Burger King is using an unusual strategy, the social-networking site Facebook as a way to attract customers. In a new ad featuring a Facebook app, Burger King provides a coupon for a free Whopper. However, the coupon is offered after they publicly remove 10 of their friends from their Facebook list. The application starts with [...]
Although the economy is struggling, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams didn’t accept a reported buyout offer by Mark Zuckereg’s Facebook of $500 million. Williams became Twitter’s CEO in October and immediately had to decide whether to sell or not. This is similar to the dilemma faced by Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang who turned down Microsoft bid [...]
Retailers in Cape Breton, Canada are utilizing social network websites to fight shoplifting during the Christmas season and beyond.
A newly formed retailers association is encouraging its members to log into websites such as YouTube and Facebook to identify the thieves. This technology is used since security camera video isn’t producing sufficient results.
It is not uncommon [...]
Facebook has won $837 million against a Canadian businessman Adam Guerbuez and 25 other unnamed people.
The man’s company, Atlantis blue Capital from Montreal, had tricked users to disclose their passwords. This allowed the company to send spam emails to over 4 million users, offering sex-related items and messages promoting cannabis usage.
Buerbuez and the others basically [...]
