Facebook, the biggest social network in the world, now has over 1.5 billion monthly active users. According to David Kirkpatrick’s book The Facebook Effect, the company was a very popular M&A target in its startup years. As early as 4 months after Facebook’s inception, people with money and people representing companies with money began lining […]
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NINE of 10 people suffer from “phantom vibration syndrome” — where they mistakenly think their mobile phone is vibrating in their pocket — it has been claimed. Dr Robert Rosenberger, philosopher and assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, said the phenomenon was caused by “learned bodily habits.” Research, published in the Computers in Human […]
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The cause of many a web surfer’s misery, Internet Explorer is (almost) officially dead. indiatimes Microsoft has officially ended support for Internet Explorer version 8, 9 and 10. This means that the company will not issue any more security patches and bug fixes for the three browser versions. However, users can continue to use it […]
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The green light on Pushpa Kaushik’s modem hasn’t come on for the past three months. When she first got internet access in her home a year ago, all the people of Lalpur, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, used to come to her house to use her computer. Some needed to check their […]
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GOOGLE application search engine, has removed 13 malicious apps from the Google Play store. The company took this step after it was notified by the security researcher that these apps made unauthorized downloads to the Android devices. These apps try to get the root privileges and when given they copy numerous device files to the […]
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YAHOO!, though struggling, is still one of the biggest websites in the world. It gets hundreds of millions of users every month, and generates more than $4 billion in annual revenue. Indiatimes So it’s no surprise that Yahoo needs to hire top talent across the board, from product management and engineering to sales and marketing. […]
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Peach, a brand-new messaging app from the creator of Vine that’s supposed to do things no messaging app has ever done before.Instead of complicated menus, you perform actions with the help of magic words. To post a status message use the magic word “shout” to write a few words and emojis in a larger font […]
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Google has fixed an “automated” error which saw its online translating tool convert “Russian Federation” into “Mordor”. Other erroneous translations included “russians” becoming “occupiers” and the name of Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, rendered as “sad little horse”. Mordor is the fictional realm in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books, also known as the […]
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Netflix CEO, and Co-founder Reed Hastings has just announced the availability of Netflix in a bunch of new countries across the world, including Nigeria. Before today, Netflix was being enjoyed in just 60 countries. Now it’s in almost every country on earth. Hastings made the announcement during his presentation at CES just a few minutes […]
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TWITTER is looking at tampering with its core experience. Cue hundreds of #Twitterfail tweets from angry users already mortified by the fact that the site unilaterally changed the “favourite” star symbol into a “like” heart. Even so, the notion that Twitter might abandon its defining feature, the 140 character limit, does seem like a fairly […]
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Facebook’s habit of experimenting on its customers has again led to anger, following allegations that it deliberately broke its app for a small number of users to see what they would do. In a report from tech journal The Information, Facebook is accused of selectively crashing its Android app, for long periods of time, in […]
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There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies… your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it First: The emergency number worldwide for mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of coverage […]
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