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| Posted: 06 Jul 2012 06:00 PM PDT
Facebook stock up slightly this week - Facebook shares closed at $31.73 today, up 2 percent this week. The stock traded as low as $30.55 on Monday, but was back up today with news that the company ended its legal battle with Yahoo and formed a strategic partnership with the company.
Facebook could launch job board – Facebook may be planning to launch its own job board later this summer, according to Wall Street Journal sources. The job board would aggregate the job postings of third-party providers, making them available for search by Facebook users, according to the report. Facebook did not comment on the rumors. The social network announced a partnership in October with the U.S. Labor Department and other partners to provide job-hunting resources. At the time, Facebook said that the “partnership will explore and develop systems where new job postings can be delivered virally through the Facebook site at no charge.” This rumored job board could be part of that effort. Facebook recognizes gay married couples with new icons - Facebook has created new same-sex marriage icons to provide recognition for users who are married to a person of the same sex. Users who have indicated on Timeline that they are married will now display the new same-sex marriage icons, rather than the marriage icon used for straight married couples.
Facebook invests in underwater Internet cable – Facebook has invested in the Asia Pacific Gateway, a 6,214-mile undersea cable designed to improve Internet speeds for citizens and businesses in the region, the BBC reports. The fiber-optic cable will run directly from Malaysia to South Korea and Japan, with links branching off to other countries. Facebook launches App Center in U.K. - Facebook continues to roll out its App Center, this week bringing the new mobile and desktop experience to users in the United Kingdom, according to Journalism.co.uk. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coke Zero, Oreo and Dunkin’ Donuts lead this week’s most talked about pages in food and beverage Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT
The top 10 pages gaining People Talking About This saw increases between about 60,000 and over 200,000 engagements. We compile this list with our PageData tool, which tracks page growth across Facebook.
Popular beverage Coke Zero has seen substantial daily growth from a movie tie-in with The Amazing Spider-Man, released this week. As seen in the graph below, the page has grown steadily from an influx of new likes which can be seen in green. The growth has occurred throughout the month of June and is likely the result of ads bought before the movie’s release.
Oreo has seen a huge increase in weekly growth thanks to publicity received for a post featuring a rainbow Oreo. The post has gone viral with many users praising Oreo for their support of gay pride. Coinciding with San Francisco’s Pride Parade weekend, the company has strategically engaged with a very responsive audience – gay rights activists.
Visit PageData to see more about the top talked about pages among retail and consumer merchandise, as well as other categories. |
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