According to reposts coming in, social gaming giant Zynga now feels otherwise and is asking employees to return the stocks held by them or else to remain prepared to be fired or sacked from the company. Last year, when Zynga was approaching stock market, it felt that it had given out too much in the name of stocks to its employees and that it is better for the company to demand all that stock back from the employees.

Zynga had a tough time deciding which employees to ask for the stock that had been given to them. It was decided that the employees whose performance did not justify them receiving the possible cash windfall when the company finally goes public to be asked to return the stock. Social gaming giant Zynga feels it should not create a scenario that was witnessed in 2004 when some employees became millionaires overnight with Google’s IPO. The scheme has not gone down well with the employees, though.

The microblogging service has offered the service through its US sales team for more than a year, providing tools to place tweets in user timelines, promoting accounts in Twitter searches and to rank within the trending topics for a given term.

According to reports, Twitter is said to have been in talks with media and marketing agencies for a number of months, looking to attract clients and their marketing budgets. The company is also reported to be offering bundled deals, asking for six-figure investments from some companies, according to sources.

The launch of the service in the UK could see Twitter target ads on a more regional basis:

According to another agency source, Twitter is considering rolling out ads on a more regional basis, beyond country-specific ads.

Shiva Rajaraman, project manger at Twitter, came to the UK in September last year, to demonstrate the company was actively engaged with UK marketers.

The company has already spoken with O2, Vodafone, Sky and Sony about advertising on its service, having targeted an early 2011 launch before delaying its plans as it did not have a dedicated UK sales team at the time.

Twitter recently hired new sales and marketing personell, helping to finalise its advertising launch in the UK.

Ok. Well it’s not as good as an invite, but it is the best we have found so far. The theme itself is actually not great! The Google+ theme for Chrome is an unofficial version and this is why it looks like it hasnt been finished completely.

Anyways, if you want to check out the theme for yourself, then you can head over to their the download page here.

Who invested in Twitter (business angels including Marc Andreessen, Naval Ravikant, Dick Costolo, Kevin Rose, Tim Ferris, Ron Conway and Chris Sacca for a total outlay of 162 million in 2010), the rounds, its current value (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars), the economic model and a comparison of recovery with Google, Yahoo, Baidu and Sohu.

Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 has, as main novelty, the addition of audio and video calls, a feature that was expected for some time from Mac users.

You can download Mac Messenger 8 beta, by following this link.

You can then connect with your account Messenger / Windows Live usual. Of course, I remind you that the betas are often subject to failures as this are not final versions.