
How do you say “poke” in Hindi? According to several analysts, India is set to overtake the U.S. as the top Facebook market in terms of number of users by 2015.

How do you say “poke” in Hindi? According to several analysts, India is set to overtake the U.S. as the top Facebook market in terms of number of users by 2015.

The road ahead may be rough for Facebook, post-initial public offering. At least that is the speculation of Michael Mothner, founder and chief executive officer of El Segundo, Calif.-based online marketing firm Wpromote, who wrote about his predictions for Inc. magazine.

How Facebook planned to monetize mobile was a big question mark that surfaced during the social network’s roadshow to promote its initial public offering Friday. Then, photo application Lightbox announced yesterday that its seven-strong mobile team had been snatched up by Facebook (although it is not technically an acquisition).

Check-ins made via Foursquare will now pop up on Facebook timeline profiles, the free location-based mobile social networking application announced on its Facebook page.

Social enterprise software creator Buddy Media announced a host of additions to its social marketing suite this morning, including a unified social data application-programming interface, universal conversion tracking, and a new mobile content-development platform.

Facebook began rolling out an improved layout for posts with photos across all of its mobile platforms (Apple iOS, Android, and its mobile website).

Facebook late last night filed the sixth amendment to its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its May 18 initial public offering, acknowledging the challenges of monetizing advertising on its mobile products, and announcing the grant of restricted-stock units to employees.

Facebook’s apps and games discovery page? That’s so yesterday. The social network today announced the upcoming rollout of its new app center, aimed at giving developers the chance to grow their social applications and at providing users with a one-stop shop for apps.

Could mobile get any hotter? The latest number-crunching data from comScore reveal that Facebookers are more likely to connect to the social network through smartphones than through computers.

Facebook statistics portal and analytics provider Socialbakers examined Facebook’s mobile penetration in light of the fact that 54 percent of the social network’s average monthly users access it via mobile devices (488 million of 901 million).