Facebook News
Facebook v Google – Online Advertising Battle
21st May 2012
Now that Facebook is a public company, it will have to redouble its efforts to make profits and keep its shareholders happy. The best way for them to generate revenue is obviously through advertising, and so Facebook will have to make all efforts to attract advertisers to their site. More »
Bing Redesigned For Social Search
18th May 2012
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, was given a new facade last week. The change however, is not just visual, but functional as well. With this new design Microsoft hopes to be able to better incorporate social into their search engine. More »
Why ‘Pay To Promote’ Posts On Facebook?
14th May 2012
Facebook’s frantic quest to monetize everything it possibly can before the IPO is leading to some interesting and some downright surprising product announcements. The latest is a ‘Pay To Promote Post’ scheme that they introduced last week.
Facebook Launches App Center
10th May 2012
Facebook has just announced that they will be launching an ‘App Center’ to enable their users to find social web, desktop and mobile apps. More »
Facebook Clarifies That They Don’t Censor Comments
8th May 2012
Amid allegations of censoring content on the social network, Facebook has clarified that their spam filters might prevent certain text from being posted and this could easily be misconstrued as a form of censorship – and be turned into a storm in a teacup by some bloggers.
More »
Will Microsoft Sell Bing To Facebook?
27th April 2012
Speculation is rife about the possibility that Microsoft could sell their search engine, Bing, to Facebook.
Facebook Buys Photo-Sharing App
10th April 2012
With barely a few weeks to go before the launch of the Facebook IPO, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going all out to improve the features of his social network. More »
Revamped Search Functions On Facebook
2nd April 2012
Facebook and Google have been trying to outdo each other at their own game, for a while now. More »
Facebook Launches New Ads For Gamers
23rd March 2012
Following the announcement of their IPO, Facebook has been busy trying to monetise their website, in every way they can. They recently introduced ads within social games on the network and now they’re making this facility widely available. More »
Unforeseen Dangers Of Social Networking
14th March 2012
Those who invented applications like geo-tagging and timeline for the various social media services available to us surely never intended that these features should endanger the lives of people. More »
Facebook Overhauls Advertising And Brand Pages
2nd March 2012
Facebook has announced that they will soon launch a range of new services including a facility to allow advertisers to place ads on mobiles and in their main homepage news feed. This will be the first time that ads will be seen in the main content section of the popular social network or on their mobile service. More »
Facebook’s Censorship Guidelines
24th February 2012
How Facebook decides what content is to be published and what is to be banned has intrigued many users. Some light has now been shed on this issue. More »
Verified Accounts For Celebrities On Facebook
22nd February 2012
Facebook has just launched a new service that will verify the accounts of celebrities. More »
Facebook Mobile Ads – Precarious Hit
8th February 2012
One of the potential risks Facebook cited in their IPO filing was the adoption of mobile. While everybody is extremely eager to know how the Facebook IPO will fare, Facebook is already preparing to please its future shareholders, by eliminating this risk and starting to test a mobile ad service in the near future. More »
Does Facebook Refer More Traffic Than StumbleUpon?
7th February 2012
As most major social networks continue to grow in popularity, the amount of referral traffic being generated by them also grows. According to reports from several sites referral traffic from social networks is growing steadily. So which network sends the most traffic? More »
Will The IPO Change Facebook?
2nd February 2012
Facebook has finally filed for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. What will this mean for the users of the world’s most popular social network? More »
Facebook Going Public – Top Secret?
31st January 2012
While it has been discussed for a long time that Facebook will go public, it now looks as though that is finally about to happen. More »
Social Networking Most Popular Online Activity
11th January 2012
A recent report from comScore highlights the fact that social networking is today the most popular activity, worldwide on the Internet. More »
Facebook Launches Always-On Messenger Client
3rd January 2012
Facebook has just started testing a new app called Facebook Messenger for Windows. By using this app, PC users can access Facebook direct from their desktop without going to www.facebook.com More »
The Most Popular Mobile Websites Of 2011
23rd December 2011
Opera Software has recently released their last report for the year 2011, ranking the 10 most popular websites on mobile. More »
RSS
Twitter
Facebook