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Google published today that it is shutting down its first social network, Orkut, on September 30. Orkut, launched in 2004 and named after Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten , who made it, was extremely well known in Brazil, where for quite a long time it was the leading social network. Facebook at last surpassed it the country in January 2012. Orkut was widely utilized within India, however never picked up footing in the U.S. also with the production of Google+ three years back, the end of Orkut was just a matter of time. "It's been an incredible 10 years, and we apologize to those still energetically utilizing the administration," engineering chief Paulo Golgher wrote in a blog entry. "We trust individuals will discover other online groups to start more discussions and fabricate considerably more associations for the following decade and past." Orkut grew out of Google's 20 percent activity, which permitted representatives to utilize a fifth of their wor...

On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Facebook Chief Operating officer Sheryl Sandberg posted pictures of their meeting on their Facebook timelines.  Mr Modi's post had been liked by more than 25,000 people and imparted by more than a 1000 inside a hour. He additionally posted, "Had an extremely productive meeting with Sheryl Sandberg. She brought up that India is an exceptionally vital country for Facebook, considering the high number of active Facebook users in India."  "Being an keen interested user of social media myself, I discussed ways through which a platform, for example, Facebook might be utilized for governance and better interaction between the people and governments. I likewise discussed how Facebook could be accustomed to bring more tourists to India," the Prime Minister said.  Mr Modi said he identifies with Ms Sandberg on how the social networking monster she heads can help his legislature in honoring the year of Mahatma ...