
Are P2P Payments On Facebook Messenger Just The Beginning?
Facebook has been involved in payments in one form or another for about eight years. It was also clear that when the company hired former...

European Report: Facebook’s Privacy Terms, Practices Violate EU Regulations
A new report (and below) issued under the authority of the Belgian Privacy Commission concludes that Facebook’s updated privacy policy...

From Speculation To Actual Sales, Facebook Debuts Conversion Lift Measurement
Despite increasing evidence of Facebook’s value to marketers, the company continues face questions about the ROI of its ads. A tool...

‘Twas Not Lizards Nor Blizzards That Took Facebook Down
In the midst of the Juno ‘Blizzard’ last night both Facebook and Instagram both went down for about an hour. The hacking group the Lizard...

Facebook To Launch “Work”, The Social Solution For Company Communication
We first learned about this project this back in November with the nickname “Facebook@Work” and the goal of creating a work-friendly...

Facebook Survey Uncovers That It Cares About World News & Celebrity Interactions
A new Facebook survey polled users with six questions on usage of the social site versus other networks and apps. From the looks of the...

Report: Facebook Targeting Professionals With Secret “Facebook At Work” Product
Denys Prykhodov / Shutterstock.com Just in case your corporate productivity wasn’t poor enough, Facebook has been rumored to be working...

Apple, Google Top Two Global Brands On Interbrand List
Apple is the world’s top brand according to branding consultancy Interbrand. That’s followed by Google in the number two position, with...

Survey: Users Show Interest In Ad-Free Social Network
After the recent uproar over Facebook’s real names policy that provided rocket fuel to competing social network Ello, the company...

No More Promiscuous Newsfeed Experimentation, Facebook Lays Out Research Guidelines
This summer, many Facebook users were appalled that the social networking behemoth had performed psychological research just a few years...

Facebook Launches Atlas, Extending Ad Serving Reach Across The Web
Over the past few months, there have been a variety of stories about how Facebook intends to challenge Google across the internet using...

Facebook’s Ad Network Challenge To Google Coming Next Week
Denys Prykhodov / Shutterstock.com According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook will roll out its web-wide, cross-platform ad network...

EU Taking Harder Look At $19B Facebook-WhatsApp Deal
European regulators have reportedly sent an unusual “second wave” of questions to a range of companies as part of its antitrust review of...

Atlas Part Of Facebook Attack On Google Display Dominance
Facebook has been building toward a full-blown challenge of Google’s Display Network (often still called AdSense). It now appears that...

Oculus Goggles To Usher In Era Of “The Virtual Web”
If “Web 1.0” and “2.0” are the PC internet and “Web 3.0” is mobile, then “Web 4.0” might be the VR web. Much in the same way that Apple’s...

Facebook’s VP Of Product Management, Sam Lessin, Is Departing
The current VP of Product Management and Harvard acquaintance of Mark Zukerberg will be leaving the company at the end of the month. Sam...

Under Cloudy Skies Facebook Makes Its Pitch To Small Business
Earlier today, I attended the FacebookFit small business bootcamp at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters. Informally, I was told there...

Was Facebook’s “Mood Experiment” Partly About User Retention?
research conducted on Facebook by researchers from Facebook, the University of California and Cornell. The research sought to investigate...

Google’s Answer To Facebook’s Oculus Rift Is Cheap “Cardboard”
blown away when I recently strapped on the Oculus Rift headset and experienced the potential of virtual reality (VR). Facebook saw that...
























