Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Facebook shares loss after the announcement Quarte...





facebook shares down

Facebook has just released its first quarterly financial report since making an initial public offering to the public several months ago. In the report note that Facebook revenues reached 1.18 billion dollars and to provide a dividend of 0.12 dollars per share. Facebook ad revenue stated of 922 million dollars. These figures are close to previous estimates of the analysts who estimate revenue of 1.15 billion dollars up to the advertising revenues of 921 million dollars.

Although able to reach such an estimate from analysts, but the stock did not grow up well. Facebook stock dropped dramatically to 8% in the early days after the announcement, while shares rose during the session before then fell and closed at a price around 25 dollars, well below its IPO price of 38 dollars. Meanwhile, shares of Zynga, a company that is closely related to Facebook, today reported down 40% after bad in the financial statements the previous day.

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Facebook also disclose the amount of expenditure in the financial statements. It is known that the costs incurred by Facebook reaches 413 million dollars, up 213% over the previous year. Current cash position and positive up well over 10 billion dollars, with 6.8 billion of these funds from the sale of its shares.

At the end of Facebook made ??a statement that essentially denied that he had built a platform advertising ineffective. According to Facebook, 70% of ad revenue generating 3-fold or better, while 49% reported incomes of up to 5-fold or better.

origin source The Next Web,via teknoup


Friday, August 17, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Will not Produce Our Own...





facebook smartphone

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that what is expected of Facebook users about smartphone produced by Facebook is not going to happen now. During the financial report Thursday, the CEO of Facebook was asked about his company plans to produce its own smartphone, and Zuckerberg explained that Facebook is currently working with major vendors of smartphone makers to produce smartphone which is integrated with Facebook. At the end of the answer Zuckerberg also added depth will continue to provide support to Apple about the Facebook integration.

origin source BGR

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Facebook Launches App Center; Makes it Easier to Discover Social Apps For iOS And Android

Facebook has announced the launch of App Center, an app recommendation portal that takes advantage of Facebook's social graph in delivering suggestions to users.
The App Center features native iOS and Android apps, as well as web apps, including the ones that run inside Facebook's website.
Facebook's doing quite a bit to ensure that the apps that are showcased to users are of high quality, as described on its developer blog:


Success through the App Center is tied to the quality of an app. We use a variety of signals, such as user ratings and engagement, to determine if an app is listed in the App Center.
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Well-designed apps that people enjoy will be prominently displayed. Apps that receive poor user ratings or don’t meet the quality guidelines won't be listed.

The App Center already lists more than 600 apps at launch, which span across various categories like games, music, news, sports and photos. Any app using Facebook's login framework can be listed on the App Center, provided it follows guidelines set up by Facebook.
App Center is available on Facebook's native iOS and Android apps, as well as Facebook's desktop and mobile websites at this URL. Just like the App Store, every app in the App Center has a details page which features screenshots along with a description of the app.
Upon clicking a mobile app you would be redirected to the App Store or Google Play if you're on mobile,  and if you're on a PC you have the option of sending a link to the app on your mobile. You could of course start using the app right away if it's web based.
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This isn't the full blown mobile HTML5 platform that Facebook was rumored to debut, but a front end to apps on the App Store and Google Play. Of course, there are web apps and apps that run within Facebook's canvas, but it isn't the mobile HTML5 platform that could compete with Apple or Google.
This is obviously good news for developers, who are constantly looking for new ways to increase visibility of their apps, and it'll be interesting to see how well this works out for them. (If you're a developer, you could even try our forums to get some eyeballs for your app.)
Head over to this link on your PC or iOS device to have a look at Facebook's App Center.