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.
Facebook has been quietly rolling out updates to its iPhone application, releasing its new Pages Manager iPhone app for page administrators in the U.S. with no announcement, and tweaking the news feed in the iPhone app to look more like timeline.
Internet security firm Sophos warned of malware disguised as an email from Facebook telling recipients the social network received requests from them to cancel their accounts.
There’s a little of thrifty Warren Buffet in Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. The billion-dollar wedding industry got no dimes, and barely even a nickel, from billionaire Zuckerberg and his new bride, Priscilla Chan.
Think of them as the active class among Facebook users, the movers-and-shakers of the Facebook world — those most likely to comment, to keep enlarging their networks by routinely sending friend requests, to like things, and to (listen up) influence their friends. And 11 percent of them are regularly added into Facebook groups.
Pop star Katy Perry debuted a new song at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards, “Wide Awake,” and Facebook’s timeline plays a starring role in the video.
Hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” is coming to Facebook in game form, as HBO Global Licensing granted a license to game developer Disruptor Beam for Game of Thrones Ascent.
Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will follow in the footsteps of other notable tech CEOs and take a base salary of $1 in 2013, taking one step toward slashing his tax burden.
Facebook analytics provider Wise Metrics came up with a neat trick for manipulating the way photos are displayed on users’ news feeds so that brands can draw more attention to their posts.
