Starting this Saturday at 12:01 AM EDT you will be able to choose a Facebook username which will be reflected in your Facebook vanity URL. You can choose a username for your personal profile and one for each of the Facebook Pages you administer. Currently Facebook...
A recent independent study conducted by Nucleus Research reports approximately 1.5% of enterprise productivity is lost due to employees accessing Facebook in the workplace. The study shows that 77% of company employees have a Facebook account and nearly half of all workers access Facebook on company time.
Some promising news from the MySpace camp comes with the pending acquisition of the number one music application on Facebook, iLike. The deal is set to close around $20 million and puts Facebook in an uncomfortable position, with it's number one social media competitor owning one of the top applications on the Facebook platform.
Facebook is a sharing and social networking platform that is constantly in development. Recent and upcoming changes are focused on reflecting three basic principles in which Facebook grounds effective privacy for it's users. Control over who we share information with and Simplicity in use allows us to effectively create the Connections we desire.
According to the latest comScore data Facebook is now the number one social network in the U.S., surpassing MySpace by just over 20,000 visitors in May. Data released today from comScore shows Facebook received...
There are tens of millions of dollars transacted on Facebook via social games and virtual goods, yet Facebook itself has yet to directly take a cut of these
Almost a year after stating the intention, Digg follows through with implementing Facebook Connect, which allows Facebook users to skip the registration
Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm that recently purchased a 2% preferred stock stake in the Facebook social media company is looking to acquire an additional $100 million in common stock shares. The $200 million agreement in May of this year valued Facebook at approximately $10 billion.
Yesterday Facebook accepted a $200 million dollar offer from Russian Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies. The deal values Facebook at $10 billion
Here is a juicy little bit of information for this Friday night. On a bookshelf near you this July 14th you can pick up a copy of "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook. A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal." Bestselling author Ben Mezrich tells the amazingly true story of...
Recently Facebook reportedly turned down $200 million in funding at a generous valuation of $8 billion because of the stipulation that a board of directors seat
Since the Facebook platform opened to developers more than 52,000 apps have launched into the Application Directory. Creating trust, meaning, and ease of use is
Facebook, in response to other popular social sites such as FriendFeed and Twitter, has redesigned their traditionally click-to-update news feed into a live
Facebook board member Marc Andreessen in a Reuters interview stated that he anticipates the social networking giant to reach $500 million in 2009 and billions more in five years. "There's every reason to expect in my view that the thing can be doing billions in revenue five years from now," Andreessen said.
A few days ago it was announced that Iran had blocked access to Facebook from all dial-up and broadband Internet users throughout the country; today we announce
The top story on the social Web this week is Facebook's acquisition of social media aggregator FriendFeed. The transaction is reported around $50 million. FriendFeed's traffic is an estimated 1 million visitors per month which is minute compared to Facebook's 250 million. With a recent Facebook valuation of $10 billion though, the numbers...
A little buzz has been stirring this past week originating from a post on consultant Cheryl Smith's blog describing how her husband [Peter Smith] received a dating advertisement through Facebook displaying her photo along with the text, "Hey Peter, Hot singles are waiting for you!"
While brown-nose Sandy in accounting is Tweeting about how much she loathes her supervisor and Steve from procurement is boasting to his friends on Facebook about the new position he was offered at P&G, Edward in IT is scanning MySpace to make sure no drunken photos...