It’s something you’ve been told since the Internet first came into existence; “even if you delete a photo from the original website, the picture will remain on the internet indefinitely”. Eric Schmidt, an Executive Chairman and American Software Engineer at Google, picked up on this issue, identifying people’s wish to [...]

It’s evident that Facebook has been struggling the past few months. According to a recent report from the market research firm, Nielsen, Facebook is struggling to the extent of a loss of 10 million users, and that’s in the US alone. Comparing the results between the traffic of unique visitors [...]

Facebook will soon be rolling out their video ads and according to a report from Ad Age, they are looking to receive $1 million for each video advertisement.  The report also suggests that the Facebook video ads would be no longer than 15 seconds each and no Facebook user would [...]

EA and Maxis have officially announced that they will be shutting down multiple Facebook social games including The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and Pet Society.  According to EA, the user-base for these games has simply dwindled too much over the past few months leaving them no reason to keep the games active. [...]

Facebook Home has only been available on Google Play since yesterday but it is already receiving absolutely horrible ratings.  More than twice as many people gave Facebook Home 1 star than people who gave it 5 stars.  Some of the main interface features such as the home screen are being [...]

To celebrate its one-year anniversary of porting over to Android, Instagram has released some interesting user statistics.  According to the report from earlier today, close to half of all Instagram users are now on Android and that number continues to climb each month.  When the Android app launched last year, [...]

Well-known leakster Evleaks has released what he says is a list of specs for an upcoming Facebook Phone from HTC.  According to Evleaks, the specs are as follows: 1.5GHz dual-core processor from Qualcomm 1GB of RAM 16GB of Internal Storage (not expandable) 5-megapixel rear camera 1.6-megapixel front camera Android 4.1.2 [...]

Facebook has done a complete overhaul of its newsfeed, providing one of the largest changes to the site in its entire history.  The latest design update makes Facebook’s newsfeed significantly cleaner, easier to use, and most importantly, it is better for advertisers. Since going public, Facebook has failed to really [...]

Facebook invited members of the media to a press event at its Menlo Park headquarters this Thursday, March 7th. The invitation read: “Come see a new look for News Feed.” In case you don’t have a Facebook account, the News Feed is the home of Facebook, where you can see [...]

One of Facebook’s newer features, giving gifts to your friends in real life through Facebook is supposedly not as productive as the company has made it out to be. What was supposed to be a billion dollar business, has reportedly not even broken $1 million in Q4, despite relentless advertising [...]

Facebook has purchased Microsoft’s advertising platform Atlas for an estimated $100 million.  They have purchased the service in order to enhance their own ads and potentially venture out from Facebook and compete against other advertising platforms like Google Adsense.  The service will “help advertisers compare their Facebook campaigns to the rest of [...]

A web developer has discovered a major security flaw within Facebook that allows anyone to gain complete access to someones account.  Luckily, this developer notified Facebook so that they could fix the issue before he went public to tell people how he was able to exploit the flaw. The developer, [...]