We all have compulsively clicked on ‘Refresh’ tab on our Facebook page, but now a study has officially confirmed that Facebook, along with Twitter, is even more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes. According to researchers from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, most of us mere mortals are unable to resist the urge of [...]

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Facebook is poised to announced its intention to float on the stock exchange and in turn it will see its founder Mark Zuckerberg pocket upwards of 16 billion dollars for his shares. The 27-year-old’s social networking website is expected to file the necessary papers as early as tomorrow in order to list the company on [...]

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During its initial days, Google+ had created quite a negative buzz with its draconian ‘real name’ policy. Google+ users are not allowed to use nicknames or pseudonyms and were required to use their real names. Google implemented this policy with heavy hand and deleted some high profile Google+ pages with pseudonyms. Later, it softened the [...]

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Digital world is generally considered to be male-dominated, but a new survey published by international research firm Parks Associates suggests otherwise. Women are not only buying more tech products, but they are also more likely to download and share digital media content. Tricia Parks of Parks Associates said, “Women are frequently the product buyers – [...]

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Google’s social networking venture Google+ is slowly crawling and at about one year old, the network claims to have about 90 million users. This figure was disclosed by Larry Page while announcing the quarterly results of the company. Though, Google+ yet has to acquire cult following like Facebook, but its current subscriber base is impressive [...]

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Facebook is meant to connect you with your loved or not so loved ones, but since every rose has its thorns, then so does Facebook. The social networking, meant to connect people, is also causing rift between them. According to a new report, Facebook was listed in one-third of divorce petitions filed in the country [...]

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Another year gone and now is the time to commemorate the most popular brands of 2011. Research firm Nielsen has released its “Tops of 2011” lists and the top spots are occupied by familiar names such as Google, Facebook and Apple. Google has topped the ‘Top 10 US Web Brands’ lists, followed by Facebook. Surprisingly, [...]

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Facebook is popular and this fact does not need to be proved over and over again. But it is a worrying trend that teenagers are engrossed in enjoying social networking but are oblivious to their electoral rights.  A recent report shows that about twice as many 18-year-olds are registered with Facebook than are registered to [...]

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