Facebook struck a $550 million deal Monday to get its hands on hundreds of AOL patents from Microsoft as the social network hardened its defenses before it goes public on the Nasdaq. Facebook will pick…
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The real reason why Facebook bought Instagram
The simple and straight forward answer; Instagram was the biggest threat to Facebook’s mobile photo sharing feature. What makes Instagram so cool and popular is the ability to customize the photos by applying filters, making…
Facebook buys Instagram photo app for $1 bn
Facebook on Monday announced a billion-dollar-deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram. The big ticket purchase was seen by some as a move by Facebook to strengthen defenses against…
What does Facebook Timeline mean for businesses?
Facebook introduced the new look timeline for brands last week, a few months after they introduced the timeline for personal profiles. Users have until 30th March to test timeline for pages in preview mode before…
Lenny Kravitz speaks for children in Africa
Rocker heart-throb Lenny Kravitz has begun a push to help save the lives of millions of poor children and their impoverished families by promoting access to clean water and good sanitation. His celebrity muscle has…
Click, unfriend: Women more likely to do it than men
Women are more likely than men to delete friends from their online social networks and tend to choose more restrictive privacy settings, according to a study published on Friday. The study by the Pew Research…
Facebook releases more content-sharing apps
(KEN MACHARIA) Social networking giants Facebook has given the green light to 60 new apps that allow users to post and share every aspect of their lives, from movies to books to food to fashion….
Tech Friday: Kenyan app store launched…
(KEN MACHARIA) The first virtual mobile app store was launched last week by local tech firm, Virtual City. Hewani Application store will host both free and paid mobile applications tailored for African markets. The store…
Facebook fixes photo privacy bug
Facebook has fixed a bug that allowed the viewing of some private photographs of other members and which was reportedly used to access personal pictures of founder Mark Zuckerberg. The bug involved Facebook’s system of…
Friends: Does Facebook alter the brain?
Does Facebook alter the brain? That’s the question which flows from an unusual investigation into the online social network used by 800 million people. Volunteers placed in a 3-D scanner had bigger, denser structures in…