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Indian army officers asked to quit Facebook?

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Asia Bizz: In some bad news for the officers in the Indian army, reports state that they have been directed to quit all the social networking sites. Orders have been issued to all its men who have joined the social networking sites like Facebook or Orkut following a recent confidential information leak online. Officers who [...]

Google, Facebook objectionable content hearing moved to February 2

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Asia Bizz: Search engine giant Google and social networking site Facebook are among many of the websites which have been dragged to court by the Indian government for derogatory content. For the time being, the websites can take a breather as the hearing of the case has been adjourned till February 2, 2012. The petition [...]

Facebook’s new Timeline not liked by all users?

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

Asia Bizz: With the introduction of the new Timeline feature on the social networking site Facebook, not everyone is happy with the new feature. On the other hand, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said that the new Timeline is a new way to express who a person really is – which has sparked a [...]

FIR against social networking site Facebook

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Asia Bizz: An Indian social activist has recently filed an FIR against the popular social networking site Facebook. The FIR has been filed as the complainant alleged that the Facebook and a journalist asked the people to burn the Bhagwat Gita, which is considered as the Holy book for the Hindus in India. The complaint [...]

Facebook offers Rs. 70 lakh per annum package to IIT student

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Asia Bizz: An Indian IIT student at Kanpur, who is part of M Tech (Computer Science and Engineering), has allegedly been offered the most lucrative job offer package by the social networking giant Facebook.  At the ongoing campus placements going on at the IIT Kharagpur, reports alleged that Siddharth Agarwal has been offered a Rs. [...]

Facebook denies hacking of Indian profiles

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Asia Bizz: After the reports of hacking of the profiles in India, social networking site Facebook said there weren’t any reports of hacking of profiles in India. On November 16, 2011, many reports of tampering with the profile pictures were received, to which Facebook said that the reports were inaccurate. One of the executives of [...]

Several Facebook profiles from Bangalore hacked

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Asia Bizz: Many user profiles of the social networking site in India were recently hacked. A recent report said that more than 2 lakh profiles were hacked in Bangalore city. Moreover, weblinks to their morphed pornographic pictures were sent as feeds to the friends and family. Even the cyber crime department has received calls regarding [...]

Facebook calls off daily deals service

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Asia Bizz: Social networking website, Facebook, has recently announced that it would end the daily deals program. The daily deals program had started testing four months back and has left Groupon to continue the monopoly in the market. Facebook, in a statement, said that there is a lot of power in the social approach driving [...]

Google+ soon to catch up with Facebook?

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Asia Bizz: A new survey by mobile app developers has said that Google+ which is the latest in the social networking market has the capability to catch up with Facebook. The survey also said that iCloud, which is soon going to be released by Apple might significantly disrupt the mobile space. The survey had 2,012 [...]

Social networking sites come to rescue after Mumbai phone lines get jammed

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

Asia Bizz: After the triple terror blasts that had rocked Mumbai, India on 13th July 2011, the phone networks were reported to have been jammed. Several anxious people were trying to reach out their friends and family to know about their well being. In such a situation, social networking sites had come to the rescue [...]

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