THE MOTLEY FOOL - Mar 29 - Facebook has recently bought Oculus VR, the maker of the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, for $2B. Speaking about the Oculus Rift, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated: "Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a......
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CNN - Mar 27 - The Turkish government banned YouTube on Thursday, less than a week after it blocked Twitter. The crackdown comes just days before Turks are expected to go to the polls in nationwide municipal elections. Turkey's government......
MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT - Mar 28 - Only 13% say that social networking has beneficial effects. 50% of British parents and 47% of overall adults think social networking has harmful effects on children, finds the Tech Tracker survey. by Phil Tottman......
BLOOMBERG - Mar 28 - Twitter is planning to release a mobile-advertising product in the next few weeks that app makers can use to encourage downloads of their programs. The format, known as an app-install ad, will help Twitter attract......
LATIN POST - Mar 28 - According to TechEye, the Turkish government had decided to ban Twitter until after the general elections. The reason is because Turkish citizens have been talking about government corruption that has been going on surrounding......
FORBES - Mar 28 - Instagram has ~200M monthly active users, Twitter has 241M. But in the U.S., on smartphones, Instagram seems to be pulling ahead. According to eMarketer 30.8M Americans used Twitter on their smartphones in 2013. This year,......
TECH CRUNCH - Mar 26 - High Fidelity, a new startup from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, has raised $2.5M. The company debuted last year but still hasn’t formally launched. The company is prototyping the technology and user experience of......
REUTERS - Mar 25 - In 2010, Google, Apple, Adobe Systems, Intel and others agreed to a settlement of a U.S. Justice Department probe that barred them from agreeing not to poach each other's employees. The companies have since been......
READWRITE - Mar 25 - A small number of Instagram users have seen Foursquare, the location-sharing network, replaced with Facebook Places in the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service. Facebook confirms that it's testing the swap. When Facebook bought Instagram for $1B in......
MASHABLE - Mar 26 - Instagram has crossed a 200M monthly active users. 50M of those users signed up in the last six months, which means Instagram grew by ~100% in the last year. by Chris Taylor See full article......
MASHABLE - Mar 25 - Facebook has acquired Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift gaming headset in a cash and stock deal valued at $2B. (400M in cash, 23.1M Facebook Shares). The Oculus Rift project gained prominence on......
IANS LIVE - Mar 26 - India's homegrown social network Worldfloat said its user base crossed 50M in just 2 years. Facebook has ~100M users in India. Worldfloat offers ~100K free online movies. Other features are jobs and comparison engine......
TECH CRUNCH - Mar 24 - Telegram, the mobile messaging app that offers secure communications created by VK.com co-founders Nikolai and Pavel Durov, hit 35M users. Daily actives are now in excess of 15M, and the startup has seen 8B......
ECONOMIST - Mar 22 - A recent review on cyberbullying suggests that at least a quarter of school-age children are involved as either victim or perpetrator. A new generation of smartphone apps is unlikely to help. Whisper, Secret, Wut, Yik......
TECH CRUNCH - Mar 22 - When it comes to cyberbullying, Secret co-founder David Byttow claims “We don’t see very much of that, if any”. Byttow says that Secret is naturally better protected from cyberbullying because unlike Whisper, PostSecret, or......
MARKET WATCH - Mar 20 - MySpace used to be #1 social network. Then it was overtaken by Facebook. News Corp acquired MySpace in 2005 for $580M, then sold it for $35M in 2011. MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe moved on......
FOOTBALL EXAMINER - Mar 20 - Users trying to access Twitter are being redirected to a statement by Turkey's telecommunications regulator. It cites a court order to apply "protection measures" on the website. There are ~10M Twitter users across Turkey......
MASHABLE - Mar 20 - A quarter of Facebook's active users (375M) play at least one Facebook-connected game in an average month. Candy Crush Saga has held the title of most-popular game on FB for the past year. It is......
MASHABLE - Mar 19 - Nuzzel, the social news service from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, is now open to anyone who wants to join. The service first launched in the fall 2012, and was invitation-only. Nuzzel claims to find the......