Facebook has landed a $200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), an Internet investment group with significant stakes in Eastern European and Russian Internet businesses.
The investment in Facebook is in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a $10 billion valuation.
“This investment demonstrates Facebook’s ongoing success at creating a global [...]
Just over half (51%) of mobile phone users access content using their mobile phone on a weekly basis, according to a new study by Magid Associates.
Mobile content consumers spend about the same amount of time with content (39 minutes) as the average user does texting (38 minutes) or talking on their mobile phone (44 minutes).
Mobile [...]
Google has introduced new tools that aim to make users search results more focused and organized.
One of the new features is called “Search Options” which are a collection of tools that allow users to control search results and generate different views to find the information they need faster.
When doing a search on the Google homepage, [...]
Automattic, the parent of WordPress has launched BuddyPress, a platform based on WordPress designed to allow users to create social networks or just add social networking features.
BuddyPress consists of a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams and other social aspects. BuddyPress allows users to set [...]
