Facebook is looking at the May 17 date for its initial public offering, TechCrunch reports, citing several source familiar with the matter. These sources also claim that Facebook will be valued at around $100 billion or $40 a share – close to the current valuation of the company based on (read more…)
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A group of e-commerce start-ups, backed by some of the tech world’s most pedigreed financiers, are betting that Facebook Inc can become an e-commerce powerhouse to rival Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc. As the world’s largest social network hurtles toward a $5 billion initial public offering, it will come under (read more…)
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Many of the new features introduced at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference, such as a customizable Open Graph and real-time news Ticker, will have a tremendous impact on social commerce and social shopping in the very near future. Developers will now be able to build a Facebook commerce experience more relevant (read more…)
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back his blockbuster IPO a few months, according to a report. The reason, according to The Financial Times‘ sources, has nothing to do with uncertain market conditions; rather it reflects a desire to keep employees focused on product development. The FT says Facebook’s IPO (read more…)
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Facebook and ComScore have teamed up for a new service, Social Essentials. It offers unprecedented insights into the influence of brands on social media, complete with detailed credit card behavior, and findings suggest it’s not really your brand’s fans you need to worry about–it’s their friends. Forget Facebook fans; brands (read more…)
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If you’ve signed into Facebook today, you may have seen this warning below everywhere: ALL OF THE PHONE NUMBERS of your contacts from your mobile phone are now on Facebook! Go to the top right of the screen, click on ACCOUNT, click on EDIT FRIENDS, left side of screen and (read more…)
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Hackivist group Anonymous vows to “kill Facebook” on November 5, citing users’ lack of choice in privacy as its reason for attack. Update: Anonymous confirmed via a tweet that while some of its members are organizing the upcoming attack against Facebook, the hacker organization as a whole does not necessarily (read more…)
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Facebook’s base of 750 million users is enough to hold anyone spellbound. But once you get past its sheer size, you will find that Facebook also offers unique selling opportunities. Welcome to ‘Facebook Commerce 101’. First off, Facebook users have better things to be doing. The average Facebook user is (read more…)
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This articles is being featured courtesy of Craig H Collins, CraighCollins.com..thanks for the greate article Craig! Follow @craigcollins on Twitter and Facebook (CraigHCollinsFan). Craig is also SVP at Maximize Social Media. For newly-established Facebook fan pages, the #1 focus is attracting new followers and spreading the word about a product (read more…)
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How to Move Your Facebook Photos to Google+ Google is making plans to retire Picasa and Blogger, renaming the two apps Google Photos and Google Blogs respectively, (in light of their integration with Google+). This timely news has made way for an application called Move2Picasa which lets you connect to (read more…)
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