Tag: Facebook

Yahoo Leaves Investors Midway

yahoo 300x300 Yahoo Leaves Investors MidwayThe report revealed that Yahoo! A social networking site sells its assets to Luma Partners LLC. Terence Kawaja, chief executive officer of Luma Partners LLC, talks with Yahoo! Inc. under new CEO Scott Thompson over acquisitions and asset sales.

Yahoo is one of the Web’s largest content companies out of Google and Facebook that are stand with it in the competition.

Now it is time of shareholders to perform in an active way in form of company position. The entry of new CEO, Scott Thompson, looks uninspired. Before him, board had taken a decision to hire Carol Bartz who played a worse role as CEO that harms the company position. Although she came from software company Autodesk, but proved unqualified to run it. That’s why Yahoo is left back from its Rivals in the race. Read more

Facebook flirting leads to divorces

facebook flirting 300x300 Facebook flirting leads to divorcesRecently a report revealed by the law firm Divorce-Online that Facebook, a social networking site having millions users – is becoming a major factor of divorce.

However Facebook is the main reason of having hurdles in marriage breakdowns and is used as a major source of evidence in divorce cases.

Experts with computer forensics degrees can find just about anything in your computer and can use the information in court.

The managing director of Divorce-Online, Mark Keenan, said in his statement, “Facebook has become the primary method for communicating with friends for many people. People contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble.”

“If someone wants to have an affair or flirt with the opposite sex then it’s the easiest place to do it. People need to be careful what they put on Facebook as the courts are now seeing a lot more evidence being introduced from people’s walls and posts in disputes over finances and children,” he added.

Records made by the firm shows that in past year at least 33% of the 5,000 behaviour petitions filed. Facebook was cited as a reason for a third of divorces last year in which unreasonable behaviour was a factor.

On the basis of the Daily Mail report, the firm said it had seen a 50% jump in the number of behaviour-based divorce petitions that contained the word ‘Facebook’ in the past two years. Read more

Court issues summons to 21 social networking sites

google facebook yahoo 300x255 Court issues summons to 21 social networking sitesAfter directing the social networking sites for removing objectionable, offensive content , photographs, videos or text which might hurt religious sentiments by Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar, now after three days of such case, a Delhi court issued summons to 21 social networking sites including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and YouTube .

The summons are issued by Delhi Magistrate Sudesh Kumar on a private criminal complaint , for facing trial for allegedly web casting objectionable contents and also file a report in the court by January 13.

The summons has issued to companies for allegedly committing the offence punishable under section 292 (sale of obscene books etc), 293 (sale of obscene objects to young person etc) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

However in his case, the magistrate noted that in the website material submitted by the complainant, Vinay Rai, a journalist, contained obscene picture and derogatory articles pertaining to Prophet Mohammad, Jesus Christ and various Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Read more

Kapil Sibal: Find a better solution for screening offensive content

kapil sibal 300x216 Kapil Sibal: Find a better solution for screening offensive contentFrom Monday there is another bitter war start between Union communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal and Social Networking sites like Facebook and Google.

Kapil Sibal ask social networking firm to find a better solution for screening the disparaging, offensive contents on their sites because they hurt the religious sentiments of the Indians.

However discussion regarding such problem has already been done on 5 Sep. with networking firms to pre screen electronic information.

While tlkaing to media during a press conference, Mr. Sibal said, “This government does not believe in either directly or indirectly interfering in the freedom of the press.”

But the response given by Indian users on his statement is so negative that some are commented on Twitter “Kapil Sibal is an Idiot”. Read more

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