Facebook Buzz About 'Best Picture' Oscar Nominees Is Way Up This Year
The nine Oscar-nominated Best Picture contenders have sparked a high volume of chatter from Facebook users — 20 times higher so far than last year, according to data Facebook and ABC shared with...
View ArticleA Juicy Hands-On With The Facebook Omni-Gift Card
“Uh Facebook Gift Card?”, the Jamba Juice cashier said with a twang. “I don’t even know what that is.” But that didn’t stop her from ringing up my purchase with Facebook’s invasion of brick-and-mortar...
View ArticleFacebook, 18 Carriers Partner To Use Discounted Messages To Lure New Users,...
Facebook is deepening its relationships with carriers in emerging markets today with a deal that would bring free or discounted data access for people who use Facebook Messages.The company has done...
View ArticleInstagram Hits 100 Million Monthly Users 28 Months After Launch
From just two guys at rented desks to a $715 million sale to Facebook, a second wind on Android and a mess of privacy scares, Instagram today announced 100 million people use it every month to share...
View ArticleHow Bad Did Analytics Bugs Fool Facebook Pages? Reach Looked Down 14% When It...
Months of mysterious Insights bugs duped Facebook Page owners into thinking their reach was plummeting. The median Page’s analytics showed it reached 14.39 percent fewer people than it actually did,...
View ArticleFacebook Nudges Users to Catalog the Real World
More than 1 billion people visit Facebook each month, mostly to see photos and messages posted by friends. Facebook hopes to encourage some of them to do a little work for it while they’re there. By...
View ArticleFacebook Gives Examples To Jumpstart Usage Of Graph Search, Which It May Have...
Photos and the news feed are where people spend their time on Facebook. Yet its last two big products were relatively niche features, Timeline and the new Graph Search. Facebook today published...
View ArticleFacebook Gifts Sales And Revenue Off To A Slow Start
A billion-dollar business? Maybe not. Despite lofty projections for Facebook Gifts from analysts, reporters and myself, a new report picks apart public statements from the company to suggest it sold a...
View ArticleFacebook Confirms It Will Acquire Atlas Advertiser Suite From Microsoft To...
After weeks of rumors, Facebook today announced it will buy the Atlas Advertiser Suite away from Microsoft. Despite rumors, Facebook said it didn’t buy Atlas to launch an ad network, but to help...
View ArticleFacebook’s News Feed, A Skittish Gift Horse
Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured. This and...
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