Mover over Apple and Google; Facebook is THE most valuable brand, as far as media value goes, reports TheNextWeb. The data comes from General Sentiment in their 2012 Global Brands Media Value Report for 2012. The list shows Facebook at the #1 spot, followed by Apple and Google, respectively. This means, in simple language, that [...]
Unprecedented Growth When Facebook debuted in 2004 as an alternative to Myspace, no one would have believed that in just eight short years one out of every seven people in the world would have an account. But this is just what happened. Around noon on September 14, 2012, Facebook reached one billion active monthly users. [...]
Written on 05 Oct 2012 by Vincent AbryWe expected Facebook Timeline would have been mandatory for every user this spring. It will be this Fall. Hate it or not, you will have it starting in September or October. According to Techcrunch, a person close to Facebook told them that their goal is to push the Timeline Profile in all 955 million accounts [...]
Written on 01 Aug 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook has published its Q2 financial results, and while revenues went up by 32% to $1.18 billion, stock prices plummeted to its lowest point ever, reported The Verge. Earnings per share were at 12 cents per share but stock fell to 10 percent or more after trading hours. In the Verge’s report, tech analysts have [...]
There’s no denying that Facebook and Apple are two of the most formidable tech giants in the industry today. But what if popular online opinion tells you that this formidability is not bound to last very long? Opinion-based online community SodaHead conducted a public poll on the two tech companies and the results are not [...]
Facebook, of late, has been making a lot of changes in their site, and it appears as if the social network is bent on churning out these changes a little too diligently. After having rolled out the ability for users to edit their own comments and having launched the “Find Friends Nearby” feature just recently, [...]
If you’re one of the many Facebook users who wish you could edit your very lengthy comment rather than have to delete it and re-type it again, you will definitely welcome this newest tool from Facebook. The leading social network has just recently made available the ability for users to edit their comments both on [...]
In a clear effort at making Facebook more attractive to mobile users and advertisers, the social networking giant has been tinkering with new apps lately – two months ago it bought out social discovery app Glancee and now, Facebook has launched a new feature that allows its users to scour for friends and potential friends [...]
Leading research firm comScore has recently disclosed data as to the number of U.S. unique visitors secured by Facebook for the past month. The report showed a dwindling number, as Facebook unique visitors dropped to 158.01 million in May from 158.69 million in April. The statistics for March showed better promise at 158.93 million unique [...]
After acquiring photo sharing and processing app Instagram more than two months ago, Facebook has now bought out face recognition start-up, Face.com. Several sources report that Facebook paid $80 million to $100 million to acquire Face.com, although fresher reports from people more familiar with the deal point to a lower acquisition price of $55 million [...]
Napster founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker have launched Airtime, a face-to-face video calling web application that tries to hook up strangers with shared interests. To use the service, you will need to have a Facebook account – you will use Facebook for logging in and Airtime will crawl through various friends list to find [...]
Facebook Will Disappear by 2020, Says Analyst Eric Jackson, founder of IronFire Capital. “Facebook will lose dominance as a major web company in less than a decade, Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital said Monday on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street. “In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that [...]
Written on 06 June 2012 by Vincent Abry900 million members is probably not enough for the social Network. Facebook now wants to open profiles for kids under 13 years old. “Facebook Inc. FB -2.45% is developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 years old to use the social-networking site under parental supervision, a step that could help the company tap [...]
Written on 04 June 2012 by Vincent AbryBusinesses and brands relying on Facebook pages for social marketing will be pleased to discover two new features added by the leading social networking site – more administrator roles and scheduled posts. Admin Roles Option The Admin Roles feature enables managers to assign one role each to up to five administrators, who are allowed different [...]
Rumors on another Facebook acquisition are currently brewing, and this time it’s on face recognition software company Face.com. The Next Web has reported about a possible Face.com purchase by Facebook, based on some information published over at Calcalist, a business publication in Israel. This comes as a surprise, given that Facebook offers over the past [...]
After Facebook recently went public and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married his long-time girlfriend in a backyard affair that surprised his 100 guests and the rest of the world, another Facebook-related bit of news has cropped up: the social network of all social networks is planning to build a smart phone. The New York Times reports [...]
Despite Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion, the Social Network just launched another similar app called Camera… Camera is already available for iOS on the app store : itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-camera/id525898024?ls=1&mt=8 “When you launch the app, you’ll see a feed of just great photos from the people you care about. You can swipe to see more of [...]
Written on 24 May 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook is testing a redesigned View for Timeline Profile according to a post from TPM. The new Journal would display the name, occupation and place of residence directly on the header image, to gain more space. The main sections as the number of friends, photos, maps or favorites would be inserted directly below the header [...]
Written on 23 May 2012 by Vincent AbryMark Zuckerberg surprised the world – and less than 100 of his friends – on Saturday when he married long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan at his Palo Alto, California residence. The guests, including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, were stunned to discover that the graduation party invite turned out to be a wedding date. The previous week [...]
It’s not a beautiful day for Facebook. And not a bad day. Facebook IPO Price was $38. Facebook public opening price at 11:31 am was $42.05. At the close it was $38.23, falling back to IPO Price… “Facebook Inc. shares lost steam at the end of their first public trading session on Friday following a [...]
Written on 18 May 2012 by Vincent Abry