Facebook has crowned the winner of its first-ever Fb Start competition, a contest that sought to identify the best apps in the world that are part of its program aimed at helping mobile developers. The grand prize winning team, which will receive $50,000 in cash and $25,000 in Facebook Ad Credit, is Beijing, China-based Hightalk Software, makers of MomentCam. The app, which allows users to easily create and share customized caricatures of people, has been downloaded more than 200 million times. Fb Start also named a set of regional winners, each of which will get $5,000 in cash and $5,000 in…
Facebook announced that its global developer program FbStart is growing rapidly, with the number of participating startups rising by 61 percent in the past five months. The company also revealed that today it’s rolling out a new sharing feature for developers. Oh, and one more thing: Facebook announced the dates for next year’s F8 developer conference: April 12-13 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. Deborah Liu, the vice president of platform at the social networking company, spoke at a press conference today about how Facebook is reaching out to developers worldwide through FbStart. Seventy percent of Facebook’s developers come from outside the U.S.…
Bill Gates and a group of elite private investors — including Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, among others — on Monday announced the launch of Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Gates says the new multi-billion dollar clean energy research and development initiative “will help companies get clean-energy innovation out of the lab and into the marketplace.” You can read the initiative’s principles here, but the broad focus is on bringing “widely available energy that is reliable, affordable, and does not produce carbon.” The launch was timed to coincide with the opening…
In 2014, Facebook launched an initiative aimed at giving assistance to local developers to help them produce applications that would have a beneficial impact on their community and region. Since that time, the company has provided $250 million in benefits. But what makes FbStart so effective? To answer that question, look to one of its supported startups. At last year’s F8 developer conference, Facebook hailed MomentCam as a model example of FbStart. Deb Liu, Facebook’s vice president of platform, said in a statement: “We reviewed hundreds of applicants to find the ones with significant growth and retention, the best user experience…
Cornell University is erecting a massive, important new science and engineering campus on New York’s Roosevelt Island, just half a bridge away from Manhattan in the middle of the East River. The two million-square-foot campus will cost $2 billion to build, with around $100 million of capital coming from the city of New York. The full, permanent campus is expected to house as many as 2,500 students and almost 280 faculty, and won’t be completed for 30 years. However, classes will begin at another location off of Roosevelt Island in 2012, and the first phase of permanent construction on Roosevelt…
For three years, Cornell University has promised New York City a technology campus to rival Stanford University. Today, the university and its partners revealed the first glimpse of Cornell Tech, the campus to come. During a press briefing, Cornell Tech’s senior director of capital projects, Andrew Winters, gave an overview of the campus and what still needs to be done before it opens in summer 2017. In total the campus, which is roughly half a mile long, will be home to ten buildings, including academic buildings, two residencies, a hotel, a central utility plant, and mixed-use buildings that will include co-working spaces and studios.…
Russia to deploy S-400 Air Defense System to Khmeimim airbase in Syria to Protect its Jets near Turkish Border. The System can track and shoot targets from as far as 400 KMs.
Govt Soon to Invite PayPal, Amazon and Ebay for Operations in Pakistan: Anusha Pakistan has finally made all prerequisite regulatory arrangements needed for global tech companies to start their operations in Pakistan, said Anusha Rehman, Minister for State for IT and Telecom, here at a conference organized by GSMA in Islamabad. Anusha said that Pakistan is now ranked in FATF’s white-list, meaning that Pakistan has now internationally accepted anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing standards in place which were previously not available. Pakistan, until recently was listed in grey-list of FATF (Financial Action Task Force), which potentially blocked the way of…
List of few fully funded Masters and Phd Scholarship (1) Chinese Government Scholarship (2) King Abdul Aziz University (3) King Abdullah University (4) King Fahad University (5) Commonwealth Shared Scholarship (6) Politechnico di Milano (POLIMI) (7) Erasmus Mundus (8) Erasmus+ LEADERS (9) ESED Master Scholarship (10) KIC Innoenergy (11) Tubitak (12) Turkiye Burslari (13) Korean Government Scholarship Program (14) University of Twentee (15) HEC Indigenous Scholarship
