Facebook has topped the expectations in 2009 by realizing nearly 800 million dollars income last year, ABC News reported referring to two unnamed sources. Insiders also revelaed that the social media community has gained 10 million dollars operating profit last year. The 800 million dollars revenue has far exceeded the company’s expectations. Facebook – which [...]

Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom has confirmed that it has received ban orders from Lahore High Court on Thursday to ban Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Bing, YouTube, Amazon etc , reported BBC Urdu, citing unnamed sources in the Ministry. It merits mentioning here that inter-ministerial committee of IT Ministry decides on how to and [...]

 A Pakistani court has ruled that the government can unblock Facebook if the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority takes measures to block any objectionable material on the social networking site, a lawyer involved in the case said. Chaudhary Zulfiqar Ali, a lawyer representing the Islamic Lawyers Movement, which initially petitioned the court to block Facebook, said the [...]

The Ministry for Information Technology and Telecom has lifted a ban on Youtube. However, social networking website Facebook will remain blocked in line with the order of Lahore High Court. The LHC had directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block the site till May 31 over blasphemous content. Federal Secretary Najeebullah Malik told Geo [...]

Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-corrupted spam that targets Facebook  estimated 400 million users in an energy to stealbanking passwords and collect other delicate information. The emails tell recipients that the passwords ontheir Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them to click on an attachment to acquire new login credentials, according to defiant-virus software maker McAfee Inc. [...]

March 13, 2010, YouTube will no longer officially support Internet Explorer 6. Ars Technica found the specific date buried in a YouTube Help item pertaining to browser support. Under the section header, “When does older browser support end for YouTube and what does this mean?,” it reads: “Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means [...]

Note that “social games” are web-based games like Mafia Wars and FarmVille that you play on social networks like Facebook, not Xbox 360 action games like Gears of War or Halo — young males still dominate that branch of the gaming hobby. The survey found that 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are [...]

It’s hard to believe that YouTube, which serves more than 1 billion videos per day, is a mere five years old today. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on February 14, 2005. YouTube wasn’t the clear leader in 2005: it competed with a range of services from Veoh to Vimeo to Viddler and many more. Some combination of [...]

As predicted, Hell has indeed frozen over. Yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt sent a tweet hinting at something most people probably never expected to see: a Google Super Bowl ad. But the contents of the ad, and even the product it would be promoting, remained a mystery. Moments ago some 90 million Americans watched as [...]

Twitter is still growing in popularity at an international level, despite some fatal falls in USA. As stated in the new data released by SYSMOS, a social media analytics firm. Whereas, in June of last year the U.S. accounted for 62 percent of all active Twitter users, that number has fallen to 50 percent. Significant [...]