Amazon celebrates 1 million Twitter followers with a free MP3
Amazon is perhaps the most popular online store on the web today.
The company has just surpassed more than 1 million followers on the Twitter social network.
And they are celebrating it by giving away free MP3 files!
The company said that interested users can get [...]
INQ Mobile launch mobile devices with Twitter and Facebook support
Support for social networks is becoming an essential aspect of any new smartphone in the market today.
Apple iPhone changed the way people communicated online through their mobile devices.
And almost, every mobile phone maker is working on smarter smartphones to enable their customers to [...]
Alexander Macgillivray leaves Google for Twitter
Google is losing their senior executives at a rapid pace.
Alexander Macgillivray is the latest on the list who has now left Google to join another company.
Alexander Macgillivray has now joined Twitter as their new General Council.
He is yet to join Twitter as the official dates are not [...]
Michael Jackson death: Twitter once again dominates MSM
Mainstream media once again lost out to social networking services like Twitter and Facebook to spread the news about the dead of Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson is one of the most loved musicians in the world and it was pretty visible on Twitter streams.
As soon as [...]
Google’s Greg Badros is the new Director of Engineering of Facebook
Google has lost yet another senior executive, this time to social networking giant Facebook.
Facebook has hired Greg Badros as their new Director of Engineering.
He was previously with Google.
He was part of the original Google AdSense engineering team. He has also worked on their [...]
Grady Burnett latest to leave Google. Joins Facebook
Grady Burnett is the latest high profile Google employee who is leaving the search engine giant to join a rival company.
He was the head of Google’s AdWords division. He is now joining social networking service Facebook.
He would now responsible for Facebook’s online advertising sales.
These advertising revenues are one [...]
Nokia: No longer cool for teenagers
Social networking service Habbo Hotel conducted a survey and found out that teenagers of today do not find Nokia a cool enough brand for a mobile phone.
The survey had views of around 112,000 teenagers in 30 countries.
Just around 21% of them said that Nokia was their favourite mobile brand. This [...]
Palm Pre to feature Twitter search inbuilt
Palm has been releasing some new information about their upcoming smartphone model Palm Pre.
One of the exciting features is that the Pre would work with Apple iTunes.
Pre owners would be able to sync DRM free media files from iTunes to Pre without any third party software.
Another interesting feature [...]
Yahoo considering acquiring social media properties!
Yahoo might be struggling to compete against Google and Microsoft but they are still looking for good deals in the market.
Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh said in a statement at the Reuters Global Technology Summit: “It’s a good time to be buying now.”
He added: “I can guarantee you there will [...]
Digital Sky Technologies wants to invest in Facebook
Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian Internet group, Digital Sky Technologies has shown interest in investing in the world’s most popular social networking service Facebook.
The deal offered by Digital Sky puts the value of Facebook at around USD 10 billion.
Facebook declined to comment on the rumours. A [...]
