A share of Facebook!

IN Media Watch Briefs | 30/01/2012

Facebook plans to go 'public' on Wednesday (finally), which will result in the social networking giant being valued at between $75bn and $100bn. Reports suggest that the flotation will raise around $10bn later this year which would dwarf the $1.9bn raised by Google when it went public in 2004. So all the people interested in knowing how much Facebook makes will finally get to know their accounts. (BBC)

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.