Facebook is reportedly eyeing a takeover of desktop, tablet and smartphone browser maker Opera Software. But when we asked a staff of Opera Software for an official response on the report, he declined to comment. Facebook also declined to comment. One source close to Opera, however, tells us two interesting things: 1) Opera Software management [...]
Facebook launched video chat powered by Skype video chatting solution. The move is said to be to counter Google+ but looking at the complexity of the solution, they must have been working on it before Google+ was launched. If you want to try it out, follow these steps; Go to www.facebook.com/videocalling You will be asked [...]
Have you ever uploaded photo to Facebook? You know how daunting tagging friends in the photo is? Especially if you have to tag 10s of people in more than 100 photos, that’s a full day job! Facebook yesterday launched a new product that automates the processing. The product automatically detect your friends’ faces and tag [...]
Facebook has surely become a power-house, big enough to take on almighty Google! Since the start of the battle to take over the social web, both companies have been slugging it out with each other. Recently, Google dropped Facebook from auto-syncing with Android contact API, sure you can say that’s the 1st in the year [...]
Call it Facebook everywhere and you wont be wronged, Gemalto has come to the aid of Facebook to produce text-based Facebook for feature phone. Some of the things you can do with it include status updates, pokes and friend requests – to any GSM-compatible handset through the magic of the GSM SIM Toolkit and Class [...]
Have you noticed your friends on Facebook and Twitter saying something about their friends and encoded it with number? The meme started a couple of days and Nigerians are not left out. My Twitter timeline and Facebook news feed is filled with this Game. What is it about ? The Number Game is a fun, [...]
Nokia sponsored Open Innovation Africa Summit is currently holding in Nairobi Kenya. Thought leaders in Africa’s Mobile and technology space gather under the same room to discuss what impact open innovation will have on Africa growing technology space. We are currently following the tweets and picking highlights of the events. Ellen from the World Bank [...]
Today is Facebook’s launch of a new massaging system. As expected that it will be a Gmail killer, it’s really not! But what I can see that it that Facebook is positioning itself for future of online conversation which is becoming integrated. The launch of Gmail came with a radically designed interface that gives you [...]
Google has been suspecting so facebook to be working on a project that could position it better to compete with it. We wrote earlier in the month about how Google shut its Gmail API from Facebook. Well, today Facebook will be holding an event to showcase its latest product and many expect it to be [...]
One of a company’s most valuable asset is its brand equity – that emotional connection that people have with an organization’s product/service. However, with the rapid influence of internet communities and the explosion of social media in particular, more challenges are being thrown at reputation managers and businesses alike. While some businesses are not oblivious [...]
