WikiLeaks founder may well be on his way to America where he would be faced with charges relating to the posting of allegedly stolen cables on his WikiLeaks Website. Howard Riddle, a British judge has made a ruling that Assange can be extradited to Sweden where he would face charges on sexual assault. The ruling [...]
Last year the Doodle-4-Google contest attracted 33,000 entries. The art contest is meant to highlight the creativity of kids from the kindergarten going age to the last year of high school. The contestants are asked to submit drawings that express what they would like to do someday. This year’s contest is on and will be [...]
Some time ago we learnt that Facebook was in the process of trademarking the word “face” in the U.S. This trademarking issue seemed to be new but in actual fact it is not. Apparently Facebook has already trademarked the term “face” in Europe surprise, surprise. This happened back in 2004 when Facebook was just starting [...]
With Facebook being responsible for nearly a quarter of all display ads in the U.S you would expect it to have a huge chunk in the percentage share of the revenue earned from online advertising in the country. Unfortunately that is not the case. According to eMarketer, Facebook gets around 5 percent only of the [...]
The Identity Theft Resource Center reported that in 2010 there were 662 reported data breaches. Most of these thefts were of Social Security data. However this figure does not reflect the actual number of thefts that took place. The current regulation in U.S does not require all the breaches to be disclosed, according to the [...]
Experian Hitwise has released a new end of year report which shows that Facebook was the most visited site in the U.S. Year 2010 saw Facebook pass Google in visits in addition to being the most searched for keyword. In the data that is based on U.S traffic from January to November this year, Facebook [...]
Freelancer.com has reported that it now has two million registered professionals. The outsourcing marketplace for small businesses once known as GetAFreelancer (GAF) has approximately added a million professionals in about a year’s time. In October 2009 Freelancer.com had a million registered professionals. The startup that is based in Sydney Australia says that the professionals come [...]
A recent survey of small to medium sized businesses has shown that most SMBs predict that in the coming year sales will either increase or remain the same. The study was conducted by Zoomerang and GrowBiz Media. Zoomerang is an online survey tool for SMBs and GrowBiz Media is a SMB consultant and content provider. [...]
That Facebook has been growing in leaps and bounds is not new information. For the last year and a half Facebook has been on the fourth position in the world’s largest websites ranking. Its number of unique visitors has kept on growing and in October this year it was in a “somewhat tie” with Yahoo [...]
A new Pew Research Centre report shows that eight percent of the people who use the internet, use Twitter. Also Twitter was found to be more popular among Latinos and African Americans. More than 2,200 adult internet users were surveyed in November. When figures are broken down city dwellers, females and young adults are more [...]
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