Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
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Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?
Last weekend the news broke that Facebook was acquiring Instagram for $1 billion. Needless to say the tech news circles were buzzing with this announcement all week. According to an article on TheNextWeb Twitter had also tried to acquire them, but failed. And others suggest that Google may have been trying to acquire them ..…
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Facebook Getting Serious With Places
It looks like Facebook is getting set to make a serious play in location based services in Europe. According to an article in today’s Guardian the social networking behemoth is about to launch of “Deals” which would give users benefits and discounts at local retailers. The company has announced partnership deals with several “heavy hitters”…
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The Social Network On Release In Ireland – What Do People Think Of It?
Last weekend The Social Network went on general release in the UK and Ireland. It’s currently playing in most of the cinema chains across Ireland and seems to have been well received. Have you seen it? If you have, what did you think of it? Seemingly Mark Zuckerberg isn’t overly impressed with it, but then…