In a recent report by CNN, the famous twitter client TweetDeck is acquired by Twitter for $40 Million in cash and stock. Almost a month back, a technology news site, TechCrunch, had brought out the first news about this accusation which had lead to lots of speculations. TechCrunch had reported the price to be $40-$50 [...]
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Facebook partners with Microsoft to fight Child Pornography
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2011
Facebook who have been criticised by Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre over their child protection efforts have now decided to make their social networking site more child friendly and keep paedophiles at a distance. Based on this decision Facebook have partnered with Microsoft (who is already having stake in facebook), and have announced [...]
Twitter adds more control over information passed to third-party apps
Posted by admin on May 21st, 2011
Its now very common for web applications faking themselves and guaranteeing you more twitter followers, but spamming your timeline with unwanted tweets and stealing your data. Now twitter gives you more control of what information third party application can access from your twitter account. Twitter’s official definition in their blog regarding third-party apps goes like [...]
