By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on May 2nd, 2013% 
Facebook recently faced a trial against typosquatters and earned victory. For those not familiar with the word “typosquatters”, they are people who are using names close to a popular name that possibly cause a confusion. In the lawsuit with Facebook, they are people who are registering domain names that are very close to a very popular site causing confusion to users and make money from it.
The Northern California District court ruled giving the win to the popular social networking site. Through this decision, Facebook earned a significant amount costing up to $2.8 million and takes . . . → Read More: Facebook Earned $2.8 Million in a Lawsuit Against Typosquatters
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on April 26th, 2013% 
The social network giant, Facebook, just acquired a new small company again as a part of its aggressive growth.
The company is the cloud service firm, Parse, a provider of developer tools for apps in different mobile platforms. Facebook announced this acquisition and confirmed it in their blog today. According to TechCrunch, the deal was closed at around $85 million in cash and stock.
With this move of Facebook, it is not only focusing from being a social network but a business service provider as well.
Parse is responsible for the toolbox . . . → Read More: Facebook Acquires Parse for $85 Million in Cash and Stock
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on April 23rd, 2013% 
To celebrate the Earth Day, Nissan is joining forces with the people of New York City to introduce new environment-friendly cars to be used as taxis in the city that never sleeps. Six cars from Nissan, the Leaf, is going to be the taxi and will be a test program of mayor Michael Bloomberg. His goal is to make the electric taxis the city’s taxi in 2020.
The program launched earlier today to celebrate Earth Day. The other purpose of this program is to show the New Yorkers, as well as people from other cities, how . . . → Read More: Nissan and NYC Introduces Electric Taxis to be Used in the City
By Jharma Mulchandani, on April 17th, 2013% 
Samsung, as one of the leaders in the smartphone market, has been caught red handed in paying people to bash rival smartphone manufacturer HTC.
According to reports, Samsung hired people and paid them to talk bad things over a couple of sites through comments and forums against their Taiwan-based rival. The Fair Trade Commission of Taiwan is now investigating the issue after receiving a lot of complains about these practice of Samsung.
Samsung, however, did not deny the allegations and immediately released a statement of an apology.
A tech news site, PC . . . → Read More: Samsung Caught Hiring People to Bash HTC
By Jane Gracielo, on April 17th, 2013% 
Google Maps, the worlds’ eye that can see everything from naked people to pranks to gruesome murder scenes. Yes! it witnessed a somewhat and image of a gruesome murder scene that was captured way back 2009.
Users of Google Maps have been speculating for quite a while now ever since the captured photo of a murder scene with 2 people dragging a bloody body leaving a trail to a jetty. It looks like they are trying to dump a body in the water.
The place is in Alemere in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The image had . . . → Read More: Google Maps Captured Murder Scene?
By Jharma Mulchandani, on April 13th, 2013% 
With the social networking giant rolling out the Facebook Home, they claim that they are putting people first before the app. Facebook Home is an app collective that attempts to recreate the the functions of social networking and integration of News Feed and chat in the home screen of Android devices. It is now available in the Google Play store and everyone should try and see how this software suite change your social network life.
The Facebook Home software suite is compatible with these devices as of now: Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3, . . . → Read More: The Facebook Home Software Suite now Available in Google Play Store
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on April 6th, 2013% 
Microsoft has announced today that they will stop the support for their Office 2008 for Mac.
Microsoft’s Office Suite for the OS X has long been a choice for people using Mac with their work that mostly relies on the popular Microsoft Office Productivity Suite. Microsoft managed a team dedicated to the development for their Mac-compatible software which has headed the development of Microsoft Office versions 2004, 2008, 2011, and 365.
With this halt of support from the Office team and company, users of the Office 2008 can still continue working on their files . . . → Read More: Microsoft Stops Support for Office 2008 Mac Versions
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Samsung Caught Hiring People to Bash HTC
Samsung, as one of the leaders in the smartphone market, has been caught red handed in paying people to bash rival smartphone manufacturer HTC.
According to reports, Samsung hired people and paid them to talk bad things over a couple of sites through comments and forums against their Taiwan-based rival. The Fair Trade Commission of Taiwan is now investigating the issue after receiving a lot of complains about these practice of Samsung.
Samsung, however, did not deny the allegations and immediately released a statement of an apology.
A tech news site, PC . . . → Read More: Samsung Caught Hiring People to Bash HTC