Tag Archives: The Social Network

Facebook Completes WhatsApp Acquisition

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Social networking giant, Facebook, closed its multi-billion acquisition of the popular mobile messaging app, WhatsApp, on Monday. After getting the approval in the U.S. earlier this year, Facebook...

Facebook Reportedly Mulling Healthcare Tool to Aid Users with Ailments

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Facebook is the world's number one social network with over 1.32 billion monthly active users as of June this year. But it's more than a social media company. On January last year, Facebook...

Facebook Executive Apologizes For Controversial News Feed Study

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Facebook chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, admits that the social network poorly communicated its 2012 psychological experiment.Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Sandberg said that the news...

Sheryl Sandberg Kind Of Apologizes For Facebook Emotion Manipulation Study

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The Facebook emotion contagion study has finally reached the executive level. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the word “apologize” in reference to the study that involved nearly 700,000 Facebook...

Female Billionaires that Made it to the Top

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Do the names Oprah Winfrey, Tory Burch, Sara Blakely and Miuccia Prada ring a bell? They are all female billionaires who are mighty proud of their accomplishments. They earn the dollars and then...

Facebook working on a new app ‘Slingshot’

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Facebook took a hard blow when it failed to purchase the famous video and picture messaging app for $3 billion last year. Yes, we are talking about Snapchat which has been going viral these days and...

Mark Zuckerberg Turns 30: A Look Back

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The first time his name appeared in Forbes Magazine, Mark Zuckerberg was an afterthought. Sandwiched in between the ranks and photos of the richest Americans in the 2007 Forbes 400 issue, Zuckerberg...

Buying Facebook Stock: Three Reasons Why

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While I am personally committed to never using Facebook, I have changed my mind about its stock — even though I don’t own it. The big reason is that Facebook has demonstrated that it can set goals...

Facebook Earnings: Mobile advertising represented 59 percent of advertising revenue

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Facebook appears to have nailed its mobile strategy.It's worth noting that in 2012, just months after its IPO, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company was wrong about focusing on HTML5 and the web...