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At the annual D10 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, tech and industry analyst Mary Meeker did her now famous slide show of Internet Trends. Last year in her slides at the Web 2.0 Summit she told us how the future is all about mobile. This year, she came up with some more interesting stats, but nothing too mind-numbing.
A few days after the Facebook IPO, which made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg gave a speech to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School. Incidentally, Sandberg became a billionaire as well. During her speech, in a half-whimsical way she uttered these words: “Keep in touch via Facebook; this is critical to your future success. And since we’re public now, could you click on an ad or two while you’re there?” Yeah.
Facebook is now up to 900 million users, which was uncovered in their recent Initial Public Offering. Having that many users, close to a billion, is astronomic for any one entity which then has to take that user data and turn it into something - that something being useful data which is forming the social web which many want to be a part of and which Facebook can benefit financially from. So, how does Facebook do it all?
Could this be a sign that we are nearing the end of our beloved Instagram? Today Facebook launched their own Instagram-esque mobile photo sharing app, with photo filters and social tied directly into Facebook. The conundrum is that Facebook just acquired Instagram last month for $1 billion. What gives?
After the Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg instantly became a billionaire many times over. Although, the FB stock isn’t doing as well as most would have liked. It started out with an IPO price of $38 a share, which made Zuck worth $19.14 billion. At the opening public price, it went up to $42 but has since bottomed out a bit, down as low as $30.94 and at $31.65 as of this writing.
After an amazing setup yesterday for the Facebook IPO and a $104 billion company valuation, and this morning with Mark Zuckerberg ringing the NASDAQ bell from Menlo Park California (pictured inset), the Facebook stock (FB) has officially began trading on the open market.
As expected, Facebook completed it’s Initial Public Offering today raising a staggering $16 billion, bringing the total valuation of the uber social network to $104 billion, which makes it one of the biggest IPO’s filed ever.
Facebook’s highly talked about and now famous IPO is going to happen at any moment now. At a valuation at $100 billion and counting, it will be one of the biggest IPO’s to date, three times larger than Starbucks. Is it all that it’s cracked up to be though? Warren Buffet doesn’t think that it is. MBA Online did an infographic on the IPO numbers and included some interesting facts worth checking out.
If you use multiple social networks, and are trying to incorporate your Google+ posts automatically to other platforms like Twitter, Facebook or even Myspace, you can do it. Sit back and relax, as you post from Google+ and let it auto-feed to your other networks with this new super easy solution.
Facebook announced a new venture that they plan to launch in the near future - a mobile App Center, which will be a neutral mobile app discovery tool on the social networking platform. The goal of the App Center will be to have one central location to find social apps, clearly since Facebook dominates social they want to harvest it as much as possible - with mobile being the future - this was a very strategic move. Being neutral between Apple and Google is key, so it’s one place to find apps regardless of what platform you use.
Many may not remember, but back in 2010 there was an investigation from the WSJ which discovered that Myspace was leaking private user data from their web apps on the social networking site. Almost two years later, Myspace has settled with the FTC which says that Myspace misled millions of users, sharing personal information with advertisers.
Talk about a Cinderella story. In just under two years, the mobile photo sharing service Instagram went from nothing to a billion dollar acquisition with the social networking giant Facebook. Recently, Instagram created an Android app, which has helped fuel the explosion in growth.
Back in September 2011, social readers were introduced onto the Facebook platform, and ever since then it’s pretty much been non-stop app after app, road block after road block on Facebook; and in order to read an article or watch a video, you need to install a social reader app.
For 18 years the FBI has been wiretapping phone lines as a means for surveillance on persons of interest in their ongoing investigations. In 1994, the U.S. wiretapping law was passed, several years prior to the World Wide Web. This law gives the FBI full access to your private conversations on any phone lines. Now, the FBI wants to change the law so that they can tap into your Internet conversations as well.
Facebook just passed a momentous turning point in the number of active users it has. For a while, they were in the 800-850 million user threshold, but in an amendment to their S-1 IPO filing, they say they now have 901 million active users.
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