Facebook has released the official launch of Timeline this evening. At the current time, New Zealand is the only country to get Timeline while other regions will apply it in the “near future.” In fact, Facebook initially launched Timeline in at the beginning of September, and quickly provided the means for developers and curious users [...]
According to a study from the publisher of Parenting and Babytalk magazines The Parenting Group, nine out of ten moms are friends with their children on Facebook. That’s the way mothers can keep an eye on their children by simply becoming a Facebook friend. After conducting the research with 1,100 mothers, the group revealed that [...]
According to CNN Money, Facebook has just bought location-based service provider Gowalla. Particularly, “a source close to Gowalla” said that Facebook has acquired the company for an undisclosed sum. After the acquisition, the majority of Gowalla’s employees, comprising founder Josh Williams, are planned to move from the company’s Austin, Texas, headquarters to Facebook’s in Palo [...]
When other consumers look at your online social profiles, what do they see? EyeTrackShop, a startup that runs eye-tracking studies for advertisers has found out by applying its technology to the profile pages of popular social networks. The study had used the webcams of 30 participants to record their eye movements as they were shown [...]
The FTC had accused Facebook in an eight-count complaint of not pushing up to its own promises. Sharing consumers’ personal information with third parties without their knowledge, changing privacy practices without informing users, it has to verify the security of apps when it didn’t. Facebook also has accepted to get consumers’ permission before making any [...]
It is reported that Facebook is considering going public in the spring of 2012 so as to increase as much as $10 billion in the process. Facebook’s possible initial public offering (IPO) has been the subject of many discussions in recent years. According to-founder Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning of this month IPO played an [...]
Smartphone and tablet manufacturer HTC has made its announcement that their Vivid 4G Android smartphone running on AT&T’s 4G wireless broadband network will get an over the air upgrade to Android’s 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system at the beginning of 2012. The tablet has been available on November 6 featuring the second largest display [...]
