If you haven’t already noticed, the Facebook interface has changed in the past week. The change focuses on the news feed, specifically each users’ individual news feed. Now, stories that Facebook’s algorithms think matter to you will appear at the top of the page from the day before, along with more recent stories. So how exactly [...]
Just when you thought Facebook couldn’t get any more popular and that it might even start to lose some of its luster, a new Nielsen study released on Monday announced that Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in the month of May. To put this into perspective, that’s more time spent [...]
On Wednesday Yahoo’s stock fell 8%, only a day after the company announced yet another disappointing financial quarter. CEO Carol Bartz, who is in the final 17 months of her four-year contract, already feeling some heart, is likely feeling even more pressure now that both the stock price and projected online advertising market share are dropping. Yahoo’s stock [...]
On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled several new tools, with the main feature being video chat. This comes just days after Google announced its latest social networking effort in Google+. Facebook, now claiming to have surpassed the 750 million user mark, also introduced a group chatting feature. The video chat will be powered by Skype, and in order to use this [...]
If you haven’t yet heard the news, Google is attempting to challenge Facebook. The search giant recently announced several of the major pieces being put into place that will make up Google+. This should come as a shock to no one given Google’s thirst to be at the forefront of everything internet related. Steven Levy, of Wired.com, [...]
Over the past year Groupon has grown from 200 employees to 6,500, from 3 million subscribers to 70 million, and it has seen it’s company perceived value rise from $1.4 billion to $25 billion. As we mentioned in a blog post from November, Google was rumored to be interested in buying Groupon; however, Groupon rejected [...]
