Monday, 18 March 2013

Facebook to use Twitter hashtag style: Report


The Wall Street Journal reported, social giant Facebook is preparing to take on Twitter by taking on the messaging service's iconic hashtag (#) symbol. 







According to Facebook a hashtag search feature to make it easy for users to find messages focused on themes or happenings of interest.

The report without revealing any names said Facebook is testing use of the symbol but that the feature was not likely to be introduced immediately.

Friday, 15 March 2013

Maruti Suzuki appoints Kenichi Ayukawa as new MD & CEO



Maruti Suzuki India has appointed Kenichi Ayukawa as the next Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in place of Shinzo Nakanishi.



Kenichi Ayukawa would take charge from 1st April 2013 as Mr Nakanishi has attained the age of retirement.

This was decided in a Board meeting of the company, which was also attended by Suzuki Motor Corporation Chairman Osamu Suzuki, which owns 54.4% in the Indian company.

Kenichi Ayukawa has been associated with the European operations of Suzuki Motor Corporation and would take over the Indian operations from April 1.

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Hackers target major Czech banks




Banks revealed that hackers targeted the websites of the Czech central bank and major commercial banks. They block their servers with massive numbers of requests.



The central bank CNB revealed on its Facebook page that the attack "targeted an external web server hosting the www.cnb.cz website."

Hackers attacked Ceska sporitelna owned by Austria's Erste Bank, Komercni banka owned by France's Societe Generale, CSOB and Austria’s Raiffeisenbank.

However, banks said that these attacks causing network overloads did not threaten client accounts or data.

Moreover, the website of the Prague Stock Exchange was affected too.
This week on Monday, hackers targeted several top Czech news websites in the same way.

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Facebook CEO among world's youngest billionaires



A survey revealed that Facebook founders Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg are the youngest on the list of the world's billionaires. 



A list of Forbes revealed that Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg, at the age of 28, are the youngest billionaires who hold 3.8 billion dollars and 13.3 billion dollars.

Further list said that other co-founder of the site, Eduardo Saverin, fifth youngest at the age of 30 and with 2.2 billion dollars. 

List added that Sean Parker, the founder of music-sharing website Napster and Facebook's first president Parker is 33 years with worth $2 billion.

According to reports Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim Helu and his family top the overall 'world's top billionaires' list, with a dazzling net worth of 73 billion dollars.

List added that Bill Gates is in second place, with a net worth of 67 billion dollars.