Twitter

Twitter

       Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets".

       Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app.Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, Austin and Detroit.
       Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006 the site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day.In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."

Google X

Google X

Google X

     As you know, Google - is not only a search engine: The company is a world leader in the creation of gadgets, internet services, and more. The most curious development team is engaged in a secret Google X, and among their projects - here are 10 ideas that the Internet giant seeks to bring to life.

1. Car without a driver will make road traffic safer.

       Experts of Google X for several years working on the project Driverless Car Program. 
Negotiations are underway with the authorities for permission to test the self-governing vehicles on public roads - as long as this agreement only states of California and Nevada. 

2. Google Glass will change the way you think about gadgets.

       Having put on those glasses, you can forget about the screens of smartphones and computers - the right information will always be available in only one eye movements. 
       One way to look up - and before you calendar, email, social networks, weather, in general, everything that you want. 

3. "Smart House" according to Google.

        The technology, called Android @ Home, will fully automate all of the life support system by connecting to the Internet, for example, while you are not home, a refrigerator will be able to order the necessary products itself, and coffee maker to make coffee exactly to your arrival. 

4. Space elevator

       According to published in the journal «Time» information Google X team in 2011, the year included the idea of ​​a "space elevator" in the so-called list of "What if ...". I must say, the very concept of this method of delivery to the orbit of people and goods put forward by K. Tsiolkovsky in 1895, the year. 

5. Watch a smartphone based on Android.

       Recently, it was reported that Google is preparing a direct competitor iWatch from Apple - a watch, combined with the smartphone: of course, watches SmartWatch smartphone from Google will use the operating system Android. 

6. Google will take care of your health.
       The Internet giant has a stake in the company Adimab, engaged in the development of diagnostics and treatment of various diseases, which would bring a variety of technologies and methods to combat diseases.The revolutionary idea is the invention of miniature sensors involved in the search and optimization of antibodies produced by the body - to start treatment only need to swallow such a sensor.

7. Internet airships cover the entire planet wireless.

       Google's ambitions as a provider of Internet reached all-time highs - the company is developing airships that will provide wireless connectivity the entire planet, including remote regions in Africa and other parts of the Earth. 

8. Game console based on Android.
       The popularity of the Android platform is growing all over the world, and Google is seeking to use its potential to the maximum.

9. The way Google determines the development of smart phones Motorola.
       Buy Google of Motorola Mobility (transaction was $ 12.5 billion) to become the owner of the first allowed 24.5 thousand patents and designs. 

10. Eco-friendly sources of energy
       The company Makani Power - developer of advanced technologies in the use of wind and solar energy: Google previously invested in the company a lot of money, and recently acquired in its entirety and included in the project, which deals with Google X. 

Google

Google

       Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These includeonline advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived fromAdWords.

       Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil." In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.

       The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world (as of 2007) and to process over one billion search requests and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data each day (as of 2009). In December 2013 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger. Its market dominance has led to prominent media coverage, includingcriticism of the company over issues such as copyright, censorship, and privacy.

       Googol is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.”

Garena

Garena

     Garena was founded in Singapore in 2009, when Forrest Li and his friends aspired to transform their passion for entrepreneurship into a great company. Mr. Forrest named the company “Garena,” a play on the words “global arena”.

     Garena is a consumer Internet platform provider in Asia.

Since the launch of its first product, Garena+, an online game and social platform for people to meet, chat and play games with each other, in 2010, Garena has seen unprecedented growth, quickly becoming the leading platform provider for digital entertainment and communication tools across Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Subsequently Garena launched TalkTalk, a highly engaging real-time voice and video communication platform in 2012. Since its inception in 2009, Garena has grown to serve millions of users across Asia.

     Garena exclusively distributes game titles on Garena+ in various countries across Southeast Asia and Taiwan, such as the multiplayer online battle arena games League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth, online soccer game FIFA Online 3 and the first-person shooter game Point Blank.

Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal

        The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage".
       Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements fromIslamic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Indian architectural styles.
       In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While the white domed marble mausoleum is the most familiar component of the Taj Mahal, it is actually an integrated complex of structures. The construction began around 1632 and was completed around 1653, employing thousands of artisans and craftsmen.The construction of the Taj Mahal was entrusted to a board of architects under imperial supervision, including Abd ul-Karim Ma'mur Khan, Makramat Khan, and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.Lahauri is generally considered to be the principal designer.

Socialcam

Socialcam

Socialcam is a mobile social video for iPhone and Android, that was launched March 7, 2011. It allows users to capture and share videos online and on mobile, as well as via Facebook and other social newworks.By July 2012, the application passed 16 million downloads and was acquired by Autodest for $60 million.Socialcam was founded by Michael Seibel, Ammon Bartram, and Guillaume Luccisano and is located in San Francisco, CA.

Functionality

Socialcam was well known for the following functionality: applying filters to video, applying themes and soundtracks to video, and smooth integration with Facebook.Socialcam's eventual goal is to replace the default camera app on all smartphones.

Brands on Socialcam

A large number of brands use Socialcam to engage their social media audiences with video content including: Brooklyn Nets, Lipton Iced Tea, New York Jets, Sierra Mist, and General Electric.A complete list of Socialcam brands can be found on its brand leaderboard 

Criticism

Socialcam's popularity on Facebook suddenly increased in the spring of 2012, via unusually aggressive actions to induce contacts to join. It was criticized as "invasive" and a "bully" by many reviewers, for sharing what users were viewing without them realizing that that would happen.This also led to questions about whether Facebook was playing favorites with what content gets featured. In response to criticism, Socialcam quickly made a number of changes to make its sharing functionality easier to understand.