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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Report: Facebook IPO May Be Delayed Yet Again
Remember that May 17 date for the Facebook initial public offering that was widely reported last week? We would advise writing that in pencil, and not ink. CNBC reported that the impending IPO has not been at the top of the priority list for Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and other top executives, with the focus instead on acquisitions and running the social network. In particular, Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of... read more>>
U.K. Grocery Startup Launches Facebook Offers
Grocery-delivery startup Hello Fresh said hello to a fresh new idea for marketing via Facebook, becoming one of the first businesses in the U.K. to launch Facebook offers. Facebook offers can be created free of charge by brands, and Facebook users who click through receive emails that they can use to redeem the offers. The number of users who have claimed the offer is displayed. Hello Fresh launched an offer yesterday on its... read more>>
8thBridge Graphite Social Commerce Platform Taps Facebook Open Graph Action Verbs
Social commerce provider 8thBridge announced the launch of its new Graphite platform today, including extensive incorporation of Facebook open graph action verbs. Graphite was designed to easily integrate with marketers' existing channels and marketing systems, and it keeps shoppers in the Facebook environment until the very last step, the request for credit-card information to complete the transaction, which is handled via the retailers' existing websites and storefronts. 8thBridge Founder and Chief Executive Officer... read more>>
When Will Facebook Reach 1 Billion Users?
Following Facebook's announcement yesterday that it had topped 900 million monthly average users, the obvious next milestone is 1 billion, and according to Ireland-based bookmaker Paddy Power, August is the early favorite for when that mark will be reached. Paddy Power started taking bets earlier this month on which company Facebook would acquire next, following its $1 billion deal to scoop up photo-sharing service Instagram. Location-based mobile application Foursquare was the early... read more>>
Ticketscript Enters Facebook Ticketing Fray
European online, mobile, and social ticketing solutions provider Ticketscript introduced an application to allow music fans to buy tickets for music concerts via Facebook. British indie band Field Music is the first band to deploy the Ticketscript solution on its Facebook page, using the app to sell tickets for its 12-date U.K. tour, which kicks off Oct. 3. Ticketscript said its plug-and-play ticketing tool is currently being used to sell tickets and promote... read more>>
Podcast App Integrated With Facebook Timeline
Wizzard Media announced the launch of its Libsyn Podcast App, an application that allows the company's more than 10,000 podcast clients to integrate their content with Facebook's timeline. Podcast publishers and their Facebook fans can invite other users of the social network to watch or listen to podcasts directly via Facebook, and users' podcast activity appears on their timelines, news feeds, and tickers. Libsyn is short for Liberated Syndication, a unit of Wizzard... read more>>
Facebook for Windows Phone Update Is Near
Facebook shared details on some of the new features in Facebook for Windows Phone 2.5, a new update that is set to be released soon. The new version of the application will incorporate: Threaded messaging, including group messaging. The ability to tag friends and locations in posts by using "with" and "at." Deleting posts and comments from users' walls via the tap-and-hold context menu. Tapping on active links in posts will bring users directly to the... read more>>
S-1 Amendment: Facebook Tops 900M Monthly Average Users
Facebook officially acknowledged that it topped the 900 million monthly average users mark, saying in the fourth amendment to its initial public offering filing that it totaled 901 million MAUs as of March 31, up 33 from 680 million on the same date in 2011. The social network also reported its financial figures for the quarter ended March 31, revealing that revenue rose compared with the prior-year period, but costs and expenses... read more>>
Facebook Fans Choose National Car Rental Playlist
National Car Rental wants to know what its Facebook fans are listening to, so the company teamed up with music-streaming service Songza to allow users who like its page to help populate the "Go Like a Pro" playlist. The playlist can be streamed via the National Car Rental Facebook page, as well as via the Songza website and its applications for the iPhone, Android devices, and the Kindle Fire. Readers: What songs would... read more>>
Facebook Director Of Engineering To Participate In White House Council On Women And Girls Panel
Facebook Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein will participate in a White House Council on Women and Girls panel at the White House Tuesday featuring trailblazing women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson will moderate the panel, to take place at 10:30 a.m. ET in the Brady Press Briefing Room, and Jackson and Goldfein will be joined by: Dr. Cady Coleman, NASA astronaut and colonel, U.S.... read more>>
Check The Privacyscore Of Facebook Apps
PrivacyChoice debuted a Facebook application that allows users to gauge the privacy risks of other Facebook apps, joining the company's browser add-on, which performs the same task for websites. The Privacyscore Facebook app assigns a rating of 1 to 100 to other Facebook apps, with 100 representing privacy perfection. No developer received a perfect rating, but PCMag reported that Playdom topped the list, scoring a 93. Here's how other notable Facebook developers... read more>>
Facebook Acquires 650 AOL Patents From Microsoft
Facebook reached an agreement with Microsoft to acquire about 650 of the 925 or so patents and patent applications the software giant acquired from AOL earlier this month. Microsoft shelled out more than $1 billion for ownership of or the right to assign some 925 patents and patent applications from AOL, and it will recoup about one-half of that from the social network, which will pay $550 million in cash for approximately... read more>>
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