US Army is now on Facebook and Twitter
US Army has announced the establishment of their Online Social Media Division.
They have created a fan page on Facebook social networking service and are also now present on the Twitter micro-blogging site.
US Army spokeswoman Lindy Kyzer spoke about the new developments: “Young people today don’t watch the [...]
Owen Van Natta to be the new CEO of MySpace
MySpace is getting a new CEO.
News Corp has announced that they are appointing Owen Van Natta as the new CEO of the MySpace.
Incidentally, Owen Van Natta was previously with Facebook which is the prime rival of MySpace in the social networking industry.
Facebook overtook [...]
Facebook now has 200 million registered users
Social networking giant Facebook has revealed that they now are home to more than 200 million registered users.
The growth is phenomenal as they have managed to double the registered users in just eight months.
Incidentally, Facebook now has more members than population of countries like Brazil and Japan. [...]
Gideon Yu leaves Facebook
Social networking service Facebook has revealed that their finance division head Gideon Yu is now leaving the company.
Sources say that the company is now looking for a replacement with experience with public company functioning.
This could be a possible hint on Facebook considering an IPO in the coming future.
Facebook has [...]
Social networking is now more popular than email on the web!
Nielsen Online has reported that social networking has overtaken email to become the fourth most popular online product.
Social networks and blogs are used by almost two-thirds of all worldwide online users.
John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen Online spoke about their research: “Social networking [...]
Facebook had to pay $65 million to ConnectU for lawsuit settlement?
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges claims that Facebook paid a huge $65 million to settle their lawsuit filed by would-be social network ConnectU.
ConnectU however continues to remain in a fee dispute with Quinn Emanuel.
ConnectU founders had hired the services of Mark Zuckerberg to [...]
Nokia 5630 XpressMusic launched
Nokia has launched their latest XpressMusic branded mobile phone.
This new mobile phone is the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic.
This phone is powered with the Symbian S60 platform.
The phone ships with 4GB storage which can be expanded to 16GB.
Nokia said that the phone can act as a high-audio-quality music [...]
Facebook now part of OpenID board
Social networking giant Facebook has announced that they are now joining the OpenID board.
OpenID is already supported by several other industry giants including MySpace, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and IBM.
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s director of engineering spoke about this new development: “It is our hope that we can take the [...]
MySpace reveals that around 90,000 sex offenders removed from their service
US based social networking portal MySpace has revealed that they have till now removed around 90,000 sex offenders as members of their service.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper stated that this figure is almost double the number they had originally acknowledged last year.
They [...]
Salesforce.com launches Service Cloud
Salesforce.com has announced the launch of their next-generation solution for customer service.
This new product has been named Service Cloud and it is based on the company’s Force.com platform.
The company said that this cloud computing based solution will capture customer-service conversations with the aim of enabling clients to leverage the expertise of [...]
