Facebook to Acquire Oculus After acquiring Instagram and Whatsapp, Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Oculus VR, the leader in immersive virtual reality technology, for a total of approximately $2 billion. This includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock (valued at $1.6 billion based on the average closing price of the 20 trading days preceding March 21, 2014 of...

Instagram Feeds Now Available on The Web Since its inception in 2010, Instagram has almost remained an entirely mobile-only experience. That changed when the service was acquired by Facebook and they brought the profile page. Now, the company announced the ability to view the service feed on the web; by logging to your profile you will be able to view the latest photos posted by the people you follow as well as you can like (and double...

Facebook Unveils Graph Search In a press conference at its California headquarters, Facebook has unveiled “Graph Search,” a search engine allowing users to search for content on Facebook such as news posts, status updates, photos, locations and more. The service does make sense for the network massive base of 1 billion users, 240 billion photos, and 1 trillion connections. Graph Search is currently in closed...

WWDC 2012 Keynote Video Now Available Online As Today’s Apple WWDC event went off, Apple has made a public stream of the entire event available for those who missed it live. As expected and highly rumored, Apple introduced a new line up of the next generation MacBook Pro, packed with a new Retina Display at 220 PPI, Apple has surprised everybody by delivering an incredibly thin device while also bringing in cutting-edge...

Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that the giant social network, Facebook, has acquired the popular photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion. Instagram’s CEO Kevin Systrom has also confirmed the deal. The 13 full-time employees who will each receive part of a $100 million will move to the social network as a result. Not to mention Instagram has 30 million active users and...

This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life. Although the feature has been announced, it is not yet available to the public – only developers can get access. Things to consider: You probably don’t want to do this unless you’re actually a developer. Expect bugs. Only you will see your timeline at first...