Facebook developing own ad targeting technology

Facebook developing own ad targeting technology

Facebook, the booming social network company, is quietly creating a technology that would let advertisers target Facebook users based on the “massive amounts of information people reveal” about themselves, according to a story in today’s WSJ.

The new ad plan, reportedly being led by Matt Cohler (pictured top), vice president of strategy and business operations, and Chamath Palihapitiya (pictured below), vice president of product marketing and operations, may produce some serious concerns among some of Facebook’s… Continue Reading