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Facebook stocked opened at US $19.93 a share on Wednesday and saw a low of US $19.45 after a report about Facebook resisting  attempts  by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose more about the advertising revenues from mobile. A Bloomberg News article  talks about letters between Facebook and the SEC’s corporation finance division, which oversees what publicly traded companies [...]

Pinterest’s image based advertising has caught on with consumers and marketers alike, add to that its growing user base, it only makes sense for other Social Networks to jump on the bandwagon, especially for Facebook which as a publicly traded company will be eager to add a potential revenue stream. Facebook has joined the club by offering some brands the option to post product images with buttons [...]

Facebook now has a billion users,  Mark Zuckerberg announced the milestone on his Facebook profile. “This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honour of serving you,” Zuckerberg posted. “Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing [...]

If you believed that Twitter’s popularity was waning down, you may be just right – Facebook’s owned Instagram had garnered more app users attention than Twitter. According to a ComScore study reported by AllThingsD last month U.S. mobile users “visited Instagram from their smartphones more frequently and for longer periods of time than they visited Twitter”. Mark Zuckerberg [...]

Facebook started their first real foray into e-commerce with Facebook Gifts, a service which, as the name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real life presents to one another.The company will take an unspecified cut from each item sold. Possible gifts included gourmet ice cream, Andy Warhol prints, flowers, organic dog toys and spa packages.   Facebook users will be able [...]

Facebook is joining forces with Dropbox on a new integration that allows Facebook users to share content stored in their Dropbox accounts directly with contacts in Facebook Groups. To use this feature, Facebook users must first link their Facebook account to their Dropbox account. Once they’ve done this, they’ll be able to share documents, photos, and videos that are stored in their Dropbox [...]

Requests from privacy regulators across the EU led Facebook to indefinitely axe its facial recognition feature for all European users. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) on Friday published its assessment  which suggested that Facebook had “fully implemented” most of the DPC’s recommendations, DPC had been forced into the issue following complaints by a group of Austrian law [...]

Facebook today launched the Shared Activity plugin for developers, which allows Facebook users a way to control the activity they share to Facebook directly from external web apps. Facebook’ Software Engineer Andrew Chen offered an example (image at right) on  Developer Blog  on how this new plugin works: “From the plugin on sites such as Airbnb, people can set the default Facebook audience for [...]

Facebook on Tuesday began testing new ads, you may see ads on your smartphone apps, the ads have not yet started appearing on the Facebook app itself. You might also find them inside mobile websites you’ve connected to Facebook. The ads will be directed  to  users based on age, gender, home location and your interests. “Starting later today, you may start seeing banner and interstitial [...]

Skype released version 5.11 for Windows  which allows Skype sign in with Microsoft and Facebook accounts. Skype users can send and receive IM messages from friends who are using Messenger, Xbox, Hotmail or Outlook.com. Other goodies include :     Sign in with a Microsoft or Facebook account. You can now sign into Skype directly using a Microsoft or Facebook account, without having [...]