Since the launch of Facebook’s social music tools, Facebook users have listened to songs on the social network 1.5 billion times.
That’s around two songs each for Facebook’s roughly 750 million users.
Facebook announced the addition of streaming music to …
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When Facebookers began thinking about the design for Timeline, the name for the new look and feel of Profiles, they reached for books more often than browser tabs.
As a result, while the new Facebook Profiles might look a bit …
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Sean Parker, the billionaire of Napster and Facebook fame, is on to his next big deal: Spotify, which started in Europe and is now offering streaming music in the U.S.
In a conversation with Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek, Parker …
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Facebook’s annual developer conference was packed with news about big changes coming to the social network.
And if past history is any guide, most of you are probably going to be outraged by the changes, at least at first.
According …
Facebook was the talk of the day with chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s f8 conference keynote speech and the announcement of many new features being added to the Facebook platform.
Those features included the new Timeline, a history of your activity …
Facebook is focusing on integrating news discovery based on your friends’ activity in the news feed, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at f8, the company’s annual developers conference.
Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation focused on the influence you have over your friends, …
Facebook made its power move to capture everything about your life today. In a keynote speech at Facebook’s f8 developer conference today, Facebook CEO executive Mark Zuckerberg talked about how to make the social network indispensable to the recording of …
Netflix users in Canada and Latin America will soon be able to see what streaming videos their Facebook friends have been watching, but those of us in the U.S. will have to wait a bit longer due to a 1980s …
Facebook today showed off its new Lifestyle Apps, a set of applications for the social network that allow users to share information about their lifestyle activities, such as exercising, cooking, watching TV shows, picking out clothes and more.
The apps …
Facebook isn’t just for sharing what you like anymore. As of today, it’s also where you can watch and listen to what you like.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that users can listen to music, watch TV and films …
Facebook’s next-generation Open Graph platform will deliver a bounty of new features for social games, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said today at the company’s f8 event.
“Social games are killing it on Facebook,” Zuckerberg said, explaining that games are still …
An update to the Facebook’s Open Graph platform will allow people to express themselves in new ways and will let developers create a new class of app, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning. Friends can use these apps to …
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled some huge changes to the social network and its platform at f8, Facebook’s developer conference.
The tagline for today’s event is “Read. Watch. Listen,” which foreshadows the media features and content consumption and sharing …
Few tech events can rival the mammoth amount of hype generated by an official Apple event, but Facebook’s f8 developer conference Thursday certainly comes close.
Facebook’s motto for the event is “Read. Watch. Listen,” which hints at new partnerships with …
Ah, Twitter. Thank you for being a forum for slip-ups. A Facebook employee today accidentally tweeted about a new feature in Facebook’s hotly anticipated music service, expected to be announced tomorrow at Facebook’s f8 conference.
The employee, Ji Lee (@PleaseEnjoy) …
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Streaming music service Spotify now has more than 2 million paying subscribers in eight countries, according to a new report today.
Spotify saw a huge boost in premium subscribers after its U.S. launch in July. The company’s premium service is …
