Mark Zuckerberg surprised the world – and less than 100 of his friends – on Saturday when he married long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan at his Palo Alto, California residence. The guests, including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, were stunned to discover that the graduation party invite turned out to be a wedding date. The previous week [...]
Facebook Debuts on Nasdaq this morning at a $38 IPO Price in a initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares. Official first Public Price at 11:31 was $42.05. 4:00 pm. Close at $38.23 (+0.6%). 3:14 pm : $38.73 2:19 pm : $40.08 1:36 pm : $41.18 12:18 pm : $39.88 11:49 am : $38.03. Zynga stock [...]
Pinterest, the sugar-spice-and-everything-nice social networking site that lets users “pin” their favorite photos, is set to raise a $100 million round of investment, mainly to further its plans of reaching broader global markets. Rakuten, the company that manages Japan’s no.1 shopping site, leads the investment at $50 million. This newest funding is seen to place [...]
Pinterest just raised $ 100 million from Rakuten, valuing the social network at $ 1.5 billion. Now let’s look specifically at the heart of Pinterest: its content. First you must know that this social network is mostly visited by women: between 68% and 87% depending on the sources. The favorite subjects of its users are [...]
The erstwhile unknown dating app Skout is now covering more miles – and this is no surprise. First launched in 2007 as social interaction software, Skout went through a relatively slow start for quite some time. Now, the app is seeing new growth, adding up to 50,000 new members per day – an impressive jump [...]
A high demand for Facebook shares have prompted the company to raise its prices, which now stand between $34 and $38, reports BBC. Previous prices have been pegged at $28 to $35, but the social networking giant has decided to capitalize on the growing number of interested investors to hike up share prices. In a [...]
A new paid feature that Facebook has been fiddling with for the past days or so has sparked a flurry of mixed reactions from users. In what was first assumed to be a scam, the feature charges Facebook members $2 to underscore important posts, making them more prominent and consequently more visible on the social [...]
Facebook is set to launch the App Center in the coming weeks, where people can view and review social apps in one central location before installing them. The App Center also serves a venue for developers to improve their apps and allows them to produce more relevant, useful, entertaining apps. Facebook advises developers to begin [...]
Google just updated the iPhone application for its social network Google+. And it’s much much more beautiful and intuitive than before. Here is a list of changes : -better look for posts and photos -crisper fonts and larger profile pictures -a more beautiful homepage screen -the stream is easier to read with overlays, gradients and [...]
According to HackerNews via TNW, 55,000 twitter usernames and passwords were leaked, + celebrity accounts. You can check if you are in the list (divided in 5 parts) : page1 | page2 | page3 | page4 | page5. TNW said Twitter reset the passwords and resent an email to the owners so they are safe [...]
Google launched Hangouts on Air to Google+ users all over the world yesterday, through an update published at their blog. Now, users from Argentina to the Ukraine can broadcast their hangouts live to the rest of the globe, monitor their number of viewers, and record and re-share content virtually effortlessly. Google released this new broadcasting [...]
Badoo.com, a dating-oriented social networking service headquartered in Soho, London now has 150 million users, thanks in huge part to mobile use. The app is available for iPhone, Blackberry, and Android users. Tech Crunch reports on its extensive mobile growth usage since November 2011 which, at 100%, is guaranteed to accelerate Badoo’s mobile revenues. In [...]
Linkedin, the social network for professionals (161 million members) will acquire SlideShare.net for $118.75 million (45 % cash and 55 % stock). Funded in 2006, Slideshare hosts 7.4 million presentations and they are embedded on 1.4 million websites. “This acquisition means good things to professionals everywhere. Presentations are a core component of how professionals define [...]
Recent reports have it that interns over at Facebook enjoy a generous monthly offering of $5,000 plus additional $1,000 as housing and living allowance – an impressive and munificent amount - given that these interns, mostly undergraduates anywhere in their freshman to senior year, have very minimal real-world programming experience. The responses over at Quora [...]
Maritime Museum of BC will help victims of the 2011 Tsunami in Japan to find their lost items. “The museum launched a Facebook page called the Tsunami Debris Project earlier this week, where B.C. residents can post photos of personal items they find washed up on beaches that may have been swept away by last [...]
Linkedin has just launched its iPad app. You can download it on itunes for free, click here. (also works for iPhone). With 150 million members, LinkedIn wants now focus on its mobile users (around 35 million). The app is completely different from the linkedin website and has 4 main sections: Updates, “You” (your profile), the [...]
Forget the +1 button, now comes the official “Share” button. More viral according to me, it’s perfect for editors to put on their websites & blogs. To install it on your website now, just go on this page and copy-paste the html code. The button is available in many different languages, 3 sizes (small, medium, [...]
Facebook just amended its S-1 filing (SEC), unveiling some interesting figures : -901 million users as of 31 March 2012, an 33% increase compared to March 31, 2011 -488 million mobile users as of March 31 2012 and 500 million mobile users as of April 20, 2012 (remember that Facebook doesn’t yet monetize its spaces on mobile devices) -526 [...]
