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Friday, August 24, 2012
Does Sentiment About Facebook On Twitter Have An Effect On Stock Price?
Facebook is getting lampooned all over the Web for its tumbling stock price. DCM Capital, which tracks social media sentiment, wanted to find out if there was any sort of link between the way people are dismissing Facebook on Twitter and the decline of the social network's stock price. While there is a correlation, it's a stretch to say that tweets drowned the stock. As a way to drum up excitement for... read more>>
Univision, Facebook Partner For Hispanic Forums Featuring President Obama, Mitt Romney
In an effort to reach out to U.S. Hispanic voters, Facebook recently announced a partnership with Univision to host forums featuring President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney. These events will allow Obama and Romney to address issues facing America's Hispanic community and will feature plenty of engagement via the social network. Although dates for the two events have not yet been announced, a note on the U.S. Politics on Facebook... read more>>
UBS Joins Citigroup In Urging SEC To Reject Nasdaq Settlement Offer Over Facebook IPO
Add UBS to the list of financial firms that are unhappy with the $62 million settlement proposal by Nasdaq parent Nasdaq OMX Group to compensate firms affected by the technical issues that marred Facebook's initial public offering, as it followed the lead of Citigroup in sending a long letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission. CBS MoneyWatch reported that UBS is claiming $356 million in losses related to the Facebook IPO, and... read more>>
Social Media Jobs: Wooga, Blue Shell Games, Machine Zone
This week, Wooga is hiring a monster artist, while Blue Shell Games needs a UI game artist. Machine Zone is seeking a senior unity engineer, and Red Robot is on the hunt for a tools engineer. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro. Monster Artist Wooga (Berlin, Germany) UI Game Artist Blue Shell Games (San Francisco, CA) Senior Unity Engineer Machine Zone (Palo Alto, CA) Tools Engineer... read more>>
American Bible Society Creates Facebook Game Based On GSN's 'The American Bible Challenge'
It's all about the Bible in The American Bible Challenge, a new Facebook game from the American Bible Society based on the GSN cable show of the same name, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. The American Bible Challenge tests Facebook users' knowledge of the Bible, and the game contains exclusive content related to the cable series, which debuted on GSN Thursday night. American Bible Society Chief Communications Officer Geoffrey Morin said: The American Bible Challenge... read more>>
North Social Debuts IFrame Editor Facebook App
Facebook application provider North Social, which was acquired by Vocus in February 2011, released its new iFrame Editor app, which allows brand managers to build custom Facebook pages and promotions. Page administrators can use uploaded images, iFrames, and custom HTML code, and iFrame Editor also supports fan gating, or allowing only Facebook users who have liked pages to access exclusive content. North Social said iFrame Editor is available as part of its suite,... read more>>
Next Up For Facebook: Android
Now that Facebook has given its Apple iOS application a serious speed boost, it's time for the company to focus on Android devices. While Inside Facebook has the scoop on the latest update for Facebook's Android app, Business Insider said employees are being forced to work on Android to brainstorm new ideas. The latest update for Android includes the ability to create events - something that wasn't available previously. It's pretty clean... read more>>
Flash Game Zuck Runner Pokes Fun At Facebook's Stock Price
Here's one solution to help Facebook reverse its declining stock price: Make Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg run, jump, and collect coins. That's the premise behind Flash game Zuck Runner, from OneMoreLevel.com, which described game play as follows: Hold the mouse button to jump, hold longer to jump higher. Collect as many coins as possible to save your falling stock! Run along the level collecting coins and watch Facebook's stock plummet! OneMoreLevel.com was founded... read more>>
Facebook Trying To Balance Zynga With Other Game Developers
Facebook's relationship with major game developer Zynga has gotten complicated. The two companies have been tied at the hip for a long time, but Zynga has been trying to cut back its reliance on the social network, since Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of profits from games on its platform. Facebook also wants the entire games ecosystem to thrive, not just Zynga. So when Facebook opened the app center, it... read more>>
Facebook VP Of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh Talks Big Data, Project Prism
Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh offered up some data on big data at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, sharing statistics with reporters and describing the social network's Project Prism data-management effort. Parikh said that Facebook currently stores its entire live user database in a single data center, using its other data centers for redundancy and other data, and when the main database outgrows one data center, it... read more>>
INFOGRAPHIC: Back To School Often Means Back To Facebook Cyber-Bullying
The words "back to school" make some kids even more unhappy than others, as returning to the classroom often coincides with returning to being the victim of bullying, and a recent study by McAfee found that Facebook is the most prominent vehicle of the cyber form of such behavior. According to McAfee's 2012 Teen Internet Behavior Study, 92.6 percent of teens surveyed said they have witnessed cyber-bullying on Facebook, far outpacing the... read more>>
Kenshoo Social: Companies Are Beefing Up Facebook Ad Budgets
Whether or not Facebook is a long-term viable ad platform is one of the biggest questions Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to answer. Kenshoo Social has some good news for Zuck: Throughout the first half of 2012, marketers' Facebook ad budgets have increased 36 percent. Kenshoo Social, a digital marketing software firm, released statistics that show how marketers have been putting more faith in the social network recently. Here's... read more>>
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