Facebook's market value fell $ 10 billion

 

Investors have reduced the value of Facebook at $ 10 billion on Friday (27/04), leading the newly listed shares to a new low.

According to Reuters , a drop of 17% of the shares led the market capitalization of Facebook for U.S. $ 48 billion, less than half the value of launching the Initial Public Offering (IPO, in English) of U.S. $ 100 billion, in May.

The latest crash cost the chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, about U.S. $ 2.3 billion, based on their participation in the company.

Social networking revenue beat expectations on Thursday (26/07) in the first announcement of quarterly results as a public company, but the company failed to reassure investors about its future prospects.

Investors worried about the social network will make money with mobile advertising expected the company would give a signal that revenue growth was improving. The stock has fallen nearly 40% of market value since its debut on the stock exchange.

They fell to a record low of U.S. $ 22.28 on the morning of Friday, before recovering to U.S. $ 23.03.

At least four brokerages, including Barclays Capital cut its price target for shares of Facebook, although the majority suggested that the company is worth more than the current trading levels.

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Skype denies in talks clips

 

Those responsible for Skype denied on Friday that made ​​changes in the terms of service for voice over IP to allow clips of calls between its users. According to reports published this week, the change would be a requirement for governments of different countries and serve to assist the police in investigations confidential.

The charges arose after the company was bought by the giant Microsoft, which recently filed a patent for the surveillance of conversations in voice over IP programs. In addition, Skype would have secretly changed its terms of use, and migrated to a system supernodos, which would facilitate access to conversations.

However, Skype's chief development officer, Mark Gillett, said the allegations are "false." "The move to the super was not made ​​to facilitate access to communications of our users and not to cooperate with the authorities," said a post on his blog .

According to Gillett, the super help the stability of the Skype network, allowing people to be located on the servers of the tool and a connection with another contact is established.

To better understand the case, read the charges against Skype and Microsoft this week.

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Creator of Amazon, Jeff Bezos donates $ 2.5 million in favor of gay marriage

 

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will make a hefty donation - $ 2.5 million - to lobby for the legalization of gay marriage in the U.S. capital of Washington. The vote on the so-called 'Referendum 74' is scheduled for next November 6, when it will decide the fate of gay couples in the state and the next U.S. president.

Besides Bezos, persons engaged in the technology industry as Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, both from Microsoft, also made donations to the campaign (U.S. $ 100 000 each). Companies like Google, Facebook and Electronic Arts helped fund the campaign.

In the latest research on the subject, 51% of respondents said they were in favor of gay marriage and 42% said they were against the law.

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Console will open source content Ouya OnLive Store

 

The console hackable Ouya, made possible in a campaign that kickstarter already grossed nearly $ 5.6 million, has partnered with a major supplier of content for platform game, OnLive, which announced that "hundreds of great games, with quality console "will be available in stand-alone product that should hit the market next year.

With open source programming, the Ouya is based on Android 4.0 and can run applications and games, independent producer or large. According to one charge of the project, the designer Yves Behar , the console will have the size of a Rubik's Cube and have a Tera3 Quad-Core processor, and 1GB of RAM.

The partnership muffles the main criticisms of the project, claiming that anything would be an open hardware he could not run games as complex as the owners of the islands.

The company had already announced a contract with Robert Bowling, largely responsible for the Call of Duty series, so that their next release - the game of zombies Human Element - has exclusivity for Ouya.

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Nokia will close its last factory in Finland

 

Nokia decided to close its last factory in Finland, his country of origin, and must dismiss 780 workers who worked on it, according to Slash Gear .

The factory gave the last phone produced today (27/07) and operations will be completely closed until September.

The closing of the plant in the town of Salo is more action in a restructuring plan of Nokia, who must resign to 10,000 employees worldwide to cut costs.

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1 billion 'things' are shared daily on Open Graph Facebook

 

Every day, more than a billion things are shared by the Open Graph of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said during an investor conference social network, according to CNET .

The social applications that add things like movies that you watched the timeline of Facebook, were announced in November last year and fell rapidly in the tastes of users. Currently, more than 5000 apps can add this information to your account.

Many of the apps recorded a large increase in usage due to sharing of information with friends. One of them, Socialcam, sold for $ 60 million, and reached because of the integration with the Open Graph.

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Solid Explorer, a genial file manager for Android

 

While most file managers work similarly, many are boring to use due to the design they have, but there is an app that not only performs well, but a good design: Solid Explorer.
Solid Explorer is probably one of the best applications when it comes to search, sort, view and share files on our Android device. Thanks to its great interface and filters available can quickly find the file you seek.
Solid Explorer can be downloaded free from Google Play .

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Huawei presents the MediaPad 7 Lite with Android 4.0

 

It seems that after the announcement of its new quad-core tablet, the MediaPad 10 FHD, the company Huawei is more excited than ever to dive deep into the market for tablets, why unveiled a new model called Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite.
The new MediaPad 7 Lite is a 7-inch tablet which bears only know that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. No information about the processor, or RAM or internal memory, although apparently possess screen resolution is 1280 x 800 pixels. Mention has been made ​​to the availability of 3G and as we see in the image will have a rear camera.
In passing we mention that Huawei plans to launch quad-core MediaPad 10 DHF in August, while the MediaPad 7 Lite would be coming to the market between October and December.

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