Facebook Launches Paid App Installs. Facebook Finally Decided To Be Yahoo 2.0. Update: Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On Timeline. They’re Old Wall Posts. Updated. Some Facebook users were alarmed this morning when it appeared that private messages written in 2009 and earlier were showing up on viewable Timelines as messages “Posted by friends.” The earliest version of this post included accounts of users who claimed to have had their private messages turned into Timeline posts.
TechCrunch has investigated more, and we have found no evidence that the allegedly exposed posts were actually private messages. Our Facebook specialist Josh Constine found that email receipts show allegedly exposed messages were in fact Wall posts, and the posts do not appear in users’ Facebook Messages inbox. Facebook also says in no uncertain terms that there is absolutely no privacy bug. “Every report we’ve seen, we’ve gone back and checked. Facebook also told Constine there are technical barriers that prevent private messages from appearing as wall posts.
Previously Facebook issued the statement: Facebook's Banker, Morgan Stanley, Research On Facebook. VALUATION GURU: Facebook Is Worth $29. Charts: Facebook’s IPO In Historical Context And Its Share Price Over Time. Facebook will be the largest tech IPO in history today as the company and its early shareholders raise about $16 billion at the final price of $38 a share.
There is also an allotment for them to sell up to $2.4 billion more in the next 30 days. Here’s how it compares to other historical IPOs, according to NASDAQ data. Then here’s how it compares to how much Google and Microsoft each raised in their respective IPOs. We also have historical price data from SecondMarket, which is a private secondary market that became popular among former Facebook employees who wanted to offload part of their stake in the company. Facebook has outperformed many of the largest tech companies in the world over last few years. Here’s how the number of transactions has scaled up on SecondMarket over the last few years. WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell has 'fundamental' doubts over whether Facebook can carry adverts. FACEBOOK'S WORST NIGHTMARE: With GM Pulling Its Ads, Here's How The Other Dominoes May Fall. It's Not Just GM That Thinks Facebook Ads Don't Work--Others Say Facebook Is "Getting Worse, Not Better"
Comment peut-on être sûr qu'un ami a vu le message qu'on lui a envoyé ? - Facebook Aide. ATTENTION FACEBOOK INVESTORS: This GM Ad Cancellation Is Big, Bad News. GM to Stop Advertising on Facebook. How Mark Zuckerberg Booted His Co-Founder Out Of The Company. Facebook & Mobiles: 488 Million Mobile Users. Can we believe that? Yes, we can…! Facebook rocks our mobiles with 488 million mobile users of their 901 million registered users! Facebook finds and engages 54% of all its users on mobile phones, thus smartphones and tablets according to socialbakers. There are many apps out there in the world but Facebook knows how to engage their users. The iPhone (19%) and iPad (5%) together get a share of 24%, Android 19% and the Blackberry even 8%. Would have been interesting how much of the 32% of the rest comes from Windows phones.
Bearing in mind that almost 95% of all tablet traffic comes from iPads, this makes an impressive iPad usage market share for Facebook. Jpmorgan-facebook-decorations. Facebook Hopes to Go Public on May 17 [REPORT] Facebook Valuation $75 Million. Spotify Announces Major Stats: 1.5B FB Shares & More. Speaking at the AdAge Digital Conference earlier today, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced that as a result of its partnership with Facebook, the company has now seen over 1.5 billion Facebook shares and also 1,500 years worth of music streaming within its apps.
In addition to a number of juicy statements, including a partnership with Coke and the announcement “that every intelligent device within 2 years will have access to Spotify,” some cold hard data has been released: It’s impossible to keep up with the astounding stats in this #spotify presentation. 1.5B FB shares, 50B reach, 1500 yrs in apps #aadigital— totem (@TotemStories) April 18, 2012 The numbers are astounding, and we’re seeing them elsewhere as well: Users have already spent 1,500 years within @Spotify apps – CEO Daniel Ek #aadigital — Dani Rosen (@DaniRosen) April 18, 2012 At this presentation, it looks like Spotify’s partnership with Coke, as well as McDonalds, Reebok and Intel, has received top billing. [ boobstagram ] Four Management Rules You Can Learn From Facebook's Seventh Employee. Instagram Is Facebook's Pinterest Killer. Leon Huff - Tight Money (Laberge's cash strapped edit) by laberge. Pinterest drives more revenue per click than Twitter or Facebook.
If you’re an e-commerce marketer and you’re not already on the Pinterest bandwagon, you need to hop on it as soon as you can. Pinterest is the first social network that’s delivering not only lots of traffic but also real revenue and lots of new customers. I know this because my own company, Convertro, tracks marketing performance for our clients across various channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and others, to find out which perform best in terms of driving revenue. Our latest data shows that Pinterest is the fastest growing social media traffic source for e-commerce websites in terms of revenue. (Full disclosure: We have no relationship with Pinterest.) In Q2 2011 Pinterest.com represented 1.2% of social media revenue for e-commerce sites. It now represents 17.4% and is quickly gaining on Facebook. (That shift from 1.2% to 17.4% is based on measurements we made across 40 of our client sites — most of which are top 500 internet retailers.) New Customers. Pinterest Hires Tim Kendall.
Yahoo Sues Facebook: A Social Timeline · andreaitis. "Yahoo tried and failed, over and over again, to build a social network that people would love and use. Unable to innovate, Yahoo is falling back to the last resort of a desperate, dying company: litigation as a business model. Here are the 10 patents Yahoo is using to sue Facebook (and what they really mean) With Facebook getting ready for its IPO, Yahoo has decided to sue over patent infringement.
Yahoo used the same tactic against Google in the run up to their IPO, pocketing a helping of the search engine’s pre-IPO shares. Yahoo’s new CEO, Scott Thompson, is reportedly the one driving this aggressive strategy, with many of the company’s long time tech staff opposed to this aggressive use of Yahoo’s patent portfolio. Prominent thought leaders in the tech world are also upset. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote on his blog this morning, “The patents that Yahoo! We’ve broken out the 10 patents at issue in the lawsuit below, along with our best efforts at a translation into plain english. US Patent 7599935 Control for enabling a user to preview display of selected content based on another user’s authorization level (Filed 2005, Issued 2009) Translation: A way to preview the stuff you will be sharing with friends. US Patent 5983227 Dynamic Page Generator (Filed 1997, Issued 1999) Yahoo! Crosses The Line. Facebook & Ford SYNC Hackathon.
Facebook. Nicolas Princen quitte l'Elysée. Facebook roule-t-il pour Sarkozy? [CHRONIQUE] L'une des plus grandes sociétés américaines a-t-elle décidé de faire la campagne de Nicolas Sarkozy? Une question essentielle quand l'intéressée se dénomme Facebook. Tout commence en septembre 2011 lorsque Nicolas Sarkozy donne son feu vert à Nicolas Princen, son conseiller numérique à l'Élysée, pour préparer sa campagne numérique, en vue de sa candidature pour 2012. Princen a des amis partout: chez Google, Microsoft, DailyMotion, mais aussi au siège de Facebook. Le bureau français de Facebook a-t-il proposé à Princen d'innover pour la campagne de Sarkozy? Ou Princen a-t-il lui-même cherché un dispositif original pour mettre en avant un président tout numérique?
Toujours est-il que l'Élysée (qui dément, lire notre encadré) décide, en liaison avec Facebook, de préparer en toute discrétion une grosse opération. Ses enfants sont présents - mais ils n'ont pas de mère. Ce choix marque une différence tactique intéressante. Sarkozy ou de l'avantage d'être l'ami de Facebook. Facebook profite de l'Open Graph pour lancer un nouveau format publicitaire. Les annonceurs vont pouvoir payer pour mettre en avant des posts d'utilisateurs impliquant des actions comme "j'écoute, "je lis" ou "je regarde". A croire que Facebook accélère sa stratégie de monétisation depuis l'annonce de son entrée en bourse : le réseau social lance cette fois un nouveau format publicitaire permettant aux annonceurs de profiter des fonctionnalités apportées par l'Open Graph (lire l'article "Tout savoir sur l'Open Graph", du 26/10/2011).
Concrètement, les annonceurs vont pouvoir payer pour mettre en avant des posts impliquant des actions comme "j'écoute", "je lis" ou "je regarde" réalisées au sein des application. Selon TechCrunch, la promotion de ces posts sera affichée soit dans le ticker, soit sur la page d'accueil du réseau social. Il sera ainsi possible, par exemple, pour une major de demander à Spotify de booster l'écoute de tel ou tel titre. Zuckerberg Salary to Drop from US$500K to US$1 a Year. Since Facebook filed their registration for IPO with the SEC on February 1st, everyone has been digging into it to uncover information that was formerly very private. One of the more interesting pieces to pry into is how much money the top guys get paid. 27 year old Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO was paid $500k in salary in 2011. However, effective 1 January 2013, his salary will be $1. Sound unfair? Of course it’s not.
Based on the upper end valuation of $100 billion after the IPO, Zuckerberg will be worth $28.4 billion. This excludes performance bonuses. According to the filing, in 2011, Zuckerberg “received $220,500 for the First Half 2011 bonus, which reflected the impact of his performance in leading our product development efforts, our success in growing Facebook’s global user base and developing strong developer and commercial relationships.” But has all this wealth changed Zuckerberg as a person? Zynga Inc: NASDAQ:ZNGA quotes & news - Google Finance. Renren Inc: NYSE:RENN quotes & news - Google Finance.
Facebook IPO: Allen & Co. Makes the Cut - Deal Journal. New details on the bankers for Facebook’s IPO crossing Dow Jones Newswires right now, including confirmation that Morgan Stanley will be running the show and that smaller Allen & Co. made the cut too. Getty Images Also included on the banking list is JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, according to WSJ reporting. The IPO filing is still expected as soon as today, but this is a big score for the banks that made the list, particularly Morgan Stanley but also for Allen & Co. Here’s the report from Deal Journal colleague Randall Smith: Allen & Co. is among the investment banks that will underwrite the expected initial public offering of Facebook Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Morgan Stanley will take the lead role, people familiar with the matter said. Some other media outlets, including the International Financing Review, reported on the role of some of the banks Tuesday. The Facebook IPO Players Club: Peter Thiel. EXCLUSIVE: The IM Conversation In Which 19-Year-Old Zuckerberg Decided To Build Facebook, This Year's $100 Billion IPO. Think Facebook's $100 Billion Valuation Is Nuts? Read This. Will Facebook be the next Yahoo? Facebook has plenty of challenges as it readies to go public. By Rob Go, contributor The entire tech world is waiting with baited breath for the filing of Facebook's IPO next week.
I'm excited – the company is an absolute monster and has completely transformed the web. But, as I've reflected on Facebook this past weekend, I can't help shake a nagging feeling that the company's success feels somehow…fleeting. In some weird ways, Facebook makes me think a bit of Yahoo (YHOO). Not the Yahoo of today, but the Yahoo of the past. And I wonder if Facebook will see a similar decline over the next 10 years. Here are the major vulnerabilities that I see: 1. 2. 3. 4. All this said, it's obviously easy to poke holes at a company from the sidelines. I look forward to the company's public offering and will probably be a buyer… at least the first couple years. Rob Go is co-founder of NextView Ventures, a seed-stage investment firm focused on Internet-enabled innovation. DLD Conference on the New Livestream. DLD Conference DLD (Digital, Life, Design) is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science, and culture.
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Facebook Integration May Be Coming To iOS 5. An open letter to our man Zuck. Dear Mark – AKA Zuck, I know we haven’t formally met IRL but we hang out in similar circles. You see, the four of us are all a part of the Internet and we’re getting a little worried with everything that’s been going on. SOPA is kind of freaking us out and the guys who torpedoed the global economy (rhymes with Mold-Can Cracks) keep flirting with all our friends. We hear you’re a reasonable guy so we thought we’d write you a little letter. There is little doubt that you’ve done some real notable things for our society.
You’ve connected and reconnected us. On the flip side, we have used you in some interesting and unexpected ways. No matter how many times you refute it we know there’s an IPO coming. To be transparent, we all work for the Internet and some of us actually invest quite a lot of money with you. When you think about it, one might argue that you already have a public company. You see Zuck, this isn’t about an “exit,” this is about a new beginning. Warmest regards Zuck, 25 Billion Pieces of Content Get Shared on Facebook Monthly [INFOGRAPHIC] Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011. The Facebook Phone is Real, and Its Name is Buffy - Liz Gannes and Ina Fried - Mobile.
Zuckerberg: Google building "their own little version of Facebook" Why Do 15,000 People Care About a Missing Cat At JFK? One Word: Facebook. Facebook: Believe The Hype. WSJ Social, For a World Where Facebook Is the New Internet. The Social Network's Journey to the Oscars. Oops, Facebook Advertiser Gets A Mysterious Bill For $8.8 Million. Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia. App Filters What Pages You’ve “Liked” On Facebook: Why Isn’t This A Facebook Feature? Instant personalisation. I Want This New Facebook Filter Feature.
New Facebook Features Exposed in Accidental Update. Peter Thiel: Facebook Won’t IPO Until 2012 At The Earliest. Facebook Wants You To ‘Like’ More Stuff, Officially Launches ‘Page Browser’ With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: A Facebook Bill Of Rights. Inside Facebook Seattle [Pictures] Pulse Becomes One Of The Best Ways To Browse Facebook On The iPad. Facebook app for iPad 'riddled with bugs' A Facebook Redesign Likely Being Unveiled Tomorrow After An Employee “Lockdown” The Inevitable March of Progress: Facebook Soon Will Have More Visitors Than Yahoo. Facebook Follow: The Twitter-Eater, The Preemptive Google Me-Killer. The 12 Best Ways To Customize Your Facebook Pages. You Can Block Any Facebook User Except Mark Zuckerberg. Bienvenue sur Facebook. Inside Facebook - Tracking Facebook and the Facebook Platform fo.
Facebook Privacy. Facebook, By The Numbers. Iran: “17 million Iranians on Facebook” Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website. How Does Facebook Make Money? Facebook Acquires a Startup That Knows You Like a Friend(.ly) Disco Explorer: search your stuff on Facebook.