Slickr, a fashion social network. Swipentap. com a POS ipad app. Integreight which develops novel products for the electronic hobbyist and education market.
according to an Uber blog post. Uber said that the service is ideal for ferrying any kind of item around:
and scored a $10 million investment from Chinese social network Renren in 2014. Lalamove and Gogovan are based both in Hong kong,
#The Bank of Facebook Technology is changing one of the most fundamental mediums that touch every person on the planet:
and securityare actively being created by the world social network. This past March, Facebook rolled out free peer-to-peer payments and set the company down a path to becoming one of the world most powerful financial institutions.
Last year foreign workers sent $583 billion to individuals in their home countries, also known as remittances. Remittances are one of the largest financial inflows to the developing world.
Facebook isn charging fees on transfers. While the company does incur charges from banks on the back end,
Facebook says it will not pass these on to the consumer. At the moment Facebook transfers are limited to users within the United states,
but sources inside the company have confirmed it will expand beyond U s. borders in the near future.
if Facebook will charge users a nominal fee on cross-border transfers and currency conversions,
According to Steve Davis, product manager at Facebook: ee not trying to make a profit out of payments. acebook is already well on its way to becoming a global financial institution.
Last summer, Financial times discovered that Facebook is close to receiving approval from the Central bank of Ireland to become an electronic money institution throughout Europe.
This would allow users the ability to store money with the social network, transfer money to others,
Long term, Facebook payments has the power to completely destroy Western union and Money Gram (good riddance) and massively benefit millions of people in the developing world with billions of dollars more freely flowing into those countries.
Facebook is in a position to control the lion share of remittances sent globally by offering below market-rate transfers and the best experience on mobile.
It couldn come at a better time for the social network, which desperately needs the rest of the world to sign up
The last couple of years have been especially rough for Facebook with North america and European markets reaching saturation.
There is no better way for Facebook to add new users in the developing world than by becoming the de facto app for how they receive their income from abroad.
that possibility pales in comparison to the larger opportunity for Facebook offering a way for people who don use banks now to do e-commerce.
It easy to imagine a world where workers in developing countries are paid through Facebook via peer-to-peer payments,
store their money on Facebook, purchase local goods through transfers, and have the ability to pay for items using Facebook.
The effect that Facebook could have on the world as an electronic financial institution is nothing short of profound.
So why would Facebook facilitate millions of transfers and online purchases for next to nothing?
For one, it puts them closer to attaining the holy grail of datahow users spend their money.
Let not forget that at the end of the day Facebook is most definitely an ad network at its core.
For example, how many of Lamborghini 11 million Facebook fans could actually afford that car? While Facebook could make an educated guess,
it can answer that question with certainty. However, in a world where Facebook could combine financial transactions and social graphs,
advertisers would be given near-perfect information on their audience. No other ad network in the world would be able to match Facebook targeting capabilitiespurchase behavior, income, savings, etc.
Despite the doomsayers, the world future has looked never so bright. Wee currently undergoing a period of massive socioeconomic growth.
Facebook has an incredible opportunity in front of itselfo use technology to change the way the world thinks about money.
I quit using Facebook years ago but maybe, hopefully, Mark Zuckerberg will give me a compelling reason to sign back up b
and Facebook to give U k. intelligence agencies access to the encrypted conversations of suspected terrorists and criminals.
what you do on Facebook, what you do on any other site, says Huppert. hose were the three things they said they wanted.
what you do on Facebook all the time are deeply intrusive. And actually they couldn come up with any significant evidence of why it was useful.?
or impressions) to avoid fraud David Perez Convertro s chief marketing officer wrote in a recent blog post.
consumers complained angrily about the FDA on the company Facebook page, where they also uploaded links to the Promethease website,
an Ad-Free Facebook Alternative The first thing I noticed on Ello a new ad-free social network is the abundance of white space.
Unlike Facebook which rages with status updates trending topics and ads imploring me to click on things my friends like Ello is quiet and calm.
and entrepreneur Paul Budnitz Ello contends that on social networks like Facebook we the users are the product as our data is sold to advertisers who hope to entice us with ads in our feeds.
This anti-ad (and in many ways anti-Facebook) ethos coupled with a stark simple design that looks
as if the German industrial designer Dieter Rams had created a more social version of Tumblr is probably not causing many people to ditch Facebook
but it is making plenty of them curious about the new social network. Ello began its invite-only beta test in August with 90 people
In a smartphone-obsessed world that s a lot attention for a social network that doesn t even have an app yet.
But since the social network is still so small it s hard to tell whether I ll need it in the same way
I do Facebook and Twitter where I m accustomed to paying with the breadcrumbs of data
which is the opposite of how it s done on Facebook or Twitter. And it s embarrassingly easy to delete a friend s comment on one of your posts by clicking a tiny gray x next to the comment which
So Ello is basically a stripped-down (commercial-free for now) Tumblr/Twitter? Is that it?
and for a number of other startups like Evernote and Strava but it s not clear how well it can work on a social network especially one that wants to grow.
and its sudden popularity appears to be straining the social network. The search function seemed really slow
There s room for a social network that is both pretty to look at and a pleasure to use e
and Facebook Data Datacoup one of the first companies to offer people money in exchange for their personal data has closed finished a trial of its service
Datacoup will pay up to $10 for access to your social network accounts credit card transaction records and other personal information and will gleaned sell insights from that data to companies looking for information on consumer behavior.
Options include debit card and credit card transactions and data from Facebook Twitter and Linkedin. Datacoup won t provide raw data to companies.
For example a company might ask Datacoup to provide information on how often women in a certain age group mention coffee on Facebook on the same day they use their credit card in a coffee shop.
Social networks let billions of people collaborate in a variety of ways. Meanwhile business networks have enabled new types of frictionless commerce.
The numbers of people-to-people connections##business networks social networks##they ve all been growing over the past 10 years says Dinesh Sharma SAP s vice president of marketing for the Internet of things.
Anyone paying attention knows that his or her Web searches, Facebook feeds, and other online activity isn always safee it from the prying eyes of the NSA
or those of the companies providing a social networking service. While a substantial chunk of the populace finds all this tracking creepy and invasive,
and how often they check Twitter. The program participants are asked also to answer questions about their behavior.
And that an idea that could influence everything from drugs policy to social network studies to the marketing of beef burgers r
#Facebook s Emotional Manipulation Study Is Just the Latest Effort to Prod Users With emotion-triggering effort, Facebook pushes beyond data-driven studies on voting, sharing,
Facebook controversial study exploring whether it could manipulate people moods by tweaking their news feeds to favor negative
but it is far from the social network first effort to control user behavior. With huge amounts of data flooding in from more than a billion users, the company has a unique position to study their every move
and to perform experiments by measuring how behavior changes under different conditions (see hat Facebook Knows.
This helps Facebook persuade users to spend more time on the site. But in the past three years it has also been probing everything from voting to the effect of encouraging people to make organ donations.
Other academics perform research on Facebook without collaborating with the companyither by simply observing users
but also because the affected users were asked not for permission to participate (agreeing to Facebook terms
Facebook ran an experiment on 689,003 users to see if it could manipulate their emotions by varying the selection of posts in their news feeds.
Past Facebook studies have shown that relatively minor restructuring of its pages and prompts can have significant social effects.
when Facebook posted reminders to vote, that action prompted 340,000 more people to vote than otherwise would have (see ow Facebook Drove Voters to the Polls.
And in 2012 Facebook showed it might have the power to get people to donate their organs.
The company put a clickable box on Timeline pages to let people indicate that they were registered donorshe campaign was associated with a huge boost to donor enrollments.
though, extensive media coverage of Facebook effort complicated the analysis of whether Facebook effort directly caused the increased enrollments.)
In some ways, Facebook published research is just part of a vast ongoing effort at Web-based manipulation. hat far more concerning is the lack of transparency about Facebook practices overall,
says Zeynep Tufeki, an assistant professor at the University of North carolina, Chapel hill, and a former fellow at the Center for Information technology Policy at Princeton university. concerned about these practicesesting and manipulating the user experience every day.
What else does Facebook do every day? We have no idea. Mining personal data is a billion-dollar business (see he Data Made
Facebook data use policy is far more vague, saying that it might use your data for nternal operations,
On Monday Facebook said it had nothing to add beyond the apology its researcher, Adam Kramer, posted on the matter e
Facebook for example has launched a program called App Links designed to help spread the practice on both Android
when their products appear on social networks, thinks that having a physical button to access Firefly on the Fire Phone will help popularize visual search simply by making it easier to access.
Facebook Puts Its Apps on a Data Diet as Part of a Global Internet Campaign As Facebook eyes the six billion or so people in the world who don use its services,
Not with moneyrofits are growing healthilyut with the data demands that Facebook use places on mobile networks.
Software engineers are currently working to make Facebook apps leaner in order to make them more practical for people who have scarce bandwidth
and pay high data rates, said Jay Parikh, head of infrastructure at Facebook, at MIT Technology Review Digital Summit event in San francisco today.
The data diet campaign began after a group of Facebook product managers traveled to several African countries last year. ur apps were crashing all the time
That effort has seen already the data use of Facebook main Android app drop by 50 percent.
That trend continues across all of Facebook apps, said Parikh. The move to be thriftier with usersdata is a part of the Internet. org project launched by Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year.
Its stated aim is to bring affordable Internet access to everyone on the planet an effort that could incidentally supply Facebook with many new customers (see acebook Two Faces.
Parikh described Internet. org as he next phase of the company. The highest profile parts of the project so far have been Zuckerberg spending on companies
Last month, Facebook reported that about 58 percent of the notification e-mails it sent out were encrypted from its systems to recipientse-mail providers i
Both Google and Facebook have been acquiring companies and experts to explore using drones for that purpose e
your Oslo board might present a blog post written by the meeting leader, an article on the topic of discussion,
and North korea says Mattt Thompson a software engineer who writes the ios and Mac development blog NSHIPSTER.
In December, on Microsoft official blog, the company top lawyer, Brad Smith, said he had reason to view surreptitious overnment snoopingas no different from criminal malware.
and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
head of business development for the BBC Digital, wrote in a blog post. However, Saihan said the technology was still at an`experimental'stage.
SMS, email, facebook and twitter or other applications'notification anywhere anytime. It is also a remote control for smartphone
and this has been flat for nearly 20 years (See this blog post)..Other challenges I see include low commercial investment in pediatric medicine and devices, development of effective therapeutics for neurodevelopmental disorders,
"In May, Facebook partnered with nine major news publishers to launch Facebook Instant, a feature that allows the publishers to publish directly to Facebook's mobile app.
And in April Google created a#150 million fund for journalism in Europe, partnering with eight European publishers to invest in training
the categories are video, music, news publishing, social networks/messaging, and dating apps. Access The Full Report And Data sets By Signing Up For A Trial Membership Here are some of the key takeaways:
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the company said in a blog post. The tool is accessed by searching for a retailer,
but it follows Facebook's plans to rival ebay with its latest secondhand selling tools.
Earlier this year Facebook made it easier to get rid of unwanted secondhand goods by adding official Sell buttons to its site.
And now the social network is helping buyers find these goods by expanding its search tool
Facebook now lets users sort and find'For sale'posts across multiple groups based on the item being sold.
#Samsung's smart MIRROR shows weather, traffic information and even Facebook notifications as you brush your teeth You could soon see traffic delays as you take your morning shower,
or catch up with what's been happening on Twitter as you get dressed thanks to Samsung's latest display technology.
Google and Facebook also have plans to get remote parts of the world online, by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
Google added that Facebook accounted for the largest number of deleted URLS. But not all requests are granted,
#Facebook can now detect and identify your face, even if it hidden Indeed Facebook is watching over you.
Intelligent algorithms can now spot you with fervour as much as investigation authorities in their hunt for criminals.
Turns out, Facebook new set of face recognition algorithms are so effective, they can detect people
According to a report in the News Scientist, Modern face-recognition algorithms are so good theye already found their way into social networks, shops and even churches.
Yann Lecun, head of artificial intelligence at Facebook wanted to see they could be adapted to recognise people in situations where someone face isn clear,
a tool like this could lend a hand in a photo app like Facebook Moments
Facebook algorithm is pretty good too, identifying people with an 83 percent success rate in tests,
if it makes its way into the social network photo galleries in the future. nnovation is always welcome.
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#Google, Intel and Tata partner on rural internet initiative for women A digitally connected India will bring remendous powerin the hands of citizens by connecting them to the rest of the world,
Recently, pages intended to be humourous on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter were titled uperior and condescending people,
or rdinary and sensible people. uch pages are very popular in Israel, said Saig, and users are invited to submit suggestions for phrases that can be labelled as tereotypical sayings, for that particular page.
The method he developed enables the system to detect future patterns on any social network. Since the content in these sections was colloquial, everyday language,
or slang words and phrases in text. aig applied achine-Learningalgorithms to the content on these pages and used the results to automatically identify stereotypical behaviours found every day in social network communication.
#Facebook solar-powered Internet drone Aquila is ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement,
Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access to the most remote parts of the world.
Facebook has announced also what it call a reakthroughin laser communications technology. The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. The plane will weigh about 880 pounds (400 kg),
Separately, Facebook a year ago launched Internet. org, an initiative to provide Internet access to the two-thirds of the world that do not have a reliable connection including India.
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
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#Facebook solar-powered Aquila, Internet-beaming drone, ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement, Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access
to the most remote parts of the world. The drone is now ready for real-world testing
Facebook has announced also what it call a reakthroughin laser communications technology. The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. The plane will weigh about 880 pounds (400 kg),
Separately, Facebook a year ago launched Internet. org, an initiative to provide Internet access to the two-thirds of the world that do not have a reliable connection including India.
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#Facebook solar-powered Aquila, Internet-beaming drone, ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement, Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access
Facebook has announced also what it call a reakthroughin laser communications technology. The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. The plane will weigh about 880 pounds (400 kg),
Separately, Facebook a year ago launched Internet. org, an initiative to provide Internet access to the two-thirds of the world that do not have a reliable connection including India.
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#Facebook solar-powered Internet drone Aquila is now ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement,
Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access to the most remote parts of the world.
Facebook has announced also what it call a reakthroughin laser communications technology. The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. The plane will weigh about 880 pounds (400 kg),
Separately, Facebook a year ago launched Internet. org, an initiative to provide Internet access to the two-thirds of the world that do not have a reliable connection including India.
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#Turkey threatens to ban Twitter (again) Turkey-based Twitter users could soon be staring at blank screens again after the government threatened to block the social media service for the second time in less than a year.
government officials demanded Twitter take down the account of the news outlet or face being blocked in the country, the New york times reported.
Twitter sues U s. government over state surveillance rules Twitter responded by removing particular messages posted by Birgun primarily those showing images of the leaked documents
Perhaps not surprisingly, the news organisation continued to post new messages relating to the raid on the trucks, with other Twitter users sympathetic to the media organisation stance retweeting the messages.
Twitter spokesperson Nu Wexler said that of nearly 60,000 tweets on the account, witter withheld access in Turkey to the small number of tweets that discussed the national security issue.
and preserve access for millions of Twitter users in Turkey. Wouldn be the first time The Turkish authorities can evidently get a bit anxious
when it comes to social media services, especially Twitter. In March last year the government blocked the site after a number of users posted content claiming to expose alleged corruption among the then prime minister close associates,
If that sounds familiar that because Facebook (together with a group of big-name tech firms) and Google (Project Loon) are also working toward similar goals.
While Facebook is looking to send drones#the size of massive passenger planes into orbit to bring Web access to the masses Google is looking at high-altitude balloons
#China tightens Web controls requires written pledge to avoid'unhealthy'activity online China announced Wednesday that users of blogs
The latest announcement extends that"real name"registration requirement to blogs, microblog services such as the popular Sina Weibo and website comment sections.
as well as popular services such as the Google search engine and Facebook. Until recently, users of virtual private network,
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#Futuristic cargo vessel looks to revolutionize shipping Norwegian ship designer Lade AS has unveiled a futuristic new design for cargo vessels
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#US Air force confirms Boeing's electromagnetic pulse weapon For the last few years, the creative minds of Hollywood had outpaced seemingly the reality of technological and scientific advances in the weapons field.
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#IBM and Bon Appétit's Chef Watson app cooks up some surprising dishes Meet Chef Watson, the most versatile culinary genius around.
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#Darwin Finches Found To Have interbred Repeatedly Genetic Study Say In a broad genetic study, Charles darwin Galapagos Island finches have been uncovered to have a rare and complicated evolutionary history.
In the past few years the Chinese government has blocked multiple popular sites like Gmail Google Facebook Instagram Flicker and much more.
Ronald and her laboratory colleagues have prepared a new posting for the Scientific American blog, which tells the story of the new discovery
But most people use those phones to take pictures message their friends check Facebook and Twitter and engage in other personal endeavors.
In many cases people also may check their work email on their phones. But Google and Apple are trying to make it more enticing and convenient for people to transplant their more of their professional lives on to their phones.
and personal apps such as Facebook to appear on the same home screen for convenience. Android for Work will be automatically available on phones running on the most recent release of the operating system'Lollipop
The introduction of urchases on Googlecomes as Facebook, and Pinterest also try to make it easier for people to shop
Google shopping product management vice president Jonathan Alferness said in a blog post. Mobile devices, typically smartphones, are consulted increasingly before
Staples executive vice president of global e-commerce Faisal Masud said in the blog post. Google also rolled out enhancements to shopping ads on mobile devices,
Under Armour chief revenue officer of digital Jason Larose said in the blog post. oogle technology solutions help us innovate. interest last month dove into e-commerce with insthat let iphone
Last month, Facebook expanded tests of a uy buttondesigned to let shoppers easily purchases items advertised at the social network. 2015 AF s
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