All the stories tagged with: Facebook
Facebook social readers are declining, are people getting tired of them?
05/07/2012, I used to love reading news from my Facebook account via social readers. But for some reason, I find the process too intrusive and a little annoying. But nevertheless, I still use them. But a post on BuzzFeed today is [...]
Bouncers use Facebook as a form of identification
05/07/2012, When it comes to entering some bars, lounges or night clubs, a form of ID is usually requested before you are permitted access. This is to prevent those underaged from entering and while that practice has been going on for [...]
Brazilian clothing store incorporates Facebook Like counters into their hangers
05/07/2012, You walk into a store and you see a jacket that caught your attention. You think it looks great but how will your friends, family and those around you react? The good news is that if you’re looking for some [...]
Facebook acquires location app Glancee
05/05/2012, Just one month after Facebook bought Instagram, the social networking giant is acquiring another company – this time it’s Glancee. Glancee is an ambient location-based service. It’s mobile app uses Facebook as a login and the location of the user [...]
Angry Birds on Facebook gains Share & Play feature, allows embedding in websites and Facebook Timelines
05/04/2012, If you love Rovio’s Angry Birds and you simply can’t get enough of it, it has been announced by Rovio that Angry Birds on Facebook has recently gained a new “Share & Play” feature. As the name itself has probably [...]
Facebook launches two-filter ‘Instagram’
05/04/2012, Yes, we read all about Facebook purchasing Instagram for a cool $1 billion, making plenty of people into millionaires overnight, and a month after their acquisition, Facebook has finally introduced filters to one of its apps. Those who use the [...]
Facebook IPO: Price Range Set Between $28 and $35 Per Share
05/03/2012, According to an article by Evelyn M. Rusli on the Dealbook / New York Times, Facebook sets the share price for its IPO at between $28 and $35 per share, a pricing that could value the company at around $86 [...]
NYC’s new education guidelines to restrict teacher and student contact via social media websites
05/03/2012, We’re sure that some of you guys have pretty good relationships with your teachers and might even have them on Facebook. Unfortunately if that’s one of ways that you and your teacher keep in contact socially or academically, that could [...]
Donate Life California sees an 800% in organ donor registration thanks to Facebook
05/02/2012, It was just yesterday that Facebook announced its new Organ Donor feature, and for those who might have missed the news, this basically allows a Facebook user to add Organ Donor status onto their timeline. The goal was to create [...]
Facebook lets you add Organ Donor Life Event to your Timeline
05/01/2012, Facebook, like other social networking websites, have allowed us to set our status as being single, married, in a relationship, and the all-time favorite: it’s complicated. That will soon change thanks to a new feature that Facebook has announced today [...]
Yahoo adds two more patent infringement claims in lawsuit against Facebook
04/30/2012, For those unaware, both Facebook and Yahoo are currently in a legal battle in which the latter has accused the former of infringing upon its patents; ten patents to be exact. The lawsuit was filed back in March but it [...]
Skype Launches Humoticons Facebook App
04/27/2012, Skype has launched a new app in conjunction with its new “It’s Time for Skype” marketing campaign which the company claims to be about putting the “humanity” element back into how people communicate. Skype claims that ‘Skypers’ often make use [...]
Jay-Z’s Empire is a Facebook game
04/27/2012, Hip hop mogul Jay-Z is a brand new daddy with his hot wife Beyonce, and you know for sure that this power couple is not going to rest on their laurels. Instead, they intend to grow from strength to strength, [...]
