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Facebook needs to keep mobile momentum CNNMoney Facebook turned a corner a few months later, when it launched a new Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) iOS app and began showing ads to mobile users. It worked: Mobile accounted for 14% of the company's ad revenue in the third quarter, which ended September ... See all stories on this topic »

Options Investors Bet Facebook Shares Have Lost Their Bang Wall Street Journal (blog) "Facebook shares have been reacting less and less off of each subsequent earnings reports, and in between earnings, the shares have been less volatile," said Ophir Gottlieb, managing director at options-data firm LiveVol Inc. "On top of that, the ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog)

UKIP Facebook 'Nazi salute' candidate Alex Wood suspended BBC News A UKIP candidate in Somerset has been suspended from the party after photos of him apparently making a Nazi-style salute appeared on his Facebook page. Alex Wood, 22, said the picture was taken out of context and associated comments were not written ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Billionaire Usmanov Bets on Apple's Growth After Facebook Bloomberg Alisher Usmanov, the Russian billionaire who made a more than 10-fold return from his investment in Facebook Inc. (FB), said he recently spent about $100 million buying Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares in anticipation they will rise. "I believe in the future ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook against corruption? Hindu Business Line But social media escalated this process. In Tunisia, the social networking sites actually provided the initial spark through quick dissemination of information and feedback. As an Egyptian protestor succinctly put it, "We use Facebook to schedule the ... See all stories on this topic » Hindu Business Line

Facebook founder-backed immigration reform lobby draws ire Times of India The group is planning a Facebook advertising campaign taking aim at the FWD.us ads, and has also launched a petition calling on Zuckerberg to end the ads. The ads are part of a push by FWD.us and its subsidiaries to build support for immigration reform ... See all stories on this topic » Times of India

Massive Colo. block party, fueled by Facebook, ends in confrontation with Fort ... CBS News (CBS) FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Facebook added fuel to a wild night of partying for up to 1,000 people in a Fort Collins neighborhood just a few blocks west of the Colorado State University campus, CBS Denver reported. The planning reportedly started on ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Facebook Home App Gets 'Worst' Rating from Users Indiatimes.com Facebook Home's main feature is a constantly changed display of photos and updates from Facebook friends that consumes phone's battery life and mobile data allowance. Critics have complained the app's main feature - a constantly changing display of ... See all stories on this topic »

Changes to UK copyright law put Facebook, Twitter and Instagram images at risk Inquirer "So if there was a picture on Facebook or in Flickr that is then used in an advert for example, then that can't happen without the owner of that photo saying 'yes' or 'no'." "That position hasn't changed; this act does nothing to change that." Rendle ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook Says It's Now as Big as Windows (Literally) Wired (blog) Facebook man Joel Pobar calls it "a holy-fuck comparison." The massive collection of software code needed to create that Facebook page inside your web browser, he says, has now expanded to the point where it's about the same size as the code that ... See all stories on this topic » Wired (blog)

Facebook bleeding users despite revenue growth RT Facebook's ascent to global domination has slowed in recent months as the social media giant has struggled to keep users confronted with ever-increasing online options interested. In the past six months, some nine million people in the United States ... See all stories on this topic » RT

Why Facebook's Graph Search Could Be Doomed PBS MediaShift Based on what is publicly known about this beta product, Facebook's product team wants to use a social media spin on search to capture audiences away from standard search. Despite its promise, Facebook may have bitten off more than it can chew. See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft seeks beta testers for new Facebook for Windows Phone refresh ZDNet Microsoft officials blogged on April 30 that the company is seeking testers for the refreshed Facebook app for Windows Phone 8. The beta isn't available via the Windows Store (to avoid confusion, according to the Softies). Instead, the beta is ... See all stories on this topic »

Tech Pros Weigh-In on Facebook's Deal for Parse Forbes "Facebook's acquisition of Parse makes a lot of sense and is very synergistic with their efforts to lead on mobile. First, Parse's service will give them a great way to detect early stage mobile apps, as well as new trends that are getting traction by ... See all stories on this topic »

In Mobile Push, Facebook Buys Parse to Court App Developers Terra.com The deal, reportedly worth $85 million, is one way for Facebook to appeal to mobile app developers and create a new source of revenue. Parse offers services that help app developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins and push notifications. See all stories on this topic »

Off your Facebook The Sun THERE'S a new way to show your Facebook friends how drunk you are — and it doesn't involve writing embarrassing statuses about your ex. This smartphone breathalyser can give boozy sync with your mobile to give you an accurate reading of how bevved ... See all stories on this topic » The Sun

Pa. woman and birth mother reunited on Facebook San Francisco Chronicle (AP) — For at least a year, a woman in Bucks County tried mightily to become Facebook friends with Dianne Gill of St. Petersburg, Fla. Gill didn't want to let her in. "If I don't know a person, I don't accept a friend request," she said. But this ... See all stories on this topic »

Charity Tells Slacktivists: Give Money, Not Facebook Likes The Atlantic In the beginning, organizations wanted you to like the heck out of their Facebook pages. Why? You know, community-building, awareness-raising, general "engagement"-upping. After all, social sharing can do amazing things. It helped spark the Arab Spring ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Facebook, Google Ad Execs Spar Over The Value Of A Click TechCrunch At TechCrunch Disrupt NY today, VP of Display Advertising Products at Google, Neal Mohan, Facebook Ad Products Director Gokul Rajaram and Twitter Senior Director of Product Revenue Kevin Weil took the stage to talk about the state of digital advertising. See all stories on this topic »

'People Are More Predictable than Particles' Spiegel Online British scientist Stephen Wolfram has already developed two highly influential computational systems: Mathematica, an algebraic software program, and the popular search engine Wolfram Alpha. Now he's taking on Facebook's treasure trove of data, with ... See all stories on this topic » Spiegel Online

Facebook Inc (FB) Q1 Earnings: 10 Important Questions - ValueWalk ValueWalk Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) will report its Q1 2013 earnings on May 1 after the market hours. The social networker is expected to deliver solid results with advertising revenue growing at 46 percent growth to $1.27 billion driven by Mobile and Desktop ... See all stories on this topic » ValueWalk

Facebook Marketing Platform Viralheat Adds Social Login And Explore Features AllFacebook Viralheat, which allows people to better manage their Facebook pages, announced Tuesday that it has added two new features: Social Login and Viralheat Explore. Through Social Login, users don't have to set up a dedicated account with Viralheat, but ... See all stories on this topic » AllFacebook

Facebook Gifting App EGifter Starts Using Algorithm To Go Beyond Birthdays AllFacebook Several Facebook gifting applications have relied upon the birthday to get users to interact. But eGifter, the app from GroupGifting.com, wants to change that. The team has recently introduced to its app an algorithm to recommend good times to give a ... See all stories on this topic » AllFacebook

Facebook facelifts: Why Indians are going under the knife for social media status Vancouver Desi Facebook facelifts: Why Indians are going under the knife for social media status. Facebook facelifts. A young woman browses Facebook on a tablet in Bangalore, India on May 15, 2012. More and more young Indians are turning to plastic surgery to gain ... See all stories on this topic » Vancouver Desi

Is Facebook Morphing Into the Next MySpace? - NASDAQ.com NASDAQ Facebook remains the most important social network for U.S. teens, but Twitter is gaining, according to Piper Jaffray's March 2013 teen survey. Survey results suggest that among U.S. teens, 33 percent rank Facebook number one, with Twitter coming in a ... See all stories on this topic »

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