Facebook has announced it is buying the extremely popular photography app-maker Instagram for a reported $ 1 billion. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquisition in a blog post today: For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests. We [...]
Posted by Brian Ward on September 12th, 2011 3:24 PM Religious pages continue their stronghold on our countdown with a number of familiar options. Popular musicians offer the closest interactive competition to the ongoing leading trend. Name Fans Interactions 1. Jesus Daily 8,415,787 3,584,841 2. The Bible 8,128,113 1,288,823 3. Mario Teguh 4,686,073 1,278,915 4. Manchester United 18,858,550 962,313 5. Justin Bieber 35,612,615 909,130 6. Dios Es Bueno 4,256,468 608,486 7. MTV Roadies 2,979,653 556,313 8. Jesus Christ 2,989,878 541,383 [...]
Posted by Jackie Cohen on September 12th, 2011 4:20 PM More than one out of every five graduate business school admissions offices visit applicants’ social networking accounts to learn more about them. And 14 percent of those who do such research have said they’ve discovered things about a prospective student that negatively impacted their candidacy. These revelations were nestled in Kaplan Test Prep’s latest annual survey of 265 graduate business school admissions offices. While this study hardly focused on social [...]
Posted by Ruth Manuel-Logan on September 6th, 2011 3:49 PM Startup Brazen Careerist has launched a Facebook application that generates an infographic resume from a user’s social media accounts. Using apps on Facebook that are targeted toward career growth has been proven to be a stepping stone in landing that dream job, since the social networking site is deemed a highly valuable personal and professional networking source. In a press release, Brazen Co-Founder and Chief Operating Oofficer Ryan Healy explains why the [...]