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Facebook preparing for a special Android related event on April

Facebook preparing for a special Android related event on April

Facebook has sent invitation to the press for an event it is organizing on Thursday 4th April at the Menlo Park campus. On the invitation card, it is written, “Come See Our New Home on Android” without any further specification on what the event is all about. Most have started speculating that the event is going to be about the long time rumored “Facebook Phone” which has been expected for a while now

How Craigslist brought geeks together to start a company

How Craigslist brought geeks together to start a company

Evan Kirkpatrick, a contributor to Forbes online website had a recent discussion with Jareau Wade, the co-founder of Balanced, a payment processing website that makes use of a simple API. During the interview, Kirkpatrick couldn’t help realizing that Wade’s startup’s story was anything but typical

Best free travel apps for the iPhone or iPad for international travelers

Best free travel apps for the iPhone or iPad for international travelers

Are you a business person who needs to travel all the time to attend to meetings all over the world? If you answered yes to that question and you enjoy taking your Apple devices along then these apps listed below are going to make your travel life much easier. They will ease up your next trip.

Massive online attack slows down the internet on a global scale

Massive online attack slows down the internet on a global scale

A company going by the name of Spamhaus has been hit by a massive and relatively new form of cyber-attack that has brought its servers to their knees dragging along other online services in the process and causing traffic slowdowns on a global scale.

Free internet coming to Americans who can’t afford it

Free internet coming to Americans who can’t afford it

Free wireless broadband is coming to American families who cannot afford it through a partnership between FreedomPop and Connect2Compete. These 2 companies are already known for offering free and reduced-priced high speed internet with the necessary equipment. FreedomPop and Connect2Compete have put their resources together to be able to offer up to 1GB of free data to low income families leaving in the US.

Zuckerberg strategizing to keep his immigrant workers

Zuckerberg strategizing to keep his immigrant workers

US immigration laws have not always been in favor of skilled workers who could contribute to the success story of big companies. It’s been reported that Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, along with other business leaders, is trying to form a political advocacy organization that will make business argument to show the economic impact skilled immigrants may have on the company and in the process induce an immigration reform in their favor. The organization might also tackle other long term issues that may affect the economic growth of the company.

Can the internet kick out the banks

Can the internet kick out the banks

Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, documentarian and author who has written a book called Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now.

The head of Blackeberry refers to the iPhone as outdated

The head of Blackeberry refers to the iPhone as outdated

The BlackBerry Boss, Thorsten Heins laughed at the iPhone describing it as outdated while he was on stage launching the Z10, the company’s new phone coming in the US. The Z10 comes with a touchscreen.