There were 11 companies who played an important role for gaining Facebook such an exposure.Top of all, it's really surprising, it was Microsoft who outplayed rest all the companies and made Facebook out of reach from most of the companies. An interesting story behind the success of Facebook and how Microsoft helped Facebook to transform its image from 1.5 Billion to 15 Billion company
AllFacebook boasts a nice feature where you can see what the top performing Facebook Pages are – meaning which Pages have gathered the largest following to date. The problem is that there’s apparently a significant lag, and that the data presented is therefor inaccurate (for example, it undercounts the number of fans of the popular Texas Hold’em Poker page by nearly 1.5 million).
It's not been more than 48 hours when Pakistan blocked Facebook & Youtube. With latest turn, Pakistani authorities widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter on Friday.
The blockade came after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to block access to social network site Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad.
Recently we heard that Rediff posted a net loss of $7.97 million for the year ended March 2010, as compared to a net loss of $11.26 million in the previous fiscal year. Revenues declined from $25.43 million recorded for the March 2009 ended year to $18.84 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year. During the March 2010-ended year, Rediff earned an interest income of $4.01 million.
RCom to launch IPTV services across in Mumbai & Delhi. One of the larget Mobile service provider in india, Reliance Communications ( RCom) hs planned to launch Internet Protocol Television services ( IPTV) in Mumbai & delhi in next 3 months, a top official informed. In the past, MTNL and BSNL have launched IPTV. The Asia-Pacific IPTV market revenues are projected to cross the $3-billion mark by 2013.
Tendulkar may not have twitt very aggresivly but his fan followers have shown overwhelming commitment towards him, no matter whether in on the feild or Internet arena. Just in less than 72 hours, Tendulkar is preety close to cross the dynamic following number of 200,000 and holds 70+ records
Researchers from iDefense Labs, a division of VeriSign, has tracked an effort to sell login data for 1.5 million Facebook accounts on several online criminal marketplaces, including Carder.su
AOL has sold the instant messaging company ICQ to Russian investment company DST (Digital Sky Technologies) for $187.5 million. AOL had acquired the Israeli startup in June 1998 for $407 million.