Fahad HMay 22, 20134 min readFacebook Dominates Teen Social Networking But Enthusiasm Waning Over Drama, Stress & Oversharinteens and social media report, Facebook is shown to be by far the dominant social network — in some ways surprisingly so. I say...
Fahad HMay 19, 20132 min readAfter The IPO: Facebook Survives Its “Year Of Living Dangerously”Facebook went public in May of last year at $38 and closed Friday at just over $26. The low, last September, was $17.55. The volatility...
Fahad HMay 9, 20131 min readFacebook Likely In Talks To Buy Social Navigation App WazeWaze? TechCrunch ran an article today claiming that three Israeli papers, Calcalist, Ynet and The Marker, have reported that Facebook is...
Fahad HMay 7, 20132 min readFacebook Video Ads Could Appear In Newsfeeds As Soon As JulyThe online battle for TV ad dollars continues to heat up. Yahoo, AOL, YouTube among others, and now Facebook are all aiming their sites...
Fahad HMay 3, 20132 min readFacebook Settles Litigation Over “Timelines” Trademarkreported by InsideFacebook based on an SEC filing: We are also party to various legal proceedings and claims which arise in the ordinary...
Fahad HMay 1, 20132 min readFacebook Reports $1.46 Billion Revenues, 751 Million Mobile Active Usersearnings. Revenue was nearly $1.46 billion, up 38 percent year over year (YoY). That beat financial analysts’ estimates. Net income was...
Fahad HApr 16, 20131 min readFacebook To Lose Three Electronic Arts Game Titles In Juneannounced it will be retiring its Facebook games The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society on June 14, 2013. While The Sims Social...
Fahad HApr 2, 20131 min readInstagram Gets Serious About Business With New Business Operations DirectorHer new title is Director of Business Operations, and White has already begun the transition to Instagram’s team. The news was first...
Fahad HMar 29, 20131 min readWill Facebook Launch Its Own Phone At Its Android Product Event On April 4?Facebook is announcing big news next Thursday at its Menlo Park headquarters. Invitations to attend a product announcement invited media...
Fahad HMar 15, 20131 min readFacebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Highest Rated CEO In US, Apple’s Tim Cook Falls To 18thLast year he wasn’t among the top 25. By the same token, last year’s top CEO, Apple’s Tim Cook, has fallen from number 1 to number 18 on...
Fahad HMar 13, 20132 min readFacebook Loses Motion, Faces Likely Trial Over Timelines TrademarkTimelines (plural). It obtained federal trademark registration for its name. Then, Facebook came along and used that term for its, well,...
Fahad HMar 7, 20133 min readFacebook News Feed Evolving Into “The Best Personalized Newspaper”While most people don’t think of Facebook as the equivalent of a “personalized newspaper,” that’s how many inside Facebook think about...
Fahad HFeb 28, 20132 min readFacebook Buys Atlas From Microsoft, Seeks More Proof Of ROI For Its Advertisersconfirmed its long-rumored acquisition of Atlas from Microsoft. Rumors of the acquisition first surfaced in December. And yesterday,...
Fahad HFeb 27, 20133 min readFacebook Expands Custom Audiences With Third Party Audience Segmentation DataCustom Audiences, which enables companies to upload customer or prospect databases and target those individuals on Facebook by matching...
Fahad HFeb 22, 20132 min readFacebook Using Data, Tools To Bring Online And Offline Consumer Marketing TogetherAdAge highlights a number of initiatives that Facebook has undertaken to both show the offline sales impact of its ads as well as to...
Fahad HFeb 15, 20131 min readFacebook Says Employee Computers Were Hacked, No Evidence That User Data Was CompromisedIn a blog post this afternoon, Facebook says it discovered the hack last month after “a handful of employees” had visited a compromised...
Fahad HFeb 15, 20131 min readFacebook Wins (Temporary) Reprive From Fake Names In Germanyreporting that a German court has invalidated a decision of the German privacy regulator, which opposes Facebook’s real names/identities...
Fahad HFeb 11, 20133 min readWhere Will Facebook Marketing Be In The Next Nine Years?image from Stock.XCHNG This month marks the nine year anniversary of when Facebook (then known as TheFacebook.com) was first conceived...
Fahad HFeb 5, 20132 min readFacebook Vacation: 61 Percent Of Users Say They’ve Taken OnePew survey on Facebook usage patterns leads me to want to coin a new term: “Facay” — for “Facebook vacation.” According to survey data...
Fahad HFeb 4, 20132 min readTwitter And Facebook Report On Top Tweets Per Minute & “Top Moments” During Super BThe not-so-single lady’s celebrated halftime performance generated more than 250,000 tweets per minute (TPMs). Overall, according to...
