A greater percentage of Facebook’s monthly active users became daily active users in recent years as consumers switched to smartphones, according to an analysis of the company’s filing for an initial public offering. DAU as a percentage of MAU is … Continue reading →
Brands such as Samsung Mobile, Levi’s Walmart and Facebook were popular on our list of the fastest growing Facebook Pages by the number of Likes this week, in addition to a few sports Pages, a small business Page and the … Continue reading
At f8 last Thursday, music services such as Spotify, Vevo, Rdio and Mog gained the ability to publish the listening activity of their users to Facebook’s new home page Ticker. The exposure to the friends of their users through the tickers has led to big gains for some music partners. Most significantly, Spotify has gained one [...]
Facebook’s new App Ticker that is displayed on the games Canvas page and lists news of friends engaging with games will also show abbreviated versions of Sponsored Stories, Facebook’s social ad unit. Sponsored Stories bought by advertisers are now eligible to inform users about the app their friends use from within the App Ticker as [...]
About half of our list of the fastest growing Facebook Pages this week were comprised of musical artists; the others included a handful of movie Pages, some TV-related Pages, Walmart’s Page, Jesus’s Page and a Turkish football team. Pages on our list this week required 191,800 and 903,600 Likes to make the top 20 this [...]
Facebook and Vodefone will release Alcatel Lucent-manufactured feature phone called the Vodafone 555 Blue that will have a Facebook-centric operating system and dedicated physical Facebook sharing button. The companies are aiming at a $100 price point to target users in both the developing and first-world, especially teens, that want enhanced Facebook functionality without paying for [...]
Facebook made hires across several teams, including engineering, infrastructure, account management and business, according to the company’s Careers Page and LinkedIn feed. Positions removed from the Careers Page indicate that Facebook either did a bunch of hiring, or shuffled the jobs in its hiring portfolio. New hires per LinkedIn and Other Sources: Mircea Dima, Software Engineer Intern – formerly did similar work at [...]
Popular musicians composed about half of our list of the fastest growing Facebook Pages by Likes this week. Topping the list was the recently departed Amy Winehouse, although other pop musicians also made the list. Then there was a bunch of movie and TV show Pages, a few big brands, Jesus, Snapfish and cereal. Most [...]
BranchOut’s 1 Year Anniversary – BranchOut celebrated its one-year anniversary this week and has become the largest professional networking site on Facebook with 3 million job board listings, has millions of monthly active users in 60 countries and can now be viewed in 10 languages. China Facebook Investment Rumor – A rumor that an official [...]
Facebook continued to hire its interns this week, as we saw from the company’s LinkedIn feed, and according to its Careers Page, recruiting, sales, business and analyst operations were being hired, along with data center staff. New hires per LinkedIn and Other Sources: Dereck Quock, Application Engineer – formerly a student. Kelsey Silver, Office Manager – [...]
