With 70 percent of its more than 600 million members outside the United States, Facebook is creating its own foreign service, hiring a network of ambassadors from India to Ireland to represent the Palo Alto-based social network with foreign governments and cultures. Facebook's new global polic... Read more...
Microsoft will file a complaint with the European Commission alleging anticompetitive behavior in Europe’s search market. The complaint revolves primarily around Google’s metadata access to rival search providers. The EU has been investigating Google’s search practices in Europe. A Mi... Read more...
But Google remains dominant with nine tenths of global search traffic Microsoft's Bing has overtaken Yahoo as the second most popular search engine on the web, according to new figures from research firm StatCounter. Bing handled 4.37 per cent of the world's search queries last month... Read more...
YouTube wants to start a subscription service of streaming movies a la Netflix and Amazon's new streaming service for Prime customers, the Post reports. They're planning to launch it first in the UK and Europe where there's less competition and they can test it, before rolling it out inte... Read more...
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled. Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit... Read more...
IAmNotADictionary Word Of The Day: Nativism - Nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.[1] It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such individuals or their culture. This may result... Read more...
Most advanced political and economic debate is dominated by the Americans. Through films like Zeitgeist Addendum, The Money Masters and Money as Debt, and books like those of Thomas Greco and Ellen Brown. They have been enormously important contributions to the awakening of the many (includi... Read more...
Israel has signed a $400 million deal to sell unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia and provide it with assembly components and servicing for the spy planes. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said on Wednesday that it has signed a UAV contract with the Russian defense firm OPK Oboronpro... Read more...