Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Four Silicon Valley heavyweights are being sued by Auto-Completion Solutions (ACS), a company which recently acquired the rights to a field auto-completion technology and apparently has been founded with the sole purpose of collecting license fees.

Facebook is not the place you want to be if you are worried about your privacy. So we shouldn’t be surprised that there is now a service that will inform you when one of your Facebook contacts has been arrested.

Hacker group Anonymous has posted a YouTube video that threatens Facebook to be “destroyed.” Should you be concerned?

Google is opening Google+ to more users as private invites remain available to existing users. There have been hiccups, and the population remains very limited, but Google is already facing privacy concerns that can only grow as more users enter the stream.

The Internet rumor mill is suggesting that Facebook will be announcing Skype integration on Wednesday – audio chat has been ignored by Facebook for some time and it has been a tough field for third party providers. Would you skype your friends on Facebook? An “amazing” announcement is coming this week from Facebook, according to [...]

There has been some buzz about a possibly declining user base of Facebook. However, Google’s DoubleClick ad unit now estimates Facebook at generating more than 1 Trillion page views per month.

Google’s DoubleClick ad planner utility suggests a huge surge in Facebook usage over the past two months: Facebook may have added more than 300 million users.

Facebook will also have to deal with product flops and we predict that Facebook email will be the company’s first major blunder.

It’s a status symbol for many Facebook users to have hundreds and possibly thousands of friends. However, a researcher from the University of Illinois suggests that more friends increase the chance that your Facebook account will be hacked – especially if you accept friend requests from people you do not know.

Forget Los Angeles or New York City. Jakarta has more people on Facebook than LA and New York City in their city limits in real life. Facebook’s total population has climbed to 642 million people, a market research firm says.

Google has just updated its DoubleClick ad planner, which posts new site statistics for the world’s 1000 largest websites (according to Google.) The table indicates that Facebook’s user growth is stagnating, but existing users are spending even more time on the site and are viewing almost 1500 pages per month on average.

Don’t say you are surprised. Of course you would sue Facebook when they cut you off from your virtual-real world. A Staten Island man is pitching the idea that a lost friend on Facebook is worth about $1500.