After spending $1 billion on Instagram last year to keep pace with the mobile photo explosion, Facebook is now reportedly jumping into entirely new territory by spending a similar amount on the popular social driving app Waze.
Less than two weeks after its acquisition by Facebook, Parse is announcing a new product. Parse is adding Parse Hosting to its suite of products that developers can use to be “server-free from beginning to end.”
Parse simplifies the process …
If you're looking for high volumes of users, mobile ad networks can deliver them.
Apple’s in the top 10 for the first time ever, Facebook hits the list, and Dell sells more than Google as Fortune Magazine released its Fortune 500 companies today, ranking the top 500 companies by global income.
Notable this year …
Facebook fans are the holy grail of small business, according to a recent study by Staples.
"Think of it like giving your house key to a friend when you go on vacation," said a Facebook rep. "Pick the friends you trust most. Facebook will send codes to your friends to access your account."
Now local business owners have an easier way to manage their Facebook pages.
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It looks like Facebook's huge mobile risk is turning into a huge mobile opportunity.
“We’ve sent a team of people around the world to see what they use, and we care about everybody, not just you guys,” Facebooker Peter Deng said to a room full of tech elites.
More than half of Facebook's revenue comes from international sources, and only around 20 percent of monthly active users are based in the U.S. and Canada.
You can't access Facebook in China. Twitter is unheard of. And Google … well, Google has left China, and China isn't exactly writing a Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend song about the world's largest search engine.
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Google has for the past decade or two been training us to search with keywords rather than natural phrases. But Facebook is taking a different approach.
By take a deep look at people's Facebook habits, Wolfram Alpha makes it clear that most Facebook users lead extremely conventional lives.
Facebook has been good for Breyer, who made more than $100 million from his investment.
Corporations have found a way to roll back the web's decades-long openness. One of of the most successful? Apple, whose quarterly earnings report lands later today.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board approved an $18 million tax break for Facebook, provided it creates at least 31 jobs in the area. There are also specific financial kickbacks from the city of Altoona.
Facebook's betting a lot on its Home Android skin -- but it looks like users aren't biting just yet.
Facebook has reportedly chosen Iowa as the next state to hold a massive, $1.5 billion data center.
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