Facebook Settles Text-Messaging Lawsuit; Says It Will Enact Better Controls
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Facebook Counters OpenSocial; Bebo Playing Both Sides
By Joseph Weisenthal
Facebook is ready to counterattack Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial. The site revealed today that its Facebook Platform would be made availa… Read more »
Ad Agencies Show Willingness To Forgive Facebook’s Beacon Missteps
By David Kaplan
The concern over Facebook’s Beacon ad system appears to be waning quickly into a non-factor among media buyers, Mediaweek reports. Not only… Read more »
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AdKnowledge Acquires Facebook Ad Platform Cubics
By David Kaplan
Behavioral targeter AdKnowledge has bought Alberta, Canada-based Cubics, an online ad network that is primarily focused on Facebook develope… Read more »
Zuckerberg: I Apologize
By Rafat Ali
Really. Here. Also, Facebook is now releasing a privacy control to turn off Beacon completely. “If you select that you don’t want to share s… Read more »
More Details On Facebook’s $60 Million Investment With Li Ka-Shing
By Rafat Ali
Last week we reported on Facebook getting $60 million investment from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, citing the report by Kara Swisher o… Read more »
Correction on Coca-Cola & Facebook: Relationship Not On Hold; Not In Beacon To Begin With
By Rafat Ali
So a correction on a post this weekend about Coca-Cola’s participation in Facebook’s controversial Beacon ad program, and from the NYT’s un… Read more »
@ UBS Media Week: FIM’s Michael Barrett: HyperTargeting Yields 50 Percent Premiums
By Joseph Weisenthal
Fox Interactive’s Michael Barrett kicked off his presentation at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference in a feel-good manner, tal… Read more »
New Social Network Start-up Kaioo Bets On Privacy
By Dianne See Morrison
German social network start-up Kaioo hopes to become an online refuge for users seeking a haven from social networks such as MySpace and Fac… Read more »
Coca-Cola Holding Out on Facebook Beacon Participation; Overstock and Travelocity As Well
By Rafat Ali
Correction: See our correction on the story below, here.
Coca-Cola, who was one of the charter advertisers when Facebook’s controversial ad… Read more »
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Social Media Aggregator Flux Releases New Platform Aimed At Expanding Services Beyond MTVN
By David Kaplan
Social media aggregator Flux.com is releasing two products today designed to let web publishers move their content seamlessly among communit… Read more »
Facebook Gets $60 Million Additional Investment From Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka-Shing: Report
By Rafat Ali
Facebook has closed another big tranche of its planned funding round, this time from an unlikely source: Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing,… Read more »
Facebook Overhauls Controversial ‘Beacon’ Ad System; Users To Get More Control
Once again, Facebook is refining a controversial program that overstepped privacy bounds and drew negative reaction from tens of thousands o… Read more »
Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets With Facebook, OpenSocial
It’s tempting to shrug off most of the announcements about this and that service embracing various social net standards as “well, duh” — bu… Read more »
US Media Owners Substituting ‘Pennies for Dollars’ Online?
By Dianne See Morrison
Are new online business models just substituting “pennies for dollars” for media owners? That was the woeful conclusion of Mort Zuckerman, p… Read more »
Privacy Issues Spur EU Scrutiny Over Behavioral Targeting; Facebook’s ‘Beacon’ Provokes Backlash
By David Kaplan
The European Union expects to bring its regulatory power to bear on online behavioral targeting practices next year, as protests over privac… Read more »
Facebook Confirms Profile Promotion Banned Except Through Ad Platform
Here’s a Friday footnote to this week’s kerfuffle where UK digital media consultancy Broadsight grumbled about having its Facebook profile d… Read more »
Facebook Caught Up In Profile Deletion Concerns, Says It Sticks To Letter Of Law
It must be a frustrating week to be a zeitgeist. First, the venerable Times’ speculative report Facebook is buying in to China is flatly den… Read more »
Facebook Denies Offering To Buy For Chinese Social Net Zhanzuo
Updated: Facebook PR writes in to us and says the Times UK report is false, and says: “no offer has been made and no acquisition in China is… Read more »
Interview: Chris DeWolfe, Co-Founder and CEO, MySpace
By Rafat Ali
Last Friday evening in Monaco, I spoke to Chris DeWolfe, the founder and CEO of MySpace, part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). on a slew of issues.… Read more »
More On Facebook Ads; No Way To Opt Out Short Of Clamming Up
Over at the NYT, Saul Hansell writes about turning Facebook users into endorsers. That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that, with the… Read more »
Facebook Ads Unveiled; 60-Plus Advertisers Have Signed On
Facebook has discovered targeted social marketing … at least, I think that’s what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to get across in today’s a… Read more »
@ Ad:Tech: On The Value Of Facebook And Ad Networks
By David Kaplan
For social networks still worried about attracting advertisers, investors and ad agency executives appearing on an afternoon session at Ad:T… Read more »
Facebook Wants 50 UK Staff Within Year, Microsoft Ad Deal Continues
More details on Facebook’s nascent dedicated UK operations – opening this week, the Soho Square, London, office “will start with a five-stro… Read more »
Ballmer: 'Wait And See' On Yahoo Buy; Facebook Investment 'Not A Mistake', No Value Guarantee
In Mumbai for Red Herring’s ATRE conference, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer was pushed by reporters (via Reuters) on the wisdom of… Read more »
Industry Moves: More Departures From Yahoo UK's Sales Ranks
By Ingrid Lunden
The leaving parties are coming thick and fast now at Yahoo. Just days after the company appointed a new marketing director, news is emerging… Read more »
Google's OpenSocial Designed To Blunt Facebook's Growth, While Building Up Lesser Social Nets
By David Kaplan
Last week, Facebook thwarted Google (NSDQ: GOOG) by accepting Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) $240 million offer for a minority stake in the compan… Read more »
Hedge Fund Money for Facebook?
By Joseph Weisenthal
Yesterday’s announcement that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) had taken a stake in Facebook left open the possibility that the social network might r… Read more »
Google Analyst Day: Schmidt: 'MySpace Deal Ahead Of Plans'; May Partner On Spectrum Auction
We’ll have more on Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) analyst day in a bit. As it turned out — totally a coincidence, I’m sure — Google was in the midd… Read more »
Live Coverage: Microsoft-Facebook Conference Call On The Investment Deal
By Rafat Ali
Below is relevant parts of the conference call…not direct quotes, but paraphrased. Updated: The full audio download of the call is here (M… Read more »
Microsoft Gets Facebook Stake; $240 M For 1.6%; $15B Valuation; More Money May Come From Others
By Rafat Ali
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has beaten Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in the race to invest in Facebook, reports WSJ, News.com and others. The investment is… Read more »
Facebook Investment Deal Comes To Head; Google Could Inch Out Microsoft
By Rafat Ali
The race to invest in Facebook is in its home stretch, reports NYP, with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) duking it out…the… Read more »
Facebook Gathers Ad Execs For A First Look At Targeting Plans
By David Kaplan
Facebook has been sending select advertising executives a cryptic invitation to an event on Nov. 6, during which the company promises to “un… Read more »
A Real Google-Facebook Pairing: Google News Experiments With Facebook App
With all the rumors and gossip out there, it’s nice to be able to report a legit piece of Google-Facebook news. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News, wh… Read more »
Weekend Video: Clip From Mark Zuckerberg's Q&A At Web 2.0
By Rafat Ali
For weekend watching: some clips from the Web 2.0 conference: first: interview with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. Read more »
Web 2.0: Facebook's Zuckerberg: Financing "Almost Wrapped Up"
We couldn’t make it to SF this week for Web 2.0 (we’ll be there in a few days for CTIA) but Barrons’ Eric Savitz is on hand to report that F… Read more »
Facebook And New York AG Settle Dispute Over Child Safety Protections
By David Kaplan
Facebook has promised greater vigilance in responding to obscene material and reports of sexual predators on its site, the AP reports. (via… Read more »
Hands On Management: EMI Boss Tells Staff To Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
By Ingrid Lunden
Sometimes it takes an outsider to call a spade a spade: Guy Hands, the new owner of EMI after the label was bought by his private equity hou… Read more »
The Impact of Online Recommenders: Reinforcing The Head; Facebook Apps As An Example?
By Rafat Ali
An interesting research paper out of Wharton about the effect of online recommendation services and their users and the theory that they ten… Read more »
Facebook Working On a Music Platform For Bands; Not iTunes Killer, But MySpace; Apple Tieup
By Rafat Ali
Facebook is working on an artist platform to be launched later this year, which in essence is supposed to be better than what MySpace allows… Read more »
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