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Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to build his own Jarvis-style personal assistant

The beginning of the year, amongst other things, means making New Year’s resolutions. Mark Zuckerberg, known for setting himself some difficult goals, has come…

Facebook introduces live video streaming, photo collages features

Facebook has introduced its own live video and photo collages features to take on the likes of Periscope and Meerkat. The social media giant…

Mark Zuckerberg explains $45b pledge following skepticism

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO and co-founder, and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced that Zuckerberg was going to donate 99% of…

Mark Zuckerberg to donate 99% of his Facebook shares to ‘advance human potential’

Facebook CEO an co-founder Mark Zuckerberg plans to cash in 99% of his Facebook shares to “advance human potential and promote equality for all…

Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, others join to fast track clean energy innovation

Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s Bill Gates — alongside a group of 26 other powerful business leaders — have launched an initiative…

Why Facebook stumped up $1bn for Instagram

To paraphrase the punk band Anti Flag, 1-billion dollars “could buy a lot of bling”. Or, if you’re Facebook, it could buy you Instagram….

Emerging markets are killing when it comes to mobile social networks

Instagram’s a pretty big mobile social network. A user base now sitting somewhere north of the 30-million mark is nothing to be sneezed at….

Spaaza: The glue that brings together online and offline shopping

eCommerce changed everything, but beyond the convenience, choice and financial savings yielded by armchair shopping, there’s an armada of disgruntled brick and mortar businesses…

Facebook rolls out support for Indian languages on feature phone app

Facebook has added support for Hindi on its feature phone app, with plans to roll out support for seven more in the coming weeks….

Facebook takes power saving social

Facebook is looking to make going green, social. The social networking giant announced a new social energy app that allows people to track their…

Meet the billboard that grows a beard with Facebook likes

Hey guys, what’s better than growing a beard? Growing one digitally, of course. But how would one go about doing that? Enter the world’s…

It’s Startup Month at Memeburn

Every month is startup month at Memeburn, but we’re doing something special for the month of April. We invite you to let us know…

Marvel rewards Avengers Facebook fans with early screenings

Being a fan, be it of a sport’s team, franchise, or band can be frustrating. But that dedication can also, very occasionally, have massive…

Google to go into third-party comments

Google is launching a third-party commenting system. Thing is, it’s not trying to enter into the space of specialist industry players such as Disqus,…

Pinterest rolls out new terms and conditions, actually makes things better

Pinterest has updated its terms and conditions as well as its privacy policy. So what? People change their terms and conditions all the time…

Facebook, Google and the death of online privacy [Infographic]

I’ve come to the conclusion that online privacy is pretty much dead. Remember the early days of the internet, where everyone used fake names…

Intel’s narcissism machine… oh what fun

In its infinite wisdom, Intel has decided to give social network users a digital self-obsession tool — because Googling oneself is so passé. The…

Facebook: Most people get into a relationship early in the week [Study]

You’re not really in a relationship until you’re FBO (that’s Facebook Official for the uninitiated). We all know that that little relationship status update…

Facebook takes a stand against bosses requesting employee passwords

Facebook may have all the dirt on you, but it doesn’t think your boss should too. The issue of employers requesting their employees’ Facebook…

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