A record-breaking 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend, the social network announced Tuesday afternoon.
The news follows a much bigger announcement made Monday: namely, that Facebook (Facebook) has received $450 million in a new round of funding from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
Photos is arguably Facebook’s most popular feature, and one that the social network has improved through a number of product updates this year.
Most notably, Facebook began displaying “related photos” on a right-hand sidebar to encourage further photo exploration (and page views) in May, and in late September, users were able to upload high-resolution photos to the network, as well as view full-size photos in the News Feed. The last major update, released in October, brought drag-and-drop album organization to Photos, one of the most-requested features for the Photos product.
It’s no surprise that Facebook is breaking new records given the massive acceleration of user registrations in 2010, but the improvements to the product, we think, can also be attributed to its growing success.
Facebook Users Upload Record-Breaking 750M Photos Over New Year’s Weekend
Total 47 Million Units iPhone Sold in 2010?
Apple reportedly has revised its sales target in the first quarter in 2011. During the quarter Apple confident of being able to sell approximately 21 million units. At least this statement which is claimed by a company supplies components for Apple's iPhone. The company supplies components based in Taiwan, said if the initial global shipments of iPhones in the quarter is expected only to reach 19 million units. Launched by Digitimes, Tuesday (12/28/2010), the first quarter will be focused on Apple's iPhone to spawn a network based on WCDMA. Of these devices Apple would estimate there are approximately 13 million to 15 million iPhone units sold WCDMA.
Then, continued the source, CDMA iPhone will also be found at short notice in the first quarter of next year in North America and Asia Pacific. The device is predicted to be sold approximately 5 million to 6 million units.
Although not yet announced, the company's iPhone component suppliers, who do not want to be named, forecast fourth-quarter iPhone shipments reached 15.5 million units. Thus, overall sales of the iPhone has reached 47 million units in just over one year in 2010.
Today, still according to the source, Foxconn has shared with Pegatron Technology to manufacture CDMA version of the iPhone, while for the WCDMA-based iPhone is still held by a single by Foxconn alone.