Tag: zuckerberg
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Detailed
Facebook’s cool delta wing drone is on the way, it’s designed to bring internet to various parts of the world via lasers. The drone is part of internet.org, an initiative from Facebook to bring the flying internet and other related technologies to the third world and beyond. The Aquila drones themselves are of a delta…
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Facebook has 1 billion mobile users and over 200 million Instagram users!
With Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg chatting about their latest purchase in the form of the virtual reality company Oculus, the social network founder also mentioned a few interesting points about Facebook (and Instagram) too. During a conference call to announce the Oculus VR purchase, Zuckerberg revealed that Instagram now has a user base of over 200 million…
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Oculus Rift purchased By Facebook for £1.2 billion
Facebook has today announced that its latest purchase is the developers behind the much hyped Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset, for a cool £1.2 billion (or $2 Billion of the US). The buy will see the virtual reality startup become a much bigger deal in the hands of Mark Zuckerberg and co. The Oculus Rift…
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Forbes Rich List Dominated By Social Network Giants
The latest iteration of the Forbes Rich list is still currently topped by tech founders and CEOs, with the Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg stealing a respectful 21 places due to his $17.5 billion dollar money pot, with massive increases predicted ahead of the newest Facebook music update. The Zuck rose to 14th place over the Google…
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Google+ gets 25 million users in one month!
Google’s Social network attack on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, Google+ certainly is gaining momentum as the big G has announced that it now has more than 25 million users, 1 million or which are from the UK. The stats come from ComScore a website who specialise in “Measuring the Digital World” and the…
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Facebook for Android 1.6.1 update – it’s all about Pages
The Facebook app for Android smartphones gets a facelift today with the update to version 1.6.1 available now through the Android Market. You won’t get a notification to tell you that the update is available, so you’ll have to go to the new look Android Market yourself to grab the latest version of the mobile…
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Google+ Address Book coming in next few days – Importing contacts made easy
So, we finally got onto Google+ (What’s Google+? Where have you been? Catch up here!). It’s looking good, but is still a little sparse when it comes to actually being social. Also there’s the issue of not being able to add multiple photos unless you use Google Chrome. Frustrating to an IE loyalist! The problem…
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Facebook Press Conference: Social Network will integrate Microsoft’s Skype to take the fight to Google
As predicted, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the press conference today to announce that – Yes, Facebook will integrate Skype video conferencing as a major new feature into the Social Network. As Microsoft was making its $8.5-billion bid for the VoIP carrier service back in May, current Skype CEO Tony Bates was…
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Google + Project: Android app goes live – Zuckerberg admits account as “Circles” unofficially drops on Facebook
Everybody’s talking about Google+, the new online social experience from the Mountain View co. which is set to change the approach to social networking and bring back the importance of our relationships through the World Wide Web. There’s been massive interest in the new kid on the social block from the word “Go” and the…
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Facebook hires iOS & PS3 hacker “GeoHot”?
A hacker who infamously cracked Apple’s iPhone and Sony’s Playstation 3 appears to have gone and gotten himself an honest job – with the social network giant Facebook. Reports suggest 21 year-old George Hotz – otherwise known as the online aliases “GeoHot” and “Million75” – has been snapped up by Facebook after turning down a…
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Facebook hires iOS & PS3 hacker “GeoHot”?
A hacker who infamously cracked Apple’s iPhone and Sony’s Playstation 3 appears to have gone and gotten himself an honest job – with the social network giant Facebook. Reports suggest 21 year-old George Hotz – otherwise known as the online aliases “GeoHot” and “Million75” – has been snapped up by Facebook after turning down a…
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Facebook account minimum age will remain at 13
Facebook will remain closed to under 13s – despite media speculation that Zuckerberg’s social empire would be opening its doors to the pre-teen demographic. The minimum age policy for the world popular Social Network is currently thirteen and with nothing to cater for youngsters entering those awkward years it was suggested Facebook would start to…