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...
Is Facebook planning to launch a music service with Spotify as the music provider, as reported by Forbes today? Highly unlikely. What Facebook is doing, rather, is reaching out to multiple digital media companies-including Spotify and other digital music providers-to discuss ways to more tightly ... Read more...
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Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies' CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony Bates, will host a press conference later today to give details of the acquisition. Over the last week, the voice and video communications company had been rumor... Read more...
The U.S. government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter. The AP reports: The 19-page document, marked "for official u... Read more...
Pandora has been served a subpoena related to a federal investigation into personal information shared by smartphone apps "that run on the Apple and Android mobile platforms," according to an update to the SEC filing that announced the company's plans for an IPO. Pandora said the government has i... Read more...
“Twitter is a social network and micro blogging service that allows you to answer the question, “What are you doing?” Twitter has quickly become an everyday ritual for most of us, an outlet for people to say whatever comes to mind, creating personalities that we realize people we know or k... Read more...
Facebook chief privacy advisor Mozelle Thompson appeared before the Australian Parliament’s cyber-safety committee this week to discuss Internet-related security issues. Thanks to the event, we learned that about 20,000 users are kicked off Facebook every day for various infractions, including... Read more...
Seattle Times Earlier in December, co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen decided that it would be a good idea to sue Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo, Google’s YouTube, OfficeMax, Office Depot and Staples for violation of one of his patents. The patent in question relates to s... Read more...