Eight hun­dred forty-six mil­lion users later, Facebook is now ready to step it up to the next level. That next level includes being a pub­lic com­pany, like its rivals Google and other tech giants.

With the IPO, Facebook is set to become worth nearly 100 bil­lion dol­lars, and with the Initial Public Offering, Facebook is mak­ing more changes. (more…)

This week­end, Ferris State hockey secure at least co-champions of the CCHA reg­u­lar sea­son title thanks to a week­end sweep against Bowling Green State and a win by Lake Superior State over Western Michigan on Saturday night. The Bulldogs con­tributed by sweep­ing the Falcons at home for a six point week­end. On Friday, FSU won 5–1 while on Saturday, they defeated the Falcons 4–1.

The Bulldogs fin­ish the reg­u­lar sea­son with a home-and-home series ver­sus Western Michigan.

This week­end, the #1 Bulldog hockey, both in the CCHA and nation­ally, face­off against Bowling Green State Falcons. The two teams already played one week­end series in Bowling Green, with Ferris secur­ing the week­end sweep with a 4–0 and a 5–3 win. Bowling Green is cur­rently sit­ting in last place in the CCHA con­fer­ence stand­ings with a 9−18−5 over­all record while Ferris State enters the week­end with a 20−8−4 record. Ferris State last week­end became the first team in the NCAA Division 1 hockey to reach 20 wins in the sea­son. (more…)

Assassination rumors shot out online after news quickly spread of the death of North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong-un. But once facts came in, there was no truth to the story. But why did it go viral so quickly? It all began with a birth­day party.

At the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, a 70th birth­day party for recently departed for­mer leader Kim Jong-il brought a large com­mo­tion to the build­ing. Rumors began to spring up on Twitter, which is still a recent devel­op­ment in the strictly con­trolled world of Chinese Internet free­dom. (more…)

After defeat­ing Notre Dame at South Bend 3–0, the FSU hockey team returned to Big Rapids to con­tinue their streak of not los­ing a game in 2012. To a sold out crowd at the Ewigleben Ice Arena, the Bulldogs got two quick goals by Nate Milam and Chad Billins. Notre Dame was forced to pull their goalie after let­ting two goals in on three shots. (more…)

Most young col­lege rela­tion­ships have dis­cov­ered a new way to express their feel­ings for each other. Instead of shar­ing phys­i­cal or emo­tional acts, they share a spe­cial type of infor­ma­tion: passwords.

The dig­i­tal age has brought social life online so it makes sense that shar­ing the infor­ma­tion for online accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr, is only nat­ural. (more…)

Spotify, a music stream­ing ser­vice, reached an impor­tant mile­stone of 3 mil­lion pay­ing users which is 20% of its user base. Spotify allows users to lis­ten to music on var­i­ous devices such as com­put­ers, mobile phones, or televisions.

The spike in pre­mium users may have occurred since it lim­ited free users who used the ser­vice for six months to only lis­ten to ten hours a month. (more…)

#10 Ferris State hockey faced off against #16 Michigan State and sweep the Spartans at home. On Friday, the Bulldogs won 2–1 and on Saturday, the score was 4–3. Both games were filled to capac­ity with a sold out crowd. The wins pro­pelled the Bulldogs to #1 in the CCHA con­fer­ence. Next week­end, they travel to Northern Michigan to play a week­end series against the Wildcats.

The United States Justice Department shut down Megaupload and its sis­ter web­sites last Thursday, remov­ing a web­site that receives fifty mil­lion daily vis­i­tors and accounts for 4 per­cent of all traf­fic on the Internet. (more…)

Your next addi­tion to your home the­ater setup may be a Kinect, but not in the way that it is avail­able now. Microsoft is rumored to unveil an improved ver­sion of their motion-capture sys­tem Kinect.

This new Kinect would become an Xbox with­out the games. Instead of being a tra­di­tional gam­ing con­sole, this new Kinect would be a one stop enter­tain­ment item by allow­ing users to uti­lize the grow­ing list of con­tent such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, ESPN, and UFC with the inter­ac­tive UI (user inter­face) that makes the Kinect spe­cial. (more…)