According to IIT-Madras, Social networking website Facebook has offered up to $85,000 (approximately Rs 38 lakh) per annum salaries to IIT-Madras students during placements this year.
“About 100 students have applied for the interview and officials from Facebook are interviewing students from the United States through Skype,” said N. Ramesh Babu, advisor (training and placement), IIT-M.
“The students were asked to solve a puzzle in Facebook before taking the interview.”
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One out of five divorce , facebook is the cause:Survey
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Here is another interesting or shocking, depends on how you take it. According to survey, In US one in five divorces in the US is due to involvement of the popular social networking sites.
This survey was carried out by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported that the rise in clients that use social media for evidence of cheating.
Flirty messages and photographs found on Facebook are increasingly being cited as proof of unreasonable behavior or irreconcilable differences.
This survey was carried out by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported that the rise in clients that use social media for evidence of cheating.
Flirty messages and photographs found on Facebook are increasingly being cited as proof of unreasonable behavior or irreconcilable differences.
Soon the word 'face' will be trademark of 'facebook'.
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U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site, facebook a Notice of Allowance, which says they have agreed to grant the word 'Face' as trademark to the facebook under some certain conditions.
All Facebook needs to do is pay the issue fee within three months and the “Face” trademark will be issued and be published in the official USPTO gazette and everything.
Skype soon to be seen intergrated with facebook?
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How about this world's leading VOIP provider integrating with worlds leading social networking site? Yay Yay i am talking about Skype and facebook.
Rumors are doing round that soon Facebook might add Skype video chat functionality within the social networking site.
Facebook application developer Tal Ater has rekindled speculation around the idea in spotting a “VideoChat” object in Facebook’s code.
Concerned with Facebook privacy issue? Then join Diaspora.
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A open source social networking site alternative for facebook was developed called Diaspora is not in live and in Alpha stage.
This site was developed keeping users privacy in mind, so some time referred as 'anti-facebook'.
At present is being invited to certain limited people and it is community-funded project.
Chinese women lands into jail for her hatred tweet.
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A Chinese women, Cheng Jianping, 46 was sentenced to one year in a labor camp for inciting hatred and violence via micro blogging site twitter.
She urged recipients to attack the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.
Under China's legal system, the police can send people to so-called re-education through labor for up to four years without trial.
She urged recipients to attack the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.
Under China's legal system, the police can send people to so-called re-education through labor for up to four years without trial.
US Govt warns its home away troops not to use Social networking site.
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Social networking sites like Facebook, Foursqure, Loopt may be dangerous to soldiers who are away from their home and who are on a mission.
The United States Air Force had issued a warning its troops through its internal website to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where US forces are located in war zones.
The United States Air Force had issued a warning its troops through its internal website to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where US forces are located in war zones.
Farmville played major role in overtaking Orkut frezy india
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In India, a year ago many people didn't know what facebook was but they knew what Orkut was. But a year later the situation is almost entirely upside down.
Now, Facebook which has around 500+ million users across world is the leading social networking site.
According to Mumbai-based agency Komli Media's Vizisense, which tracks web audience measurement in India, social games like Zynga's Farmville, mafia wars..... made many people to sign in for facebook. This is how facebooks captured the indian internet market.
Now, Facebook which has around 500+ million users across world is the leading social networking site.
According to Mumbai-based agency Komli Media's Vizisense, which tracks web audience measurement in India, social games like Zynga's Farmville, mafia wars..... made many people to sign in for facebook. This is how facebooks captured the indian internet market.
Twitter will link up with Apple's Ping social network.
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Twitter to rescue after Apple failed to back deal with the leading social networking site for linking apple's Ping social network with FB.
According to Twitter Blog, it will link its service with Apple Inc's new music-oriented social network.
Facebook surpass eBay, estimated 3rd largest online business site worth $ 41 Billion.
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Even without going public, still being private owned site, facebook now ranks as the third largest web company, with an estimated valuation of USD 41 billion which is greater than EBay. This comes after facebook announcing new messaging service, some say as "Gmail killer"
According to Bloomberg, the social network's latest valuation, based on the selling price of shares on SecondMarket, an exchange for privately held companies, makes it the country's third-largest online business after Google (USD 192.9 billion) and Amazon (USD74.4 billion).
According to Bloomberg, the social network's latest valuation, based on the selling price of shares on SecondMarket, an exchange for privately held companies, makes it the country's third-largest online business after Google (USD 192.9 billion) and Amazon (USD74.4 billion).
A Chinese women really had to leave work after 'No Work' status on social network site.
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Once again social networking power show it again.
In China's Hunan province, a women was fired from her job after she wrote on a social networking site: "At work, but not much to do".
In China's Hunan province, a women was fired from her job after she wrote on a social networking site: "At work, but not much to do".
Now you can get British Royal family updates on facebook.[Update] Now its online.
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Now the British Royal family will now have official presence on the worlds largest social networking site.
British Monarchy page on facebook is due online shortly.
Buckingham Palace says it is not a personal profile page, but users can "like" the service and receive updates on their news feed.
Facebook servers stores data of your Ex's .
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One feature of facebook has exposed that Social networking website Facebook keeps a record of users' former lovers, if you had entered data earlier.
This incident got a lime light when some users got and unpleasant surprise when Photo Memories sidebar, showed up old photographs of ex-wives or husbands.
This incident got a lime light when some users got and unpleasant surprise when Photo Memories sidebar, showed up old photographs of ex-wives or husbands.
Facebook, Amazon and Zynga forms alliance, bets big on future social networking
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For the sake of future social networking, Facebook, Amazon and Zynga are going to invest in a fund to help entrepreneurs develop applications and services for a new era of the social web.
The lion's share of the sFund's $250m (£160m) will come from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
This announcement were made at an event at Facebook's California headquarters.
"There's going to be an opportunity over the next five years or so to pick any industry and rethink it in a social way," said Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
"We think that every industry is going to be fundamentally re-thought and designed around people."
That was a view backed by KPCB partner John Doerr, best known for investing in Amazon, Google and Netscape.
"These social networks are going to go from a half a billion people to billions of people connected on the planet and so represents an extraordinarily exciting time on the internet," he told BBC News.
"Think of it as a quarter-billion-dollar party. The third great wave of the internet is mobile and social together. It's going to be tectonic," added Mr Doerr.
The lion's share of the sFund's $250m (£160m) will come from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
This announcement were made at an event at Facebook's California headquarters.
"There's going to be an opportunity over the next five years or so to pick any industry and rethink it in a social way," said Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
"We think that every industry is going to be fundamentally re-thought and designed around people."
That was a view backed by KPCB partner John Doerr, best known for investing in Amazon, Google and Netscape.
"These social networks are going to go from a half a billion people to billions of people connected on the planet and so represents an extraordinarily exciting time on the internet," he told BBC News.
"Think of it as a quarter-billion-dollar party. The third great wave of the internet is mobile and social together. It's going to be tectonic," added Mr Doerr.
YouTube wins Spain intellectual property case.
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(IANS) YouTube, the Internet portal for videos, won a legal battle in Spain as a judge dismissed a suit brought by Telecinco television contending that the publication of its content on the web violated intellectual property protections.
Search engine giant Google, which owns YouTube, announced the verdict handed down by a commercial court in Madrid.
The court decision accepted YouTube's position that it is a mere intermediary offering services of content accommodation and cannot therefore be obliged to previously check on videos to be uploaded by users.
Search engine giant Google, which owns YouTube, announced the verdict handed down by a commercial court in Madrid.
The court decision accepted YouTube's position that it is a mere intermediary offering services of content accommodation and cannot therefore be obliged to previously check on videos to be uploaded by users.
New Study shows that most Facebook users have low esteem
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(IANS) Facebook is used mostly by narcissists and those with low self-esteem, says a Canadian study.
These type of people use Facebook as a self-promotional tool, says psychology researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh of York University.
Mehdizadeh, who extensively examined the online habits and personalities of 100 Facebook users aged 18 to 25 years old, found that individuals higher in narcissism and lower in self-esteem spent more time on the site and filled their pages with more self-promotional content.
"We all know people like this. They are updating their status every five minutes and the photos they post are very carefully construed," she says.
These type of people use Facebook as a self-promotional tool, says psychology researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh of York University.
Mehdizadeh, who extensively examined the online habits and personalities of 100 Facebook users aged 18 to 25 years old, found that individuals higher in narcissism and lower in self-esteem spent more time on the site and filled their pages with more self-promotional content.
"We all know people like this. They are updating their status every five minutes and the photos they post are very carefully construed," she says.
Age doesn't matter when you are on Facebook: Study
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(PTI) A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says the number of social networking users aged 50 and older nearly doubled in the past year, continuing a trend of strong growth that was first spotted last year.
In fact, for adults between 50 and 64 years, the use of social networking sites have jumped by 88 per cent in the past year, the study found. For those aged 65 and older, it has doubled.
The younger generation, however, still remains the biggest users of Facebook and other sites.
In fact, for adults between 50 and 64 years, the use of social networking sites have jumped by 88 per cent in the past year, the study found. For those aged 65 and older, it has doubled.
The younger generation, however, still remains the biggest users of Facebook and other sites.
Eric Schmidt Google owner warns young people on social use of media
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Google boss Eric Schmidt warns that one day young people may change their names in order to overcome what they had done in social networking world.
Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal he feared they did not understand the consequences of having so much personal information about them online.
On his prediction that people may change their names, Mr Schmidt said: "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time... I mean we really have to think about these things as a society."
However, Mr Schmidt said that Google would likely store more personal information about its users in the future.
Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal he feared they did not understand the consequences of having so much personal information about them online.
On his prediction that people may change their names, Mr Schmidt said: "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time... I mean we really have to think about these things as a society."
However, Mr Schmidt said that Google would likely store more personal information about its users in the future.
'Help me' tweet rescues lost, injured triathlete
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A triathlete in the US who got lost during a competition and then got hurt after falling off her mountain bike sent out a desperate tweet for help. Her plea was noticed by her followers who dialled for assistance.
Leigh Fazzina, 36, was participating in a mini-triathlon in Connecticut. She got lost in a 300 acre wooded area after taking a wrong turn, Sky News reported on Wednesday.
She speeded downhill in an attempt to join back the race, when her front wheel suddenly hit a tree root and she fell to the ground.
Fazzina was not able to move and her fellow competitors failed to hear her screams.
When she didn't succeed in making a mobile call, Fazzina turned to Twitter.
Leigh Fazzina, 36, was participating in a mini-triathlon in Connecticut. She got lost in a 300 acre wooded area after taking a wrong turn, Sky News reported on Wednesday.
She speeded downhill in an attempt to join back the race, when her front wheel suddenly hit a tree root and she fell to the ground.
Fazzina was not able to move and her fellow competitors failed to hear her screams.
When she didn't succeed in making a mobile call, Fazzina turned to Twitter.
Ron Bowes, the person who posted 100 Million Facebook user Details speaks out.
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Ron Bowes, a Canadian security consultant, used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by users' privacy settings.
Mr Bowes told BBC News that he did it as part of his work on a security tool.
"I'm a developer for the Nmap Security Scanner and one of our recent tools is called Ncrack," he said.
"It is designed to test password policies of organisations by using brute force attacks; in other words, guessing every username and password combination."
By downloading the data from Facebook, and compiling a user's first initial and surname, he was able to make a list of the most common probable usernames to use in the tool.
Mr Bowes told BBC News that he did it as part of his work on a security tool.
"I'm a developer for the Nmap Security Scanner and one of our recent tools is called Ncrack," he said.
"It is designed to test password policies of organisations by using brute force attacks; in other words, guessing every username and password combination."
By downloading the data from Facebook, and compiling a user's first initial and surname, he was able to make a list of the most common probable usernames to use in the tool.
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