Facebook’s Financial Success Helping The European Economy To Prosper?

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.

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Over 7 Million People Signed Google’s Anti SOPA Petition

Google’s initiative to call the public support in the fight against controversial anti online piracy proved to gain a large audience. As Washington Post reports more than 7 million Google users from US already signed the petition by yesterday. The most popular search engine in the world, used its massive convincing power to display message to users urging them “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the Web!” The link behind the message sent users to sign a petition.

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First-Ever Full-Length Movie Shot With A Smartphone

Have you been planning on being a film director but are unable to lay your hands on that oh-so-expensive equipment? Worry not. This full-length movie, shot with a smartphone camera, is a proof enough that with a smartphone camera, you can shoot a full-length HD movie.

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FTC Makes Facebook Devise New Privacy Policies

The most used social website, Facebook, may no longer be able to change it’s privacy settings without users’ approval. Reports indicate that this is a likely outcome of a FTC probe against Facebook. The 2-year old probe is about to end and Facebook may have to come to FTC’s terms.

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Facebook iPad App Is Hidden Inside The Code Of Facebook’s iPhone App

Facebook just released a dedicated iPad app and Facebook’s iPad app is hidden inside of their iPhone app. Some clever Apple fanatics managed to discover that code for the iPad version of the long-awaited official Apple Facebook app was embedded within the code of the iPhone app and the discovery occurred after Facebook released an update to the iPhone app. The leaked iPad version of the app will have a special menu on the left-hand side of the screen for seamless access to all of the social network site’s main features…………….

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Netflix CEO Has Joined The Board Of Directors Of Facebook

Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings is joining the Board of Directors for Facebook should make for an interesting note in the next movie, but beyond that it’s unclear what it means for either company and he successfully navigated Netflix through the process of going public which many assume will be a next step for the social media giant. So his experience could come in handy nd also serves on the board of Microsoft, which owns a stake in Facebook. That goes without mentioning plans by Netflix to make another run at integrating social features into its movie service after the original implementation fell apart……..

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Facebook Targets Google

Facebook gets busted for actually hiring a PR agency to try to plant anti-Google stories in the press and plan to plant anti-google stories in the press.Facebook hired hotshot public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to urge major news outlets to take a very close look at Google’s privacy policy and legal issues surrounding Google’s Social Circle feature, allows users to see information that’s publicly available for those they’re connected with in Google Chat and Contacts……….

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