Comments on: Facebook’s foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/19/facebooks-foreign-foes-five-countries-to-conquer-for-new-growth/ The economics of digital content Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan Clifford http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/19/facebooks-foreign-foes-five-countries-to-conquer-for-new-growth/#comment-100242 Mon, 21 May 2012 19:10:16 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208746#comment-100242 I have to agree with this, despite the reported numbers. I operate a business in Vietnam, and have a large team of 20-32 year olds. I recently asked all of them if they have ANY friends who aren’t on Facebook, and they answered with an unequivocal ‘no’.

]]> By: Be Sharp http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/19/facebooks-foreign-foes-five-countries-to-conquer-for-new-growth/#comment-100158 Sun, 20 May 2012 16:56:37 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208746#comment-100158 It shows once again, why American Media and this one including will never be able to “conquer” the aforementioned states, because they’re ignorant and try to simplify unsimplifyable. Oh, there’s court rulign? It’s gotta be against file-sharing. What’s wrong with file sharing per se? Should there be court ruling against box, Microsoft, Google, dropbox? Cause they enable file sharing on a massive scale. And come on, vk.com, twitter and Zynga is partly owned by DST as well (somehow the report ignored it too) and ti still doesn’t prevent anyone ot operate independently, moreover I’d say that over time vk and odnoklassniki will be able to benefit from 10% combined ownership of facebook by Russian investors by funneling the strategy and roadmap across the ocean more so than to weaken them as this article suggests.

]]> By: Mitja http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/19/facebooks-foreign-foes-five-countries-to-conquer-for-new-growth/#comment-100139 Sun, 20 May 2012 06:55:16 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208746#comment-100139 “Market leader vKontakte’s popularity may decline if it complies with a court ruling that it breaches copyright by removing its file-sharing feature.” – where did you see that court rulling, please? There is no such thing. The court rulling in fact cleaned VK. While Facebook is growing in Russia the fight is far from over there. All young population prefer VK. It can very well end up being Yandex – Google situation which google is not going to win any time soon.

]]> By: Anonymous http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/19/facebooks-foreign-foes-five-countries-to-conquer-for-new-growth/#comment-100061 Sat, 19 May 2012 14:49:22 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208746#comment-100061 In VietNam FaceBook is number 1 already. There is no real competition becasue no one is using ZingMe or Go.vn. It is just their marketing machine make some people believe that. Now facebook have at least 4 million users and it seems growing very fast (I do some ads in FaceBook and watching click growth and price falling –> it means total FB impression is booming)

FaceBook is not fully blocked here, so ppl learned how to circumvent it. Goverment has no intention to block facebook fully –> FB will continue to dominate.

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