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Facebook Search and the challenges ahead
Check out this great synopsis on what the new Facebook Search is all about and the challenges and opportunities it presents from the always insightful Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land. Need a good plumber? An electrician? Someone to do your taxes? A doctor? A dentist? These are all typically questions that are great to […]
Continue reading...Apple didn’t make bid to acquire Waze, but Microsoft, Facebook and Google did – Report
Monday, January 7, 2013
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Last week there was a lot of hullabaloo surrounding Apple’s alleged interest in acquiring Waze, the social turn-by-turn navigation company based founded by Israeli’s Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine. In case you’re unfamiliar, Waze uses crowd-sourcing from drivers on the road to provide real time traffic updates. The service also enables users to report traffic […]
Continue reading...Mark Zuckerberg talks Facebook’s 1 billion users
Monday, October 15, 2012
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Check out this insightful interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over at BusinessWeek. Say what you will about Facebook, but Zuckerberg seems to have a good head on his shoulders. For such a young kid, he has an impressive knack for focusing on longterm goals and not getting bogged down in the day to day […]
Continue reading...Eduardo Saverin’s early advertising pitch for Facebook
Saturday, September 1, 2012
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Eduardo Saverin, one of four Facebook co-founders, famously sued Mark Zuckerberg years after the social networking site went mainstream – a point later popularized by Aaron Sorkin’s film “The Social Network.” But way back in the day, when Saverin was still acting CFO and business manager of the company, the Brazilian born was tasked with […]
Continue reading...Why Facebook wants certain employees to use Android.. for now
Friday, August 24, 2012
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So Facebook on Thursday released a brand spankin’ new iOS app that promises to be up to two times speedier for certain tasks. For anyone that uses Facebook on the go, this couldn’t have come soon enough. The older Facebook app, written in HTML 5, wasn’t clunky but could be painfully and terribly slow at […]
Continue reading...The value of Twitter’s social graph, and the importance of keeping others out
Thursday, August 23, 2012
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With all of the hoopla regarding Twitters new terms of service for developers, the always insightful Dustin Curtis drops some knowledge on some key, albeit subtle, differences between Facebook and Twitter. Curtis also opines on the reasoning behind Twitter’s recent decision to pull a feature (accessible via its API) which enabled Tumblr users to search […]
Continue reading...Facebook releases revamped and much speedier iOS app
Thursday, August 23, 2012
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In the face of complaints about sluggishness, Facebook today released a completely rewritten version of their iOS app that promises to be a whole lost faster. The updated app does away with HTML 5 and is built using Objective C, making it much more like a native iOS app. You’ll be hard pressed to notice […]
Continue reading...iOS 6 to introduce deep Facebook integration
Monday, June 4, 2012
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Following in the footsteps of Twitter, it appears that Apple is planning to deeply integrate Facebook into the upcoming iOS 6. MG Siegler reports: But Facebook integration will be very important for iOS — tons of apps use Facebook for sign-ups and authentication (many use Facebook as the only way to do this, to the […]
Continue reading...Facebook hires iPhone engineers to build its own smartphone
Monday, May 28, 2012
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The New York Times with an interesting scoop: Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing […]
Continue reading...Instagram’s cost per user
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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With Facebooks’s acquisition of Instagram clocking in at $1 billion, everyone’s asking just what exactly is Facebook getting out of the deal. The answer, in a nutshell, is users, about 35 million and growing to be exact. Breaking down the purchase price per user, Wired calculates that Facebook is paying Instagram approximately $28 for each […]
Continue reading...Facebook Engineering
Friday, April 6, 2012
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It’s funny how few people realize the tremendous technical underpinnings of a site like Facebook, that on its face, may seem to be pretty simple. But don’t get it twisted, Facebook has some of the brightest engineers on the planet working on some pretty impressive underlying architecture to ensure that the hundreds of millions of […]
Continue reading...The Facebook millionaires who weren’t
Monday, March 19, 2012
Not everyone with the opportunity to do so made a fortune with Facebook. A number of folks who could have gotten in on the ground floor decided not to, losing millions in stock options as a result. Not surprisingly though, many of them are still doing more than okay. Read about these “missing millionaires” over […]
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
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