
Facebook Continues Their Social News Push With New Editorial “FB Newswire” Accounts
Facebook is quickly becoming the go-to source for news and an irreplaceable tool for media and reporters. Today, Facebook has announced a...

Google Has 49 Pct Of Mobile Ad Revs, Just 18 Pct Of Time Spent
Google makes more than its “fair share” of mobile ad revenue based on time spent with Google mobile properties, whereas Facebook’s...

Facebook Buys Virtual Reality “Platform Of Tomorrow” Oculus For $2 Billion In Cash And S
announced this afternoon that it was acquiring Oculus — the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) gaming headset and...

Facebook Testing Business Manager, A Powerful Tool For Agencies And Large Businesses
Managers of Facebook pages for agencies and large businesses take heart. Facebook is testing a new dashboard that seems to solve many...

What’s The Most Expensive (Per User) Acquisition? Hint: Not WhatsApp
Last week when Facebook made its jaw-dropping $19 billion announcement that it was buying messenger WhatsApp many people, including me,...

Shrewd Or Desperate: Facebook To Buy WhatsApp For $19B In Cash And Stock
a stock transaction: $12 billion in Facebook shares and $3 billion more to retain WhatsApp employees over four years after closing. (It...

Facebook Q4 2013 Earnings: Big Quarter Beats High Expectations, Mobile Drives 53% Of Revenue
Facebook released a fourth quarter earnings report this afternoon that will make many investors very happy. Analysts were expecting good...

Sloppy Study Likens Facebook To Disease, Facebook Offers Sarcastic Retort
undoubtedly read, researchers from Princeton applied an infectious disease model to analyze Facebook usage and potentially predict the...

Nielsen: All Top Brands Lost Web Users To Mobile In 2013
According to data released last week by Nielsen, all the major web brands lost uniques on a year-over-year basis in 2013. The period...

Facebook Faces More Legal Action From Sponsored Stories: This Time For False Endorsements
scrapping parts of its Sponsored Stories ad product — the ads that show what other users “Like.” It turns out, the same day a Colorado...

Help A Cause While Surfing Your Feed: Nonprofits Get New ‘Donate Now’ Facebook Buttons
Facebook has launched a new feature that allows nonprofits to instantly collect donations directly on Facebook. Nineteen nonprofit...

Twitter Voted #1 Top Tech Employer & Ranks 2nd On List Of 50 Best Places To Work
Twitter ranks high on both lists, voted No. 2 for the Best Places to Work overall, and No. 1 for top tech employers. Among the 50 best...

Facebook: We Have 25 Million Active Small Business Pages
Facebook is announcing today at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco that it now has 25 million active small business (SMB) Pages....

Facebook Testing “Hover Metrics” And Other New Behavioral Data Collection
Ken Rudin, said that the company may begin capturing even more data about how users behave on the social site. The data collected could...

Facebook Q3 2013: $2.02 Billion, Mobile Generating Half Of Ad Revenue
earnings. Revenue was nearly $2.02 billion, up 60 percent year over year (YoY). Both revenues and earnings beat financial analysts’...

Forrester Research Disses Facebook To Generate Coverage, Controversy
open letter to Mark Zuckerberg.” A raw PR stunt, the letter is partly intended to generate controversy and exposure for the firm. And in...

Nielsen To Include Web And Mobile Viewing In TV Ratings
After months of testing, Nielsen will release the software developer kit (SDK) in mid-November. The SDK will allow Nielsen to measure...

Facebook Buys Israeli Mobile Analytics Company Onavo
acquired Israeli startup Onavo. TechCrunch first reported the news, which was confirmed by a company blog post. The acquisition price...

Instagram Teases Its Ad Strategy: Photos, Videos In User Feed
Ads will roll out in the relatively near future on a limited test basis. Instagram is also mindful of the potential adverse impact of ads...
























