New Facebook follows Twitter and FriendFeed
Facebook is launching a new-look home page for its 175m users and adding features that can boost the presence of businesses and brands on the social networking service.
In a presentation at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, founder Mark Zuckerberg talked about making Facebook more “real time”, referring to the popularity of the micro-blogging service Twitter. Read more
How green will the Olympic Games be?
Sustainability is a watchword for the organisers of the London 2012 Olympics. Their aim is to make these the “greenest” games to date. Atos Origin, the key technology supplier for the Olympics is attempting to do its part.
“We are looking to reduce the amount of hardware, power consumption, air conditioning and space needed,” said Michele Hyron, Atos Origin’s chief integrator for the Olympics. The Beijing Games required some 10,000 computers and 50m sheets of paper. Ms Hyron said she hoped to reduce these levels “dramatically” in London. Read more
It was probably just a slip of the tongue, but these things can often be significant.
Asked about Twitter at the Morgan Stanley technology conference in San Francisco today, Eric Schmidt pointed out that Google had just started an account on the service, so now you could get messages from Google “in 160 characters or less.”
160? By our calculations, that’s about 14 per cent more than Twitter actually allows. The Google CEO’s other comments about Twitter also suggested he had not spent too long pondering the significance of the service. Read more
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Richard Waters has headed the FT's San Francisco bureau since 2002 and covers Google and Microsoft, among other things. A former New York bureau chief for the FT, he is intrigued by Silicon Valley's unique financial and business culture, and is looking forward to covering his second Tech Bust.
Chris Nuttall has been online and messing around with computers for more than 20 years and since 2004 has reported from the FT's San Francisco bureau on semiconductors, video games, consumer electronics and all things interwebby.
Maija Palmer has been writing about technology for the FT since 1999 and is fascinated by cybercrime, privacy and all the other issues of the information society. Based in London, she covers European tech companies and hopes that they won't all get acquired by American rivals.
Robin Kwong is the FT's technology, media and telecoms page editor in London. Formerly he was the Taipei correspondent and wrote about the companies that manufacture the vast majority of the world's computers and gadgets. He is interested in the intricacies of the technology supply chain and how China is increasingly changing the tech landscape.
Tim Bradshaw is the FT's digital media correspondent, and has just moved from London to join our team in San Francisco. He has covered start-ups such as Twitter and Spotify, as well as the online ambitions of more established media companies, such as the BBC iPlayer. He also covers the advertising, marketing and video-game industries. Tim has been writing about technology, business and finance since 2003.
