San Francisco – Ahead of IPO next May, Facebook Inc financial performance actually dropped. The first quarter of this year’s biggest social networking provider in the world posted a profit decline by 12 percent due to increased operating expenses.

Bloomberg reported net income up from January to March reached U.S. $ 205 million, down compared to same period the previous year to reach U.S. $ 232.95 million. Though the value of their earnings rose 45 percent from a year earlier to U.S. $ 1.06 billion. If divided by the number of active users reaches 901 million people, per capita income of up to U.S. $ 1.21, up 6 percent over 2011.

»Our operating expenses increased rapidly, so that harms our business and the opportunity to make a profit,” Facebook said in a statement, Tuesday, April 24, 2012.

Facebook alleged decline in financial performance due to operating expenses surged to U.S. $ 677 million. With high operating expenses that Facebook would be difficulty reaching the target set this year revenue of U.S. $ 6.1 billion. ”To achieve this, Facebook requires the right strategic move to increase revenues from advertisers,” said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer Inc. researcher.

Profit problem is so attention will be given up take the floor on the stock exchange next month. With a revenue target of U.S. $ 100 billion from the IPO, earnings should rise up more than doubled. By comparison, Google could profit gains of up to three times before going public in 2004. With such great performance, results of Google stock offering is collected only half the target set up.

Now, almost all sectors of Facebook revenue fell. In the first quarter, the proportion of their advertising revenue fell from 83 percent to 82 percent. Similarly, the contribution of online gaming revenues in collaboration with Zynga, which fell from 13 percent to 11 percent.

Wife of the Ambassador of Germany, and Britain to the United Nations (UN), asked the First Lady of Syria, Asma al-Assad, to ask her husband, Bashar al-Assad, an end to violence against civilians Syria.

Huberta Wittid von Voss, and Sheila Lyall Grant, sent their request through an open letter, a video recording that they upload to YouTube site.

Video entitled, Letters to the Asthma, Asthma luxurious lifestyle shows Assad, who liketo poke fun Syrian children who were killed and injured by Syrian forces of repression.

“These kids could be your children,” according to the video narration.

In one scene, they show Asma, who was giving a speech about the importance of maintaining peace, but in one other scene, showing a young Syrian, who died covered in blood.

“Asthma, if you kiss your children go to bed tonight, there are other women in Syria who mourn the departure of his son,” said the video’s narrative.

Asma’s name constantly called and asked to stop the violence by government troops.”Be for peace Asma, what do you say?”
At the end of the video, viewers are asked to visit the link on the internet and it signed a petition demanding an end to violence Assad.

Washington - U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a hacker group Anonymous. He was arrested after taunting the agency by posting a photo lover wearing only a bra and lampoon in his stomach.

Higinio O Ochoa III conduct charged illegally hacking into at least four U.S. law enforcement website. At first, when he allegedly bragged his hack spread the word through social networking sites.

Higinio Ochoa, 30-year-old man, known online, w0rmer, and working with CabinCr3w, a group of hackers who have as its mother on Anonymous. FBI said news of the arrest stems from a photo her boyfriend on the Internet that boasted his accomplishments.

It showed a woman from the neck down with a sign attached to his stomach, it is written:”pWnd by w0rmer & CabinCr3w
In February, Ochoa account on Twitter, @ AnonW0rmer, related to the theft of data from law enforcement website on display, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. At the bottom of the website, there are photographs his girlfriend, who was later known, was taken from the iPhone, according to the FBI.

Coordinated GPS information embedded in images - such as those found in all the images taken by a Smartphone - shows pictures taken in Melbourne.

Different Twitter account, @ Anonw0rmer, pointing to other sites that refer to the ‘w0rmer’, and there found more pictures of his girlfriend.

Authorities later found the Facebook pages Ochoa, who called Kylie Gardner, his girlfriend, from Australia. Although breast photo does not show her face, the FBI believes it was the same woman. They added that this is definitive proof that Ochoaw0rmer.

After tracking and placing him under surveillance, command Ochoa down the home invasion on March 20. Eight FBI agents pushed into her apartment and she was herded into a police station.

WASHINGTON – Google seems to be a major technological target of U.S. monopoly buster and the European Union (EU) after the U.S. Justice Department sue Apple because it had illegally conspired with the issuer in an e-book market, legal experts said.

In an industry where a company may be close to a monopoly position in recent years, the legal authorities of both sides of the Atlantic Ocean will continue to pursue technology giants such as they are always trying to maintain their market position, they said.

But the dynamics of the technology industry – the pace of change, and economic complex technological and market linkages that bind – they can make their move to more difficult.

“There is a present economic condition in the industry, along with their change of pace, making this industry into the industry should always be supervised by the government,” said Gary Reback, the Silicon Valley lawyer who is involved deeply with the pressure of anti-monopoly against Microsoft in 1990.

“In the technology industry, we get the network effect, which is very strong; no advantage to moving first,” as Microsoft is locking users to program their networks, he said.

“We have everything that makes the industry more vulnerable to monopolization.

Demands replaced with Minister of Justice, Wednesday, at Apple, and five book publishing companies to make aware that there are many variations of anti-monopoly cases; they accuse joined publishers to set prices for e-book.

Apple as a party to resell the products, with their cooperation accused of seeing the dominance of the Amazon in their business.

But unlike the case against Microsoft, which makes the software giant is replaced with Minister of Justice under the supervision of a decade, and similar cases such as Google will block.

Both charges stem from the so-called “monopoly arrangement”: they use their positions to illegally dominate their opponents and beat the newcomers.

The case was a difficult case to prove, but it is no less important to consumers than the network pricing, Reback said.

We will definitely continue to see many cases in the technology industry, “said Gus Hurwitz, of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania.

But Hurwitz argues that many of the anti-monopoly lawsuits – although not a case against Apple and the publishing company – probably not unreasonable.

“A lot of the acquisition of monopoly is not illegal; we do not want to penalize companies that successfully compete,” he said.

“Given the pace of innovation, it is difficult to say if intervention is needed, even if clearly needed, because these companies cooperate and conspire.

“Microsoft is practically lost in the battle against internet at the time,” he said.

Even in the case of e-book, he said, Apple’s own role is still unclear whether a classic violation of the anti-monopoly law.

“The case against Apple will be more difficult,” he told AFP.

“The industry only five years old … so it was great to see how the case of this magnitude happens to the industry that is still quite young, he added.

Anti-monopoly law expert Joseph Bauer, professor of law at Notre Dame University, said it was important to press tech giants to maintain competition.

“The target of anti-monopoly law not only has many competitors but has a strong competitor who is really able to compete.”

And he demonstrated this pressure is not just coming from Washington.

“The application of anti-monopoly law at least for the better in the U.S. and the Atlantic.

“In the past the EU is quite active in the fight against Microsoft and is now active against Apple.”

“The competition took place the whole world,” he said, noting that the agency worked with the EU to deal with some cases.

Reback who has been involved with many antitrust cases; including representing the complaints against Googel, said authorities need to focus more on search advertising industry dominated by Google rather than social networking, where facebook almost power.

“There are many people who entered the market in social networking. You will not see it in the search. Search is currently a problem,” he said.

“I think the Europeans will demand that they (Google) and I think Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in our country will also do the same.

Google said in a statement that it will continue to cooperate with the FTC’s questions.

“We designed our search results to service users rather than the site, and great things from the open internet is that if users do not like the results that we provide them to move to find on other sites with a single tap.”