Facebook’s data centers contribute to regional economic development

Well-known Digital Marketing Agency, A new report from Facebook has revealed that its data center can makes considerable contribution to regional economic development, creating many jobs and capital spending statewide.

According to the 2014 Facebook Forest City Economic and Fiscal Impact Report, the presence of its data center helped to catalyze the creation of 4,700 jobs in North Carolina and US$526m in capital spending statewide, generating $680m in economic output. Much of the economic impact is generated by the construction of a data center.

According to its estimates, Facebook's 2013 operations in North Carolina and the related economic activity have generated over $1m in state and local taxes.

‘Computational Personality’ to Reveal Superiors’ Minds

 

(Digital Marketing Agency) – Have you ever wonder what our leaders are thinking right now? The answer to this question might be enlivened with the latest technology called ‘Computational Personality’.

“This programme known as ‘Computational Personality’ gives us the ability to better understand the minds of military and political leaders which is an important aspect of strategic intelligence,” explained professor Yair Neuman of the Homeland Security Institute at Ben-Gurion University of Negev in Israel.

Using ‘vector semantics’, the program can develop numerous courses that represent human characteristic dimensions and disorders, and measuring their resemblances with human-subject written texts.

Recent test subjects found in the USA’s President, Barak Obama, during his speech from 2009 to 2014 and the leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, which turns out that both successfully portrayed a strong and wit personalities to be the front-runners.

Uber was Banned in Germany

Uber is a car pick-up service was not allowed to run in Germany, according to Digital Marketing Agency reported.

One more thing the firm has been told that its "low-cost" UberPop service could no longer take passengers and faced a fine if it continued, by a court in Frankfurt.

However, an Uber spokesman said it had decided not to suspend the service, adding that the ban was not enforceable while an appeal process was ongoing.

"Germany is one of the fastest growing markets for Uber in Europe," he said.

"We will continue to operate in Germany and will appeal the recent lawsuit filed by Taxi Deutschland in Frankfurt.

"You cannot put the brakes on progress. Uber will continue its operations and will offer UberPop ridesharing services via its app throughout Germany."

Rovio Appointed Pekka Rantala as New CEO

(Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com) - Rovio, the founder of the Angry Birds app, has named current Hartwall CEO Pekka Rantala its new chief executive officer, who will take over the job early next year.

Meanwhile, Mikael Hed, currently the CEO of Rovio, will join the company's board of directors as well as take on the role of chairman at Rovio's animation studios.

Following its global breakthrough with Angry Birds in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal birds' eggs, Rovio has expanded the brand into an animated TV series and merchandising of toys and clothing.

Yet, the Finland’s firm has struggled to retain players and earnings halved last year due to investments in the animation business as well as stalling sales.

Google Blog Search becomes search option in Google news

Well-known Digital Marketing Agency, According to reports, Google Blog Search has ceased to exist as an independent entity and has instead become a search option in Google News.

Now Google users have to visit Google News, enter a search query, click on Search Tools, and change "All news" to "Blogs" in the drop-down menu if they want to search for content from blogs. The move comes soon after Google decided to stop showing authorship in search results.

Webmaster trends analyst John Mueller said Google tests showed removing authorship did not generally appear to reduce site traffic or increase ad clicks.

According to Google's authorship support page, authorship markup is no longer supported in Web search and encourages webmasters to look into rich snippets to improve their search results.

Facebook App Reaches Ten Digits in Google’s Play Store

 

(Digital Marketing Agency) – Since making its debut on the mobile online stores, Facebook has successfully grabbed one billion users on Google’s Play Store alone to register, making it the first non-Google app to reach this overwhelming number.

After Google Maps, YouTube, and Gmail, Facebook becomes the fourth application in crossing the momentum with five billion suggestions. It is believed that the number of users are more than the recorded data shown since the app is also hosted on other online stores such as Amazon, Nokia, etc.

Following its latest announcement on removing the message system to Messenger, the firm strives to increase the number of users more on the app which is somehow successfully since its reaches between five hundred millions to a billion users at the moment.

Vendors works with Nabard to help rural India’s economic development

Well-known Digital Marketing Agency, Storage vendor NetApp and Indian rural development lender the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) are cooperating with each other in a bid to help cooperative banks to fund their data center-led disaster recovery strategies.

The scheme will help automate disaster responses via a newly created core banking solution (CBS), designed to give the small to medium sized banking sector in India the options to use multiple technology platforms.

According to Nabard’s chief general manager Subrata Gupta, the rationale is to create the right conditions for financial inclusion in rural India. The data centers that underpin the CBS system have allowed Nabard to reach out to India’s rural sector. NetApp’s solution has taken us a step closer in achieving our goal of financial inclusion in India.

Gupta said the data center strategy has brought all the cooperative banks onto a single technology platform, which has created the possibility for faster transactions and better regulatory compliance with the Indian Reserve Bank.