If the latest report is accurate, the Menlo Park-based company’s next target could be Opera.
The website Pocket-lint reported early Friday that it’d been told by “one of its trusted sources” that Facebook is interested in Opera for its popular Web browser.
The Opera browser is available on desktop computers, various phones and tablets and even the Nintendo Wii, and the company claims to have more than 200 million users, according to the report…
Adding credibility to the rumor is a report by The Next Web that includes a source close to Opera saying the company has been looking for potential buyers.
The anonymous source said Opera is talking to possible buyers and has instituted a hiring freeze, which The Next Web said “is a surefire sign that something big is about to happen — or at least that Opera wants something big to happen.”
Mark Zuckerberg and company followed their massive hiccup of an IPO with the release of a new mobile app called Facebook Camera today, allowing users to take photos, color them with corny filters, and share them with friends — more or less the exact same things Instagram does. Instagram, remember, is the shoot/filter/share app Facebook bought for $1 billion last month at Zuckerberg’s personal insistence. This strange, counterintuitive strategy already has the tech world wondering: What were they thinking?
In announcing the (very expensive) Instagram deal, Zuckerberg said Facebook is “committed to building and growing Instagram independently,” and a spokesman told TechCrunch the same thing today, adding, “I anticipate some healthy competition.” But why bother? Yes, Facebook has a bajillion more users than Instagram’s 50 million, but integrating the two, even if it’s not completely, seems far more practical than pitting the bases against one another.
If Facebook bought Instagram only to clear the lane of competition and make room for their own photo app, not only did they pay too much, but they still have some work to do: Early indications are that Instagram’s interface and functionality are preferable…
Facebook Releases Instagram Competitor Despite Owning Instagram
Google’s Chrome is now the most popular Web browser worldwide, surpassing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the first time, according to the latest figures from StatCounter. After years of slowly chipping away Internet Explorer’s market share, Chrome took the lead with 32.76 percent share, while IE dipped to 31.94 percent.
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Well, Facebook is ALL kinds of fucked up this week.
My timeline for May is GONE. I — and other users — have a big blank area where our May activity should be. New tweets won’t import from Twitter. Likes won’t appear. Stories I read and like at Storify aren’t showing. I can’t even post new links from the Timeline page, I have to be on the News Feed page. I have no idea if my subscribers are getting anything I post there.
Not exactly confidence-inspiring behavior on the eve of Facebook’s big IPO.
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The App Center is expected to be rolled out globally in “the coming weeks”, said Facebook’s Aaron Brady in a post on the network’s developer blog.
“All developers should start preparing today to make sure their app is included for the launch,” he wrote.
However, Mr Brady said the store was not designed to compete head-on with the likes of Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
“The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook - whether they’re on iOS, Android or the mobile web,” he wrote.
“From the mobile App Center, users can browse apps that are compatible with their device, and if a mobile app requires installation, they will be sent to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.”
Only apps which make use of Facebook’s log-in system Connect are eligible to be included in the store.
Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number of “threats” that those featuring adult content, according to Symantec.
Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser, became this week the world’s loudest critic of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that would give the National Security Agency (NSA) open access to Internet companies’ private user data.
Mozilla, along with Reddit, Wikipedia and Google, led the successful push-back against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), but the nonprofit does not make a habit of opposing legislation. When it does, however, Mozilla can be devastatingly effective: in its last protest, the group said it reached more than 30 million individual people simply by blacking out its start page. Mozilla bragged that another 10 million saw their anti-SOPA messages on social media, for a total reach of 40 million.
Though Mozilla has been entirely silent on CISPA, that all changed on Tuesday.
Anti-SOPA leader Mozilla breaks with tech companies to oppose CISPA
While much of America was gearing up to watch the NFL draft picks Thursday night, the House of Representatives passed a controversial cybersecurity bill to increase information sharing between private companies and the federal government.
The bill—H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)—passed at 6:30 p.m. by 248 to 168, boosted by a Republican majority (206 Republicans voted for it, along with 42 Democrats). Debate on the bill was expected Thursday, but the vote was a surprise because it had been scheduled for Friday.
Here’s a look at the controversy surrounding the bill, what’s in store for its future and how it might affect you…
CISPA: The controversy surrounding it and how it might affect you
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