Facebook Director of Corporate Communications Larry Yu announced in a post on his Facebook page that he is leaving the social network to join communications consultancy The Pramana Collective, teaming up with friends Brandee Barker, former Facebook head of public relations; Brian O’Shaughnessy, former head of global communications at Skype; and Sean Garrett, former head of communications at Twitter.
We're kicking off our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here. 
Facebook is growing as a mobile company, with roughly 618 million people checking Facebook from their phones and tablets. According to new figures released Thursday by App Annie, Facebook Messenger is the No. 1 iOS social networking application, in terms of monthly downloads. The Facebook native app is No. 3. Both Messenger and Facebook are also quite popular on Android, as well.
Facebook is poking around into what users of its recently released Poke iPhone application think, tapping research firm Ethnio to conduct phone interviews via Skype or GoToMeeting.
The developer behind Timeline Remove and Restyle Timeline, Italy-based Secuna, is leaving timeline alone for the time being and taking aim at chat.
Not all Facebook applications are created equal. While some only require basic information to function, many more want to know your location, access your photos, and post on your behalf. Which apps can you trust? MyPermissions, which helps users rid their social media lives of dangerous apps, shared with AllFacebook the most trusted apps on the social network, starting with the newest member of the Facebook family — Instagram.
With more and more Facebook users accessing the social network via mobile devices, Citrix examined where mobile traffic driven by Facebook was going, finding that 77 percent of the data volume generated by the social network’s mobile applications went to these five sites: YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Yahoo, and eBay.
Consolidation hit the social customer-care sector Tuesday, as Lithium Technologies announced that it acquired Social Dynamx and rebranded their combined offerings as Lithium Social Web.
Do you remember the big announcement about Skype’s integration with Facebook last July? Facebook may be testing a way to remind its users in the form of a “call’ button on their timeline profiles.
Integration with Skype has provided several useful features for Facebook users, but the Internet telephony application’s new Facebook app, Skype Humoticons, is not one of them.
Another update, deeper Facebook integration: Skype 5.5 for Windows was officially released this week.
