Imo.im Ralph and Georges Harik are brothers. They cofounded Imo.im together. In 1999, Georges Harik received a phone call that would change his life. “It was from a friend of mine. I was working at Silicon Graphics at the time,” he recalls. “They said, ‘My friend’s boyfriend is starting a company, do you want...
The Federal Trade Commission approved a final settlement with Facebook Friday over the social platform’s privacy policies. Way to go FTC, it is about time the government stepped up and scared the pants off these big, reckless technology companies that run ripshod over their users. But, wait. What is this? The FTC carries a...
Sina Weibo was by far the most popular Chinese micro-blogging service during the Olympics, recording twice as many Olympics-related messages from PCs during the games as Twitter did across all devices. New data from Hitwise compares the four top Twitter-like competitors in China: Sina, Tencent, Sohu and Netease, Sina Tech reports (translation). It’s worth noting,...
Want to reach the lovely citizens of Corvallis, Oregon with news of your lovely widget? Well, you can, but to hit them across a few mediums will take some leg work. That problem, the issue of local advertising being plodding to execute, is what Savveo wants to address. Claiming the local advertising market to...
All-in-one instant messaging service imo.im is expanding beyond its text roots into the world of voice. On Monday it announced a new update for its iPhone app supporting free VoIP calls between imo users on either cellular of Wi-Fi connections. The iPhone update complements the VoIP calling feature it added to Android back in...
Over the weekend, budding Twitter competitor App.net reached its funding goal of $500,000. Already the service has an alpha website and an API, allowing backers and hackers alike to play with it. As to be expected, the early users are geeky – and mostly male. It’s fun watching a nascent service find its legs....
The rise of Chinese microblog services like Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo as a social phenomenon has been a common story as of late, but Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has stayed loyal to Twitter, which he calls his “favorite city,” as his outlet to the censorship he faces in Beijing. In an interview with Foreign...