Technological advancement has led us on top of the success. But, it is that same technology, which is prying into our privacy and revealing our internet activities to others without our permission. In simple word, our internet activities are being monitored. The question is, who is monitoring or who is helping to track our internet activities? So, let’s find out, how to get rid of from being tracked/monitored?
Facebook has finally filed for IPO after a lot of anticipation and has raised $2.4 billion in funding. It is hoping that it will be able to garner $5 billion through public offering. Analysts are expecting that when Facebook is finally approved to go public, it’s valuation can be as much as $100 billion! This puts everyone who has even a fraction of a percent of shares as a millionaire. So who are the top shareholders in Facebook? Let’s see.
Wanting to “leave a mark on the world”, Cathy Matthews from Sacramento managed to set one of the most futile World Records: the most comments on a single Facebook post. The passionate Frontierville player, Matthews decided one day that the crop harvesting and tree chopping in the game are not challenging enough and set up a new target.
Everyone has been eagerly waiting for Facebook to go public. For long Facebook has withheld the temptation, just trying to build itself up and reach a very sustainable level by expanding it’s revenue streams. And now, finally, it’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given the nod and the company has gone public. The company is looking forward to raising a whooping $5 billion fro the IPO filing. This will result in turning hundreds of Facebook employees into millionaires.
You might think of Facebook as just a virtual place where you post pictures online and make fun of Good Guy Greg, because he’s nice enough not to ban you from his page, but for world economies is a whole different story. COO Sheryl Sandberg made this point very clear, when speaking at the Digital Life Design (DLD) Conference in Munich this week. Sandberg brought along some figures of course, mentioning that Facebook helped Europe by adding 15.3 B Euros to its economy.
Most Facebook games are fun and stop at just that. However, A Better World is a game by ToonUps which was launched in December. ToonUps had planned that if Facebook gamers were able to accomplish 1 million good deeds on the game, the company will donate $10,000 to CURE.org, one of the largest providers of reconstructive surgery to disabled children. ToonUps had declared the deadline as January 31st but the enthusiastic gamers helped achieved the target more than a week before the deadline.
For all those millions of ardent Angry birds players and fans out there, this Valentine’s Day Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, is bringing you a fine present. While you may have played the game on your iOS and Android devices and had some great fun, how about playing the game right on your social network? That’s right, Rovio is bring Angry Birds to Facebook. The game will be launched on the social network on Valentine’s Day.
Facebook is morphing into a central bank, some voices say. Why? Well it all started when the social giant rolled out Facebook Credits – an easy and safe way to buy stuff you like off Facebook. Your money would have been transformed into Facebook Credits and from there on the shopping spree was free to begin.
So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How many users? Judging by a new survey, you are one of the 2.1 billion people who use the Internet every day. According to the report released by statistics site Pingdom, 44% of those people are based in Asia. Yes, gamers are sucking up almost half of the world’s Internet.
Facebook is set to file for IPO the coming week. Everyone is eyeing this move by the social network with interest because this will give a major boast to the overall value of Facebook. While Facebook hasn’t officially release any figures on it’s profits or revenue, there are reports that some inside sources have revealed this key information. Julie Boorstein of CNBC claimed that a source had revealed to her the profit and revenue of Facebook. She posted the exact figures on her Twitter account.
First there was SOPA. And now the European Union might go down the same road. A new data protection act due to be released officially this week. Reuters has managed to get its hands on a draft and stated that the rules are tighter and very rigorous. The act targets big companies like Facebook, attacking the much debated privacy issues. If the big boys won’t bow its head to the new laws imposed by the European Union, the act ensures that fines will be cashed in, for every rule violated.
Ever since Google Search plus Your World launched, a lot of voices were raised against it. More importantly those coming from the Twitter quarters. Summarizing all the posts and the debates, the bottom line is that Google Search plus Your World is bad for everybody. That includes you, organizations, publishers and everyone you could ever think of.
Social media has come about to play a huge role in national as well as international affairs. From Arab Spring to protest over Megaupload, social media has proved to be a highly effective tool. In view of this, FBI is now eyeing the social media to gather future intelligence as well as respond to emergencies. According to FBI, social media is quicker than 911 in prompting over emergencies. This has forced the intelligence agency to take the social networking sites into view.
We reported earlier that a video by someone who claims to be a part of the hacktivist fraternity Anonymous claimed that they would attack Facebook on January 28th. Turns out the claim was a fake as the official Twitter account of Anonymous clearly debunked it and stated that it had no plans to take down Facebook. However, on the end of Facebook, the social network claimed that it was absolutely ready for any and all attacks by anyone, even Anonymous, and that the data of the users will not be compromised at any cost.
Facebook finally launched it’s Timeline for everyone a few weeks ago. Many liked it, some hailed it as an artistic outlook while other lambasted it as too open to allow adequate privacy. But well, whether you like it or not, in a few weeks the Timeline will be activated on all the 800 million user profiles. You will get a seven-day preview period during which you can tweak the profile as per your privacy requirements and then, after seven days, the Timeline will be automatically published.
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