Facebook: New Initiative, Connectivity Lab, to Bring Internet to Remote Areas

Facebook Initiative to Bring Internet to Remote Areas Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is launching a Connectivity Lab, a team of scientists tasked with bringing the Internet to remote places on the planet using new techniques, including beaming it down from the sky. Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is …

Stephen E. Arnold: Cash-Fueled Arrogance Displaced Innovation in IT Sector — No One Paying for the Plumbing [Facebook is Arrogant, Lazy, & Stupid]

Innovation: Bring Cash Last week, two of the senior ArnoldIT professionals delivered a one hour lecture to a select group of executives. The topic was related to our work in locating high-value information using open source content sources. Shortly after our presentation I read “Google Was Willing to Beat Facebook’s $19B Offer for WhatsApp.” Quite …

Eagle: Facebook & Yahoo Lose Millions of Passwords

Stolen Facebook and Yahoo passwords dumped online The database included details from many of the most popular social networks More than two million stolen passwords used for sites such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo and other web services have been posted online. The details had probably been uploaded by a criminal gang, security experts said. …

Jean Lievens: What We Need in NextGen Social Network – The Next Web (Facebook Is For Grandparents)

Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen social network By Jonathan Saragossi, Sunday, 24 Nov ’13 , 10:25pm It’s time to move on. The feeling is becoming more and more significant with each passing day and it just keeps spreading. It’s just not it any more… we want something new, exciting, which …