By Rachel Hennessey, Contributor
Facebook, Inc. has been around for nearly a decade now, and not even its disappointing IPO last May will curtail development. The company continues to unveil new features for its 1 billion users.
By Haydn Shaughnessy, Contributor
Facebook is extending its charging for messaging experiments in the UK and elsewhere, and I think it’s only a matter of time before charges become a normal part of Facebook life. …read more
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By Haydn Shaughnessy, Contributor
Facebook’s introduction of Home yesterday is belated recognition of mobile’s importance. But the mobile sector is innovating fast. What Facebook has done is provide a channel for its social networking services, lipstick on the pig. There’s plenty of money to be made that way, but can it Facebook prosper in mobile without doing more, like going deeper into the phone or broader into services that really matter? …read more
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Facebook is dominating the news cycle. But there are four reasons why its stock is at best 76% over-valued. …read more
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By Elise Ackerman, Contributor
Facebook is expected to announce today mobile phone software based on the Android operating system and perhaps a Facebook phone as well, made in partnership with HTC. And no one seems to care. …read more
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By Anthony Wing Kosner, Contributor
Facebook’s announcement today is widely expected to be a fork of Android with a Facebook newsfeed and other apps given prime default positions. It is further expected that “Facebook Home” (as it is rumored to be called) will be showcased in an inexpensive HTC smartphone called the “First.” …read more
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Facebook just issued an invitation for another of its increasingly rapid product introductions, this time inviting the press to “Come See Our New Home on Android” on April 4. …read more
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Facebook has rocked the world with its “social graph,” which tracks our connections with other people, so it can deliver highly customized news feeds and ads for each of its one billion users. But why should humans have all the fun? …read more
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Facebook today is launching a new version of its signature News Feed, the center column of status updates, photos, and videos from friends and brands you’ve “liked.” …read more
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Facebook has just responded to a New York Times article Mar. 3 that suggested the company might be suppressing posts from appearing in followers’ news feeds as a way to force them to pay to have them distributed widely. Facebook’s answer: No, we aren’t! …read more
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Facebook has been trying hard to win over skeptics who doubt it can ever become as much a forum for conversation about real-time events as Twitter. Today, it’s touting stats and and infographic about discussions during the Oscars to demonstrate that tweets aren’t the only place to read about news as it’s happening. …read more
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By Matt Miller, Contributor Facebook already knows who all of your friends are, when you broke up with your last girlfriend/boyfriend and what you did or wish you didn’t do on spring break last year. But if that wasn’t enough, Facebook may soon be tracking you at all times.
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By Robert Hof, Contributor Facebook’s highly anticipated fourth-quarter earnings will be announced shortly after 1 p.m. Pacific. They should reveal whether the social network can maintain the momentum it regained in the third quarter, as well as a sense of how well the entire online ad ecosystem is figuring out how to make money on the accelerating move to mobile computing. I’ll post highlights of earnings as well as the conference call with analysts that begins at 2 p.m. Pacific. You can listen in yourself, too. Stay tuned….
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By David Wismer, Contributor Facebook’s (FB) much-hyped announcement on Tuesday was one of the more well-covered events of the week, and the reviews of “Graph Search” ranged anywhere from “underwhelming” to “smart but expected” to “the future of search”.
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By Dave Thier, Contributor Facebook released its much vaunted graph search the other day, and to hear it from Zuck and Co., this is the beginning of a new phase in the history of the Image via CrunchBase internet. This will change the way we search the world around us and organize all information on social, […]
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By Tom Taulli, Contributor Facebook’s (NASDAQ:FB) announcement of the launch of Graph Search has sent shockwaves across the tech world. Just look at the plunges in share prices of companies like Yelp (NYSE:YELP). Graph Search is essentially a massive Big Data play, which involves the search of huge amounts of information on over 1 billion […]
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By Dave Thier, Contributor Facebook made an expansion to its basic search functions today, and for some reason, this warranted a big, splashy announcement Image via CrunchBase after weeks of speculation. This isn’t exactly new news. When I first started using it way back in 2005, you could search by basically any parameter available on people’s profiles […]
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By Christopher Versace, Contributor Facebook is expected to announce something big on January 15 and here’s at look at what it could be.
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By Dorie Clark, Contributor Facebook brought in Sheryl Sandberg for her management strength. (Image via CrunchBase) Leadership and management are very different skills. Yet most of the time, we expect corporate executives to wow us with their detail-oriented approach to management and then suddenly metamorphose into visionary leaders the moment they’re promoted. It doesn’t usually […]
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By Richard Saintvilus, Contributor Facebook is the 800-pound gorilla, but there are plenty of other potential public companies in the pipeline.
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