Go From Hustler to Entrepreneur With Jay-Z’s New Facebook App “Empire”
Jay-Z shares how he went from a Marcy Projects hustler to a one of the highest earning hip-hop entrepreneurs in his rhymes, but now he showing you can do it too with new Facebook game, “Empire.” The game incorporates real life situations. With experience points, empire cash, fame cred and karma you can move to [...]
Read MoreFacebook To Acquire Instagram For $1 Billion
Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire Instagram. The compensation will be approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain a standalone app from Facebook, but the services will have increasing ties to each other. The transaction should go through this quarter pending some standard closing procedures Last year, documents for an standalone [...]
Read MoreWelcome to Facebook Timeline President Obama
Visitors to Obama’s Timeline are greeted with a smiling photo of the president alongside his cover photo, a graph often shared by Obama supporters that highlights the president’s job creation record. Putting that chart in such a prominent position makes sense, given Obama’s apparent strategy of running for re-election on an “America is back” platform of optimism [...]
Read MoreHow To: Post to Twitter & Facebook From a Smartphone With Your Voice
I’m a gadget early-adopter. I’m also a advocate of Apple products (I’m too grown to be a fan-BOY). So I think it’s completely justifiable that I bought the iPhone 4S at full price with no uber differentiating factors from my iPhone 4 other than a dual-core processor, higher resolution camera…and the Siri voice assistant. Now with [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-20-2012
MegaUpload Shut Down MegaUpload has been shut down by the US Government. Early reports suggested that this was because of SOPA/PIPA legislation, but these have not yet been passed. Swizz Beatz was also implicated early on as CEO of MegaUpload, but he is not mentioned at all in the 72-page indictment against the company. While [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-13-2012
Google Launches Search Plus Your World Google has basically thrown down the gauntlet by (finally?) integrating their Google+ social networking site more closely with their popular search engine. Your general web search results will now be augmented by your social interactions on Google+, making it easier to find content more personal to you. The three [...]
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