltering Social Search results gets patented, goes to Google’s basket
With Google’s continuous quest for a connection with social media, the tech giant has defied its competitors to file a patent for social search which was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark. According to the patent, Google will bring out an interface for filtering search results based on the user’s social graph. This
Continue readingFacebook for Every Phone outshines, has a 100 million users now
Facebook has outshined in the social networking sphere and the company has shown vested interest in maintaining its status quo. In a recent press release, the company has released that its mobile app designed for feature phones are being accessed by 100 million plus users around the world thus aiding the firm to expand its
Continue readingUsers throng into Facebook, Mobile users increase by 20%
Facebook has never been that better as it is currently. The Harvard start up, now the largest social network in the world, had its IPO back in 2012 and it touched a m-cap of $104 billion, which media pundits referred to as “cultural touchstone”. Facebook has reported now that it’s mobile users has jumped up
Continue readingIndia’s own micro-blogging ‘Worldfloat’ leaps ahead, gains huge response
Its not Facebook or Google Plus. It does not have big heads under it’s name. Well, breaking the ice, it is none other than India’s homegrown social networking site and the big news is Worldfloat has cultivated a huge user base in it’s own homeland and expects its user base to grow to 20 million
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