6 Ways to Get More Social Shares

Whether you’re linking to your latest blog article on Facebook or posting your latest thought on Twitter, it’s clear that you’re sharing with others. And, while it’s easy for you to compose tweets and status updates, it’s more difficult to craft social media postings that have the potential to be shared and re-shared. Below are… Continue reading 6 Ways to Get More Social Shares

Facebook Will Soon Notify You When Your Friends Are Nearby

Facebook’s giving you a yet another way to creep on your friends. You’ll soon be able to use the mobile Facebook app to find out where they are, but only when they are close by. The feature will be called Nearby Friends and users will have to opt in, giving Facebook permission to track them… Continue reading Facebook Will Soon Notify You When Your Friends Are Nearby

Facebook Set to Launch a Money Transfer Service in Europe

Need to pay a friend back for lunch yesterday, but don’t have cash on you? Facebook could soon be your go-to wallet. Facebook is “weeks away” from obtaining regulatory approval in Ireland for a service that would allow users to exchange money with each other electronically, according to the Financial Times. The new service would… Continue reading Facebook Set to Launch a Money Transfer Service in Europe

Pop Goes the Internet Sector?

On Friday, the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock market index closed at 4,000, down almost 10% from its post-recession high. That’s got Wall Street recalling the burst of the dot.com bubble. In March 2000, creator and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was 15 years old. That same month the NASDAQ peaked at 5,132 points. And then the… Continue reading Pop Goes the Internet Sector?

What Is We Heart It?

Have you heard of the new social network We Heart It? We Heart It is a popular new image-based site that serves three billion page views and over 60 billion images per month according to We Heart It CEO Ranah Edelin. And if you’re a millennial, there’s a good chance you already love it: 80%… Continue reading What Is We Heart It?

Apple Is Most Improved in Green Internet Efforts, Amazon among the Worst [REPORT]

A new movement is taking green practices to the internet, with the biggest IT companies cleaning themselves up and using sustainable and energy efficient practices. Greenpeace conducted its annual report on the most and least green companies and found that this year Apple was the most improved company in terms of using and promoting green… Continue reading Apple Is Most Improved in Green Internet Efforts, Amazon among the Worst [REPORT]

WhatsApp Users Send and Receive a Record 64 Billion Messages in One Day

Have you used WhatsApp lately? If so, you might have helped set a new messaging record. The real-time messaging app announced over Twitter last night that its users sent and received a record 64 billion messages in one day: new daily record: 20B messages sent (inbound) and 44B messages received (outbound) by our users =… Continue reading WhatsApp Users Send and Receive a Record 64 Billion Messages in One Day

Mark Zuckerberg Slashes His Salary to $1

As the one of the richest people in the world with an overall wealth of $27 billion, CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg only earned one dollar in annual salary in 2013. He joins a group of extremely wealthy, important people in the tech world who slashed their salaries to one dollar a year after becoming… Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg Slashes His Salary to $1