Facebook’s future is mobile. While many of us still access Facebook through our web browsers, the social network is increasingly becoming a mobile powerhouse.
At GigaOM Mobilize conference Tuesday, Erick Tseng, Head of Mobile Products for Facebook, said that the company may soon be more of a mobile company than one which develops for the web. Tseng noted that of the 800 million Facebook users on the social network today, approximately 350 million access the service through a mobile device. “We will soon become a company where more than half of all our users will be mobile users,” he said. In part, that’s due to Facebook increasingly seeing adoption in countries like India and China, where broadband connectivity isn’t as pervasive but almost everyone gets Internet through mobile. “We’re getting to the point now where the countries we’re going into … don’t have many computers at all,” Tseng said. Facebook mobile users surpass desktop users for first time. CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company.
" Facebook announced its latest earnings on Wednesday For the first time there are more mobile active users than people checking Facebook on the WebThe company is getting better at making money off of mobile as well, with a boom in mobile ads (CNN) -- For the first time, the number of active daily visitors checking Facebook on mobile devices is higher than the number of people checking the social network on the Web. Overall, the company says there are 1.06 billion active Facebook users in the world. Of those, 618 million of them are visiting daily and 157 million are doing it from mobile devices.
The company's focus on putting mobile first, with new apps and features, is paying off. "In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company," said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement announcing the fourth-quarter results. Facebook's Post PC-World is Just Beginning. Facebook’s initial s-1 filing came out with a series of interesting facts, figures and details — such as its approach to China — and, with the company continuing to update the documentation as necessary, so more tidbits are coming to the surface.
Now its newly updated filing, via Inside Facebook, raises a topic that is hugely important for its future: mobile. The company has revealed that, during December 2011, more than 58 million Facebook users accessed the social network using their mobile phone only. That’s right, more than 50 million people entered through the service a mobile app or (most likely) their mobile browser, without logging in through a PC at all during the month. Though the number represents a mere 13 percent of the reported 432 million users that were active on a mobile at any point during the month, and even less of its entire 850 million plus userbase, it is a quite incredible statistic. Importantly, it is also one that will continue to rise for two main reasons.
The Facebook phone strategy explained. Facebook just unveiled, as expected, new software for Android phones that puts the social network front-and-center.
It will come preloaded on a new $99 HTC phone and be available right away on a few Samsung phones, as well. At the announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that only about a third of the world is online at this point—we’ve written about his strategy for the rest of the world—and that Facebook has the opportunity to “change the relationship that we have” with mobile devices.
Apps. Facebook buys Instagram. The One Startup That Keeps Facebook Awake At Night. Facebook Is Trying To Copy Path Says Facebook Mobile Guy. Facebook Rolls Out Major, Sweeping Privacy Changes. Facebook For Every Phone. What You Need to Know About Facebook and Mobile - Liz Gannes - Social. The hullabaloo around Facebook’s upcoming mobile products in the past week was probably bigger than the news itself.
Facebook Readies an iPad App, Finally. Jason Alden/Bloomberg NewsThe Facebook Web site is not optimized for the iPad.
Facebook had its application for the iPhone ready right when the Apple App Store opened in July 2008. But more than a year after the iPad went on sale, there is still no official Facebook app for it. That is about to change. People briefed on Facebook’s plans say that in coming weeks the company plans to introduce a free iPad application that has been carefully designed and optimized for the tablet. The app has been in production at Facebook for almost a year, going through several design iterations, and is now in the final stages of testing, according to these people, who declined to be named because they were discussing confidential product plans.
Yes, Despite All The HTML5 Talk (And Action), Facebook Is Finally Doing An iPad App. The leaking of Facebook continues.
Following our stories yesterday about their new Photos mobile app and “Project Spartan” (a new mobile app platform), Nick Bilton of The New York Times reports that Facebook will soon release an iPad app. Yes, finally. We had also heard in recent weeks that despite Facebook’s seemingly anti-iPad stance, such an app does exist internally, and has for some time. But we hadn’t been able to find anyone who had actually seen it.
Well, until right now. “It looks pretty slick. Exposed: Facebook’s Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing) It’s far too often that the term “killer” gets thrown around in tech blogs.
And yes, we’re just as bad as anybody. But what if I told you that a service that gets 6 billion photo uploads each month, and has nearly 100 billion photos total, is about to launch a new photo sharing app for the iPhone? And what if I told you that it looks awesome? Yeah, you’d call it a killer too. Such an app appears to be exactly what Facebook is on the verge of releasing. To be honest, we’re still sorting through all of them.
Either way, based on the images in front of us, the best way to think about it appears to be Path meets Instagram meets Color meets (Path’s new side project) With — with a few cool twists. Is Facebook about to have the last word in iPhone photo sharing? — Apple News, Tips and Reviews. Here is why Facebook bought Spool. Over the weekend, news reports emerged that Facebook was buying Spool, a mobile-oriented social bookmarking service started by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer.
At the surface, this seems like yet another acqua-hire but scratch a little deeper and you start to understand Facebook’s motivation in buying this company. Spool was started in late 2010 and launched an app that essentially allowed you to take web content and access it through an iPhone app. So far, if you are thinking it doesn’t seem any thing special, you are going to be right.