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Facebook accounted for barely half a percent of total online sales during Cyber Monday, the busiest day of the year for online shopping, but IBM arrived at that figure and found that Cyber Monday chatter on social networks more than doubled (up 115 percent) compared with 2010. Our guess: People talk about shopping on Facebook without [...]
Yahoo News, The Washington Post,The Independent, and The Guardianhave amassed millions of readers for social editions of the publicationsthat launched in September. These publications are all sending large numbers of posts into Facebook news feeds, often to the point of eclipsing other types of content — until users start hiding or deleting them. Here’s how the social readers are faring. [...]
It’s the bane of modern life: the two-headed monster of identity theft and identity fraud. Though the terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference. ID theft occurs when someone steals personal information about you- Social Security number, address, bank account numbers, etc. When they actually use that information for their own gain-like opening a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This time around, the status updates involve the posters revealing details about themselves or their favorite things. The end of the post asks people to click like if they want a topic written on their walls for them to answer via status updates. I’ve participated one of these in the form of [...]
The guide was penned by authorities in the field; noted former Symantec Internet safety expert Linda McCarthy, Purdue University security researcher Keith Watson, plus teacher and editor Denise Weldon-Siviy. This release covers a variety of subjects regarding online security on both the Internet and on Facebook. Here’s just a few of issues addressed in the guide: Protect [...]