Facebook users who like the pages for television shows are 75 percent more likely to watch those shows, according to a recent study by media giant Viacom and its Viacom International Media Networks division.
Rumors began surfacing in March that Facebook would add a Twitter staple, hashtags, and now developer Tom Waddington uncovered evidence that the social network is getting closer to incorporating the feature in the form of a mention of “hashtag” in the software-development kit for JavaScript.
Did Facebook’s ad agency, Wieden & Kennedy, lose itself in the music of hip-hop star Eminem while creating “Airplane,” a commercial for Facebook’s recently introduced Home overlay for Android? 8 Mile Style, Eminem’s song publisher, filed suit in federal court in Detroit against the social network and the agency, alleging that the ad used music from the rapper’s 2000 song, “Under the Influence.”
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Satellite-TV provider Dish Network introduced a revamped Dish Anywhere mobile application, including stronger ties to Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., was recently invaded by Raiders — not corporate raiders, or outlaws seeking to occupy the social network, but Oakland Raiders.
Facebook Monday announced the rollout of its native share dialog for iOS, allowing developers to enable sharing from their applications by simply adding one line of code.
Facebook is now allowing users to upload and suggest photos to be used as profile pictures for pages that have not been claimed by page administrators, sister blog Inside Facebook reported.
The Ad Makeover application from Dove blows away the competition among apps from brands on Facebook in terms of monthly active users, far outdistancing the second-place app, Windows 8 from Microsoft, according to a new report on brand apps from social benchmarking platform Unmetric.
It seems that for every one of the roughly 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook each day, users can find corresponding words of advice on how to manage their photos on the social network.
