Facebook's Trading Desktop Ad Dollars for Mobile Dimes

Facebook's Trading Desktop Ad Dollars for Mobile Dimes
Forbes
Google (GOOG) is very upfront about tracking its number of paid clicks and cost-per-click (CPC), which is their standard metric of profitability per click. Facebook isn't. It prefers to have us focus on active users and average revenue per user (ARPU ...

Facebook's price tag for Instagram drops to $715M
Computerworld
Facebook's shares had closed at $19.50 -- a little over half of its $38 IPO price in May -- on the Nasdaq exchange on Tuesday, before Facebook released its quarterly results, but rose in after-hours trading after the company reported improvements in ...

Mail.ru Sold $320 Million Facebook Stake, Fuels Payout Optimism
Bloomberg
Mail.ru Group Ltd. (MAIL), billionaire Alisher Usmanov's Internet company, cashed in about $320 million by selling a stake in Facebook Inc. (FB) Shares of the Russian company jumped as much as 7.6 percent in London. Mail.ru decreased its holding in ...

Bloomberg

Richard Sherman changes Twitter name before game against Megatron
USA TODAY
For his latest troll, Sherman changed his Twitter display name to "Optimus Prime" ahead of this Sunday's game against Calvin Johnson and the Detroit Lions. Johnson, of course, is nicknamed "Megatron." Those two names, as any five-year-old could tell ...

Did The Bubble In Facebook Ad Startups Just Pop?
Forbes
For much of this year, hundreds of little and not-so-little startups that help businesses run advertisements on Facebook have been playing the M&A game, buying rivals or related companies, getting acquired by bigger firms, or both. But the acquisitions ...

Forbes

Facebook employees are now $4.4 billion richer
CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's the day some Facebook employees have waited years for: Their paper wealth now has an official cash value, to the tune of $5.2 billion. Before this week, those employees were rich only on paper. That's because Facebook ...

Jack Dorsey Still Has Pull at Twitter. Just Ask the Vine Guys.
All Things Digital
The arrangement is supposed to echo the one that Facebook and Instagram reached earlier this year, and that's not a coincidence. At one point, Dorsey had pushed Twitter to buy that photo-sharing app, as well. Vine and its investors turned downTwitter ...

All Things Digital

Facebook In East Palo Alto: Company Creates Charitable Community Foundation
Huffington Post
... Alto, Facebook Foundation, Facebook Foundation East Palo Alto, Facebook Investment East Palo Alto, Impact News. Facebook is delivering on its promise to create a charitable foundation that will distribute $500,000 to community nonprofits serving ...

Skype 6 for Mac Now Supports Facebook Logins and the Retina ...
By Jordan Golson
Microsoft has updated Skype to version 6, adding Retina display support as well as the ability to sign into Skype using a Facebook account. This... ... Last year, Skype added the ability to makeFacebook chat and video calls to its app. Microsoft ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

News.me says goodbye, places blame on Twitter — Tech News and ...
By Eliza Kern
News.me is an app that pulls links surfacing in a user's Twitter and Facebook streams and aggregates them for a pleasant, curated reading experience. In other words, it wants to show you what your friends are reading and what are the ...
GigaOM

Facebook Succeeded Because Of A Tiny Feature Everyone Else ...
By Alyson Shontell
 SAI ...Before Facebook, there weren't any online communities where people revealed their true identities, Zuckerberg explains. When he was creating ...
Business Insider

Is Social Media Disrupting Your Life?
Forbes
All three are semi-social businesses. Sales are helped by recommendations, says Mathew, and by our connections. And they are following on the heels of social in the media industry, which Mathew says has been extraordinarily disruptive. I don't doubt ...

Social Media Drive Dollars, Users to Eventbrite: CEO
CNBC.com (blog)
With over $1 billion in gross ticket sales to date, Eventbrite looks to be well on its way to challenge larger rivals in the ticket space, such as Ticketmaster, and the company's success has been largely impacted by social media companies, specifically ...

CNBC.com (blog)

Social media collects the buzz around new TV series
USA TODAY
... they're not always the leaders in the Nielsen ratings. revolution burke. The social-media buzz for 'Revolution' (starring Billy Burke and Tracy Spiridakos) climbed with its second episode, while every other new series dropped. (Photo: Brownie Haris ...

Obama's Campaign Again Embraces Social Media
CIO
The Obama campaign has embraced social media, with the president holding a huge lead in Facebook and Twitter followers, and the affiliated Democratic National Committee is using private social networking tools to communicate with some campaign ...

Consumer Social Media Engagement with Brands Leads to Increased Sales ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
TORONTO — Research released today by LoyaltyOne and two leading North American academic institutions provides the long-awaited proof that social media interaction between a customer and a brand drives immediate and long-term sales increases.

Telenor opens the door to social media for millions of customers
Reuters
New partnership with U2opia Mobile enables access to Facebook® without any Internet connectivity, using only the USSD protocol to post your status, check your newsfeed or "like" a comment on the popular social networking site. (Fornebu, 25 October 2012 ...

Social media to discipline kids?
NECN
(NECN) - Social media has been on the rise for years - and it has changed the way people communicate and interact with one another. It may even be changing the way parents discipline misbehaving teens. A couple recently took to the social networking ...

Organizing your Web connections: Social media sorted with smart software
Phys.Org
CSIRO's social media analysis software is helping organisations make sense of massive volumes ofsocial media traffic, according to a services research specialist speaking at the Big Data Conference in Sydney next week. Mr Alan Dormer, Services Science ...

Film fan service Moviepilot opens social media agency for the ...
By David Meyer
Call it a minor pivot. The Berlin- and L.A.-based IMDb rival Moviepilot has decided that the real money lies in turning its masses of user data into cross-platform marketing campaigns for the likes of Universal and Disney.
GigaOM

Social Media Meets the Candidate: Is it Really a Match Made in ...
By kruder
How candidates use social media when looking for a new career. Is it really a match made in heaven?
Visual.ly - Social Media

Clinton Dismisses Social Media As 'Not Evidence' in Libya Attack ...
By The Five
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed the emails which showed that hundreds of officials in the White House, State Department and Pentagon knew that an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack hours after it ...
Fox News Insider

New Foursquare for Android and Two Other Stories You Need to Know
By Stan Schroeder
Social Media News Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. New Foursquare for ...
Mashable » Mobile

Gov. Brown's Prop. 30 losing support, poll shows [Google+ Hangout]
Los Angeles Times
Times reporter Chris Megerian will join city editor Shelby Grad at 10:30 a.m. for a Google+ Hangouton plunging support for Proposition 30, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed measure would temporarily ...

Fake Google+ Local Reviews By SEO Company Backfires
Search Engine Roundtable
Scott Hendison uncovered a SEO company that is faking their location in Google+Local but even worse, they had over 60 reviews and many from well-respected SEOs vouching for their SEO services. Including reviews from people like Jill Whalen, Loren ...

Search Engine Roundtable

Henri Le Chat Noir: New video coming soon (Google+ hangout)
Los Angeles Times
Meet William Braden, a guy who makes cat videos for a living. Braden used to work as a wedding videographer, but these days he's focused all his professional energy on Henri -- the existentialist cat. Braden makes Henri videos, sells Henri merch, keeps ...

Facebook Barely Beats Twitter, Trounces Google+ Among Teens [VIDEO]
Yahoo! News (blog)
It came as little surprise that Facebook was the social network of choice in a recent survey of 7,700 teens across the U.S. But now that the study's authors have revealed its numbers, we can see just how much -- or indeed, how little -- Facebook won by.

Hangout: Madeleine Brand Gets Twitter Advice from Comedian Michael Ian Black
KCET (blog)
Madeleine Brand has made the switch. The longtime NPR host and radio journalist is moving into TV land, and she's, well, rebranding herself on social media. The only problem is, someone beat her to it. When Madeleine signed up for a new Twitter account ...

Google Hosts Over 200 Guests On Google
AllAfrica.com
Those who attended were social influencers, bloggers and celebrities in the music and entertainment industry, as well as individuals that have been very active and engaged on Google+ since its launch. At the event, the team from Google Nigeria shared a ...

Video chat: NWT firm turns recycled bottles into glassware business
Globe and Mail
Tune in to the latest in our series of Google+ Hangout interviews with small-business owners, operators and experts from across Canada. Report on Small Business senior editor Terry Brodie will hang out with Matthew Grogono, founder and president of Old ...

Globe and Mail

Facebook Barely Beats Twitter, Trounces Google+ Among Teens ...
By Chris Taylor
Facebook was the social network of choice in a recent survey of 7700 teens across the U.S..
Mashable » Social Media

App Engine Hangout - chat with an App Engine Software Engineer ...
By GoogleDevelopers
We'll be chatting with Robert Schuppenies, who is an App Engine Software Engineer in Test. He'll describe a bit about what he does, and talk about/demo some ...
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Pinterest Explodes Into Mainstream
Wired (blog)
Pinterest, Silicon Valley's startup of the moment, is starting to register with mainstream users. The social network for sharing pictures of fancy things finally cracked Comscore's list of top 50 U.S. websites. All the way down at number 50, with 25.3 ...

Wired (blog)

Pinterest & Newspapers: No Pins, No Wins [Study]
Search Engine Watch
Pinterest is more than a social networking site, though. It actually acts as a social bookmarking destination, as well, comparable to StumbleUpon or Delicious. A new study by SearchMetrics shows that despite the interest of traditional media in older ...

Pinners To Follow: Design Within Reach, Scotch Tape And 3 Other Pinterest ...
Huffington Post
Now that the weather is getting a bit cooler and we're spending more time indoors, we're looking for ways to make our homes more cozy and comfortable. We've gone online and found some great ideas for the chilly months ahead and we have to thank the ...

LinkedIn Skills Endorsements Part 2: Take Control of Your Skills
Business 2 Community
First, LinkedIn offers others suggested skills to endorse based on those skills you have already added to your Profile, and also those they are extrapolating based on the remaining content of your profile. They're trying to be relevant, but they're not ...

Business 2 Community

My Pinterest Is Piledrivers: WWE-asons You Like Your Favorites (Raven, CM ...
Inside Pulse
Hello all, and welcome to My Pinterest Is Piledrivers. I am your down-but-not-dead host James A. Sawyer. Health update for those of you on the edge of your seat- it's not the end, but perhaps, it's the end of the beginning. So this column for the time ...

Facebook Drives More Online Sales Than Pinterest And It May Be The Key To ...
Forbes
A girl shows her Facebook 'wall' on her mobile... Facebook hasn't exactly been the belle of the ball since its IPO. The pictures of your cat on your timeline and the aggravating status updates about politics just aren't bringing in the money like the ...

Pinterest pierces Top 50 most-visited sites list
CNET
"September also marked the first time that popular social-media site Pinterest cracked ComScore's Top 50 Properties ranking as it surpassed 25 million visitors for the month," ComScore Executive Vice President Jeff Hackett said in a blog post.

How to view LinkedIn profiles anonymously
CBS Moneywatch
How to view LinkedIn profiles anonymously. (MoneyWatch) LinkedIn (LNKD) recently has started emphasizing who is viewing your profile -- you might have noticed that you now get regular notifications and summaries when anyone looks you up. That's handy ...

Pinterest: The evolution of an Upstart
Upstart (blog)
Pinterest had 25.3 million visitors to its photo-sharing website in September and squeezed onto the list for the first time at number 50. The story of Pinterest is its rapid growth, which CEO Ben Silberman attributed to its unconventional marketing ...

LinkedIn Just Went Into the Publishing Business
Business 2 Community
A number of publishers and blogs covered the launch of LinkedIn's new follow feature for 150 thought leaders or influencers over the last few weeks. However, labeling it the ability to follow thought leaders (as LinkedIn did) misses the real point ...

#Pinterest Makes Top 50 Website List | Search Engine Journal
By Michelle Stinson Ross
Pinterest has finally made it into the top 50 most visited websites in the United States, according to comScore, with just over 25.3 million visitors in th.
Search Engine Journal

Pinterest Debuts In comScore's Top 50 Web Properties
By Matt McGee
You could see this one coming a mile away: Social image-sharing site Pinterest has finally cracked comScore's monthly list of the top 50 web properties in.
Marketing Land - Internet Marketing...

Pinterest Cracks The Top 50 Sites On The Web [U.S.] | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
“September also marked the first time that popular social media site Pinterest cracked comScore's Top 50 Properties ranking as it surpassed 25 million visitors for the month.” Google Sites, while still at the top, remained flat from month to month ...
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