Few weeks back in F8 conference, Facebook announced that they now have 800 million active users. Interestingly, this number has some drastic comparison to showcase the power and popularity in its own. Back in 2004, the worldwide internet user population was almost equal to the number of users Facebook has now.
According to the research done by pingdom, social media giant is has left many countries behind either in terms of internet users population or – in few cases – the population of whole country. Facebook is only the third biggest country, if we say so, after China and India in terms of population. However, it stands tallest in terms of Internet users as none of the countries have as many Internet users as Facebook has now.
Even, if we combine few of countries and see then as continent, Asia is the only one that stands above than Facebook in terms of Internet users.
There are also many more stimulating facts when you compare Facebook with many countries individually. Social media giant consumes 38% of entire internet population now. While comparing Facebook number with entire population; it has 2.5x the entire population of US and 13x the population of UK.
However, it’s quite likely that Facebook may leapfrog ASIA in terms of internet users in sometime early next year. Facebook is expected to reach the magnificent 1 Billion user mark by end of this year or in early 2012 and by the same time the internet population of ASIA, which is the only continent ahead than Facebook now, might also be little over than 1 billion.
Facebook has come over a long way in last 7 years. Founded in 2004, it has left all its competitors only to fight for survival in the leadership guidance of Mark Zuckerberg. With market valuation of close to $85 billion, company is among the fastest growing venture of all time. Though, there has been many criticism in its 7 years of existence, it would be interesting to see how much more miles still left for the giant to cover in coming few years.
As Microsoft is slowly nearing to public launch of Windows 8, efforts have been started to tweak the new OS for optimum performance and usability. On Friday, company has revealed the Memory footprint of upcoming Windows 8. It showcases that the imminent Windows OS consumes only half of the memory compare to current Windows 7 memory requirements.
The whole idea behind the exercise is to omit any obligatory upgrade requirements to run Windows 8. This will help Microsoft to convince users for cakewalk migration and adoption from Windows 7 to Windows 8 platform.
“Something that might not be obvious is that minimizing memory usage on low-power platforms can prolong battery life. Huh? In any PC, RAM is constantly consuming power. If an OS uses a lot of memory, it can force device manufacturers to include more physical RAM. The more RAM you have on board, the more power it uses, the less battery life you get. Having additional RAM on a tablet device can, in some instances, shave days off the amount of time the tablet can sit on your coffee table looking off but staying fresh and up to date.” wrote Microsoft’s Bill Karagounis in a blog post on Friday.
To stay certain with this thought, Microsoft tested the memory usage on 2 different machine – running on almost identical hardware configuration – but with different version of Windows OS.
How Microsoft is going to achieve their objective? There are couple of methodology which will help company to do so:
Memory combining:
When users access the content, chances remains high they access similar content in multiple windows and this creates multiple instances in RAM for same content. So many times many applications pre-reserve the memory for additional functionality procrastinating that users may use it in future. However, there is absolute no guarantee whether users will invoke such features in near future.
Through, Memory combining technique, Windows 8 will allocate the RAM only for real time usage and reserve the system memory for all future possible features of applications.
Windows Services Optimization:
While OS is running, many windows services run on background and get revoke automatically with the system start. With “Start on Demand” functionality, company has put many of the services, like Windows update and plug & play, on manual mode. This will tweak the OS for lesser memory consumption for background services.
Less Memory Usage for General OS operations
While executing the application, OS consumes memory for its own services and support. Known as “pages”, company has analyzed this service till the core and found 2 aspects of usage type. One which get refer most are “hot” and other “cold”. To optimize the memory footprints, company has clubbed the “cold” ones with other components to reduce the memory load and use it for other services.
Invoking Desktop Components When Required
Microsoft has changed the behavior of Desktop components with Windows8. “We’ve taken advantage of the fact that there will be some set of devices on which users will stay in the immersive,” says Karagounis. Windows 8 will only initialize operating system components unique to the full desktop experience when users switch outside of Metro. This saves around 23MB in RAM.
Prioritization of Memory
Company has given an ‘self-intelligent touch’ to Windows8. This will help the system to take self-decision over what to keep in the memory and what need to be removed sooner. This way upcoming OS will make use of the memory in optimal way.
Company has already been released pre-beta version of Windows 8 and is expected to be available for users in 2012. The first look of Windows 8 has created much hyped among users and this time company has decided to support ARM and SoC.
Though the road-map of Windows 8 is still under the shell, it would be much interesting to see how users welcome the new Windows 8, especially when more than 70% users are still hanging with most successful Windows XP.
Though, the whole world has been mourned over the death of legendary gadget ‘i’con – Steve Jobs, there are many scammers who are handling the situation only for their personal gains and that too deceitfully. Sickeningly, scammers over Facebook are trying to earn money by claiming that Apple is giving away 50 free iPads in memory of Steve Jobs.
Such scammers are trying to ride over the sentiments of Facebook users and inciting them to click on the link attached with “Free iPad in memory of Steve”.
Apparently, the link, shorten by bit.ly, also maintains the combination of emotional words “restin-peace-steve” to foul users. So what’s fun for scammers in this ? Once click, it will lead you to a brief survey and urge to fill in order to claim your iPad. Interestingly, the survey has been developed with the auto detection of your IP location to adjust the survey language accordingly and again the maximum exposure.
However, if you don’t click on any of the survey, it will automatically play a message to encourage you to take the survey but fails to authorize any possibility of free iPad. Rather, it gets reduce to an “exclusive reward” or probably any similar “surprise gift”.
Scammers are using the trick to generate more revenue for their clients by making you visit to website or e-comm portal supported by affiliate program. This way, scammers are generating more traffic and, probably, many of them but the product or opt for the promoted service on that page.
What so ever, they will gain benefit and earn money only at the cost of your time. And, at the end, you will not be wining any iPad – not even any iPod.
So, please beware from all such dirty tricks and stay away from miscreants who can drive you crazy by tempting you for such duplicitous promotions.
Its shocking news for all the emerging companies as well as SEO experts. Today Google has slaughter off the public access of PageRanks which was introduced1998. It is a link analysis algorithm and named after Google CEO Larry Page. It was developed by Larry Page – CEO of Google – and Sergey Brin – Co-Founder of Google – at Stanford University. Google has got the license from Stanford University in exchange of 1.8 billion shares which was later sold in 2005 at the cost of $336 million. Since patent of Page Rank is assigned to Stanford University.
At the time of launch Google Described PageRank as:
“PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.”
Google PageRank means website authority in terms of Google. It depends on many factors but one of the most important fact is to provide a link to good neighbors and posting valuable post. It was calculated mathematically based on the number of links, back links, visits and web graph.
The best thing of Google Page Rank was that it was available publickly through the API access and websites owners could integrate the ‘page rank checker tool” with their websites.
With all new development, there are few Questions which need attention :
Why Did Google Take the Step to Slaughter off Public Access of Page Rank?
The main reason behind slaughter off public access PageRank is the unethical use by many SEO experts to provide high rank to websites. Google has advised millions of SEO experts to ignore PR, but they don’t listen and they use it as a key metric to measure the quality of domain. Company has said that because it updates PR 2 to 3 times in a year, so it’s impossible to rate the qualities of companies according to the PR. One of the main reason behind killing of PR is “black marketing” of links. Companies spend million of pounds to rate their websites as the best and they ask SEO experts to use PR to rate their web sites.
However, Google has not yet officially commented on the slaughtering off PageRank. But the latest updates shows that company has changed the URL of the API and it’s not showing PageRank to any of the websites. Killing of PR may forbid negotiator to make available ranks to the sites. One can still access the PageRank by using Google Toolbar on Internet Explorer.
In 2009 similar sort of problem was recorded, but it was solved with in an hour.
Let’s see whether Google has stooped the PR or any technical problem arises, since we have not got any comment from the side of company. Hope in coming hours we will get our doubts clear whether it’s a technical problem or PR tool has been scrapped completely.
Acquisition market is fabulously creating impact on the industry and companies are open-hearted to welcome any new firm which can get then few extra bucks. If we believe on latest speculation, Vodafone is secretly in talks with troubled Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) for any possible tie up – most probably the acquisition.
Shares of RIM have started soaring after such rumors. According to WSJ, Vodafone is taking a deep look of battled smartphone and Tablet maker Research in Motion. In last couple of weeks, RIM also gained enough attention with speculations of hiring an investment banker to consider options for the company.
And, it makes much sense for RIM as company is constantly loosing grounds against Apple, Google, Microsoft and many others for last few years. Despite of making various efforts and new OS, RIM has been failed to entice smartphone users. Market share has plunged to 16% in 2010 compare to 16.6% in 2008. That too at the time smartphone industry is going through major revolution and maximum number of mobile users are migrating from traditional phone to smartphone.
Last 2 years remained very dramatic for RIM as company witnessed many ups and downs. After beaten in OS market by Apple and Google, RIM finally bought QNX – a smartphone OS company – in June 2010 at $200 million with expectations to witness surge in sales. RIM also missed the bus of app market as they launched its app store only in 2009 much after Apple and Google launched their own.
However, the corporate industry still respects RIM because of its Blackberry services which provide enhanced data security in form of encryption, ease of keyboard and an image of a phone for professionals.
So far, none of the companies have released any official statement over such development. However, it will be interesting to see if other companies (i.e HTC ) joins the race only to fuel the fire.
It seems like Microsoft is again in gearing for another acquisition. In May this year, company pocketed Skype for a whooping $8.5 billion as late June it acquired Prodiance – a software company. Its being reported that company is going to renew its bid to acquire Yahoo. In 2008, Company had made a failed attempt to so the same due to Yahoo’s higher expectations of per share cost.
To complete this potential acquisition, Microsoft may seek a partner for the deal, according to Reuters.
However, Microsoft management doesn’t look quite optimistic over such deal as company’s internal management is divided over the decision to renew the bid for Yahoo.
Microsoft already attempted to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in January, 2008, but the deal was sterile by Yahoo management at that time. Later, Yahoo’s market share declined rapidly and with the expulsion of CEO Jerry Yang in 2009, problems started increasing. Recently, Yahoo had also fired his CEO Carol Bartz who was appointed after the ouster of that time CEO Jerry Yang. Although Microsoft and Yahoo had a deal on July 29th, 2009, in which Microsoft announced that Bing will power to Yahoo’s search service. Bing is a web search engine from Microsoft which was unveiled by company CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28th, 2009. It went fully online on June 3, 2009, with a preview version released on June 1st, 2009.
If Microsoft opts to renew its deal, then it might get Yahoo at a Major discount price. Since at present Yahoo stock is down to $15.67 from $29 at the time when Microsoft bid for first time. It would be best time for Microsoft to purchase Yahoo.
With the news of possible acquisition by Microsoft, share prices of Yahoo has climbed to more than 9 percent.
Yahoo has most of its tie up in Asian countries and most of its assets also depend on Asian assets. Company has tie-up with China based Alibaba Group and holds 40% of stake. It is estimated that company can easily fetch more than $13 billion if it sells Alibaba shares. Interestingly, Alibaba CEO Ma Yun has showed his interest in acquiring Yahoo. There are several others buyers who are also interested in Yahoo acquisition and one of them is News Corp., which recently sold MySpace to Specific Media at $35 Million.
It would be an interesting fact that whoever will be the acquirer, the key player of deal might be Alibaba as it has the power to buy back its shares from yahoo if the control of the company changes and have significant impact over Yahoo’s valuation.
Let’s watch what will be the renew bid for Yahoo by Microsoft and whether this time Microsoft will be successful or not?
Its sad news for internet world as co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs has passed away today. Whole world is under grieved, each news channel is displaying this news and covering every movement as well as statements of world’s renowned personalities on this situation. Steve Paul Job, who was born on 24th February 1955 at San Francisco California, had co-founded Apple Inc. on April 1st, 1976 with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. He was also in the board of directors of Walt Disney from 2006.
Since January this year Steve went on indefinite leave and in August Steve Job stepped down from his post as CEO of Apple declaring company’s COO Tim Cook as his successor and CEO. In his resignation Steve had written:
“I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role. I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.”
Steve Jobs announced Tim Cook as the new CEO of Apple Inc. and on his sad demise Tim Cook released the following statement:
“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
We are planning a celebration of Steve’s extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email[email protected].
No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene and his children during this difficult time.”
Job’s family released the following statement after his sad demise:
Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.
In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.
We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.
Google founder Sergey’s Brin’s as well as Larry Page wanted to hire Steve Job as CEO of the company.
Google CEO Larry said the following in his statement after Steve sad demise:
“I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve. He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me. He was very kind to reach out to me as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well. My thoughts and Google’s are with his family and the whole Apple family.”
Here is the statement said by Google Founder Sergey’s Brin’s:
“From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino. Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the Macbook I am writing this on right now). And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met.
On behalf of all of us at Google and more broadly in technology, you will be missed very much. My condolences to family, friends, and colleagues at Apple.”
Bill gates said that he was “truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs death.” He added:
“The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.”
world’s most powerful personality and US president Barack Obama states:
Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.
Steve Job is known as the father of Ipad, who brings the revolution in the field of mobile technology. His health condition declines from 2004 when he was first operated for pancreatic cancer surgery and after that in 2009 he underwent a liver transplant. Job health condition goes on declining with days passing and on 6th October 2011 he left us. He was just 56-year-old.
We will miss Steve Job A lot, but his soul will always be with us !
After Facebook and Google Plus, its time for Twitter to implement and launch new features to attract online users. Recently, Micro-Blogging site launched a new feature which allows users to Tweet in five languages. Today company has announced the launch of a new website which will provide a service called “Twitter Charity Swear Box”. This new service is available for all users from today onwards. Twitter’s Charity Swear Charity box is based upon the concept of real life charity box to check whether you have used any naughty words on your Tweeter in past. If anyone uses naughty swear words regularly, $1 will be added to the the amount and display it on the dashboard. The money collected from this service will go to the charity.
This new feature is beneficial for charity, as the number of users are on higher side who use such words in their tweets. The more one uses naughty word the more his/her amount increases. With introduction of this new feature, usage of bad words on Twitter might get reduce. The most important thing is, it doesn’t ask users’ bank account number, it’s up to users if they want they want to clearup their account and pay. But the money which users will pay directly goes to the charity as per their wish .
There are several charities attached with “Twitter Charity Swear Box” program like Camba, Feed The Children, Peta, FCF, WWF, ChildLine as well as UNICEF. All the funds will go directly to the respective charity.
This new feature is also fruitful for social worker as well as donator if they want to donate money. They can directly donate to their respective charity via online transaction.
A dictionary of swears has been put together with Charity box which consist of hundreds of swears and misspelling of swears. If users think that any swear word is missing then they can submit it on the dictionary.
This website reminds a little bit of the “Give A Sh*t” campaign which takes place earlier this year, asking people to “give a sh*t” for a good cause and by posting about the cause on Twitter while sitting on the toilet. According to the homepage of “Twitter Charity Box” they have collected $133.77 so far. Hope the amount rises much more.
Below video will provide clear view about “Twitter Swear Charity Box”:
http://vimeo.com/21968394
Hey friends have you join the “Twitter Charity Swear Box” to turn your bad words in to good deed? If not then join it to help the charity.
In this era of scientific innovations, India is successfully narrowing the gap between the students of rural areas and present technology. To move further on similar thought process, today it has launched a tablet operating on 2.2 Android which will merely cost Rs 2,250 ( $46) to the young Indian generation. Around one lakh students will be benefited with this cheap tablet PC and will be able to get their hands on the latest information technology by ease. This tablet, named as “AKASH” is developed jointly by the Indian Institute Of Technology,Rajasthan and DataWind Ltd. Though the tablet costs Rs 2,250 but the Central Government Of India has decided to make this tablet available to the higher education students for just Rs 1,125 by bearing its fifty percent cost on itself. Government has also confirmed that they are trying to bring down the cost of this tablet to around Rs 450 ( $10).
Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal says,”Akash is a milestone in history. It will bring paradigm shift in education delivery.” He added by saying,”The device is not only for Indian students but for those of the world.” Officials said “the low-cost device would allow students in the rural areas access technology that will define the 21st century.”
“People said it can’t be done in India and by the Indians. We accepted the challenge,” said DataWind chief executive officer Suneet Singh Tuli. IIT Rajasthan director Prem Kalra said that the prototype of the low-cost device was developed by his students.
Akash , the tablet developed has a 7 inch touchscreen display and operates on Android 2.2, it has integrated WiFi module for wireless network connection and data transfer and much more. There will be a different model available for commercial purpose as told by industry experts. Also, Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive of DataWind told,”We plan to launch the commercial variant of the device somewhere in late-November.” He added,”No doubt it’s a great product. But our first priority is to provide it in India and then the rest of the world.” Lets wait for the device to get released commercially and to get our hands on it.
It seems MySpace has still not gievn up and is making a come-back efforts from coma. Earlier day’s social media giant, which was destroyed badly by Facebook, has already been transformed into a site for music listener. Few months earlier company was unable to find a suitable buyer but it was sold at the cost of just $35 million to Specific Media. Now it looks like MySpace’s new owners have boosted power into it. At an Advertising Event on Monday, Company has elucidated its prospect stratagem to concentrate on music in future.
Company’ Owner Specific Media reveals that it wants MySpace to become the number #1 online music destination community and also said that its mission is to feed the energy of youth culture everywhere.
However Specific Media strategies mainly depend on MySpace prior licensing agreement. Company has an agreement with four largest music labels as well as with 20,000 independent music labels all across the world.
In online music market MySpace will face competition from several well-known online music community all across the world. Companies like Vevo, MTV, Spotify, Rdio, MOG, Rhapsody, Grooveshark and many more online music channels are there to challenge MySpace.
On the other hand, MySpace are gearing up to establish itself as a largest online music community which not only play music files, but also could discover music, provide customized radio channels, reports on music news and launches. Company also wants that users could be able to share their music track with their friends.
MySpace owner Specific media wants it to be next Hulu of music site. It looks like an ambitious goal for a company who is going through bad patches in last few years. Also, the traffic of MySpace has decreased drastically in last few years. It will not be an easy task for company to become number one music online community, since it will face competition from its old rival Facebook, which has just launched online music community at F8 Developers’ meet in collaboration with Spotify, Rhapsody and several others online music giants.
Below Are Some Pics which provide clear idea about competition as well as new look and product vision of MySpace:
It looks like the competition in online music market is also increasing as in social media. Let’s see who will conquer the top place in coming years and how it will benefit MySpace.
Yahoo is trying its level best to save it sovereignty in online media market. Few months earlier company had fired it CEO Carol Bartz, since she was unable to boost up the market condition. Company – once the pioneer of digital media market – has been downgraded from its position in past few years. Speculations are being made that company is up for sale but it doesn’t look alike. Rather, it is concentrating on its media arm to uprise from its recent economic condition. Today company has announced the tie-up with ABC news to provide media news as well as live coverage of New York news.
Both companies have already work together in past as they have an agreement of video-sharing since 2005.
It will be good news for Yahoo users that they will get the web videos as well as stories. In the deal it has been mentioned that both the companies will reach 100 million users’ monthly and will redistribute contents including GoodMorningAmerica.com (which is now on Yahoo).
Yahoo is going through rough patches these days as revenue falls from $7,208.50 in 2007 to $4,431 in current year. As well as, market valuation of the company also been decreased from $44.6 billion (price which was offered by Microsoft to Acquire Yahoo) to $17.4 billion in present year.
Yahoo and ABC news will introduce original web video programming which comprises of Newsmakers, Around the World with Christiane Amanpour and This Could Be Big.
It will be good news for Yahoo as well as ABC news employees that both companies editorial team will collaborate and provide the most happening and breaking news on both websites.
Both companies’ news team will also provide live coverage of events which will take place in New York, Washington D.C and Los Angeles, scheduled for broadcast through Yahoo online sites. With this new collaboration Yahoo has been benefited from all sides. It share price rose by 4 percent, got a video interview of Barack Obama with ABC news as well as investors have also welcomed this deal.
Below Video will provide more clear views about Alliance between Yahoo and ABC News:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdvnRvFgwQ
Lets hope this new alliance will help Yahoo for future expansions. Readers please give your views.
Ads of products as well as brands on Google are decreasing as compare to last year so the profit. In order to upsurge the profit, Company is extending its marketing arm by launching several new features as well as by injection of fresh investments. Recently, Google has launched several new features – “AdWords for Video”, “Google Analytics Real-Time report”, and “Enhanced Ad Format”. Company is planning to invest more than $100 million on YouTube and it’s also on its way to finalize deals with well-known personalities, such as retired Skateboarder Tony Hawk and several Media Companies to produce original content for its video website, according to the WSJ.
However, Google is planning to make YouTube as next generation online cable where more than dozens of free online “channels” will be displayed.
Google has already shown its interest in offering online programming via bidding for streaming service provider Hulu. Company has emerged as one of the highest bidders for Hulu. If it doesn’t work then company is planing to invest in YouTube to sort the original contents as well as to sell advertisements.
There are several big names which have been brought up by Google for tie up which comprises of Tony Hawk and media companies like Warner Bros. and New Corp that owns ShineReveille (Producer of “Ugly Betty and The Office”).
Google is also in talk with smaller companies for original content that concludes of Production Companies behind hits like The Price is Right and The X Factor as well as company which is behind production of VH1’s Mob Wives.
The new programming “channels” will be full of professional contents, Google is planning to create in coming days. Company anticipates that it might be able to get back $100 million in cash advance with the sales of enough advertisements aligned with the programming.
Considering the competition in social media market, Google might prepare new YouTube programming which could fit to its social media arm – Google+. Company might offer these channels with Google+ in an accordance to get more users’ as well as comments. Opening up these features will help company in grabbing users associated with Netflix as well as Hulu.
Reader what’s your views will investment of $100 million in YouTube will prove fruitful for Google?
Apparently, After major transformation into personal profile section a lot of changes are going to take place at Facebook pages. Few days earlier, at F8 developer’s conference, Company indicated about more changes which will take place in coming days. The work has been started with the introduction of pages’ analytics and continue with the removal of ‘Reviews’ and ‘Discussion’ tabs from its page’s sidebar. It will completely stop showing by October 31st 2011.
However, this news will disappoint users as well as admins as they interact with the brands, products as well as with their Favorite Artists via Facebook pages. Where as admins use to upgrade their pages to increase the number of comments, likes and viewers.
On Facebook page, discussions tabs act as a forum where users can trigger new discussions on a hot-shot topic related to daily happenings, gadgets, technology, and mobile apps. They look for the comments as well as reviews by other members. The major problem was the manual updation of the discussions and check the discussion tab as there is no highlight has been provided for intimation. But discussion tab also enables members to provide rating on a scale of 1 to 5.
According to Facebook, “We’ve found that the best way to encourage conversation and feedback is through posts and comments on your Wall. We’ve removed these tabs for now as we work on tools to help you moderate and filter content. Our goal is to help you can manage everything from one powerful place”
The above line reflects that comments and posts will take place of ‘Discussion’ and ‘Reviews’ on users’ wall.
Let’s see how the users will be influenced in favor or in against of Facebook? Readers please give your views about changes in Facebook
The browser market is slowly heating up again as the new babies are steadily improving their market share only at the cost of Microsoft’s Internet explorer. Though, IE still holds the supreme position without any immediate threat, Google’s Chrome could possibly displace it soon. Currently, Chrome secures third position after IE and Mozilla. And with 10 percent annual growth, it will take over the position of Firefox sometime in early 2012.
Industry is recording the fastest growth ever of any browser till date. While Microsoft’s IE and Firefox are on constant decline, Chrome is the only browser which is advancing among users. For September, Chrome’s market share stands to 23 percent compare to Firefox’s 27 and industry leader IE’s 41 percent.
So, what made Firefox to slips away from users’ grip? Probably, the frequent updates, active bug fixes and comparatively slow browsing experience than Chrome. In last few months, Firefox has covered the long way from previous versions to latest version 8. With each version, it left enough room for improvisation and enhancement – picked up with competitors like Chrome. To beat the immense competition, Firefox released multiple updates, updates and enhancements in an interval of every six weeks that kept captivating the eyes of users unlike Chrome which also went through similar enhancement but as background activity.
Annoyed Firefox users who find it problematic, especially enterprise users who need administrative assistance for any such upgrade or updates, have started migration towards Chrome as its provides seamless integration with Google services and faster browsing and downloading experience.
However, Firefox is equally monitoring the situation closely and is setting itself on the launch pad of latest 8th version with many new and exciting features like “Don’t not Track” on multiple platform. Company has claimed to add 1,000 improvements with the latest version and promises a feature rich superlative browsing experience.
On the hand, Microsoft is also gearing up with the latest IE version 10 to beat the heat. With all such new development and many more still pending improvements and versions, it will be interesting to witness the “Tug of war” among all major browsers.
Online business is widening its feet in India and with launch of many new online promotional products in market its on hike. Purchasing powering of online users is constantly rising. As internet market widens, number of online daily deal companies are also increasing. Few months earlier, online daily deal giant GroupOn debuted in India daily deal market by acquiring SoSasta.com. However, due to immense competition and various management issues, it failed to recreate the charm like USA. Today – to re-energize indian operations – GroupOn has announced re-branding to its India business from Sosasta.com to Crazeal.com.
Earlier, GroupOn acquired Sosasta.com to test the Indian water. Simultaneously, company also triggered the process to control Groupon.in which is registered by some other indian company. GroupOn’s online business deals with best stuff to do, see, eat as well as electronics gadgets. It’s spread in more that 565 cities across the world.
At present in India, GroupOn online deal services will be available only in 11 cities named as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi/NCR, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune.
To avoid pre-claimed mistakes, Company has brought several changes in Crazeal management. Earlier Managing Director as well as CEO of SoSasta.com has been stucked out and there are fresh faces into its management. GroupOn has named Ankur Warikoo- an ISB alumuni – as new CEO of Crazeal, Bharath Devanathan as COO, and Sachin Kapur as head of Marketing. Ankur Warikoo is the co-founder of Accentium Web and has already served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rocket Internet (the early investor in CityDeal, which was acquired by Groupon in May 2010), where as Bharath Devanathan worked at Yahoo and Booz company and Sachin Kapur has worked at Brands like BigRock(a directi company), Fever 104 FM, and InfoEdge India Ltd.
“Groupon Inc’s DNA is intrinsic to Crazeal.com and we know what it takes to be the leader in this industry. Having pioneered the online deal industry and emerged as the top player in markets around the world we are confident that this is the right time for us to provide the discerning Indian consumer with the Crazeal.com experience” as well as “We are identifying merchants with high quality offerings, expanding to newer cities and above all enabling Social Commerce to help consumers avail of the best that their city has to offer. We are passionate about bringing quality deals to our consumers, and we feature only those deals that we would ourselves love to buy,” said Ankur Warikoo, CEO, Crazeal.com.
GroupOn has appointed a core team which consist of six Sales directors in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata to strengthen Crazeal presence in market as well as to build the Local Service, National Products and National Travel Verticals.
Interestingly, its been a point to notice that SoSasta.com is still doing active online business with many latest deals in market. One of the most important point is that on Crazeal claims itself a ‘re-branded’ version of SoSaSta.com while SoSasta.com doesn’t show any information about GroupOn and its acquisition. Is So Sasta has parted its business from GroupOn as separate entity or is there something else cooking up in daily deal business market. Readers give your views why this kind of confusion arises.
