I can’t say I am surprised that Facebook has launched a job board site. Considering the amount of pressure the company is under to find ways to milk revenue from its huge user base, the only surprise is the fact that it took this long. The long time delay is also surprising because LinkedIn has [...]
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Startups Fix Security Hole Twitter and Facebook Missed
Smaller, faster, more nimble, and better adapted to changes. These are just some of the qualities that many tech industry observers and analysts have historically ascribed to small start-ups. Well, you can add, ‘better at detecting and fixing security holes’ to the list. According to a statement by Jonathan Rudenberg, a developer and security researcher, [...]
Can Facebook’s Recent Stock Rally Last?
Facebook opened trading to huge fanfare at the price of $38 per share. It then proceeded to slide downward until it hit a record low of just north of $17 a share. Quite a downturn for one of the most heavily-anticipated IPOs and tech companies in recent years. Predictably, haters came out of the woodwork [...]
Facebook’s iPhone app testing auto uploads
Uploading photos to Facebook can be quite a hassle. Not only do you have to go through some hoops to get the picture file from your webcam or your digital camera, you also have to worry about cropping, alignment, and other details. More than a few Facebook users have been clamoring for an easier way [...]
Facebook and Apple Selloff Leaders
This week, Facebook and Apple Inc. were the leaders in a selloff that occurred on Monday, September 24. Facebook, one of the most popular social media sites online, fell to 9.1%, closing at $20.79. The stock in this company is currently worth only $15 per share. It is believed that many investors are overestimating the [...]
Facebook Questions Bites the Dust
If you look at your main page at Facebook, you would see Update Status, Add Photo/Video and Ask Question. This is a very interesting feature that Facebook launched just over two years ago. The idea was to leverage some of the 500-million Facebook users at that time as a critical mass for a robust question [...]
Australian Facebook Ruling Might Change FB Advertising
The Australian Advertising Board recently ruled that Facebook is not just a communications platform, but it is also an advertising medium. Consequently, the communications put on corporate pages on Facebook must conform to advertising standards set forth by the Advertising Standards Board. This is a serious landmark development for Facebook in Australia, which could also [...]
Facebook’s Stock Continues to Fizzle and Why You Need to Buy It
Let’s face it,the past few weeks have not been kind to Facebook. Many of the market expectations got dashed recently when Facebook released its latest financial figures and the market not surprisingly punished the stock. Now Facebook’s stock has sunk to its lowest level since the company went public. Not only is Facebook staring at [...]
Facebook Gets on the Acqui-Hire Bandwagon with Latest Buyout
Get used to the word acqui-hire. As we explained in an earlier post, acqui-hire is a key way many established companies get the talent that they need to build up their existing or projected products while at the same time rewarding small startups for the time and effort they have invested in building up their [...]
No, Facebook Will Not Kill Google
Call it hype, call it wishful thinking or call it a pipe dream, but there was actually quite a big meme on techno blogs and among internet industry observers that at some point, social media websites like Twitter and Facebook will replace Google in terms of advertising dominance. The thinking was that social networks due [...]