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Facebook CTO Wants His System To Speak With Other Networks: Is Google+ Noticing ?

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Web 2.0 summit is a nice place to record interesting thoughts from many renowned executives of Silicon Valley. Today Social media titan Facebook’s CTO Bret Taylor has appeared on the panel of Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. Last Year Mark Zuckerberg – Chief Executive Officer of Facebook – was part of the panel with John Battele, Executive Chairman of Federated Media. But this time due to some hectic schedule he was unable to take part and on his behalf Bret Taylor has represented Facebook in the conference. However, in his 15 minutes of session he grabbed the attention by throwing his thoughts on an interesting question, asked by John:

whether Facebook and Google Plus are going to “get over it and start sharing… I would love to have used my Facebook contacts to populate my Google Circles and vice versa. Will there be a time when data will move between both platforms?

Apparently, Facebook may be willing to setup a cross communication and integration platform (even with GPlus probably) in social media market – only if the security reaches to extreme level. And if this will ever come into existence, then in my view, it will be the most beneficial for all of them. Users will also get benefited and can share activities across the platforms.

On a question about data portability he wisely answered :

“I think data portability is interesting because it’s very easy in the context of single-user services. Bringing your data elsewhere is simple then. It gets complex with the intersection of several features. And an example of that is the address book on Facebook. If I put my contacts there and put privacy settings on, what are my rights? Should you have the ability to take that data to another site with different privacy? Recently the site added a box that people could use to allow their friends to download data from their profile. The majority of people on Facebook have modified their privacy settings. I think the people who use Facebook a lot are very, very aware of privacy settings. They know exactly what their current boyfriend or ex can see. As our service has grown, there’s a lot of increasing scrutiny on how we provide our service. If we can make your privacy controls so transparent that you are comfortable with sharing data on Facebook, that’s good. We certainly hope to make the privacy settings as accessible as possible”.

He was really happy with users behavior of Facebook and also praised their intelligence. He really liked the way users have modified their privacy setting.

On the question about activity log, Facebook is planning to launch in coming days, Taylor replied :

“Activity log is a new feature, part of our timeline. It’s a private page that’s the backend of your timeline, all content you’ve shared on Facebook for all time. You can browse it, and navigate by time. It’s a single place on Facebook where you can see all your information. If we can give people granularity over the control of sharing data, the more these products will see. If you’re going for a job interview, you can go back and change photos of yourself posted in college. A lot of that was there before but we made it more accessible”.

Facebook CTO also added that for the company ads are not prior; they give priority to users and now they are concentrating more on users behavior rather than advertisement. He is expecting that new timeline will be liked by the users and they will add more users in coming days.

On a question about the statement given by Sean Parker that  power users of Facebook has gone to Google and Twitter, CTO responded:

“People who were in college when Facebook was only available to students make up the power users; Facebook is very concerned about addressing their needs for nuanced controls and features. He worries that Facebook has moved toward complexity too often. Smart friend lists have been well received. Subscribe is also designed to reach a broad audience. Our news feed is really good at finding you the most engaging content. The folks who have turned on subscribe have seen unprecedented levels of engagement. I’m really bullish about that feature because it has a lot of potential to reach all 800 million users”.

In the conference an audience asked Taylor whether Facebook is on the track of Myspace. He responded:

“The site is really important. Our vision is that social isn’t just a destination. It’s about personalization and discovery of apps. We want to make Facebook an ecosystem, and a compelling system, a platform and not a destination”.

Hope you all agree with the thoughts expressed at Web 2.0 summit. We would be delighted to see your cross- thoughts on Facebook’s Chief Technology Officers’ state of mind.

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Facebook Wall Of Shame: Is Facebook Rubbing Users On Wrong Side [Infographic]

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In past few weeks Facebook has made several changes in its websites, which is constant getting ugly response from many of the uses and in turn had proved to be worse for social media titan social image. These new changes have created a deep state of anger and frustration in million users. They are getting annoyed and have started leaving Facebook.

Below Infographic “Facebook Wall of Shame” was created by WordStream Inc. – provider of search marketing software and services – to enlighten the mistakes which company has committed till now. Recently company has launched its App called “Facebook for iPad”, which critics thinks “too little, too late.”

Have a look at the Infographic and let us know which one according to you is acceptable.

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Yahoo On Rough Track: CTO Steps Down And Q3 Revenue Dips – Future Uncertain !

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Yahoo is going through a rough patch of track; its constant dealing unwelcome situation after it denied Microsoft $44.6 billion buyout offer back in 2008. Post to that then CEO Jerry Yang had to resign and few months earlier Yahoo also fired Carol Bartz – replacement of Jerry. Today company has received two shocking news; its CTO Raymie Stata has stepped down and, second, its revenue has dipped 24 percent. Yahoo has announced that its revenue and revenue costs both are down and GAAP revenue has declined 24 percent year over year. One of the most important reasons for such setback is Yahoo search agreement with Microsoft. As per the agreement, both the companies will bear the equal cost – which is required to run the Yahoo search – under the alliance. However when we take in care of this quarter earning, $4 million is reimbursed from Microsoft. Where as the total cost on Yahoo’s end was more than $ 150 million which had crossed the limit of reimbursements, set at the time of deal.

 “We have a better product planning process in cycle,” said Tim Morse interim chief executive.

Below points are enlightening Yahoo’s third quarter financial report for 2011:

  • Revenue of Yahoo excluding traffic acquisitions costs is $1,072 million, decline by 5 percent compared to third quarter of 2010, which was $1,124 million.
  • Company’s Generally Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP) revenue also slumps down by 24 percent to $1,217 million compared to $1,601 million in Q3, 2010.
  • Yahoo income from operations is also down by 6 percent $177 million compared to $189 million in Q3 of 2010.
  • Company net earning also wad down by 26 percent to $293 million compared to $396 million in Q3, 2010.
  • Yahoo net earning per diluted share was also down by 21 percent to .23 cents compared to .29 cents in Q3 of 2010.

Few days before, Microsoft has reported to reconsider its deal to buy Yahoo. However, there are many other companies who are showing interest to pocket Yahoo this time – if it’s put on Sale. One of the hot-shot names in the list of buyers is Alibaba, whose 40 percent shares are already owned by by Yahoo, bought in 2008.

Ash Munshi has replaced Raymie State as new Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo. Raymie Stata has served for a year and five months as CTO. He was with the company since 2004 and served on several architectural platforms.

On the Appointment of New CTO, Yahoo spokesperson said, “Ash has a well-established career managing successful global technology organizations at the most senior level with a laser focus on meeting and exceeding customer needs.”

Yahoo stocks take a dip of 1.43 percent after the announcement of its revenue and CTO crunch.

We hope Yahoo should soon be back to profit and performance and resolve all discouraging issues. Do you think an advice from you can help Yahoo to overcome all the problems? Let us know in comment section.

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Apple Q4 2011: 17 Million iPhone, 11 Million iPad Sold, Still Failed to Beat Revenue Expectations

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Prayiush
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With the end of Q4, its time for companies to back to your account books to do a prominent calculation over their gains and losses. Consequently, the performance report card has started to stay afloat openly. Today, Apple Q4 2011 results announced at Cupertino, California, ended on September 24, 2011. The company has posted the net profit of $6.62 billion out of $28.27 billion revenue or $7.05 per diluted shares. When compared with the quarterly report for the same period of last year, it registered the net profit of $2.31 billion and revenue is increased by $7.97 billion. The company has also registered growth in its gross margin, increased from 36.9% to 40.3% – a rise of 3.4%. International sales play a major role in Q4 revenue as it accounts to 63 percent of the total revenue.

However, despite record sales of iPad and MacBook in this quarter, Apple failed to match the revenue prediction done by market analysts a few days earlier. Analysts predicted that company will touch the revenue of $29.5 billion in Q4 of this year- a shot fall of more than $1 billion in revenue.

Apple arch-rival Google has also revealed its Q3 report a few days before and managed to beat the expectation of the analysts. Its reported revenue touched $9.78 billion for Q3 of 2011. Google is competing with Apple in all phases of technology and recently it has planned to open MP3 store for an intense competition with Apple iTunes.

“We are thrilled with the very strong finish of an outstanding fiscal 2011, growing annual revenue to $108 billion and growing earnings to $26 billion”. “Customer response to iPhone 4S has been fantastic, we have strong momentum going into the holiday season, and we remain really enthusiastic about our product pipeline,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.

“We are extremely pleased with our record September quarter revenue and earnings and with cash generation of $5.4 billion during the quarter”. “Looking ahead to the first fiscal quarter of 2012, which will span 14 weeks rather than 13, we expect revenue of about $37 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $9.30,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO.

However, Apple has made record sales of iPad and MacBook in this quarter. Below is the sales information of Apple product which was provided by the Apple Inc.:

iPhone: Company has sold 17.07 million iPhones in this quarter. Despite record sales of iPhone 4s in 12 hours it managed to get only 21 per cent of the unit growth over year-ago

iPad: Apple has registered maximum sales of iPad in this quarter. It has sold 11.2 million of iPad in this quarter, a 166 per cent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

MacBook: Apple has also registered maximum sales of MacBook in this quarter. This is due to the addition of some new features in MacBook Air. The company sold 4.89 million units of MacBook in this quarter, a jump of 26 per cent over the year-ago quarter.

iPods: Apple has managed to sold 6.62 million iPods in this quarter, registered a decline of 27 per cent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

Apple revenue by products Q4 2011When we take in consideration of the above pie-chart, we learn that the iPhone plays a major role in generating revenue for Apple. It accounts for 39 per cent of the total revenue. Followed by iPad which accounts to 24 per cent of the total revenue, and Mac which has made a contribution of 22 per cent in overall revenue, iPod stand at least position with accounts to only 4 per cent of the total revenue.

This is the first quarter result after Steve Jobs death and market pundits have started the discussion about the manageable quality of Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook. Let’s hope Tim can make Apple touches more and more positive milestone in sales and its revenue shall keep on increasing with each passing quarter.

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This Simple Widget Broadcasts the Best of Social Media To Your Website For Free

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Widgets and sitebar components play an important role in generating traffic, sales, as well as purchase and broadcast of news. In social media sites widgets are generally tagged on the side bar of the profile page. Today, an interesting widget has been introduced in the market known as “Zooshia”. This new widget enables blogs and websites to drive in modified vicinity which contains various feeds from social media icons like Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube.

Though, Social media titan Facebook is already offering a free plug-ins to websites, these block codes doesn’t integrate with the content from You Tube and Twitter.

The new “Zooshia” enable users to create, customize and implant multiple feeds from the three above mentioned social media networking sites into a plug-ins. Users can add Zooshia to their websites or blogs by simply copying and pasting the embedded code give on the site.

This new widget is built in order to reduce the problem faced by several websites and blogs in installing plug-ins of social media sites. Going further, it will become easier for them to install plug-ins of different social media networking sites . Earlier, only Facebook plug-ins were available to websites and for other social media websites block codes does not match with the contents. This has made Zooshia to come into an existence.

It’s a good news for websites, blogs and users that the “first social widget “is available free of cost, and customization of elements such as formats and colors can be done easily.

Below pic provides nice idea about Zooshia:

Hope, this new social media widget will make the work of websites, blogs and users simpler and much easier than ever before. Websites owners can leverage on the potential of fresh content from the world of social media just by integrating this simple widget.

Are you going to integrate this new dynamic widget with your blogs or websites ? Do you think it really makes a sense for you ? Let us know.

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How Tech Industry Titans Manage To Retain Their Best Brains [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Prayiush
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Employees play major role in making a company either successful or drive it down. They act as a backbone for the growth to help their employers stand straight in all even and odd situation. Behind each successful deal employees contribution is utmost. Similarly employers also take care of the human assets by providing several facilities and benefits to ensure the longest period of retention level. Different companies offer diverse facilities to their employees according to their work performance and their role behind company success.

Below Infographic by Resume Bear enlightens various amenities provided to employees by different companies. Companies which have been highlighted in the Infographic are: Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tagged, Eventbrite, and Gaia online.

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India Is The Most Connected Country With US Over Facebook: How Well Are You ?

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India is third largest country in terms of Internet users after China and US. However, the position is also quite similar when you count Facebook users after USA and Indonesia. But, India leads all other countries when it comes to countries which are most connected with US via Facebook users.

Your World – an interesting online app from Western Union – has amassed more than 225,000 users from the launch in July this year to reach to such analysis. The app also analyzes real time Facebook network connection based upon countries for individual Facebook users. This will help Facebook users to understand their reachability in various countries based upon their Facebook network bandwidth.

This app gives you a rating based upon your connection with various users from different countries. On country basis, app compares 10 countries which have most strengthen relationship in the form of Facebook users.

May be India rules the Facebook world with US due to strong business tries and significant threads exchange for different industries. BPO is one of the strongest sector which may be playing an important role in such relation as people may like to stay connected with their vendors/clients across the seas – even after the professional hours and beyond business matters.

Whatever it may be, India is witnessing the highest internet penetration compare to last few decades. Infrastructure is constant improving and literacy rate is growing faster than ever. No wonder, India may surpass Indonesia in next 2-3 months to settle down the maximum number of Facebook users only after US.

We hope Mark Zuckerberk is also keeping a close eye on India’s social and economic development.

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YouTube Launches “Merch Store” For Music Artists To Promote Their Merchandise

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In past few months Google has shown acute interest in music industry. To concrete its presence, it has launched Cloud Service – Music beta – on May 30th this year. Today Company’s online video arm – You Tube – has announced to add a new feature for music artists called “Merch Store”. This new feature will allow YouTube partners to share their merchandise directly to the users’ channel. Currently YouTube has reported 800 million visitors per month.

Now fans can buy artists merchandise, digital downloads, concert tickets and even meet ups from You Tube directly. Above features have been made possible through affiliates network that includes Topsin for merchandise, concerts tickets and experiences; Songkic for concerts; and iTunes and Amazon for music downloads. However, Google is already planning to open an Online MP3 music store in coming weeks.

These new features are added in order to get more users as well as to strengthen the base before launching its upcoming MP3 store in the market. Company wants to take Apple and Amazon head-to-head in cloud music market. Amazon had already launched its unlicensed music beta version called “Cloud Drive” and Apple is on its way to open its music platform by the end of this month or early November this year.

The new You Tube “MerchStore” will roll out globally to music partners in coming weeks. You Tube has not revealed the precise scenery about the financial shred. But said that site will take small percentage of sale in order to cover up the cost.

The new “Merch Store” is like a god gift for artists. Since they can share their music directly with their fans and will get the revenue in return.

Below picture will give proper view how it will look like:

For those who like to know more about “Merch Store”, You Tube is hosting a panel on October 20 at Mercury Lounge in NYC. In the event they will share stories with artists who have achieved success on You Tube. There are several artists and the array includes Dru Ha and Buckshot from Duck down Music, Julia Nunes, Karmin, Portugal the Man and Ryan Leslie.

Hey Friends what’s your views regarding this new feature by YouTube. Do you think that Google can really win in Music space by all such initiatives ?

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70 Percent Users Will Choose To Dump Facebook- If Account Turns Into Paid One

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Facebook has recently gone through several changes which in turn proving fatal for the social media titan. People have now started floating to other social media networks where complexity is less. Google+ has emerged as the main gainer which recently reached the mile stone of 50 million users. A Recent survey conducted by Coed magazine, College Candy and Busted Coverage on 2,500 people enlightens that nearly half of the college students, attached with the Facebook, are feared with the launch of new features as well as changes which occurred on Facebook.

Survey was conducted by posting questionnaire on search engine Google and various prizes were also offered to the people for answering those questions.

The survey highlights few of interesting assumptions:

  • If Facebook will bring paid version for account then 70 percent of the users will delete their account permanently from Facebook.
  • Nearly 44 percent of the people check their Facebook account before brushing their teeth in morning.
  • Around 66 percent of people do not judge others on the site based on number of friends.
  • Nearly 54 percent of people are tagged in photos where they are clearly intoxicated.
  • 92 percent of people admit that statuses on Facebook are of no use.

Below is the brief Infographic by survey:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Facebook Timeline, iPhone 4S, Kindle Fire – How Are People Reacting [INFOGRAPHIC]

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During last few days there were several launches, changes as well as many flipping and flopping took place at tech industry. The most recent launch was “iPhone 4S” by Apple and several big changes related to social media titan “Facebook”. However its difficult for us to track each and every activity about launches, changes as well as issues which occurs in tech world.

Below Infographic is based on online survey, conducted by market research firm Lab42, over 500 Social Media Users. Survey is mainly conducted to know the views and opinion of the users regarding launch of iPhone 4S, Amazon “Kindle Fire”, Netflix as well as inherent changes in Facebook.

Readers are you satisfied with recent launches as well as changes which occurred in Tech Industry? Let us know in comment section !

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Google To Launch MP3 Music Store To Compete With Apple and Amazon

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Apparently, Google is following the foot marks of world’s most valuable brand Apple by showing some serious acts towards multi-million dollar online music industry . In 2008, Company launched its “Chrome browser” followed by “Chrome Operating system” in July, 2009 which continued till mid of this year when company launched cloud music service. Now, Google is in talk with several record labels to extend their music services and to open MP3 music store to compete with Amazon and Apple.

According to numerous music executives, Google is eager to open up the store in the next several weeks. It would most likely be connected to Google’s existing cloud service, Music Beta, which lets people back up their songs on remote servers and stream them to mobile phones and other devices, said these executives, who all spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are in progression, private and continuing.

However, company has yet not officially commented whether they will launch the stores in next few weeks but sources have confirmed about the initiatives.

Google might announce its music store before Apple will open its cloud music program, iTunes Match, which was unveiled by Apple in June this year and is expected t be operational by the end of October or early November this year. However, it would be interesting to monitor whether Google will be able to launch its MP3 music store before iTunes match since it’s not easy to clinch the necessary deals with tons of labels in such short span.

However, The earlier experience for music labels with Google was not so encouraging. Google smart locker service  — a Web storage system that lets people link their digital music collections to a vast central database – broke down over some financial issues. Also the music labels lodged complain against Google for not acting seriously to control piracy.

“We want to make sure the locker doesn’t become a bastion of piracy,” one senior label executive said.

Google has already failed in past to get license from the labels and publishers as, companies like Google, one need special licenses from the music copyright holders. In order to eradicate that fact from market, company has introduced its beta-version of cloud music in May this year.

Google has announced its Music beta version five weeks after Amazon opened a similar unlicensed service called “Cloud Drive”.

Apple has the licensed version for iTunes match which will instantly link users’ song to Apple masters Collection. With an unlicensed version, its difficult for users to get tuned with music in short span of time, it takes more than an hour to get tuned.

Hope this new mobile store by Google will launched soon and rock the world, so that users will get more options for listening songs.

Reader’s please let us know your your views over upcoming music initiative from Google.

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Microsoft Becomes Bullish Over Patent Agreement: Signs In Quanta Computer

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Microsoft is leveraging on complete potential over the patents it secures. Company has signed a patent agreement, with Quanta Computer that will provide broad coverage of  Microsoft patents to latter one. Under this agreement Quatna Computer can manufacture and market the products under Microsoft patent portfolio. Going further, Quanta Computer – a Taiwan based company and the largest contract PC manufacturers in the world – can manufacture tablets, smartphones and other consumer devices which will run on the Android as well as Chrome platform.

The contents of the agreement have not been disclosed by both the companies. However, It clearly indicates that Microsoft will be benefited in form of royalties to be received from Quanta under the agreement.

“We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Quanta, and proud of the continued success of our Android licensing program in resolving IP issues surrounding Android and Chrome devices in the marketplace,” said Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, Intellectual Property Group at Microsoft.

The patent agreement by Microsoft is an example of the  important role Intellectual Property plays in ensuring healthy as well as vibrant IT environment to various companies. Since, the launch of IP licensing program in December, 2003, Microsoft has entered into more than 700 licensing agreement. Company’s IP licensing policy stats:

  • Application to Academics: Microsoft provides IP license only to those institutions which are bona fide. It provides license to encourage non-commercial research as well as educational activities. Company provides royalty-free agreement to the institutions.
  • Application to software developer kits (SDKs): Microsoft recognizes that in the past independent software vendors (ISVs), as a part of the SDK program for developing software which runs on the window platform. Then it provides license to the respective company.
  • Application to existing standards commitments:  As a major participant in many industry standards bodies, Microsoft frequently contributes technology and know-how to these organizations. Many of these organizations have well-defined policies that specify how patents and other IP should be licensed in the standard-setting context. Microsoft will continue to comply with all applicable policies when participating in industry standards processes, including the contribution of technology to standards bodies under “reasonable and non discriminatory” (RAND) terms, either on a for-fee, or royalty-free basis, as defined by each standards group.

The IP program was developed in order to provide open access to Microsoft significant R&D.

Last year, Microsoft had signed a similar patent agreement with mobile handset manufacturer HTC to run on Android mobile platform. Microsoft has enjoyed $160 million benefit form much-talked agreement.

“HTC and Microsoft have a long history of technical and commercial collaboration, and today’s agreement is an example of how industry leaders can reach commercial arrangements that address intellectual property”. “We are pleased to continue our collaboration with HTC.” says Horacio Gutierrez – Corporate vice president and Deputy General Counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft.

Few weeks back Microsoft signed another deal with Samsung for cross-licensing patent, in order to develop Windows Phone. Interestingly, the deal also covers that Microsoft will get royalties from Samsung’s mobile and tablets which is running on Android mobile platform. In addition company is ready to co-operate in the development and marketing efforts for Windows phone.

Microsoft has also signed a similar patent deal with Wistron, an Acer spin-off company. They both also manufactures products which are sold under different brand name in market. Company had not disclosed the terms which was signed under the agreement by both the companies.

Hope all such agreements will be fruitful for Microsoft as well as other companies and we expect to see more companies joining Microsoft to develop many more valuable apps by leveraging on such crucial patents.

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Big 5 PC Games Coming Your Way In This Winters.

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Gear up for the complete gaming entertainment coming on your way because of the top-notch pc games getting released in this winters 2011. Publishers like EA, BioWare,DICE and many more are bringing sequels to their blockbuster gaming titles in the end of this year. The games like Battlefield 3, Assasins Creed Revelations, Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 are some of the most awaited games of the season which are soon getting released. These games are developed with the latest game engines delivering amazing graphics, highly detailed world environment,complex physics and cut-throat visual effects.These games are very addictive and have adrenaline raising storylines. So here is a list of the big 5 PC games that you should look for in this winters.

Battlefield 3
Battlefield 3, game from EA and DICE is topping all the charts and is the top-most awaited game of the season. Electronic Arts is going to launch this sequel under thehood of their blockbuster game series,Battlefield and will be available on October 25,2011. This First-Person shooter action game will be released for Microsoft Windows,Playstation 3,Xbox360 and iOS gaming platforms. The game is developed by EA’s latest game engine, Frostbite 2 which is capable of delivering amazing graphics and highly detailed character animations. Frostbite 2 is integrated with ANT technology due to which games featuring this new game engine, produces mind boggling animations. Game comprises both huge open world maps and compact room battles for different types of gamers.Snapshots and trailers of the Battlefield 3 released by EA are really impressive.

DICE describes its new gaming engine as,”Next Generation Technology for Current Generation Platforms”.COD. Patrick Bach(Executive Producer) says”We wanted to create the most immersive and emotionally powerful Battlefield game ever and we needed new technology to deliver on our vision”.”Where other shooters are treading water Battlefield 3 innovates. Frostbite 2 is a game-changer for shooter fans. We call it a next-generation engine for current-generation platforms”, says Karl Magnus Troedsson ,General Manager, DICE

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbAl5NIFRGQ&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dbattlefield%2B3%26aq%3Df

Star Wars : The Old Republic
BioWare and Electronic Arts are bringing the legacy of Star wars back into the action by releasing its latest sequel on .The game is developed with Hero Engine which is capable of delivering mind boggling graphics and crispy visual effects. The physics obtained by the game engine is really impreesive. The game looks pretty awsome because of the highly detailed world and characters . The graphics used in the game looks life-like and the AI used for the NPC’s is also remarkable. Bioware is releasing Star Wars The Old Republic only for Microsoft Windows gaming platform. The game features MMORPG gameplay because of which game will be highly addictive and gamers will be able to play the game with different storylines for different characters.

Bioware describes the game as “Play Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ and be the
hero of your own Star Wars™ saga in a story-driven
massively-multiplayer online game from BioWare and LucasArts.
Explore an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader when war between
the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire divides the galaxy.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhcisnXJcEI

The Elder scrolls V : Skyrim
Bethesda is going to launch the fifth sequel to its multi-million selling RPG game series as The Elder Scrolls Skyrim. The Elder Scrolls series is one of the most acclaimed role playing game around the world and the latest sequel is also highly awaited game of the season. Bethesda is going to launch the game on November 11 of this year for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 3 and XBox 360 gaming platforms. The Elder Scrolls V is a role playing game featuring first person view gameplay. The game is developed with Creation game engine due to which the game also delivers huge open worlds and amazing visual effects.One of the trailer of the game is given below:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6dKnv3WdU

Assasin’s Creed : Revelations
Assasin’s Creed Revelations is the upcoming sequel under banner of the blockbuster game title,Assasin’s Creed from Ubisoft. Ubisoft is going to launch this latest part on November 29,2011 for Microsoft Windows, XBox 360 and Playstation 3 gaming platforms. This third-person stealth action adventure game will be featuring Sandbox gaming style due to which story lineup will keep changing with respect to gamer’s actions while playing the game. Ezio, Altair and Desmond are the three protagonists of the game and will be featured as the playable characters in it. The game is developed with the help pf Anvil game engine which is one of the best game engines available in the game industry at the moment. The graphics of the game is life-like, highly detailed and well textured. Visual effects are also impressive and the stealth gameplay is really addictive.one of the trailer of the game is given below.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo6Q14vBB1c

Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3
The game developed by Infinity Ward and Raven Softwares is one of the top rivals of Battlefield 3. Publisher, Activision is releasing COD MW3 on November 8,2011 and will be available for Microsoft Windows, XBox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and Nintendo DS. This game is a first-person shooter warfare action game which will dip gamers deep into the intense warfare battles in both Single player and Multiplayer game modes. The game is developed with MW3 engine and I am damn sure that the graphics of the game will be amazing just like its predecessors.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiTJbr9m04

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PayPal Upsurges Receiving Limited to $3000 for Indian Merchants

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PayPal has finally managed to break the ice with Reserve Bank of India on current ‘transaction limit’ chaos for Indian merchants – atleast till an extent.  Going further, Indian merchants – who use PayPal to receive money from overseas – can receive upto $3000 per transaction instead of earlier trivial figure of $500. However, there is nothing mentioned over the ‘auto-withdrawal’ feature which is forcing Indian merchants to use PayPal as traditional Payment Gateway rather than an online wallet.

To comply with the RBI guidelines, you must add a Permanent Account Number (PAN), Purpose Code and local bank account to your PayPal account in order to continue receiving export-related payments, says Mayur Patel – India Country Manager, PayPal.

Undoubtedly, the much appreciated move has been welcomed by many companies who primarily depend on overseas clients. After PayPal sketched the guideline of $500 receiving limit few months back, they were facing hard time to collect money from their overseas clients.

The situation became bad to worse when PayPal was guided to reverse all those payments which were over exceeding $500 limit by RBI. Already in grieved, Indian merchants started protecting themselves from PayPal only to head towards other alternatives like CCAvenue, EBs etc.

PayPal was quick enough to calculate upcoming business damage from Indian market and accelerated the efforts of negotiation with RBI. And, the results have started showing off today.

Indeed, it makes much sense for PayPal to safeguard Indian operations and business. Internet penetration in India is on absolute rise for last 2 years. India stands as second largest country in terms of social media users. Network infrastructure is showing significant improvement and internet users are showing great confidence in online banking, transactions and business. Consequently, the adoption rate and need of Online Payment gateway is growing. Being as Online Payment Leader, PayPal has holds valuable trust among merchants and would like to ride upon it for larger gain.

Apparently, this has made PayPal to stand by Indian Merchants and negotiate hard with RBI who was looking firm to its earlier stand of $500. No surprise if I will see few more relaxation in PayPal norms in next few weeks as it’s a Do-or-Die situation for PayPal in India.

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Google Revenue Jumps Up By 33 Percent To Reach $9.78 Billion in Q3 2011

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Despite of intense competition in  internet industry, search engine giant Google has managed to make handsome revenue. Today, company has revealed its Q3 financial report which states that it’s revenue has reached $9.78 billion, a jump of 33 percent compare to same duration last year.

“We had a great quarter, Revenue was up 33% year on year and our quarterly revenue was just short of $10 billion. Google+ is now open to everyone and we just passed the 40 million user mark. People are flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate and we are just getting started” as said by Larry Page, CEO of Google.

Below Graph provides clear view about Google’s quarterly Revue:

Google Site Revenues:

Google-owned sites has contributed of $6.74 billion which accounts to 69 percent of the total revenue. Company has registered a 39 percent increase in its revenue compared to Q3 of 2010 which was $4.83 billion.

Google Network Revenues:

Google’s partnered sites – AdSense program – has generated revenue of $2.64 billion which accounts to 27 percent of total revenue. When compared with Q2 revenue of last year, which was $2.2 billion, Company has registered an surge of 18 percent.

International Revenue:

Google has earned $5.3 billion from outside U.S.which accounts to total 55 percent of total revenue, compared to 54 percent of Q2 and 52 percent of Q3 in 2010.

U.K.revenue totaled $1.05 billion, accounts to 11 percent of total revenue, compared to 12 percent in Q3 of 2010. Company has registered minor fall of percent in this region only.

Paid Clicks:

Paid clicks are related to ads served on Google Sites as well as Google’s AdSense partner’s. it saw a buoyant  jump of 28 percent over Q3 of 2010 and 13 percent over Q2 of 2011.

Cost- Per – Clicks:

Average cost per click, company has registered 5 percent profit in year-over-year, but in quarter-over-quarters it registered a decrement of 4 percent.

 Cash:

On September 30th Google has cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities of $42.6 billion.

Employees:

Google has over 31,353 full-time employee worldwide (on September 30th), it’s employee count also increases by 2,585 when compared with number of employees on June 30th of this year which was 28,768.

Over all we see that Google has registered a revenue above expectation and we hope that in coming quarter it will increase to $10+.

You can donload the detailed financial report of Q3 from here

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