How Does Facebook Work for Business How does Facebook work for business? This question has not only fascinated Facebook users, but businessmen all around the world. Social networking websites were always about fun, but how did it became a platform where business could be promoted worldwide? If you feel like you’re the only person in [Read More]
Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones — Facebook’s Phone Project Lingers, But It’s None Of Those (Source: TechCrunch) Facebook wants to be everywhere. They’ve made this very clear. They want to be on your desktop, on your laptop, on your smartphone, on your tablet, and on your dumbphone. The latter, they directly addressed with a new SIM [Read More]
RadiumOne Unveils Social Ad Format With Likes, Shares And More (Source: TechCrunch) RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads, is unveiling a new ad format today that aims to bring social elements within the actual display ad. Spawned from gWallet, RadiumOne mines social data, uses this [Read More]
CashStar Raises $5 Million To Send You Gift Cards On Facebook (Source: TechCrunch) Digital gifting platform CashStar has raised $5 million today in a Series B round lead by Passport Capital and Allen and Company. In the same space as BlackHawk, First Data, Gift Tango and Swag, CashStar offers SaaS and white-label solutions for big [Read More]
Facebook Will Be Baked Into Dozens Of Mobile Devices This Year (Source: TechCrunch) Late last year there was a news about the upcoming Facebook Phone project, which sparked a media frenzy as the social network claimed this to be wrong, only to later admit that it did exist (the explanation being that there was no [Read More]
HANDS ON: MiMedia Backup Now Shares With Facebook, More (Source: Mashable) Storage and backup service MiMedia has added the ability to link to backed-up photos, music and videos from 16 different social networks. At the same time, it lets you send photos directly to Facebook from their backup location in the cloud. MiMedia is more [Read More]
App Filters What Pages You’ve “Liked” On Facebook: Why Isn’t This A Facebook Feature? (Source: TechCrunch) The meaning of a Facebook Like has been getting more and more vague ever since Facebook changed the wording from “Become a fan” to “Like” on its Fan Pages. What’s even more frustrating than this is that there’s no [Read More]
Wael Ghonim: If You Want To Liberate A Government, Give Them The Internet (Source: TechCrunch) By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down, with massive crowds celebrating their new freedom in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. There was a coverage on CNN while Google MENA Marketing Executive Wael Ghonim [Read More]
UN Secretary Rice On Facebook And Twitter: “Governments Are Increasingly Cognizant Of Their Power” (Source: TechCrunch) American UN Ambassador Susan Rice gave an unprecedented livestreamed townhall at Twitter HQ, “a very interesting and exciting day” due to the at the time impending speech of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The talk was [Read More]
HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, But Native App Development Is An Oncoming Rocket Ship (Source: TechCrunch) HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek community that HTML5 [Read More]
INQ announces the Facebook-bred Cloud Touch and Cloud Q INQ Cloud Touch and Cloud Q After many rumours and gossips, the first ever devices to have their whole UI wrapped around Facebook are finally here. Today INQ revealed the Cloud Touch and Cloud Q – two full-bread Anrdoid 2.2 Froyo-running phones. The INQ Cloud Touch [Read More]
Facebook Makes It Official: We Bought The Old Sun Campus In Menlo Park (And Don’t Forget We’re Hiring!) (Source: TechCrunch) David Ebersman, the CFO of Facebook and Menlo Park mayor Rich Klein made the announcement: Facebook will be moving from the space it has leased on S. California Avenue and 1050 Page Mill Road in [Read More]
Echo Launches ‘Stream Server’, An AWS For Real-Time Social Content (Source: TechCrunch) If you’re a web developer you’re undoubtedly familiar with Amazon Web Services, the suite of products that allows developers to build and scale online services with a minimal amount of infrastructure costs. Today, commenting engine Echo is launching [Read More]
Appbistro Announces Appstores.com White-label App Store Platform (Source: TechCrunch) App marketplace for Facebook pages, Appbistro has expanded its scope today and launched Appstores.com. Like a non-enterprise Appia, Appstores will offer publishers the ability to create their own app stores like a (hypothetical) http://apps.techcrunch.com or [Read More]
comScore: Facebook Keeps Gobbling People’s Time (Source: TechCrunch) With 600 million users, it’s no secret Facebook is dominating social networking. And recent comScore data only reinforces the social network’s staggering growth. For example, Facebook accounted for 10 percent of U.S. page views in 2010, while three out of every ten Internet [Read More]
Finally: Facebook Co-Founder Opens the Curtain on Two-Year Old Asana (Source: TechCrunch) Two years ago, when Dustin Moskovitz announced he was leaving Facebook to start a new company with fellow-Facebooker Justin Rosenstein most people thought one of two things: He’d had a falling out with Mark Zuckerberg or he was just crazy. What could be [Read More]
The King’s Speech (Source: TechCrunch) The King’s Speech is worthy of the Best Actor award Colin Firth will likely garner at this year’s Academy Awards as a proxy for Best Picture going elsewhere. The Oscar voters are younger these days and will overlook the story of Queen Elizabeth’s stuttering father and how the reluctant prince [Read More]
Facebook Has Already Trademarked ‘Face’ In Europe – Is ‘Book’ Next? (Source: TechCrunch) Facebook is close to trademarking the term ‘face’, at least in relation to online social networking and related activities, in the United States. But as far as I know, nobody has yet pointed out that Facebook has already pulled that stunt in [Read More]
Facebook Turns Seven: From Colleges To Cairo, You’ve Come A Long Way Baby (Source: TechCrunch) From founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard to movie theaters across the US to the cover of TIME magazine to the fingertips of protestors in Cairo, Facebook has probably had more influence over our day to day lives than [Read More]
Facebook Career Postings and Jobs: Real Estate Counsel, Policy, Asia, Mobile, Strategy and More Some more clues about Facebook’s plans for Facebook’s future plans appeared in job posts from the Facebook Careers Page, as well as in new postings from LinkedIn. Everything from Real Estate Counsel to Mobile engineers in Asia to more Washington, [Read More]
Facebook Has Been Refining Their Troll-Slaying Comment System For Months; Finally Ready To Roll? (Source: Techcrunch) Back in October of last year, news started to trickle out that Facebook was completely revamping their commenting system plugin. The very thought had to send a chill down the spine of commenting startups like Disqus, Echo, and [Read More]
Facebook Launches ‘Startup Days’: Monthly Hacker Events For Platform Developers (Source: TechCrunch) As part of the launch of Startup America, a national campaign to “celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S.”; Facebook has announced a new initiative called ‘Startup Days.’ Facebook will hold 12 monthly [Read More]
Kevin Rose Invests In Facebook On SecondMarket (Source: TechCrunch) Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss have made a co-investment in Facebook on the secondary market. Rose had announced that he and Ferris recently invested in Facebook “before the craziness.” Rose talks about the investment just after the 34 minute mark. Rose and Ferriss actually [Read More]
Meetup feels the wrath of the crowd after radical changes (Source: TechCrunch) Meetup, a long time go-to place to create local online groups, has undergone a major re-launch in the past day. However, it may have missed a trick: not consulting the meetup organizers who pay through the nose for the service. There now appears [Read More]
Facebook Shares Dip 7% In Most Recent SecondMarket Auction (Source: TechCrunch) A week ago Facebook shares were being traded at $28.26 per share, a $70 billion valuation. In this week’s auction at SecondMarket the per share price declined just over 7%, to $26.25, a $65.5 billion valuation with around 2.5 billion shares outstanding. That’s a [Read More]
As MySpace Implodes, Tagged Doubles Staff And Gives Everyone A Raise (Source: TechCrunch) recently over heard someone saying of MySpace – “It used to be dirty, underground, seedy and successful. Now it’s prom at a private school.” The company is struggling to reinvent itself. But traffic continues to plunge. Comscore says they had 80 [Read More]
Marc Bodnick to Become Quora’s New Grown-up (Source: TechCrunch) Yesterday brought bad news for Elevation with a report that superstar partner Marc Bodnick was leaving the firm. The story seems to have gotten a lot more interesting today. We’re hearing reports that Bodnick isn’t simply heading for a new sexier venture firm– he’s heading [Read More]
Facebook Is Hard At Work On A Tablet-Optimized Experience (Source: TechCrunch) “We need to make a tablet version of Facebook. It’s something we’re working on right now.” That was Facebook CTO Bret Taylor speaking to me yesterday in a sit down following his one-on-one interview on stage at the Inside Social Apps conference in San [Read More]
Sony Ericsson Announces Integration Of Facebook’s ‘Single Sign On’ Across All Android Phones (Source: TechCrunch) In an industry first, Sony Ericsson Strategic Business Developer Martin Essl just announced that Sony Ericsson will integrate Facebook’s Single Sign On system across all its Android phones in the next couple of months. Launched [Read More]
Bartz On Facebook: They Have More “Little Impressions,” We Have More “Display Revenues” (Source: TechCrunch) At the tail-end of Yahoo’s fourth quarter earnings conference call today, CEO Carol Bartz was asked about competition with Facebook in display advertising. Facebook has come out of nowhere to account for nearly a quarter of all [Read More]
I’m not a fake Kate! Facebook bans royal bride’s namesake for being an imposter (but boyfriend Jonathan Ross can keep using his account) Banned: Kate Middleton has had her Facebook account suspended after being accused of impersonating Prince William’s fiancée Facebook has accused a woman of being an impostor and suspended her [Read More]
Hackers cause internet storm after breaking into Nicolas Sarkozy’s Facebook page and announcing his resignation Hacked: French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Facebook account was broken into and a resignation message was posted Hackers have managed to break into the Facebook page of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and post that he would [Read More]
Google looks to its next decade (Source: NDTV Gadgets) Google, which prides itself on helping people navigate the Internet, is facing a tangled Web as it weaves its own future. While more profitable than ever — with nearly $30 billion in revenue last year — Google is under pressure from new rivals such as Facebook [Read More]
Facebook Co-Founder Backs Start-Up (Source: NDTV Gadgets) The first check he wrote to an entrepreneur turned him into a billionaire and a lead character in a Hollywood blockbuster. Now Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder and onetime friend of Mark Zuckerberg who has shunned the spotlight for the last several years, is writing a much bigger [Read More]
The Clock Is Set For A Facebook IPO By April, 2012 (Source: TechCrunch) Today, Facebook announced that it raised a total of $1.5 billion in its latest round, giving the company a valuation of $50 billion. But it also disclosed something else: when it will likely go public. Facebook is the world’s largest social network, [Read More]
Blatant IP Theft In App Store Garners Little Response From Apple (Source: MobileCrunch) One of the criticisms of Apple’s App Store (and application stores in general) is how it is commonplace for a popular app or game to have dozens of clones. These can be sifted through due to their low popularity and shoddy icons, [Read More]
Make Your Music Go Viral on Facebook By Offering It For Free (Source: Mashable) According to Dave Glassanos, founder of Disrupt.fm, the price of a song is about the equivalent of a Facebook update. That’s up for debate, but I will say that Glassanos’s Facebook-oriented startup is pretty cool. Disrupt.fm is based on the premise [Read More]
Bubble Motion Expands Beyond Voice-Blogging With Twitter And Facebook Integration (Source: TechCrunch) Sequoia-backed Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, is expanding to include social media services today with Twitter and Facebook integration and SMS alerts. Bubble Motion’s [Read More]
The USPTO Is Reviewing Facebook’s Trademark For ‘Facebook.’ Wait, What? (Source: TechCrunch) So Facebook has been a bit aggressive with their trademarks in the past, most recently filing to trademark the word “Face.” The social network has also gone after companies that have “book” in their name. But the tables may have turned on [Read More]
Facebook Brings Mobile App to Feature Phones Facebook users who want to access the social-networking service on the go, but don’t have smartphones, now have an app of their own in some countries. On Wednesday, Facebook introduced a mobile app for feature phones, the less-expensive, Internet-capable phones that far outnumber smartphones in [Read More]
Facebook Teams With Snaptu To Launch Rich App For Feature Phones (Source: TechCrunch) Facebook has proven to be immensely popular on smart phones: it’s the most downloaded application of all time on the iPhone and probably holds the record on Android as well. But the user experience for so-called feature phones, which still make up [Read More]
Facebook backs down over contact info controversy Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users’ addresses and mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site. Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met [Read More]
Sobees Launches iPad App NewsMix, A Socially Curated Digital Magazine Sobees has made a business of creating innovative social media clients, particularly focusing on bringing Twitter, Facebook and social search to the a variety of platforms. Today, the developer is getting into the news business with the launch of NewsMix, an iPad app which [Read More]
