
Facebook Connects Impressions To Offline Sales For Telcos
Mobile payments early on held this promise. However mobile payments haven’t yet taken off (see Google Wallet). But that hasn’t stopped...

Facebook Advertiser Banned For Using Photo Of A Teen Who Recently Committed Suicide
Rehtaeh Parsons was a 17-year-old Canadian woman that passed away due to complications of an attempted suicide on April 7th this year....

Facebook Opens Two New Twitter-Like APIs For Media Partners
The company announced two new APIs this week that are available for a limited group of media partners — APIs that let those companies tap...

Instagram Ads Coming, Seeks To Avoid Facebook’s Missteps
profile of Facebook’s Emily White (now Director of Business Operations at Instagram) in which the subject of advertising on the app is...

Facebook May Expand Use Of Facial Recognition To Billion+ Public User Profile Pictures
Facebook announced updates to its Data Use Policy this week, Reuters is reporting that the social network is considering applying its...

Return On Spam: Scam Facebook Posts Are Making Sites $200 Million A Year
According to a group of Italian security researchers those spammy links you see posted on Facebook are not only annoying but also...

Forecast: Mobile To Be 48 Percent Of Display Revenue By 2017
Data aggregator eMarketer has published a revised set of ad-revenue forecasts with an emphasis on mobile. The firm projects that mobile...

Facebook Govt Data Requests Dominated By US
released its Government Data Requests report, covering the first half of 2013. The country with the most requests by far is the US. India...

Facebook Leads Group To Connect The Rest Of The World
leading a group of mostly mobile companies to help bring 5 billion more people online. The initiative resides at internet.org. From the...

Facebook Wants To Power M-Commerce For Others
report in AllThingsD, which Facebook apparently confirmed, the company is testing — emphasis on that word — a new payments system in...

Facebook Mobile Pages Integrate OpenTable And TV Listings
Dinner and a show. Facebook is introducing new content and features to selected mobile Pages to make them more engaging and useful. The...

Facebook Hires Its First CMO — From Google
reporting that Gary Briggs has been hired as Facebook’s new CMO — the first time the company has had such a role. Most recently Briggs...

Report: Facebook Preps “Addressable TV” For $2.5 Million A Day
None have really succeeded — until perhaps now. The first truly scalable targeted TV ad solution, it appears, will soon be available...

Facebook Denies Claims Of User Dissatisfaction, Teen Disengagement
report asserting that while teens were on Facebook in large numbers they were losing enthusiasm. The report said that “94 percent of teen...

Facebook For Business: New Hub For Ad Education, Case Studies
beat expectations when it announced second quarter revenues. COO Sheryl Sandberg said on the earnings call that the company was only...

Facebook Beats Q2 Expectations, Mobile Climbs To 41 Percent
announced Q2 2013 revenues this afternoon. It beat analysts’ consensus expectations with $1.81 billion in total revenue. Ad revenue was...

Facebook Feature Phone App Crosses 100 Million Threshold
Facebook for Every Phone. It launched in July 2011 and was the product of the company’s acquisition of Snaptu. This morning, the company...

Facebook To Streamline Ad Units, Focus On Advertiser Objectives
At a Facebook “whiteboard” session today, Brian Boland, Director of Product Marketing, and Fidji Simo, Ads Product Manager for Facebook,...

Facebook’s Parse Tool Will Strengthen App-Developer Ties
Parse and its former CEO Ilya Sukhar (who heads the Parse unit of Facebook). Sukhar seems like he could be Mark Zuckerburg’s first...
























