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Both Facebook and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, the two companies made in the center of the episode, unfortunately titled "Googlegate" last week, have issued statements highlighting his participation in the situation. According to the two companies plan to plant newspaper articles describing Google alleged violations of privacy should not be a negative campaign against the company.

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So far, Google has made some inroads into social networks, and "Buzz", which could not generate buzz at all. However, Google plans to remedy this deficiency with circles to invade the territory of the host on Facebook. social media is one of the weaknesses of Google, even if it has the largest search engine in the world.

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LinkedIn, the professional business network, is increasing its expectations for long-awaited initial public offering, which believes it can now take $ 274 million.The company has released prices of its stock market early in the morning of Monday 9 May and is now prepared to offer 7.84 million shares at $ 32 to $ 35 each, according to its S-1. His optimism is a good sign for United, but can not be a good indicator of global appetite for technology companies more consumer-oriented high as Facebook and Zynga, which have very different business models.

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Perhaps most interesting was the response Mayers his claim that Google is still in its infancy, although Google has launched products such as social, allowing users to assess the results of their research friends. So we can expect a number of new company products in the near future. Well, not exactly a revelation.

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The announcement did not come, but Skype 5.0 – latest version of the software underlying the company – has given users the ability to call and text friends.Acquiring Facebook Skype make sense for Facebook, which currently ongoing review of its messaging platform to provide a more transparent, including instant messaging, messaging, email, phone and more. Another source said that Facebook and Google are both in the negotiations from the beginning with Skype to form a sort of companies involved decline comment on rumors and speculation.Word partnership.All a partnership between Facebook and Skype has said since September 2010 when several sources said the two companies have extended to announce a broad partnership involving SMS, voice calls and Facebook Connect. Unfortunately, no details of the rare items that companies are talking about. "When a company is going public and has been on file for a long time, in one way or another something will happen," said one of sources.IPO Reuter and acquisitions: What us. In the past, however, acquisitions have led to the Facebook team of the acquired company is moving to the right on the head of Facebook and work to end their service before, as in the case of Divvyshot and Beluga. You can not really see what happens with the joint venture Skype.A, however, would be much more convenient, and Skype does not derail plans for an initial public offering likely in the coming months. (Going public to raise $ 1 billion for Skype, according to recent estimates.) Then there is that Google is increasingly strengthening their voice of Google, which has much in common with Facebook Skype opportunities. It was very comfortable in front of Skype when it emerged that in January the IPO was delayed until the second half of this IPO come.Facebook year.But never be competing to purchase VoIP services everywhere, according to Reuters in a case that could be worth between $ 3 and $ 4 billion.

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Facebook has reinstated a number of sites’ Facebook pages that were taken down due to bogus copyright claims this week. The company issued an apology for the inconvenience and says that DMCA notice abuse is an issue that Facebook takes seriously, but serious questions still remain about the effectiveness of Facebook’s process for dealing with complaints.

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Facebook began as a way to link college students, but in reality has done nothing for education? No doubt social networking is an integral part of college life today, with students to monitor social events, reading campus news, and even collaborate on projects on the site. So what effect did studies on this real?.

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Photofeed cover in the past, but with more fun features such as editing and adhesives Bird filters, users now have a new way to improve both their own photos and pictures of "their Facebook friends. By clicking on the "Edit" button at the bottom Photofeed, the new range of editing features are available for users' home.

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Click on a website that has been integrated into the Send button, and was invited to share one of their groups in Facebook, Facebook friends, or any other standard email. Facebook increasingly ubiquitous "like" button becomes a new friend: the Send button. In other words, if you like the button is designed to quickly share content with your friends on Facebook, the Send button is shared with a subset of them.

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But it turns out that (translation: Facebook misrepresented the value of equity at the time of settlement) of several million is not enough, and the twins have the award set aside on appeal, so they can go after "money" Mo . Twins Sue and win some of those millions in a settlement. This is the saga does not know or care more, until David Fincher Social Network became the volume: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard classmates Hoodwink (and twins), Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss Facebook million profit.

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