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It's easy to look at Facebook and its 750 million users and ponder about the greatness of social networking, Mark Zuckerberg's determination, the site's increasing influence over every day life and so on and so forth.
The fact that it's worth tens of billions of dollars and may go public at a $... |
20 September 2011
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With the social networking market pretty much obliterated by Facebook, everyone else is looking for ways to reinvent themselves. For global social network hi5, social games are now the focus and the site has been undergoing several changes in order to transform it into a gaming Mecca. But all of these changes require... |
13 July 2010
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Social gaming is becoming increasingly popular and a big business. The trend became apparent last year, as more and more people played games on social networks and the companies that made them started raking in the money. Social network hi5 saw this as an opportunity to refocus and revamp the site with social gaming ... |
25 February 2010
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Social networking is huge in terms of users but less so in terms of revenue. While the biggest social networks are profitable the income is still well below their potential. One aspect that has proven much more profitable though is social gaming, which has taken off in the past months. With companies like Zynga on pa... |
14 October 2009
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Online classifieds provider OLX has partnered with social networking site hi5 in an effort to build on each other’s large audiences worldwide. OLX, the largest classified ad site in the world, already provides its services to many social networking sites, especially in Latin-America, and the new partnership wi... |
8 August 2009
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As you may know, in March 2008 a web-based platform called OpenSocial was launched, designed to unify hi5 payments via a single platform meant to collect micro-transactions on the social networking web property. Since the introduction of OpenSocial, developers have been laboring to find a method to integrate and offe... |
6 June 2009
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Microsoft has completed the worldwide rollout of the latest update of its Windows Live suite of services and applications. Announced just last week, the refresh is designed to stretch Windows Live across the social networking universe, and to position Microsoft's services as a hub designed to centralize users&rs... |
29 April 2009
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Microsoft is gearing up to introduce a new update to Windows Live. Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live Business Group, indicated that the refresh was just around the corner, while at the same time, making sure to point out that the evolution of the collection of services and applications under the Windows... |
22 April 2009
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Sophos warns of a new phishing campaign targeting the users of the Hi5 social network. The e-mails masquerade as a friend invitation, and the contained link directs the users to a fake login page. It's no news that identity thieves are using social engineering tactics in order to trick unsuspecting users into ha... |
15 December 2008
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Hi5, the third largest social network in the world, according to a comScore study, announced that it had expanded to include the mobile platform as well. Users from all over the world will have the possibility to login to their favorite (or maybe not favorite, if we’re to believe the numbers, but close enough) ... |
26 August 2008
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The social networks market is generally characterized by important gaps in the year-over-year evolution of the most popular hotspots. Although still holding on to the global second place, the annual rate of growth that MySpace managed to achieve was of only 3%. However, some may say that growth is of good omen, no ma... |
13 August 2008
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Social networks mean a lot of things for many people who check their accounts daily, afraid of losing any of the comments, the photo updates from their friends or other information that allows them to be socially active. In the U.S., Facebook is, by far, the most visited website of this type, with almost 30 million u... |
28 July 2008
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It's a well-known fact that the social networking websites out there, including here MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo and other services, are quite popular among today's Internet users as they record millions of new accounts every day. What's really bad is that an important percentage of the social network... |
4 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Via a new move on the Windows Live front, Microsoft is placing its instant messaging service firmly at the center of the social networking universe. The Redmond company's Windows Live Messenger is already on the top of the world in terms of audience, and Microsoft aims to solidify its position with a landmark de... |
26 March 2008
12:35 GMT |
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A few days ago, Google announced that it really wants to conquer China this time and it plans to do that by acquiring several companies which will support its expansion. But what's more interesting about this conquest is that Google also cooks some new technologies that might reveal a different side of the Mount... |
21 August 2007
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