Archive for January, 2011
Who owns Facebook?
Facebook has recently had a valuation of $50 Billion USD after Goldman Sachs invested in the company. So who actually owns Facebook? Interestingly enough Mark Zuckerberg, his Facebook staff, and Co-Founders still own over 60% of the company. Here is the breakdown: Facebook staff: 30% Co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg: 24% Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz: 6% […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer Keynote address – 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show
If you haven’t yet watched this speech I recommend you do. This is from the 2011 International Consumer Electronics (CES) in Las Vegas. Certainly interesting info from Steve Ballmer & Microsoft about new products/ development and future/horizon predictions. The video goes for about 1 hour in length.
Read More | ShareOnline Gaming Statistics
Online gaming is nothing new, but nowdays console systems are able to connected to the internet allowing users to play with other gamers all around the world. Here are some interesting statistics relevant to the online gaming industry today: – The online gaming market is worth around $15 Billion USD. – With XBOX live, 20 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Network to allow signin with Facebook/ Google login
According to the Yahoo Corporate Blog, the Yahoo Network will soon allow you to sign-in to Yahoo! sites with your Facebook login or Google ID. Facebook already implemented sign-in with OpenID in 2008, and this next step will surely increase the activity on Yahoo sites. Currently Yahoo is attracting around 600 million visitors a month […]
Read More | ShareApple App downloads soaring, close to 10 Billion
The Apple iTunes App store is now close to hitting 10 Billion application downloads since inception. It seems about 150 apps are downloaded every second around the world. The 10 Billionth download will result in that user winning a prize of $10,000 (USD) iTunes gift card. That’s a lot of movies, games, apps, songs etc! […]
Read More | ShareBest Techniques to Maximise Social Media Content Sharing
If you are looking to get your content shared on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter take note of these techniques to encourage social sharing. Firstly make sure you blog posts have short concise headings, keyword rich articles and stimulating material for the user to read. Twitter – Do short tweets so people can […]
Read More | ShareNokia to shut down Ovi Music Unlimited
Nokia has announced it will be shutting down the Ovi Music Unlimited service in 27 countries as the product hasn’t gained the interest Nokia would like. The Ovi Music Unlimited service provides free music downloads which are locked to your Nokia handset/device. The service will still stay live in the following countries: Brazil, China, India, […]
Read More | ShareWikipedia now 10 years old!
Wikipedia is now 10 years old. The site was founded in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The site operates as a not for profit charitable organisation – although with such huge traffic and unique visitors the site could have sold ad space on the site – however decided against this approach. The […]
Read More | ShareYahoo and Bing Australian Search Results merging this month
Last year in the USA – Bing replaced the results in a Yahoo! search queries with their own Bing results. Now later this month Bing will merge their results with Yahoo on both Bing Australia and Yahoo Australia. Therefore if you run a search on either Yahoo or Bing it should give you the same […]
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Are we Facebook Mad?
Over the past couple years, it seems Facebook may be the biggest thing to happen on the internet. With now over 500 million users and growing daily, Facebook is no doubt one of the main website we are all thinking of and using. We are so obsessed many of us check our Facebook account from […]
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