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Are you hungry for a piece of the Facebook IPO? If so, then pull up a chair. There’s plenty of room at the table … because the other guests are fleeing. This may come as a surprise to you. After all, for months all we’ve heard about this stock sale (whose actual sale date remains unknown) [...]
Content on Facebook informs professional bloggers’ posts more than any other type of media. That’s an extrapolation from Technorati’s latest annual survey of the blogosphere. Facebook remains the most popular form of social media, and the latter dictates what pro bloggers post more than any other source of information. This continues a trend we documented last [...]
Some 46,082 people like a page asking folks to transfer their money from banks to credit unions by November 5. The page indicates that 13,892 people on Facebook are talking about so-called Bank Transfer Day as of this writing. While the name of the movement seems almost like a synonym ofOccupy Wall Street, the Bank Transfer Day [...]
Facebook may have opened the door to marketers’ use of several verbs besides “like,” but the company appears to be stalling — so a market worth up to $40 billion has yet to be tapped. Tech blogger Robert Scoble served on a panel Thursday with Paul Adams, advertising product manager for Facebook, who told him the social [...]
U.K. visitors who’d strayed from Facebook during the summer months returned in September. Experian Hitwise reported that Facebook accounted for almost 52 percent of U.K. visits to social networks in September, up 3.08 percent from 48.86 percent in August. The only other social networking site to see a gain in the U.K. in September was [...]
AutoTrader.com hit the gas on a new app for its Facebook page, hoping to accelerate car shopping by bringing enhanced searching ability to potential buyers. Visitors to the AutoTrader.com Facebook page can now search for vehicles by body style, make, model, year, and price range. Once the search is complete, they can filter their results, and get [...]
EBay Inc is set to deepen its relationship with social network leader Facebook at a developer conference this week, a person familiar with the e-commerce company said on Tuesday. EBay will also unveil a new online identification service for shoppers called PayPal Access, the person added. The company expects almost 4,000 people to attend its X.commerce conference [...]
After months of anticipation and leaks, Facebook on Monday launched a mobile app platform and an iPad app. Facebook users previously had to use their computers for most of their Facebook gaming and app needs, but now they should be able to play and participate from almost any device with a web browser — and they may [...]
Walmart (WMT: 54.72, -0.09, -0.16%) announced a partnership today with the world’s largest social media service offering unique Facebook pages for 3,500 of its stores. The move, according to the world’s largest retailer, is an effort to bring more personal and relevant offers to its local shoppers and over 9 million Facebook fans. Last month, Facebook surpassed [...]
Say goodbye to messaging — as a way for pages to send messages to their fans, that is. Reader Kevin Evanetski, a social media strategist and founder of Social Yeah, tipped us off. He said that while managing his Facebook brand page, he clicked on “edit page,” followed by resources, and saw the following message: After clicking [...]