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Facebook To Make Its Own Smart Phone

Past week, Google took acquisition of the Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion,And now Google will make smartphones. And now Reports says that Facebook is also planning to make its own smart phone.

The New York Times Report says

Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing their employment or relationships with Facebook.

The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said.

In A Interview A employee of Facebook told that “Mark is worried that if he doesn’t create a mobile phone in the near future then Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms.”

Facebook to make it easier to become organ donor

Facebook wants to help you share your organs.

Users in the United States and the U.K. can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world’s biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign up.

Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their profile page, now known as their timeline.

Zuckerberg said his friendship with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who had received a liver transplant before he died last year, helped spur the idea, as did talks with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, a medical student.

More than 112,000 Americans are waiting for organs and 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit that is teaming with Facebook.

Zuckerberg announced the organ donor update to Facebook on “Good Morning America” Tuesday.

Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, Calif., is busy readying an initial public stock offering said to be pegged at $5 billion. Facebook’s IPO could place the company’s value at $100 billion.

Stock trading via Facebook coming

Let’s say you want to buy shares in ACME Corp. and don’t want to pay a fee or go through a discount brokerage firm.

Facebook, which will become publicly traded soon, will allow ACME and thousands of other companies to offer their stock through their company Facebook page by June, according to a Business Insider report.

The transactions will be free to the investor, with no brokers involved, the website reported, citing a former Facebook executive appearing at an Ad Age digital conference.

Chris Kelly, a former Facebook chief privacy officer and now a director at Loyal3, said there will be a $2,500-a-month cap on investments to deter day traders. Loyal3 has developed a platform for buying and selling stock.

According to Business Insider and other market speculation, Facebook’s initial public offering could come toward the latter part of May and the company could have a valuation of at least $100 billion.

Facebook has started testing a new feed feature called ‘Trending Articles’

While browsing my Facebook feed, I noticed that a new box appeared at the top labeled Trending Articles with a grey background separating it from the rest of the stories. The best guess is that the most read stories among your friends may show up as a trending article in that box.

At the time, the two articles being shown were actually the most recently read by my Facebook friends. It even shows you who read the stories just underneath the 130 character story excerpt.

The unit’s placement definitely feels intrusive because the box itself was like any other story which popped up and then slowly went down the feed as newer posts appeared. What’s worse is that I was not able to hide the box or any of the stories within the box.

This is yet another step in Facebook’s plan to get users to jump over to the ‘seamless’ Open Graph service that integrates news articles, music, and other apps into one via the homepage feed and ticker.

Like many other features that are tested on such a large scale, they eventually go live 99% of the time. Just last week, they started testing a feature that clearly identified which stories were Social Reader stories versus regular links being intentionally shared by users.

Sadly enough, if such a feature like this does go live, it could be the deal breaker for many (including myself) because Open Graph requires you to sign in via an application. If not configured correctly, it also means that users can see exactly what articles you browse. Sometimes a user might forget that Open Graph is enabled on a website and view articles that they might consider sensitive, only to find out a mini-history is being posted via their Facebook profile.

Facebook Acquires Team Behind Customer-Loyalty App Tagtile

Facebook Inc. is acquiring the team of developers behind customer-loyalty application Tagtile, adding to its expertise in mobile software.

“We’re happy to confirm that Tagtile’s founders are joining Facebook, and that Facebook is acquiring substantially all of the company’s assets,” Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said today in an e-mailed statement. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

 

The world’s largest social-networking service is bolstering its talent pool in preparation to take the company public this year. The Tagtile deal follows Facebook’s $1 billion planned acquisition of mobile photo app Instagram, announced earlier this week.

The co-founders of San Francisco startup Tagtile, Abheek Anand and Soham Mazumdar, are engineers with experience working at VMware Inc. (VMW) and Google Inc., according to their website.

Facebook also announced today that businesses can send people coupons that consumers then print out or redeem using mobile phones.

The company is preparing to raise $5 billion in its initial public offering, which would the biggest Internet IPO ever. Facebook will be valued at as much as $100 billion in the stock sale, people familiar with the matter have said.

Google vs. Facebook

Google Inc. is taking the threat posed by Facebook Inc.’s Internet social network more seriously since co-founder Larry Page returned as CEO a year ago. Although Facebook is far smaller than Google, Page is worried the social network is gaining valuable insight into its users’ lives that could lure away online advertisers.

Here’s how the two companies compare, based on the latest available data:

ANNUAL REVENUE: Google, $38 billion;   Facebook, $3.7 billion.

ADVERTISING REVENUE: Google, $36.5 billion;   Facebook, $3.2 billion.

ANNUAL NET INCOME: Google, $9.7 billion;    Facebook, $668 million.

SOCIAL NETWORKING USERS: Facebook, 845 million;   Google, more than 100 million.

EMPLOYEES: Google, 32,500;          Facebook, 3,200.

CEO: Google, co-founder Larry Page;   Facebook, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Harvard emails show Zuckerberg’s business side

Emails from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a client’s delayed payments.

“I contracted out my services for money, and even though I seem to continually be providing services, I don’t seem to be receiving money from you guys,” he wrote on Sunday, January 25, 2004, according to court documents filed on Monday by Facebook’s lawyers. The deal, writes Zuckerberg, was for $18,000, plus a side project for $1,500. He was still owed $10,000. Zuckerberg founded Facebook the following month.

The client, Paul Ceglia, sued Zuckerberg in 2010, claiming that a contract he signed in 2003 entitled him to a 50 percent ownership stake in Facebook. If Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering goes as expected, that could amount to as much as $50 billion. Facebook’s lawyers are seeking to dismiss the suit. They say the contract is a fake.

Facebook included email exchanges between Ceglia, his associates and Zuckerberg in court documents filed in a U.S. District Court in Buffalo, New York on Monday. Facebook said the roughly 300 emails it obtained from Harvard’s servers relating to the case make no mention of Facebook.

Instead, the emails center on a database company called StreetFax that never took off. The two traded messages on technical specifications of the website that Ceglia had hired Zuckerberg to work on, and payments. The emails show a range of exchanges between Zuckerberg and Ceglia, which were sometimes terse and at other times lengthy and detailed.

“I will do my best to try to raise the cash needed to pay the amount requested though I honestly cannot guarantee it,” wrote Ceglia on Feb. 22, 2004 according to the filing.

A day earlier, Zuckerberg wrote that he did not think Ceglia would pay him “at any point in the near future.”

In addition to losing patience with his late payments, Zuckerberg tells Ceglia’s colleague in one email that StreetFax is not a very high priority for him, given that there are “many other things I’d like to, and have started to, work on.”

“I am at a school surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world, cultivating ideas and constantly coming up with projects to work on,” he wrote in January 2004, just days before launching “Thefacebook,” as it was then called. “The last thing I need right now is someone calling me twice a day asking if I’ve uploaded some small changes to a site that I made eight months ago … My time is valuable, and seems better spent on things that I know, or at least can reasonably expect, will produce some sort of gratification in the near future.”

The last email, from May 2004, shows the two men may have worked out a payment plan, where Ceglia would send $500 a month until his bill was paid in full. It’s not clear if the payments were actually made.

Ceglia’s lawyers said that Ceglia deserves his day in court where a jury will decide the ownership dispute.

Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords

Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it’s an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities.

The social networking company is also threatening legal action against those who violate its long-standing policy against sharing passwords.

An Associated Press story this week documented cases of job applicants who are being asked, at the interview table, to reveal their Facebook passwords so their prospective employers can check their backgrounds.

In a post on Friday, Facebook’s chief privacy of policy officer cautioned that if an employer discovers that a job applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer may open itself up to claims of discrimination if it doesn’t hire that person.

“As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just to get a job,” wrote Erin Egan. “And as the friend of a user, you shouldn’t have to worry that your private information or communications will be revealed to someone you don’t know and didn’t intend to share with just because that user is looking for a job.”

Not sharing passwords is a basic tenet of online conduct. Aside from the privacy concerns, Facebook considers the practice a security risk.

Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said that the company doesn’t think employers should be asking applicants for their passwords because “we don’t think it’s the right thing to do.”

“While we do not have any immediate plans to take legal action against any specific employers, we look forward to engaging with policymakers and other stakeholders, to help better safeguard the privacy of our users,” he said.

What Pinterest Can Do That Facebook Can’t

Imagine walking into a 14-year old girl’s bedroom — what would you see on the walls? Probably pictures torn from magazines, drawings, maybe inspirational quotes. Transform that visual collage into a social media site, and you have Pinterest. The site has taken off since its 2011 launch, with nearly 12 million unique visitors in January, 2012, and its membership has been accelerated by Facebook tie-ins that show your friends’ Pinterest activity.

So why all the buzz? How does it work? And is it a contender to Facebook?

The digital equivalent of a 14-year old girl’s bedroom is a decent visual metaphor for the site, but Pinterest’s effect is much more sophisticated. It’s a rich, hyperlinked way to see what others are inspired by and aspire to.

How Pinterest Works
Once you sign up for a Pinterest account, you can “pin” images you see online. You can either input a link into Pinterest manually by copying it, or you can install a browser extension for Pinterest that lets you click a button that’s added into in the browser frame to add an image:
Firefox right click add-on
Chrome Pinterest extension
Internet Explorer Bookmarklet for Pinterest

Images you pin are arranged into thematic boards. You pick the general theme of the board and pin away. Others “like” your pins or repin them to boards of their own.

You follow friends or other pinners whose curation you admire. You might have a designer who’s got a whole board of reading nooks you like. Or maybe a friend is planning a trip to Tahiti, and you like looking at the images of the water that she pins.

The site initially found favor with brides-to-be, so there are a lot of dresses, teacakes, and up-dos. And while many more non-brides are joining the site, some estimates put the female to male ration at 97% favoring the ladies!

Pinterest can be a great personal planning tool for organizing ideas around design; as you contemplate your upcoming wedding, vacation, kids birthday party, or kitchen remodel, you can create visual collages of ideas — and share them with your friends.

When others seek similar inspiration for their event they may find your reading nook board and follow it. You can follow anyone; it doesn’t have to be reciprocated like a friend request on Facebook. All boards are public right now, but Pinterest says they are thinking about adding more options to create private boards.

How Pinterest Compares To Facebook
But what I like best about Pinterest is the public nature of the boards; it’s one of the things that makes it so different from Facebook. You don’t just check up on people, you can get really lost in ideas — browsing by theme: redecorating… cars… gadgets… parenting ideas… beer-making supplies… (Those last two categories do not go together, by the way.) You can also search specifically, and see the most recent images that fit your search terms. Following individual pinners is cool, but it’s the categorical organization of ideas that is coolest. Pinterest is more like flipping through the pages of a magazine like Real Simple or House Beautiful than it is catching up on friends. It’s a “Calgon take me away” kind of break. And yes, it can be addicting. I can spend a good half hour just getting lost in home design shots, recipes, and travel pics.

So if you want to go give Pinterest a try, go to the website pinterest.com, request an invite, and follow some folks, maybe even me http://pinterest.com/beckyworley/

But if you already feel overwhelmed by social networks, you won’t miss the boat by skipping Pinterest. You’ll probably be just as happy with a few magazine pictures and quotes pinned on the corkboard over your desk (or on the walls of your room — I won’t tell).