Facebook video advertisements could cost $1 million+ a day
Facebook is rumoured to be setting up a system where video advertisements will auto-play in users news feed and could cost advertisers millions of dollars per day. According to Bloomberg, By Luke...
View ArticleWhat are the 7 companies Steven Sinofsky can’t join?
Information about Steven Sinofsky’s retirement agreement have been released, allowing us to take a look at the companies which he isn’t allowed to work out until December 31, 2013. The By Luke Mansell...
View ArticleFacebook goes secure
Probably something that you didn’t notice this morning when you signed into Facebook, you’re now using a secured connection. Now, if you have been using Facebook for a while now, By Kyle Walser at...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg; $91 million richer
Well it looks like someone took home quite the paycheck this week, and it wasn’t me. Actually, it was Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg, who took home a whopping $91 million dollars By Kyle Walser at...
View ArticleGoogle+ and SoundCloud Team Up for Embedded Posts
SoundCloud, a very popular music sharing service that lets users upload and distribute their original sounds, announced on Monday that the company has teamed up with Google+ to give Google+ By James...
View ArticleFacebook testing mobile payment feature
Facebook is planning to test a new mobile payment feature to automatically fill in forms when they make purchases on mobile applications. It will use details added by users to By Jamie Dabrowiecki at...
View ArticleUsers Are Engaging More With Facebook Ads
A quarterly review of Facebook’s ad performance found increases in advertising metrics across the board, including click-through rates, total clicks and revenues driven by the ads themselves....
View ArticleFacebook releases UK statistics
Facebook claims the number of daily active UK users is now up to 24,000,000. The new stats also include a breakdown of daily and monthly active users. They show that By Jamie Dabrowiecki at Geeks Hut
View ArticleGoDaddy acquires Locu
GoDaddy announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Locu, a San Francisco-based company that helps local merchants ‘get found’ online. Started in 2011 at Massachusetts By...
View ArticleFacebook Consumer Marketing Head Goes to Twitter
Twitter has poached Facebook’s head of consumer and mobile marketing, Kate Jhaveri, according to a report. Jhaveri will join Twitter as senior director of consumer marketing, according to AllThingsD....
View ArticleFacebook hashtags have absolutely no impact
It has been discovered that Facebook’s hashtags basically have no impact on helping your post reach your friends and could be the source for your post not going viral. EdgeRank By Luke Mansell at Geeks...
View ArticleInstagram Plans to Start Displaying Ads
Enjoy your ad-free Instagram feed while you can because Instagram plans to introduce ads in the next year, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal spoke with Emily White, Instagram’s...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg’s Net Worth Doubled
Mark Zuckerberg is back in the top 20 on Forbes‘ list of the 400 richest Americans. The Facebook co-founder and CEO saw his net worth double from $9.4 billion (at the time the 2012 Forbes list was...
View ArticleIs Twitter going to be the last big Social Media IPO?
Twitter won’t be the first big social media company to go public, but it will most likely be the last one for a while. LinkedIn went public in 2011, Facebook went public By James Spisak at Geeks Hut
View ArticleBest Free Online Video Games
With the proliferation of the App Store and Facebook gaming over the past few years, free-toplay video games have become a staple of the video game industry (for better or By Allison Preston at Geeks Hut
View ArticleBuffer social media app hits 1 million users
Buffer, the social-media management app that lets users schedule posts to sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+, has reached 1 million registered users, according to co-founder Leo Widrich. The...
View ArticleFacebook changes news feed ads Algorithm
Aiming to let marketers deliver more relevant ads in the News Feed, Facebook on Friday announced it was tweaking the algorithm behind such placements. “For marketers, this means we are By James Spisak...
View ArticleGoogle & Facebook back effort to cut Internet costs
Several of the biggest names in tech have signed on to a new initiative to bring down Internet costs in the developing world. Google has partnered with the U.S. Agency By James Spisak at Geeks Hut
View ArticleHow do teens use social media?
Teenagers use social media in a different way to other people. In this excellent infographic, we see some fascinating statistics and figures. Check it out below!By Jamie Dabrowiecki at Geeks Hut
View ArticleFacebook allowing beheading videos to return
Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again. The social network had introduced a ban in May following complaints that By Jamie...
View ArticleFacebook Reportedly Offered $1 Billion to Acquire Snapchat
Investor worries regarding the growing number of potentially overfunded tech companies seemed to have died down in recent months, but now new information surrounding popular app Snapchat could renew...
View ArticleOne in five use Twitter in Germany, 82.7% use Facebook
A recent study by researchers at Tomorrow Focus Media revealed that 82.7% of German internet users are now active on Facebook, placing the social network far ahead of second-placed YouTube (51.8%),...
View ArticleHow powerful is the hashtag?
This great infographic from the Huffington Post shows us just how powerful the #hashtag is. You’ve seen it everywhere: on TV advertisements and billboards, on Twitter and Facebook, on ironic By Jamie...
View ArticleFacebook pledges for Phillipines storm donations
Facebook has joined a host of large organisations such as PayPal and Apple who are asking it’s customers for donations. They released a notification on users’ timelines, which read: Will By Jamie...
View ArticleFacebook deletes controversial privacy policy language
Facing public pressure, Facebook has removed a line from its privacy policy today that is related to teen users and advertising. The line reference to Facebook’s practice of showing a By Casey Grim at...
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