Facebook: will the CFO drinking (water)?

Facebook obviously found the perfect culprit to extinguish the controversy of its introduction on the stock market...

Yet yesterday talked about the controversy following the introduction of Facebook stock (introduced at $ 38, title tends today to back above the $ 33), with the filing of a complaint in partnership for bad information of small shareholders of new financial forecasts less optimistic than those initially in the folder of the IPO.

Also, critics are the very late decision of Facebook to revise upward the introduction price and 25% the number of issued shares. But if bad languages say that it is a decision taken unilaterally by Mark Zuckerberg, by pure ego, to see his company valued more than 100 billion dollars, today the information are all others.

Indeed, we learn that it is the Financial Director of the social network, David Ebersman, who have decided to only the increase in the number of titles on the market. This is in any case very officially told the Wall Street Journal, citing internal sources to Facebook and the words of about a dozen in the introduction process. If there is of course strange that David Ebersman made only one rider at an important time, many see a way for Facebook to defuse the controversy, pointing his CFO as being solely responsible for the situation.

At the time, David Ebersman is now built in fault, excluding the liability of Mark Zuckerberg and the banks. Does not that the larger strings are those that we see less and sometimes go with large hooves to convince... In any case, doubt remains enabled.

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Statutes Facebook: when money comes into play!

Highlight his Facebook status can cost up to $ 2...

A few days separate Facebook of his scholarship and, as if it were a final strong message to investors, the social network announces a new lever of monetization: the opportunity to highlight its statutes for an understood amount between $ 0 to $ 2! Not yet deployed to all users of the network, this function could of course interest companies and brands who use Facebook to disseminate their messages and generate the hearing. This "building in front of the post as a major publication" therefore applies to the posted articles, but also photos and links.

The first users who have been offering this option sometimes pay up to $ 2 were soon to contact Facebook to learn more, not having the habit of being offered to enter their PayPal accounts or information cards Visa or MasterCard at the time of posting a status. Facebook has so well was forced to communicate on the subject, explaining be testing this function on a panel of users on the network. "We try to without judgment of new features on the site." "This test is intended to measure the interest of the members of Facebook for the promotion of this new way to share with friends" says the spokesperson.

But we guess wrong a lambda user pay to ensure that his kick of the evening hangover or his album of holiday photos are more visible to its list of friends. No, clearly, it is to the media and other brands to address this new paid service. Mark Zuckerberg wants clearly go beyond the simple display of advertisements and mix a notion of money directly to the social function. Not sure that this is well taken by users who see always be displayed on the Facebook home page (before login) the following message: "it's free (and it will always remain").

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Microsoft wanted to sell Bing on Facebook

Anxious to get rid of its search engine, Microsoft would have tried refourguer Bing on Facebook...

This is the kind of approaches that multinational companies prefer to keep secret. But the New York Times has decided otherwise and revealed that last year, Microsoft executives came close Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to the CEO of the first global social network to buy the Bing search engine.

Therefore a large folder, but a demi-surprise when we know the privileged links were woven into these two groups, Microsoft have included participation in the capital of Facebook and him having resold a part of its newly acquired AOL patents.

When these discussed, Microsoft tried to demonstrate to Facebook with Bing in anyway, it would be better cut for Google and its social offensive with Google. However, Steve Ballmer not had apparently not validated this proposal which, in any event, came on nothing since Mark Zuckerberg has just declined the offer.

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Antec saves 40 ventilos TrueQuiet Pro 120 on Facebook

An Antec France Facebook contest to win a TrueQuiet Pro 120 fan.

Spring is officially here since a few days and if the temperatures do not yet Pack, it announces the summer and the heat that will be put to evil the cooling of our bécanes. Following the launch, a few days ago, its new TrueQuiet Pro 120 fan, the Antec manufacturer launches a contest on his Facebook page to win copies of this small that silent as efficient turbine.

The idea used this game to the name well found "Fans for fans" is a competition based on points. Antec fans therefore gain 2 points, 1 point in "loving" the Facebook of Antec France page by posting a link to the contest on their wall and 3 points for each invited friend. In each country where this contest is launched, the 40 first will win a TrueQuiet Pro 120 fan. A reminder, it is equipped with silicone grommets and an anti-turbulences blade.

> Enter the Fans for Fans of Antec on Facebook

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The shortage of hard drives pushes Facebook, Google in the arms of HP

HP presented its financial results for the quarter elapsed (August, September, October). They show a shortness of the giant: the period of 2010, net sales down 3%, the gross margin of 7.4 points and the net profit of 91%. However, this dramatic fall of the benefit is to the assets of the judgment of webOS devices, which cost the firm 2.1 billion.

However, Meg Whitman, the recent HP CEO is fairly optimistic for the end of the year. His company was indeed the fastest to react to the Thai floods that result in a hard drives acute shortage. HP has immediately set up a crisis cell, made stocks and past commands at the beginning of October. Thus, Whitman think that HP will receive a greater portion of the remaining production than its competitors. To emphasize its advantage, Whitman has had this vindictive comment "we hear all the time that people contruisent their own servers [...]". but for the moment, they do not build their own servers because they can not have hard drives. Then they call us... Yes, the Google, the Facebook call us. »

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Not so private photos on Facebook

This is what add to the controversy of private data on social networks in General, and Facebook in particular...

Motion down combat in Facebook yesterday, after a user has unveiled a fault which - via a simple handling - gave access to the photos private members. Result, Facebook quickly reacted and blocked this function, before putting in place an update correcting the problem. Handling in question was actually extremely simple.

It was in fact sufficient to use the function to report an inappropriate photo content. Once the notification is sent, Facebook proposed view of other photographs in the series to see if they also violate the rules. Bug, these images proposed by the system could contain private or restricted rights photos. ZDnet, highly reactive, operated this fault to view photos on the profile of Mark Zuckerberg himself protected.

A photo of Mark Zuckerberg made accessible via this bug

"We discovered a bug in one of our flow of reports allowing people to report cases of inappropriate content." "The bug was caused by a recent amendment to the code" said Facebook which blocked the function before repair the problem. Facebook is reassuring in explaining that only a small number of photos were thus accessible. This is, in any case, is not likely to improve the image of Facebook in terms of protection of private data.

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The Freebox Revolution starts to Facebook

Facebook, the social network number one in the world, is now available on the Freebox Revolution through a dedicated application.

Free has just announced the imminent availability of the Facebook application dedicated to its Freebox Revolution. The day will therefore have access to more than 800 million "friend (e) s" via their TV and can tchatcher, share videos, photos and communicate through an interface optimized for a screen TV display and the remote control navigation.

The application will be accessible by the menu "Web" after having updated the firmware of the Player of the Freebox Revolution available if all goes well this afternoon. After Twitter, YouTube and Dailymotion, the triple play of Mr. Niel box is enriched day by day and improves with time, those who have Free have really almost all - services - including.

    

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Skype is done compatible with the Facebook accounts

With the new beta of Skype, Facebook accounts can easily do video conferencing.

Skype, a subsidiary of Microsoft player in the world of VoIP, now accounts for more than 30 million members permanently connected. To continue to increase its user base, the service announced a partnership with Facebook, the first global social network. A boon for Skype when you know that Facebook is approaching slowly from one billion members, although the 200 million Internet users remaining to pass this course are obviously hard to find.


Available in beta version, Skype 5.7 makes it possible to connect directly with their Facebook account on the software before placing video calls. Being short registration via Skype using the Facebook Connect module should indeed encourage users to use the service. Especially a list management allows friends "Skype" easily one of his contacts.

Note also the appearance of this version of another improvement (reserved for the PC version of the software at the moment) which is to enrich the screen sharing now available to many "viewers" simultaneously. Remains an option fee.

>> Download Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows
>> Download Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac

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PayPal: an idea gift via Facebook

How to avoid seeking a gift idea? Send a card with PayPal money directly through Facebook!

Paypal, a global leader in money transfer on the Internet, recently introduced an application using the Facebook API to send gift cards containing an amount of money chosen arbitrarily.

   

Moreover, the application page, called Send Money, is quite clear that it targets those in search of ideas for a birthday, for example. For the transfer function requires that both players have a Paypal account and live in one of 65 countries. Will it the killer application for this Christmas? Nothing is less certain, and we would hope that people - as geeky as they are - will have much better ideas to spoil their loved ones a transfer of virtual money ...

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HP launches a mouse with Facebook button

HP launches new wireless mouse with touch wheel and a touch Facebook impossible to reprogram ...

HP today introduced a new mouse, called Touch X7000 WiFi. This is the second mouse HP to receive a Wi-Fi interface. Except that it does not adopt an ambidextrous design, unlike the WiFi Mobile Mouse, an ergonomic shape but clearly intended for right-handed. HP has opted for a glossy black plastic on top and a flat coating "soft-touch" under the thumb, to provide better "grip".

Its range is 10 meters, and its autonomy is announced at 9 months, while the WiFi connection has the advantage of direct free a USB port, sometimes valuable for laptop users. Another specific, this mouse offers - in addition to its five programmable buttons - one button dedicated to Facebook! A button is impossible to re-configure (re-!) who will run the social network each time. Note also that the scroll wheel is replaced by a touch strip, as in mice in the range of Microsoft Touch (tested here and there).

X7000 WiFi Touch This should land in stores in the coming days to about 60 dollars, and as many euros?

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Facebook and Twitter supervised by the CIA

The CIA "follows" Twitter and "like" Facebook. A dedicated social networking is becoming increasingly active.

At the start of the Cold War, a unit of the CIA was created specifically to follow the news and analyze the responses of populations due to different decisions in the world. This unit had been abandoned since the end of the war to resume service after the attacks of September 11, 2001. But this time, new information technologies pass primarily through the Internet, especially during the Green Revolution of Iran in 2009 where Twitter played a leading role in the uprising of the people. What has more recently confirmed with the Arab revolutions which social networks have become the tools.

On this basis, the CIA set up a cell that has hundreds of dedicated analysts - the exact figure is classified "top secret" - by reviewing more than 5 million tweets or Facebook messages exchanged in different languages each country, which has detected that the overthrow of power in Egypt was going to happen and that this communication channel would gather the people in a way that the current government could not have foreseen.

Another advantage for the U.S. military, there is no need to send individuals on hand to take the pulse of the various nations. For example, during the riots that raged through Bangkok in April 2010 that killed at least 20 dead and 825 injured, the cell of the CIA was able to follow it all remotely through the prism of the people through Twitter and Facebook. An internal source of this cell indicates that a report summary went back every day for the U.S. presidency to follow the reactions after a speech or announcement of a position in a crisis to change course as needed in a timely very short. In short, the responsiveness of social networks allows military in political life as a new opinion monitoring. A tool which French and American candidates for the presidency should not be deprived in 2012.

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Facebook would have doubled its turnover

If everyone seeks to know the results of Facebook, the figures obtained by Reuters tend to show that the social network continues to grow rapidly.

If Facebook has not yet entered in the stock market, and is therefore not required to disclose its financial results for the moment, the mystery is however pierced from time to time by the observers looking at any price to get an idea of the economic performance of the first global social network.

Thus, according to information gleaned by the European agency Reuters, turnover of Facebook would be of the order of $ 1.6 billion in the first half of 2011, on which a net profit of $ 500 million would have cleared. And according to Reuters, this would represent an increase of 100% of the CA on a year over the first half of 2010 in which Facebook revenues were approximately $ 800 million.

Digits rather realistic when they are confronted with those revealed year last by Bloomberg, which ended on an annual turnover of about 2 billion dollars for Facebook in 2010. A figure which, this year, would have therefore been almost reached in a single semester. Facebook, currently valued at height of $ 80 billion, should be introduced on the stock market in the year 2010.

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Music streamed on Facebook announced September 22?

Cross-info point Conference f8 as the event during which Facebook would announce its musical offer...

According to information gleaned by CNBC, Facebook is about to communicate about a listening of music streaming service. Would it be announce at its Conference on September 22 annual f8. Is of course not the first time heard talk of such a service, especially with Spotify a time suspected as a potential partner.

The idea would be, according to CNBC. Facebook would not propose its own online music service, but would set up tools to boost existing players their audience, while offering to its users an additional service. What propel listening offers in part funded by the ads on a new planet, that of Facebook and its 750 million members. Remains to be seen what eye the music industry would reach this new offer.

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Facebook in the sights of Anonymous

Facebook will probably strengthen the security of its servers at the beginning of November.

Seems well that the next target of the Anonymous collective community site Facebook. The "hacktivisites" whose slogan is "We are anonymous." We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. "We can" come to publish a video announcing the attack on the Facebook site for November 5.

For the collective, the famous site does not respect your privacy. It resells personal data to companies and Government agencies. He also felt that society does never totally clear account, even when the latter has been deleted. Appointment therefore on 5 November for possible problems on the most used community site in the world.

 

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HTC Chacha: Facebook in the Pocket

With Chacha, HTC hopes well to attract users of Facebook. This smartphone, with the look of a BlackBerry, has the particularity to be oriented to the network of Mark Zuckerberg. It wants proof the Facebook button below the keyboard. With different applications, it is made to simplify the use of Facebook in mobility. What is?

Test HTC Chacha: smartphone with a touch of Facebook

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Quiz of Sunday (S03E04) - Facebook

Today, fourth episode of season 3 of our Sunday quiz. And a change in the game: this will be a question for the Nostalgeek. Indeed, find photos of devices that are not referenced by Tineye and Google becomes complicated...The scale remains the same: 2 points for the first responding properly in comments, 1 point for other. The question will be asked Sunday, an index will be posted on our Facebook page Monday.

Question: which processor is currently used in the Hubble telescope and how long is it?

Good luck.Important: to avoid the "spoilers" place your answer between the following tags. [# ffffff] Your answer [/ # ffffff]. The answer will be written in white, which will avoid to see the responses of the other competitors "without the express". Comments giving a response without being placed in these tags will be not taken into account.As each week, there is an index on the Facebook of Tom's Hardware page. For information, the correct answer has yet been discovered.

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HTC Chacha: Facebook in the Pocket

With Chacha, HTC hopes well to attract users of Facebook. This smartphone, with the look of a BlackBerry, has the particularity to be oriented to the network of Mark Zuckerberg. It wants proof the Facebook button below the keyboard. With different applications, it is made to simplify the use of Facebook in mobility. What is?

Test HTC Chacha: smartphone with a touch of Facebook

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Facebook in Java app for all phones

Facebook launches an application compatible with 2500 phones Java. What boost its share of mobile users.

 

With more than 250 million mobile users, Facebook knows that it is available on as many phones as possible. Inevitably, this includes does not only focus on smartphones, but also make the effort to be present on other models, even the most basic. To do this, a version low flow designed for conventional mobile exists (Facebook Zero), but this was not sufficient. This is why Facebook launches a new application named "facebook for every Phone". Its particularity? It is compatible with more than 2500 mobile Java application.

Necessarily less complete and ergonomic application than its big sisters on iPhone or Android, but that allows to display a stream of news Lite, its private messaging, or photo sharing. Facebook for Every Phone is available for download from m.facebook.com, as well as from most alternative Java download services. An application developed by Facebook to consume the least amount of data possible. Indeed, Facebook is committed (only to the United States?) to take over expenses related to the mobile data used by the application. A good way to encourage people to try.

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Google and Facebook should change servers

Google and Facebook should proceed with an update of their servers at the end of the year which will coincide with the release of the Interlagos of AMD and the Romley, the new Sandy Bridge for Intel Server using a Socket LGA 2011. According to DigiTimes, who allegedly received information from manufacturers of servers, this should create a wave of renewal of machines and related products, such as storage or network devices.

Romley will integrate eight cores taking processors support Hyper-Threading and motherboards dual for a maximum of 32 threads. Companies are now restored the economic crisis according to assemblers, which are cited by DigiTimes. Their new economic health explains this desire to update their infrastructure.

Intel showed the first Romley to the IDF in September 2010. They integrate a memory controller channel compatible DDR3 LRDIMM (Load Reduced Dual-Inline Memory Modules) that allows systems using more than 32 GB of memory to turn each bar to its maximum rate. Conventional controllers are unable to maintain the integrity of the data of this type of configuration because of a deterioration of the signal that occurs when using all chip memory. With the LRDIMM, Intel can support 96 GB without loss of frequency.

The LRDIMM uses a buffer which reduces the flow of information between the processor and memory. The bus is therefore less taxed by the increase in the memory modules. The LRDIMM is a derivative of the MetaRAM technology. It allows to virtually consolidate a series of memory chips to simplify the task of the controller and increase the capacity of the bar. For example, it is possible to place 32 125 MB modules for a bar of 4 GB and the system sees that 500 MB 8 chips. It can be more modules on a bar. The problem is that the buffer required for the proper functioning of this technology is expensive, which explains that the LRDIMM are before any reserved for servers.

Rumours that circulated last month the Sandy Bridge Romley will use memory cache L3 2.5 MB per core, for a total of 20 MB, and will have a TDP which will be included between 40 W and 95 W following the requests of the system. They will be coupled with the chipset Intel Patsburg-B. The Romley should be marketed under the name of Xeon E5. They will also have two links QPI, 40 rows PCI-Express 3.0, 4 DMI 2.0.

They will be opposed to the Interlagos of AMD will be built on the Bulldozer architecture. They integrate between twelve and sixteen cores, memory four channels and 16 MB of L3 cache controller. They should be marketed at the same time as the Romley.

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