Sina Weibo Crosses 50 Million Active Users Per Day

A Twitter like service in China crosses a 50 million mark of the no. of active users per day. Sina Weibo is a Twitter-like micro blogging platform which claims to rocketed up by 8.3 % based on the records in March to 54 million daily users in June this year. TechWeb reports that these figures were obtained from their financial …

Taobao C2C Portal, Bans External-Linking QR Codes

Taobao, the C2C e-commerce platform from Alibaba this weekend circulated a memo to all vendors with the announcement of QR codes linking to external websites will no longer be allowed, as this process is being used to circumvent normal transaction process. No images with external-links on QR codes be uploaded now; and already uploaded ones need to be removed within …

NSA Monitors 1.6% Of Worlds Internet Traffic

The Obama administration has released 2 documents to show the scope of the NSA’s data collection program that would be slightly more transparent and/or spew numbers that would confuse the common public. The documents released disclose the fact that NSA is claimed to monitoring 1.6% of the worlds Internet Traffic and reviews 0.00004% of all traffic. This would surely make …

Facebook COO Sandberg Cashing In On Stock Rise

Facebook’s Stock bump has helped COO Sheryl Sandberg to move up in terms of monetary status, the stock bump changed her rank to $91 million this week as she cashed in 2.37 million shares about 5% with face value from $37.79 to $38.78 on Wednesday. Sandberg has been periodically offloading her shares since the company went public. Facebook’s stock price …