Why Facebook Acquired Social Gifting Startup, E-Commerce Mobile App Karma?
Facebook Inc. (FB) has acquired 1-year-old mobile e-commerce start-up Karma, allows users to buy gifts from its catalogue from their mobile phones, for an undisclosed sum. The app will retain its functions after the acquisition, according [...]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Aborts Commercial Launch to Space Station, Set to Go on Tuesday
The launch a new private supply ship for the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, was aborted when the flight computer detected slightly high pressure in the engine 5 combustion chamber… Now Set to Go on Tuesday!!!
According [...]
Pakistan restored access to Twitter after block over Prophet Muhammad cartoons competition
Pakistan has finally restored access to leading micro-blogging website Twitter after briefly blocking the it over “blasphemous” posts involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s [...]
Apple unconfirmed rumors, iPhone 5 might get a larger 4-inch screen?
Here i have gathered together all the latest Apple unconfirmed rumors from last week– some of them even coming from more or less reputable sources— you might be able to trust!
iPhone 5 to have a Larger Screen, 4 inches diagonally, [...]
The Facebook IPO, A Symbol Of American Prosperity
As a result of The Facebook (FB) initial public offering, Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will have a net worth more than the combined bottom fifth of all U.S. households and shareholders will become billionaires and multi-millionaires. [...]
Why People Are More Willing To Be Truthful When They Are Texting?
Do you think you’re more more likely to give honest answers via text message in response or over the phone or face-to-face?
According to a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, [...]
Top Hipper Alternatives To Facebook – Hottest New Mobile social networks
People now spend more time on mobile phone apps than they do online or more specifically the mobile-social experience. The popularity of social networking, especially via mobile devices, will continue to blaze, We have compiled a list of the [...]
Sad day, Import Ban on Android Based Motorola Devices Entering U.S. Over Microsoft Patent Fight
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) won a patent fight that will ban Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) to alter software on some of its Android-based mobile smartphones. Oct. 2010, Microsoft filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission [...]
Twitter Do Not Track (DNT) Privacy Option Initiative, allows users to opt-out of online activity tracking
Microblogging site Twitter was quick to act when it was accused of tracking online activity. Under it’s new “Do Not Track (DNT) initiative” offers its users the chance to block personal data shared with third parties websites.
Twitter [...]
Facebook IPO likely to outshine nearly every other public company on the planet
World’s most popular social networking site, Facebook that began eight years ago in a Harvard dorm room is set to start trading today around 8 am Pacific Time Friday on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol “FB.” Facebook [...]
Biggest Technology IPOs of the last decade – Top Internet IPOs
It looks like Facebook, the world’s most popular social-networking site, would be the largest IPO ever for an Internet company. Take a look at the slideshow below to see the largest and Biggest Technology IPOs of the last decade – Top [...]
Photo-sharing site Pinterest raises $100 Million, boost from Japanese online retailer Rakuten
Three years start-up, Pinterest, an online online picture board has raised $100 million from a group of investors led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc in a deal that reportedly values the three-year-old U.S. company at $1.5 billion.
Pinterest [...]
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack knocked the file-sharing site Pirate Bay offline
Swedish file sharing website, The Pirate Bay — which lets users download copyrighted content — has been down for over 24-hours as a result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and has been pulled offline by hackers.
We’re [...]
Solar-powered implants to restore sight to the blind
There are many named solar power as “too expensive” or “impractical”, Here’s to them! A new medical device is being developed by a team of scientists at California’s Stanford University based on solar-powered [...]
Eduardo Saverin renounced U.S. citizenship ahead of Facebook mega IPO, may save $100 million on U.S. tax bill
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, a Brazilian who immigrated to the US as a boy to avoid kidnapping plots, has ditched his U.S. citizenship ahead of Facebook’s mega IPO.
Saverin, said to own a 4 or 5 percent stake, will become an instant [...]
When the end of unlimited data plan at Verizon Wireless for grandfathered customers will take effect?
In a very cheesy move, Verizon Wireless is planning to force it’s smartphone users with unlimited data plans to switch to tiered plans when they upgrade this summer, said Fran Shammo, Verizon CFO, at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and [...]
Facebook to Apple: Aaron Sorkin to pen upcoming biopic movie about visionary Steve Jobs
Aaron Sorkin, Academy winner Award for “The Social Network” will write a screenplay based on the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs biography. It will be based on Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography. The Social Network was a film [...]
List of some of the best people to follow on Viddy – Video-sharing sensation
With Justin Bieber on board, Los Angeles-based startup, Viddy — an Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone application for shooting 15-second clips — has more than 27 million registered users. Viddy is adding 500,000 new users per day. [...]
Siri shocking betrayal on best smartphone debate, Nokia Lumia 900 VS Apple iPhone
Apple’s voice-activated assistant Siri on Apple (AAPL) iPhone 4S will no longer tell you that the Windows OS based, Nokia (NOK) Lumia 900 is the best smartphone ever. Until just recently if you asked Siri “which was the best cell [...]
Facebook IPO, one of the most widely anticipated tech stock debuts of the decade
Expected later this week, Facebook Inc is preparing for one of the most widely anticipated tech stock debuts of the decade. Looks like Mark Zuckerberg has decided to increase the size of its already biggest Internet IPO ever by 85 million shares [...]
