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STUDY: Facebook Users Who Like TV Show Pages 75 Percent More Likely To Watch

David Cohen — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:16 +0000

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.

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Mark Zuckerberg Celebrates 29th Birthday

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:33:37 +0000

The youngest CEO on the Fortune 500 list can celebrate, as Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg turns 29 Tuesday. It has been quite a year for Zuckerberg, who was born May 14, 1984.

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REPORT: Hot Regions For Facebook User Growth Include India, Brazil, Russia, Middle East, Africa

David Cohen — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:21:28 +0000

Facebook will experience strong growth in India, Brazil, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa, according to new estimates from eMarketer.

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How A Company Gained Younger Customers Through Facebook Marketing

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:29:45 +0000

Probiotic yogurt products that are aimed at digestive health aren’t always the most exciting things. However, Lifeway Foods has used Facebook to not only grow awareness of the brand, but to market to younger customers. Lifeway CEO Julie Smolyansky told AllFacebook that since the company established a presence on the social network, more young adults are purchasing its products.

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Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel, Mail.ru Group Involved In Notable Facebook Stock Transactions

David Cohen — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:16:59 +0000

Facebook shares were involved in some large transactions in recent days, with moves by Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, board member Peter Thiel, and Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group making the news.

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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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U.S., Indonesia, Japan Lose Users As Facebook Sweeps Fake Profiles

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:24:07 +0000

As Facebook mentioned in its 10-K filing, the site still has a serious problem with fake profiles, used to bolster shady pages’ fan metrics. It appears that the social network did some cleaning up in January, as several countries (notably the U.S. and Indonesia) lost a great number of users last month, according to Quintly. All around the world, more than 4 million users’ profiles were deleted in January.

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Russia’s Yandex Puts Wonder App On Hold After Unsuccessful Talks With Facebook

David Cohen — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:14:42 +0000

After Facebook revoked access to its data from Russian search engine Yandex’s Wonder iOS application last week, Yandex announced that it will pull Wonder from Apple’s App Store and put the social discovery app on hold.

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Facebook Yanks Data From Yandex’s Mobile App, A Graph Search Competitor

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:13:45 +0000

Thursday, Russian search engine Yandex released a mobile application, Wonder, that was something like Facebook’s graph search mixed with Siri. From an iPhone or iPod Touch, someone could ask Wonder, “What sushi restaurants do my friends like in San Francisco?” and it would come up with a list, based on their Facebook friends’ likes and check-ins. A few hours after the app went live, Facebook pulled its data from Wonder.

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Registration Opens For 2013 Facebook Hacker Cup

David Cohen — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:50:39 +0000

Can you feel it in the air? It’s almost Hacker Cup time at Facebook. The social network announced in a post on the Facebook Engineering page that registration is now open for the 2013 Facebook Hacker Cup.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Where Are Xbox’s and PlayStation’s Facebook Fans?

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:47:40 +0000

Gamers love Facebook, and two of the dominant gaming consoles (Xbox and PlayStation) have loyal followings on the social network. But interestingly enough, while Xbox has more fans in the U.S., PlayStation is more popular in Russia, a new infographic from Socialbakers shows.

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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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Facebook, Social Media, And Sports: Natural Teammates

David Cohen — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:19:10 +0000

Professional sports teams and leagues are as focused on Facebook and other social media as businesses from other sectors are, and an all-star team of social media executives from the field joined moderator and Movement Strategy Co-Founder Jason Mitchell on a panel at the AllFacebook Marketing Conference in New York Wednesday, “How Professional Sports Are Monetizing through Facebook.”

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