Posts tagged as: social networking

LinkedIn to make its presence in Pakistan, regional offices to start operations by year end

Chairman Board of Investments Saleem H Mandviwalla revealed in a statement that LinkedIn is planning to set up offices in major cities of Pakistan. The announcement came after the Board Chair’s detailed discussion with LinkedIn director Fredrick Berscl on the possible move. Mandviwalla was confident in announcing that the decision has been finalized and the […]

Facebook growth is slow not halted, say experts

Facebook’s growth has slowed in the rankings of top social networking websites that are mostly US-based. But FB still is the top dog in the rankings with almost 10 percent share of monthly and weekly visits. Smaller social media networks like Pinterest and Instagram showed the most growth in visits. The latter witnessed a 17,319% […]

Gadgetry takes another stride toward robotics; Google’s Project Glass makes human a machine

Google can be in the news for a slew of reasons. But its latest stunt in making the human life more robotic behind the veil of freedom of information access is one thing that has created hype in the media. The new Project Glass is a revolutionary product that might not come to some people’s […]

Internet addiction: A hoax now proved to hold staggering truth – Part 1

Personal computing started to find its footing in the technology world in early 80s. Though it came to Asia later in that decade, much late in South Asian countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, it spread like fire in the jungle in the streets. However, almost every person in the contemporary world has been affected by […]

Internet addiction: A hoax now proved to hold staggering truth – Part 2

The concept of emails gave birth to text chatting, which instigated the concept of audio chatting which was closely followed by video communications. However, that was last century. The new world has new concepts of social networking that simply seems to be irresistible to the human kind, after all human being is a social animal. […]

Internet addiction: A hoax now proved to hold staggering truth – Part 3

However, the rest of the world, especially the West, is caught in thick of it. The recent survey conducted on a sample space of 35 people from the age of 14 to 21 was made subject to eight questions. This oral investigation was followed by their brain scans that revealed a lot to the researchers. […]

Pinterest funding could value startup at $1.5 billion

(Reuters) – Social networking site Pinterest has raised $100 million from a group of investors led by Japanese online retailing giant Rakuten Inc in a deal that reportedly values the three-year-old U.S. company at $1.5 billion. Rakuten said it was joined in the capital-raising by existing shareholders Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital and […]

Google Chrome arrives at Android-based tablets and smartphones: Though late but with a lot of potential – Part 1

In September 2008, Google made ??what then seemed a strange move, launch of a browser for PCs called Chrome. After the Mac version Google began its work into the world of software. Shortly following the browser, Google launched Chrome OS that was not a big success for netbooks. However, its other mobile operating system Android […]

Google + helps Google results with social networking trends

Anyone using Google will see that the results of searches have changed slightly. It is very detailed and also has a profile on Google +. Also noticeable is that there are new options to filter the results, among which especially one is called Your World. Is this important? The wild guess is that it is, […]

How can start-ups boost their profitability with innovative marketing and advertisement?

Internet is an inexpensive way to interact with people and make contacts. Over the years, many companies have brought the tools to the masses to run their lives online and it has been effective. However, the current economic scenario has put hurdles in the way of new entrants. Moreover, sustaining a business is one big […]

Chinese President Hu Jintao asserts the West is influencing a cultural divide in China – Part 2

As a result the government is taking major steps in screening the internet views and commentaries to see if there is anything that is against the government. In addition, the president also said that the television is taking huge part in diversifying the already diversified community with ‘overly entertaining and vulgar’ reality shows. The government […]

Chinese President Hu Jintao asserts the West is influencing a cultural divide in China – Part 1

The Chinese leadership is taking every precaution to keep their political influence on the cultural norms in China but the growing inclination toward the Western style of living and conducting businesses is becoming one of the major concerns in the country. Chinese president, Hu Jintao finally took the situation into his stride and published a […]

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