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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Visits Poland

David Cohen — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:31:19 +0000

When does a “spontaneous” one-day holiday to Warsaw, Poland, turn into a meeting with the country’s minister for administrative affairs and digitization? When you happen to be Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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REPORT: Fate Of Israel Development Center, Employees Holding Up Facebook-Waze Talks

David Cohen — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:21:09 +0000

Facebook’s efforts to acquire satellite navigation startup Waze in a deal potentially valued at as high as $1 billion have hit a major roadblock, as Israeli daily newspaper Calcalist reported that Waze’s co-founders and CEO are balking at the shuttering of the company’s development center in Israel and the relocation of some of its employees to the social network’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

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YouTube Reaches 1B Unique Monthly Users

David Cohen — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:13:12 +0000

Facebook has company in the billionaires’ club, as Google-owned video site YouTube announced in a post on its blog that it has reached 1 billion unique monthly users. Of course, Facebook had 1.06 billion monthly active users as of Dec. 31, 2012, and MAUs are more specific than unique users. But 1 billion is still an impressive number.

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Facebook Could Be Bigger Than China By 2016

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:50:34 +0000

Facebook can’t legally get into China, but in a few years, the social network might be bigger than the country. A new blog post from Pingdom suggests that by 2016, there might be more people with profiles on Facebook than living in China, making Facebook larger than any country in the world.

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Facebook Changes PayPal Direct Deposit Policy For New Developers In Several Countries

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:00:37 +0000

Since 2010, PayPal has been one of the main methods of payment for Facebook developers. But as Facebook grows, the company is changing its PayPal policies for new developers in emerging markets, such as China, Brazil, and India. According to TechCrunch, developers in several countries must show extra identification as a means of authentication, such as photo IDs or incorporation papers, in order to be paid via direct deposit.

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Android: Facebook’s Springboard To The World

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:45:30 +0000

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has always said that his goal for the company is to connect the world. With Facebook being the social network of choice in 127 countries across the globe, it is doing a pretty good job so far. However, its work is far from done. It’s up to devices powered by Google’s Android to continue Facebook’s international vision.

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Vietnam, Brazil Are Among Facebook’s Fastest-Growing Countries

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:13:01 +0000

Facebook is increasingly becoming an international phenomenon, as Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that his goal for the company is to connect the world. While that might take a while, Facebook is rapidly growing in countries such as Brazil, South Korea, and Russia, according to new data from sister company Quintly (formerly AllFacebook Stats).

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Facebook Is Top Social Network In 127 Countries

David Cohen — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:15:59 +0000

Facebook is now the top social network in 127 of the 137 countries analyzed in the December 2012 version of the World Map of Social Networks, from Vincos Blog.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook On The Rise In Russia, India, Brazil

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:47:21 +0000

As Facebook shoots past 1 billion users, countries all over the world are becoming more plugged in to the social network. People in Brazil, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and India love Facebook, as there has been 41 percent growth in those countries this year, according to a new infographic from BestFreeOnline.

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Highest Percentage Of Opera Mini Users Accessing Facebook? Macau

David Cohen — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:26:55 +0000

If you were asked to guess which country had the highest percentage of users of Opera mobile Web browser Opera Mini users accessing Facebook in October, would you have come up with Macau?

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Report: There Are 63.52 Million Facebook Users In China, Despite Ban

David Cohen — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:28:18 +0000

Laws are meant to be broken, including, apparently, the one banning Facebook in China, as research firm GlobalWebIndex reported that Facebook users in the country have skyrocketed from 7.9 million in July 2009 to 63.52 million as of the second quarter of 2012.

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Chinese Social Network Copies Facebook’s Timeline

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:08:15 +0000

China may not have Facebook, but it looks like the country is getting timeline. Renren, a Chinese social media site, has pretty much copied the design of Facebook’s timeline, right down to the introduction page.

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Report: Facebook Search Engine Would Immediately Capture 25 Percent Of Market

David Cohen — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:13:38 +0000

If Facebook were to launch its own search engine right now, it would immediately attract nearly one-quarter of that sector and become the second-most-used search engine in every major market in the world except China, Japan, and Russia, where it would place third, according to a recent report by independent digital marketing agency Greenlight.

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Facebook Has No Plans Yet To Add China

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:05:26 +0000

China, the world’s most populous country at 1.3 billion people, has blocked its citizens from accessing Facebook. It doesn’t appear that this will change anytime soon. At a recent social media conference in Hong Kong, Facebook’s North Asia director, Jayne Leung, said the social network currently has no plans to make a move into China.

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Chinese Company Sues Facebook, Claiming It Stole Timeline Idea

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:10:13 +0000

Many Facebook users are still angry with the site for implementing timeline. They’re not alone. According to TechRadar, a Chinese Pinterest-like site — Cubic Network — has sued Facebook, claiming that the company stole the idea for timeline.

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