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Rakuten buys Viber

On Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
Rakuten, Japanese Media Holding, buys Viber Media Inc, which has developed Viber messenger app. The sum of this transaction isn’t a secret. Rakuten purchases internet calling app-maker for $900 million. [adsenseyu1] Rakuten hasn’t announced what they are going to do with the acquisition. However, the head of the company (Hiroshi Mikitani) mentions that Viber has ...


Facebook Charging USD $1.00 for Messages to Non-Friends

On Friday, April 5th, 2013
Facebook Charging $1.00 for Messages to Non-Friends A look inside what some people are calling Facebook’s new SPAM filter. Over the holidays, I heard mumblings about Facebook’s intent to start charging users (not Business Pages) a $1.00 fee for each message sent to a non-friend. In truth, I made a mental note but didn’t pay ...

Facebook announces threaded and ranked comments

On Friday, April 5th, 2013
[adsenseyu1] Earlier this week, Facebook announced two new features for its comment section on the social network: the ability for users to directly reply to specific comments, and the ability for comments to be ranked based on the most engaging ones first. The company says that it has automatically turned on comment replies on pages ...

The Evolution of Social Media

On Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. It ...

Facebook reports Q3 2012 financial results: beats expectations, but $59 million net loss

On Friday, October 26th, 2012
Facebook today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, announcing a revenue of $1.3 billion, which beats analyst expectations. Despite that, Facebook still reported a net loss of $59 million in the quarter. 86% of Facebook’s revenue in the quarter came from advertising, but for the first time ever, the company made money from ...

Facebook stock drops to all-time low

On Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
  On Friday, Facebook’s stock price closed at $18.06, putting the stock at less than half than the stock’s opening initial public offering (IPO) price of $38. That marks the furthest the stock price has fallen since May 2012, when the company was first publicly traded. [adsenseyu1] Facebook has struggled in recent months to show ...

New Facebook app for iOS released with massive performance enhancements

On Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
As previously, Facebook has just released version 5.0 of its app for iOS devices, bringing with it a complete re-write of the app. The new Facebook app for the iPhone and iPad has been “rebuilt so it’s faster and easier to use.” [adsenseyu1] Full release notes: We’ve rebuilt the app so it’s faster and easier ...

How to delete all messages on Facebook

On Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
How to delete all messages on Facebook [adsenseyu1] Facebook has integrated system to send and receive messages from other Facebook friends.  By default, if you click X cross sign next to messages, it is not deleted – instead that messages is archived. Are you trying to figure out way to delete messages in your Facebook account? ...