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Verified Accounts For Celebrities On Facebook
Facebook has just launched a new feature that will verify the accounts of celebrities. With this new feature Facebook will verify the identity of their high profile account holders. Those who wish to have their accounts verified will have to contact Facebook with some form of official identification in order...
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Google Accused Of Tracking By Microsoft
Google has recently been accused by Microsoft of circumventing their privacy settings and tracking users of the Internet Explorer. The whole controversy first started when a Stanford University graduate student, Jonathan Mayer, said that Google was bypassing the privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser and tracking users on iPhones and...
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Club Bing Is Closing
It has just been announced that Club Bing will soon be shut down. Club Bing is a group of online word games that had been launched by Microsoft in April 2007. It was called Live Search Club previously. When a player completes such a game he would earn tickets that...
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Google To Help Diagnose Ailments
Google is trying to improve their search results, as far as medical diagnosis is concerned. And this has a few people very concerned. Now, when a user searches for a symptom or a group of symptoms, Google’s organic search results will show a list of possible causes for those symptoms....
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Google To Launch Google Drive
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, Google is preparing to enter another frontier of the Internet. It is believed that the search giant is in the process of launching a cloud computing service along the lines of Dropbox. This service will enable users to store their data in...
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Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Search Share
comScore has released the search share figures for the month of January 2012 for the U.S. market. According to their analysis, Bing has now taken a lead over Yahoo! in the search share. While Google continues to hold the number one spot in this market, with a share of 66.2%,...
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Deaths That Most Shocked the Net [INFOGRAPHIC]
2011 may have been a big year in terms of online searches for the deaths of famous people, but Michael Jackson’s demise in 2009 is still the ‘Death That Most Shocked the Net’ reveals a new study. Searches for news of Jackson’s departure were double those of Osama bin Laden...
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Facebook Mobile Ads – Precarious Hit
One of the potential risks Facebook cited in their IPO filing was the adoption of mobile. While everybody is extremely eager to know how the Facebook IPO will fare, Facebook is already preparing to please its future shareholders, by eliminating this risk and starting to test a mobile ad service...
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Does Facebook Refer More Traffic Than StumbleUpon?
As most major social networks continue to grow in popularity, the amount of referral traffic being generated by them also grows. According to reports from several sites referral traffic from social networks is growing steadily. So which network sends the most traffic? Turns out that according to Shareaholic, Facebook is...
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Will The IPO Change Facebook?
Facebook has finally filed for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. What will this mean for the users of the world’s most popular social network? The company, which was private so far, was rather secretive about their financial dealings. Most of these details will now have to...
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Mobile Order Values Can Exceed Online Purchases
For a long time it was believed that users are less likely to make expensive purchases from their mobiles than from their desktop computers. This belief has been shown to be wrong. According to reports from Dell Inc. the value of purchases made by people through their mobile phones has...
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Facebook Going Public – Top Secret?
While it has been discussed for a long time that Facebook will go public, it now looks as though that is finally about to happen. According to a report in the BBC, Facebook will file papers for the IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday. The...
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