Some may say that after being together in a relationship for nine years, it was high time that Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg put a ring on it. The nuptials between Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, one day after the social network’s initial public offering, were well-timed and savvy from a legal perspective, as well, divorce attorneys in California told Reuters.
The hopes of collectors who sought to own one share of Facebook stock from its initial public offering last week were dashed, as paper stock certificates will not be made available, after all.
In what almost seems like a version of Klout for employees of a brand, with a host of other robust features, social software provider Dachis Group rolled out Employee Insight, a software-as-a-service application that measures the social media contributions of employees.
Video chat provider OoVoo announced a spate of new features, including a 12-way free video chat application for Facebook.
While gambling is illegal on Facebook, users who want to play casino games with more at stake than their name on a leader board may find themselves hopping over to RocketFrog.
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Facebook marketing outfit GroSocial announced the close of a $1 million series-A funding round, led by Kickstart Seed Fund, with contributions from Monarch Partners, Rock & Hammer Ventures, and other angel investors.
On the heels of the highly anticipated Facebook initial public offering, tech biggie Microsoft made a hush-hush entrance into the social networking arena, unleashing its So.cl experiment from beta-testing.
Facebook is winning the social media wars. But Google isn’t worried. According to Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, Google Plus has more than 100 million active users. Facebook, meanwhile, has more than 900 million active monthly users. Google Plus has a little more than 10 percent of Facebook’s reach, and its users spend a mere 3.3 minutes per month on the search engine giant’s social network, compared with the average Facebook user’s eight hours.
Finally, the prayers of Facebook page administrators have been answered. Facebook released the Pages Manager application for the iPhone to make it easier for page admins to effectively manage their Facebook pages. The Facebook Page app for mobile has always had the ability to manage Facebook pages, but not with the same features, and often with numerous bugs when it came to properly posting content.
