The Ministry of Home Affairs told a court that the U.S. authorities were unable to “execute” the request for assistance in serving summonses on 11 U.S.-based websites, including Facebook and Google, which were accused of hosting objectionable content promoting class enmity and undermining national integrity. The MHA told metropolitan magistrate Jay Thareja that it had [...]
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Google appears to have stolen the title of ‘the best place to work’ from Facebook this year, according to a survey on employee satisfaction. India is making “good progress” in establishing a Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership with off-campus courses being conducted even as the physical infrastructure is being put in place, Prime Minister [...]
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A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. . Social networking sites allow users [...]
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Google, Stanford Graduate Students Founded by: Larry Page and Sergey Brin Year: 1998 Alexa rank: 1 Google, the world’s most popular search engine, an American multinational, Internet and software corporation, was initiated as a university’s research project by Larry Pageand Sergey Brin who teamed up while studying at Stanford. On September 4, 1998, it started [...]
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When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world’s biggest internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim. Facebook said last week it was contemplating re-entering [...]
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Google has been the most visited site of 2011 in US, with Facebook coming a close second, a new study has revealed. The survey, conducted by Nielsen, suggests that more than 153 million visitors clicked onto Google branded pages each month, while Facebook attracted close to 138 million visitors. The study is based on data collected between [...]
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A 30-year-old Canadian woman has come up with a social networking website exclusively for females. The site Luluvise.com bans males from joining, the Daily Mail reported. It connects though other networking websites LinkedIn and Facebook. Since its launch on Wednesday, it already has 1,000 users in 69 countries. Alexandra Chong quoted that Luluvise uses Facebook to [...]
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Facebook has released a list of topics that became the most talked about and shared via status updates and posts. These are often a good indication of cultural trends in the real world. In an accompanying post Facebook says: “Memology takes the pulse of this global community by comparing this year’s status updates to last [...]
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Facebook users from a village called Effin in Ireland cannot use the name after the social networking website banned it for being “offensive”. This was discovered by residents of the Irish village who said they could not register the village name as their place of birth on the website, The Sun reported. Ann Marie Kennedy, [...]
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Egypt‘s ruling military council on November 24 tasked former prime minister Kamal al-Ganzuri with forming a new cabinet. Ganzuri headed the government from 1996 to 1999, under ousted president Hosni Mubarak. After the popular uprisings earlier this year that toppled Mubarak, Ganzuri distanced himself from the former leader in a television interview, prompting several Facebook [...]
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Since Facebook became widely used in modern society, a debate has existed regarding whether it is appropriate for teachers and students to have private friendships and communications online. Teachers, students, school administrators, and parents have juggled with the question. And, in August of 2011, the debate entered legal territory, as the state of [...]
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Micro-blogging site Twitter has long been regarded as the hottest platform for letting people know what you’re doing. Now the San Francisco-based communications company has the statistics to prove it, touting the fact on September 8 . Has 100 million monthly active users. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo divulged the user numbers at a press conference [...]
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BBC world service on August10 re-launched its Tamil website, with new design and features, including enhanced content-sharing functions, a mobile version and an access to archived radio programmes. Revamped bbctamil.com has a wider format, featuring more convenient and detailed content categorisation. Enhanced with ability to host video stories, the site also features image galleries, a [...]
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Social networking sites pose both risks and benefits to children as their studies get affected but at the same time the introverts learn how to socialise behind the safety of various screens, according to a study. “While nobody can deny that Facebook has altered the landscape of social interaction, particularly among young people, we are [...]
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Now, you can easily check your Facebook account at your work place without the fear of being caught by your boss. A website developed by a university student allows you to automatically convert your Facebook news feeds into an Excel spreadsheet, reports the Herald Sun. Users can instantly see what their friends are up to [...]
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