College Grads Want Jobs at Microsoft

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The youth are our future so by extension their goals are a view of what may prosper in our future. Specifically I refer to what talented college graduates intend to do with their hard earned degrees and which companies they feel hold the best options for their personal future. In a recent poll of students [...]

Google+ Steps It up With Their Picture Tech

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In an effort to stay relevant and stand up to social media giant Facebook, Google+ has made some sweeping changes. Apparently the rapidly growing social site has made a very serious effort to improve its photographic technologies to win over the growing number of picture sharers online. With people increasingly taking snapshots with mobile devices [...]

Facebook Phone as Good as Dead

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That’s it then, the Facebook phone has pretty much officially failed and will go the way of the Dodo bird. Apparently HTC is so unimpressed by their joint venture with the social media site that they intend to discontinue the HTC One. This phone, which was designed to have Facebook as its homepage, was perfect [...]

YouTube Set to Introduce Subscription Channels

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YouTube told the Financial Times that this is a first step in creating an extensive subscription platform.

Facebook Phone Headed for the Bargain Bin

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Oh, woe is the Facebook phone because it looks like the world perhaps is not that interested in the product. Why would I say that? Well, it’s simple, when a piece of tech is suddenly put on special then it would seem very likely that people are not buying it. This is apparently the case [...]

Is Facebook’s Increased Stock Price Padded?

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Facebook has gradually been seeing an improved stock price for the past few months and recently reached a decent $28.31 per share price. This improvement seemed to absolutely mirror experts’ expectations for the company which many saw as a positive sign. Some, however, feel that this is not a fair indication of the company’s worth [...]

Twitter Swoop on Investment Banker Hire

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How do you help ensure potential growth in social media? Simple – hire yourself an experienced investment banker. Well, in honesty they have gone for one who has major experience in acquisitions and initial public offerings so this is more a business growing endeavor. Anyway, to the hire in question, she is former Morgan Stanley banker [...]

Skype Facing Legal Action Over Patent Issue

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It almost seems like there isn’t a single social media entity that isn’t being sued right now. In fact, there probably isn’t, considering people go after the money and there’s a whole lot of that in social media these days. Well, anyway, there is a whole new lawsuit out there brought by patent enforcement agency [...]

Professionalism Key to Social Media Growth

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Social media, in all its glory, is growing with revenues soaring for most of the big sites. However, with some of the sites the general value of the stock price is less stable and this indicates one main thing. The frivolous nature of most social media sites mean that it is hard to take it [...]

Is the Power of a Tweet Just Too Strong?

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The shocking potential power of a well placed tweet was witnessed when a combination of hacking and false tweets almost brought down Wall Street. It took just a few seconds for a Tweet to spread like wildfire and cause a knee jerk 145 point drop of the Dow Jones which took notably longer to recover. [...]