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Google Buckles Under Pressure Removes Offensive Content. Facebook Refuses To Budge

by | posted: February 7, 2012
In the ongoing issue about an Indian Trial court trying to book Google, Facebook, Microsoft and 18 other social networking firms over the alleged ‘Objectionable Content’ being hosted on their sites,...
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Experian Hitwise Shows Dominant Facebook & Rising Social Media

by | posted: September 28, 2011
Take a look at these info-graphics about Facebook in India Some more Facebook facts Expected to reach 45 million by 2012 There are 150+ Facebook pages with more than 1 lakh fans India ranked 3rd in...
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Vodafone Launches ‘Vodafone Blue’ In India: Facebook Phone For The Masses

by | posted: September 7, 2011
We all know of the Digital Divide, and the gap between adoption rates in Urban and Rural India. We also know that the next frontier for the Internet in India is Mobile. Putting these into practise, Vodafone launched...
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India is The Biggest Market In Facebook’s Cross-hairs: Gartner

by | posted: August 5, 2011
When you have a country of over a billion people and a market full of internet enabled devices along with cheap data rates and minimal internet censorship, a Web Revolution waiting to take place. Internet...
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Facebook To Buy Snaptu For 70 Million $

by | posted: March 21, 2011
Just recently we had blogged about how Linkedin partnered with Snaptu to bring linkedin features onto the application. Now it seems folks at snaptu have got lucky as they have confirmed an acquisition...
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Facebook Introduces City Level Targetting For India Ads

by | posted: September 28, 2010
If you have been a user of facebook ads in India then the biggest complaint you would have that it allow zero geo targetting of ads. This has been one of the biggest problems for facebook advertisers in...
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Would you ‘Like’ A ‘Dislike’ Button for Facebook?

by | posted: August 20, 2010
It is not like Facebook hasn’t delivered enough in terms of applications, features, games, etc. to users thereby constantly keeping them glued to their Facebook accounts. The last thing Facebook would...
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Facebook India’s Management team decided; Hiring to follow soon

by | posted: July 19, 2010
Facebook on Thursday announced two key appointments in India: Kirthiga Reddy will head the firm’s India Online Operations and Manoj Varghese will be Director of User Operations. The move comes after...
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India Is No.2 Country For Facebook Growth

by | posted: July 6, 2010
Indians always seem to have two obsessions: One is telling others what they are doing and another is to know what others are doing. Facebook undoubtedly helps them in this regard. The aftermath is the...
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Facebook vs Google – Will You Google Me?

by | posted: July 1, 2010
It isn’t much of greater significance if competition is ‘Constructive or Destructive‘. What really matters in verity is that Competition breeds a successful organization that essentially...
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Facebook India Operations To Commence In 2 Months

by | posted: June 28, 2010
Back in March, Facebook announced that it will open up a new office in the City Of Pearls – Hyderabad, to support the ever increasing users. After receiving clearance by the Government on Saturday,...
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Internet Wars: Facebook vs. Google

by | posted: June 9, 2010
In a recent report released by Hitwise, an information services company, it has been found that social networks have become more popular than search engines. This is a very significant trend for everyone....
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Facebook Privacy Overhauled – What It Means For You?

by | posted: May 27, 2010
In lieu of the slowly growing backlash against privacy issues of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, the largest social networking site, recently made a press release instilling the fact that...
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Facebook – Zynga Tie Up For 5 Years – Expect Social Gaming To Grow!

by | posted: May 19, 2010
If you are the kinds who hasn’t had enough of ploughing fields and being a don in the virtual world then this piece of news is just for you. Facebook and Zynga (the company that made us farmers through...
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RCom Gets You Facebook Access For Free!

by | posted: May 19, 2010
We had blogged about the size zero facebook announcement and the fact that this would be useful in penetrating Indian markets which have a high mobile userbase. This is exactly what has happened with this...
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Updated: Does Facebook Need An India Office? – Star News Thinks So..

by | posted: March 10, 2010
Updated: We spoke to Elizabeth Linder (International Communications and Public Policy)for Facebook and got the following responses from her on the questions: Q . What is the latest statistics for Facebook...
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