Facebook is fighting to restore the luster it lost after a botched Nasdaq IPO and the world’s largest social network moved closer to realize that rebound on Thursday after posting Q2 revenues of $1.18 billion. Facebook beat analyst expectations thanks to a 28 percent increase in advertising over the same quarter of 2011. Facebook revenue ...
Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile network operator, has unveiled its latest promotion that aims to encourage customers to enjoy discounts of up to 75 per cent on calling charges. Dubbed Wakenya Tuongee (Kenyans let’s talk), the new promotion will run between July 24 and August 23, 2012. The company said subscribers will only pay Sh4 for ...
Microsoft reported its first ever quarterly loss as a public company as the software giant made accounting changes relating to a troubled online services business. The loss was triggered by a previously announced $6.19bn charge for writing down the value of aQuantive, an advertising business Microsoft bought in 2007 in an attempt to catch up with ...
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Google are close to reaching a deal that would force Google to pay a $22.5 million fine for allegedly tracking user behaviors in iOS’ Safari browser. The fine would be the largest in history that the FTC has ever put upon a company in ...
Earlier today, Twitter released an update to its iOS app (App Store link) that adds a number of new features and updates the app with the company’s new logo. Among the improvements include push notification support and “ambient notifications,” which appear in the status bar while using the app itself. Full release notes: Twitter for ...
When Google first released Chrome in 2008, it had a feature that many, including me, loved – the “Omnibar.” The Omnibar is Google’s fancy name for the address bar in Chrome, but, it includes one feature that other web browsers don’t – the ability to search Google directly. In many browsers, you have two bars ...
3 Ways to Automatically Repeat YouTube Videos Ever come across a YouTube video that you want to watch or listen to over and over? Whether its a catchy song or a hilarious clip, everyone has come across a video that they want to press Replay over and over. YouTube doesn’t provide an easy auto-loop button ...
The PS3 is a great system. Easy to use, futuristic on-screen interface, quality sleek hardware, awesome graphics, lots of benefits. But should you get a PS3 or Xbox 360? And what about the Wii? Note: I own all three devices, and I appreciate all of them. I don’t have any bias to one system or ...
Over the last week, analytics firm Net Applications released its mobile operating system statistics for June 2012, revealing that Apple’s iPhone hit an all-time high in market share with 65.27%. This came after the iPhone actually lost market share in May (62.65%). Google’s Android platform gained slightly from 19.69% to 19.73%. Finally, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform dropped below ...
Google announced its next set of product shutdowns as part of its “spring cleaning” initiative. Among the services that will be closing down include Google Video and iGoogle, which allowed users to create a custom version of the Google homepage. Content currently being hosted on Google Video will be migrated to YouTube later this summer, and users ...
