Tag Archives: Facebook News

Facebook started off as a pure social network. As time passes, its creators and users both begin to realize its value proposition in the business world. So, Facebook launched “Pages” for business users analogous to “profiles” for personal users. In the business world, profiles became pages, followers became fans, the user interface changed to have a more business-centric appeal but …

Facebook and smartphones are all the rage these days. Last February, Facebook had nearly 100 million mobile users per month. Now, that count has gone up to 250 million. And if the current growth rate is anything to go by, Facebook looks all set to double that count within the next two years. It’s understandable that managing such a massive …

Facebook is turning on the heat in the smartphone world. Shortly after INQ announced the game changer Facebook Phones, Gemalto – a world leader in digital security has announced that they have created a new Facebook application that, rather than being installed on a particular phone, is installed on the SIM card instead. Dubbed as “Facebook for SIM”, this application …

The verdict on Facebook’s valuation is finally out and I’m not surprised that the world’s most popular social network commands a mind bogging and whopping worth of $50 Billion Dollars! To be valued at more than Yahoo, eBay and Time Warner is a monster achievement and a massive moral victory for the social media brigade. Last month, Facebook recently overtook …

Facebook today unveiled the new Profile Pages which provide a compact listing of user’s personal information and a set of recently tagged photos. The new Profile View is especially well-suited for the business world as it provides a quick sneak peek into a user’s relevant information rather than being presented with useless information such as friend list, videos and wall …

The buzz around the new Facebook Social Inbox has been unbelievable. It has been dubbed as anything and everything ranging from “The Gmail Killer”, “The Modern-Age Email”, “The Convergence of Email and Social Media” and what not. I’d like to stay away from throwing in my expert opinion on whether it’s a Gmail killer or not and rather focus on …

There are several hundred similar posts on the internet which tells how to market your business on Facebook, so why do we need another one? Well, for a start, many of these posts are random ramblings without any concrete action plan of how to go about using Facebook for your business. Secondly, a large majority of these given an impression …

Facebook rolled out a number of cool features on Wednesday, aimed at giving users more control and the ability to share information with small groups of people. So, how do these changes impact your business? Will these help boost your business’ prospects on Facebook or will they serve as a dampener? I’ve been flooded with questions like these in the …

Bill Cosby has every reason to show the middle finger to Twitter, after all the micro-blogging site has declared him dead, not once or twice – but at least four times in the last couple of years. Welcome to the new age of social media where people die online on Twitter and Facebook rather than in hospitals and accidents. To …

Twitter is ringing in the changes big time these days. First, it opted to cash-in on the popularity of FIFA 2010 World Cup by creating a dedicated Twitter site for the sporting extravaganza. Next, it started tweaking its system in order to improve the overall stability and reduce downtimes. And in its latest move, Twitter is improving the Friends functionality …

31st May came and it passed rather uneventfully. Amidst all the hype to protest against Facebook’s recent privacy flaws, the ‘May 31st Quit Facebook Day’ campaign fell flat on its feet. The campaign was run on www.quitfacebookday.com and nearly, 35,000 users have left the social networking site as part of this campaign. Considering that Facebook has a subscriber base of …