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orporate headquarters of social media giant Facebook will once again be moving. Facebook will relocate to former headquarters for Sun Micro in Menlo Park, California. The move will mark the second time the company has moved in less than two years. While staffing about 2,000 employees, the growing social networking company moves from Palo Alto [...]
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Facebook Moving Headquarters Again!
Posted by Kathy on February 8th, 2011
Facebook Wants Users Mobile Number and Personal Address
Posted by Charles Wellington on January 20th, 2011
Facebookers beware – the social network giant wants your mobile phone number and personal address. Why your mobile number? Facebook claims that having a users cell phone number can help its developers create better programs, games, and social widgets – all of which will make a users Facebook experience that much better. Some examples of [...]
Facebook Not Shutting Down
Posted by Stephen Lee on January 11th, 2011
Rumors have been flying all around the internet that the social networking giant, Facebook.com, will be shutting down on March 15 due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanting “his old life back,” and to “put an end to all the madness.” Larry Yu, Facebook’s Director of Corporate Communications “the answer is no, so please help us [...]
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No Comments »Groupon Turns Down a $6 Billion Buyout Offer From Google
Posted by Amelia on December 10th, 2010
Groupon, the worlds fastest growing web-based company, reportedly said no to a $6 billion offer from Google last week. The two-year-old company offers daily coupon offers from local businesses, all of which are delivered over the web by e-mail. It is believed that because Groupon is growing rapidly in popularity, there is no telling what [...]
Posted in Business, Featured News Tags: Andrew Mason, Company, coupons, deals, Facebook, Google, Groupon, LivingSocial, local businesses, offer, Turns down, web-based, Yahoo No Comments »Twitter CEO Tweets About Chinese Government
Posted by Trevor on November 21st, 2010
On Thursday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Tweeted “Year-long detentions for sending a sarcastic tweet are neither the way forward nor the future of your great people.” Costolo’s tweet was in response to the Chinese government sentencing a Chinese woman to one year in a labor camp because she retweeted a note that officials in China [...]
Posted in Business, Featured News, Politics Tags: Anti-Japanese sentiment, Cheng Jianping, China, Facebook, Google, Guo Quan, Labor camp, Shanghai, Twitter No Comments »Zynga’s CityVille Could be the Next FarmVille
Posted by Kathy on November 18th, 2010
Social gaming sensation Zynga, developer of FarmVille, revealed that they will be creating a new game that will be just as addicting – City Ville Zynga announced Wednesday that they will be releasing a beta version of City Ville within the next couple of weeks, available in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. The game [...]
Posted in Business, Featured News, IT Gadgets Tags: City Ville, CityVille, Facebook, FarmVille, Games, iPad, iPhone, MySpace, Silicon Valley, SimCity, Zynga No Comments »Facebook May Offer E-mail Services
Posted by Oliver on November 15th, 2010
Rumors have been flying around about Facebook launching a web-based email service, which would be similar to Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail. Facebook already enables users to communicate internally between their 500 million users, however, the web-based e-mail service would allow the Facebook-ers to communicate with non-users by using an “@facebook.com” e-mail address. The social [...]
Posted in Business, Featured News, IT Gadgets Tags: Facebook, facebook email, Gmail, Google, Hotmail, Pete Cashmore, Webmail, Yahoo Mail, ZDNet No Comments »Facebook Upgrades Security Settings
Posted by Stephen Lee on October 13th, 2010
New updates on the privacy settings of Facebook, allows users to log off of the site from a cellular phone, as well as getting a temporary password to use on public computers. Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan stated that, “From our standpoint, safety and security is a core part of Facebook and a core part [...]
Posted in Business, Featured News, IT Gadgets Tags: Facebook, Joe Sullivan, Login, Mobile phone, new security setting, Online Communities, Password, Public computer, Security No Comments »Facebook: The Next Flickr?
Posted by Stephen Lee on October 2nd, 2010
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, has taken their business to the next level. Upgrades have been made on the photo section of the site that will now offer hi-resolution photos, photo-download links, improved tagging features, and a lightbox interface that will allow users to view photos from anyplace on the site. Currently, photos [...]
Facebook Movie – ‘The Social Network’ Opening Weekend Projections
Posted by Oliver on October 1st, 2010
For anyone that has a computer, a social life, and has paid any attention to the world around us, you probably know about “Facebook”. But in case you don’t, you will be able to hear and see Hollywood’s depiction, “The Social Network” this opening weekend. The Social Network chronicles the story of Facebook, the website [...]
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