Facebook swallows Oculus VR

The  Facebook has secured the VR goggles manufacturer Oculus VR for 2.3 billion U.S. dollars and is the second billion purchase within just two months. The payment of the purchase price is 400 million U.S. dollars in cash and 1.6 billion dollars in shares. A bonus in the form of a 300 million U.S. dollar equity stake get the Oculus-founders, if the pre-set targets have been achieved. The data glasses Oculus Rift has so far...

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WhatsApp has 480 million users

According to a report by the news magazine Focus in the online edition of 23 March 2014, the short messaging service WhatsApp has become one of world's 480 million users. Monthly average of 15 million new users would be won and even though WhatsApp was taken in February of Facebook. In February, the provider in Germany rose by 1 million to increase its user base significantly to 30 million users. Opposite Focus reported the WhatsApp-founder...

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Facebook wants to swallow drones Manufacturer

According to a report by the well-informed online magazine Techcrunch.com the social network Facebook is to be interested in a takeover of the drones manufacturer Titan Aerospace. In space, a purchase price of 60 million U.S. dollars to lie but could not be confirmed so far. The company specializes in solar-powered drones that can stay up to five years in the air and fly at a high altitude. According to the report Facebook wants...

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Facebook bought the WhatsApp app for $ 19 billion

Facebook has been offering mobile messaging application WhatsApp for approximately € 14 billion. Launched in 2009, the service has 450 million monthly users and wins a million every day.  Facebook on Wednesday announced the largest acquisition in its history. He put on the table the enormous sum of $ 19 billion for the application of mobile messaging WhatsApp . This merger "will allow us, with new eye-catching...

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The best and worst of Facebook in 10 years

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg put online a site that would become the most popular social networking site: Facebook. It is celebrating its tenth year, and we return to the occasion on the most significant events. Creating the Thefacebook billion users through the acquisition of Instagram or IPO, relive 10 years of Facebook in a few key dates....

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Facebook has completely changed its "News Feed"

If Facebook regularly makes changes to its interface, the new newsfeed, already in the hands of some users, is a real change. Simplification, visibility and customization are the objectives of the social network. Facebook is trying to modernize and launch its new news feed ( Feed News in English). The goal of social network make its platform easier to use, more design and especially more personalized and customizable. On the...

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Secure.me: Children fuse on Facebook

Public Facebook posts can endanger young people. The web service Secure.me provides a quick security check. Technicgen shows how it works. The web service Secure.me helps tap out Facebook profiles for gaps and weaknesses. Since recently, young people under 18 are not allowed to post public messages on Facebook; far they could spread only among friends. The dangerous thing about it: If your offspring or one of his Facebook...

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Justin Bieber invests in a new social network for teens

Justin Bieber attended the round table 1, $ 1 million made by the company RockLive, publisher of mobile games, to finance Shots of Me, a new photo sharing network dedicated to teens. The people like to invest in start-up digital. Addiction 'We knew of Ashton Kutcher or Will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) for new technology, here we discovered Justin Bieber business angel. The young singer 19 years, darling...

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Six things to know about Twitter that you do not know

The betrayal of a partner had forgotten to market fake user accounts, through the name of the bird logo ... While Twitter took his first steps on the stock exchange, close up on little-known aspects of the social network. It is finally the big day: between Twitter on the New York Stock Exchange , at $ 26 per share, after raising its IPO price. The opportunity to return to some interesting and unknown characteristics of...

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Facebook is ready to buy Blackberry?

While the bid Blackberry expires November 4, Facebook has met its leaders, says the Wall Street Journal . Is cause rumors about a candidate's social network. A meeting that stirs Blackberry , a few days of the end of his bid on November 4. According to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal , Facebook executives have met those brand smartphones last week. It did not take long...

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Twitter is valued at $ 11 billion Exchange

Twitter finally encrypted Thursday its draft IPO , which in the most optimistic scenario would allow him to raise $ 1.61 billion and would value totaling 11 billion . In an updated version of the project published on the website of the U.S. stock gendarme (SEC), Twitter announced that it intends to market 70 million shares for a price range between 17 and 20 dollars . As usual in...

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Pinterest valued $ 3.8 billion

The social network for sharing photos by interest raised $ 225 million in its last round, which values ​​the now $ 3.8 billion. The platform Pinterest , which allows users to post their interests through photos "pinned" on the internet centers, has seen its value rise to $ 3.8 billion at the time of a new round according to the specialized site AllThingsD. Pinterest, citing several people familiar with the...

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Social TV: Twitter and Facebook to conquer the small screen

Social networks, Twitter in mind, are becoming increasingly important in the relationship of viewers on television and advertising strategies. In Focus, new sources of revenue for the sites. Television has officially become the new advertising grail of social networks . The proof Nielsen launched Monday a new audience measurement of TV programs in the United States, including the hearing of the shows on Twitter. It...

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Twitter, explosive growth but losses

Twitter has revealed details of its highly anticipated IPO project. The social network wants to raise $ 1 billion. However, he warns that it may never become profitable. The entrance to Twitter traded looks as the most awaited by the Silicon Valey operation since that wasted from Facebook . The microblogging social network based there 8 years, released Thursday, Oct. 3 its highly anticipated...

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Facebook's transparency report reveals the sniffer

The NSA knows every Facebook professional? No, says Facebook and wants to assign a transparency report. But leaves many questions unanswered. Now that the cooperation with the U.S. NSA went through the media, the image of Internet companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Google is battered. With a transparency initiative Facebook now wants to regain lost confidence. Transparency report with little substance As a first step presents...

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"Liking" on Facebook is now a constitutional right in the United States

The decision of a U.S. court Wednesday, September 18 compares the response on Facebook to a political position, protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. The function that allows "liker" (that we love) a page or a comment on the Facebook social network is now a constitutional right in the United States. This was decided by the Court of Appeals of Virginia Wednesday, September 18, by voting against the dismissal of a former assistant...

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Facebook in Germany successfully

The social network Facebook is one according to their own data in Germany 19 million hits daily and corresponds to approximately 25 percent of the population. The majority use Facebook with a mobile app specifically log in 13 million every day with their smartphone or tablet into a platform. The monthly user figures amount to 25 million while Facebook users in Germany € 53.7 million counts. The advertising on smartphones...

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