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Facebook Has 500 Million Users All Over The World

Nicholas — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:17:30 +0000

Asia Bizz: Facebook Has 500 Million Users All Over The World

Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites, has claimed to have 500 million users all over the world. The website was started six years ago and was created by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg who was then just 20 years old.

“This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world.Now a lot more people have the opportunity to stay connected with the people they care about,” said Mark who is now the Chief Executive Officer of the social networking site.

On this celebrating moment Facebook is launching a new application called “Facebook Stories” in which the users would be able to write their own stories as to how they connected with their friends and acquaintances.

Virgin Media Business, Director, Phil Stewart informed that 14 per cent of the UK enterprises are using ‘Facebook’ for customer relations.

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Live Your Passion’ with ICICI Prudential Life

sharjil s — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:32:41 +0000

India’s ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd (ICICI Prudential Life) has announced today ‘Living Your Passion’- a retirement based social media initiative on Facebook, which has reportedly crossed 25,000 members in a short span of time.

‘Living Your Passion’ is a social media initiative that encourages people to talk about their passion and what they would like to do once they retire. It also provides a platform for like minded people to share their knowledge and encourage their passion.

In an endeavor to look at the whole retirement process in a new light, ICICI Prudential Life introduced this new campaign to seed a thought in the mind of the audience, that retirement is a phase of life where one can follow his true passion. However for a new thought to be seeded firmly in the mind of the consumer it is important to engage him over a period of time and not just during the campaign period. This gave birth to the idea: “Create a platform for people with similar passions to meet, discuss, share and form a profitable association”.

The manifestation of the idea was to use the new age communication revolution – Social Media to create the required platform.

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Micromax launched Q5, affordable facebook QWERTY phone

Carla — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:13:20 +0000

Micromax launched Micrromax Q5 FB mobile phone which is also known as Micrromax Q5 Facebook phone. Micromax Q5 dual SIM phone is a bar styled, Dual-Band mobile phone for a price of Rs. 5100. Micromax Q5 mobile phone has come with a price of Rs 4,500 only for India market.

The phone is a dual sim with GSM+GSM variant, comes with a 2.2 inch QVGA screen and tips the scales at 95grams. At the rear, it has a 2-megapixel camera for casual imaging. The same camera can also be used for video recording It comes with a microUSB port for transfer of data and supports Bluetooth with A2DP. Mobile Internet can be accessed, through GPRS, EDGE and WAP 2.0. support.

It has 15MB of onboard memory, which is expanded up to 8 GB using MicroSd cards. It comes with a Facebook application and an IM application for multiclient chats. For browsing, Opera Mini is preinstalled. The phone supports various audio formats including MP3, AMR, MIDI and WAV formats. There’s an FM Radio as well

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Google introduce Google Buzz

Carla — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:06:10 +0000

Google Buzz is a social integration and messaging tool by Google, designed to integrate into the company’s web-based email program, Gmail. Shared links and messages show up in the user’s inbox. Buzz focuses on integrating photos, videos, and links as part of the “conversations” aspects of Gmail like conversation threading.

Buzz allows users to choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a small group of friends each time they post. Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, YouTube, Blogger, and Twitter are currently integrated. The creation of Buzz was seen by industry analysts as an attempt by Google to compete with social networking websites like Facebook. Buzz also includes several interface and interaction elements from other Google products (e.g. Google Reader) such as the ability to like a post. Buzz would help bridge the gap between work and leisure.

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Facebook removes banner ads of Microsoft from its site

Agatha Vyland — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:37:58 +0000

Facebook took full control of display ads on the world most popular social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business.

However, Microsoft — the exclusive provider of Web search on Facebook — will continue to sell text-based search ads on the website as the partners extended the arrangement beyond 2011, when it had been due to expire. Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook for a 1.6 percent stake in the company in October 2007.

Microsoft also said it will further integrate its Bing search engine into Facebook while expanding its reach beyond the United States.

“Ad formats that feature social actions perform better and provide a better user experience since they are more consistent with the look and feel of Facebook, ”This combination of targeting and social relevance is the primary driver behind the shift in strategy.”

Facebook, which lets users connect and share information with friends online, has emerged as one of the Internet’’s most popular destinations and is increasingly challenging the Web’s established powerhouses like Yahoo Inc and Google Inc.

Source- Reuters

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