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Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2014
Carr & Wilson |
Facebook's Plan To Own Your Phone To make Facebook more relevant than ever, the company has targeted the very core of the app economy to fulfill its vision for the next half-decade.   |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Facebook's Quest To Overtake Your Phone Aims Right For The Dialer Rather than building devices or developing a full-fledged operating system, Facebook is going a more subtle route: nabbing chunks of your attention span, one app at a time. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
At 4 Billion Views A Day, Facebook Video Is Zuckerberg's Next Cash Cow Since last summer, the number of videos watched on Facebook has tripled, now totaling over 4 billion per day. This isn't just a bragworthy metric: It's likely to become a key piece of Facebook's business in the future. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Facebook Beefs Up Its Messenger App Facebook announced details on its much-rumored plans to integrate Messenger with purchases made on other sites, and to allow third-party developers to build apps that work within it. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Say "Hello" To The Facebook Phone (Again) With Hello, Facebook is taking a much quieter, less ambitious approach to creating what had for years been rumored as the inevitable "Facebook phone." |
Fast Company
November 2013
Sarah Kessler |
Facebook's App Strategy Six years ago, Facebook began encouraging developers to integrate their products into its social network. Things haven't always worked out as planned. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Messenger Is The Second Most Downloaded App Of All Time A new report by app analytics firm App Annie says Messenger is one of the most downloaded iOS apps of all time. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Watch Your Back, Facebook: Twitter's Testing Video Autoplay Too Don't be startled by the cacophony suddenly emanating from your Twitter feed: The company started testing video autoplay yesterday, according to Advertising Age |
Fast Company
Christina Farr |
Report: Facebook Tested User Loyalty By Sabotaging Its Android App Facebook sometimes made its Android app crash for several hours over the course of several years. Facebook would then track these users to see if they kept returning to the app or gave up. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Instagram Releases Boomerang, A New Video App This is the latest in a wave of add-on apps released by the Facebook-owned company. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
If You're A Rich Celebrity, Facebook Has A Periscope Competitor For You The new live-streaming platform, aptly called "Live," allows public figures -- or "influencers" as the social network dubs them -- to stream video to their Facebook followers in real time. |
InternetNews
July 13, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Is Facebook Worth Its Platform Hype? Coverage for Facebook since the platform launch has been nothing short of iPhone-esque in some circles. But Facebook users aren't so sure the platform is worth the hype. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Meerkat Ditches Twitter And Cozies Up To Facebook Starting today, Meerkat users can post their live streams straight to Facebook. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Is Working On A Digital Assistant Called Moneypenny The teased service will supposedly let users call on "real people" when they need help choosing products or services, putting it somewhere between Siri and concierge services like Alfred. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2011
Wade Roush |
What the Changes at Facebook Mean for Apple and Google -- and You Turning the social network inside out. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Facebook Is Expanding Live Streaming To All Users Facebook is now opening up live video to all users, giving Periscope and Meerkat some competition in the process. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Facebook Is Upgrading Search Functionality Within User Profiles Facebook appears to be quietly rolling out a new search feature: the ability to search within individual profiles. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Follows Netflix's Lead With Post-Play Videos Facebook is in talks to host content from BuzzFeed, National Geographic, and the Times within the blue confines of its own site, sharing ad revenue with publishers. |
Fast Company
February 2015
McCorvey & LaPorte |
Twitter's Facebook Envy In an effort to win more advertising dollars, Twitter is trying to build a network of mobile developers who are loyal to it rather than Facebook. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Vine Launches New Music-Friendly Features Vine announced a few new features on Thursday night that aim to elevate its cred as a music app. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2011
Chloe Albanesius |
Favorite Android Apps: Men Love Maps, Women Love Facebook? What's your favorite Android app? According to Tuesday stats from Nielsen, women would most likely say Facebook while men would gravitate towards Maps. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook Rolls Out Connect Sync Tool for iPhone New feature enables users to sync iPhone apps with Facebook network on the eve of Apple's highly anticipated software update. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Messenger Has More Than 800 Million Monthly Users In 2015, Facebook spruced up Messenger with a slew of new features, including peer-to-peer payments and a snazzy digital assistant called M. |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007 |
Apps Mania At 32, Max Levchin may feel like the granddaddy of Web 2.0, but four of the applications his company has created for Facebook have consistently ranked in the top 10. |
InternetNews
February 9, 2010 |
Pip.io: Not Just Another Social Network? Site aims to go beyond Twitter and Facebook in some respects while inviting those social networking sites and others into the fold. |
InternetNews
July 16, 2009 |
Facebook Talks Ad Tech for Devs, Hits 250M Users Social networking giant Facebook has rolled out a new set of ad-targeting technologies to better help developers monetize their applications and expanded its virtual currency program across the Facebook Platform. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
BuzzFeed's Silly New Animals App Is Very Smart Business Born from an eponymous feature on the main site, Cute or Not is BuzzFeed's second app in its nearly 10-year history and the beginning of what, according to Johaneson, will be a "year of apps" for the viral content creator. |
InternetNews
November 6, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Facebook's New Ad Play Built on The People Facebook spreads the word through user profiles in its new ad program. |
CRM
August 2012
Judith Aquino |
Facebook Sets Its Sights on Advertisers The world's largest social networking ups the ante on its offerings. |
Inc.
September 1, 2009
Tamara Schweitzer |
Four Companies Making iPhone Video Apps There is a growing -- make that deafening -- buzz about building a business using the iPhone App Store. And one of the most buzzed about areas is video. |
Fast Company
Steven Melendez |
Report: Snapchat Is Building Its Own Ad Platform Snapchat is working on an application-programmer interface that would let brands buy more targeted and sophisticated ads on the popular mobile messaging platform |
Wired
July 20, 2009
Douglas Quenqua |
Hotseat: The Creator of Facebook's Most Annoying App Explains Himself An interview with Tim O'Shaughnessy, creator of LivingSocial, Facebook's most-used and most-annoying application ever. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2013
Alison Overholt |
How Smule Chief Product Officer Prerna Gupta Turned iPhones Into Mics, The App Store Into A Stage Smule boasts more than 90 million downloads of its music-creation apps, including Songify and LaDiDa, on which users have created more than 950 million original songs. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
What's That In My Feed? Instagram Will Have More Ads Soon The next time you use Instagram, expect to see more ads. Those ads will be targeted to what's in your feed and will allow you to open websites and download apps within Instagram. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2013
Austin Carr |
How Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom Is Making Good On Facebook's Billion-Dollar Bet Inside Facebook's building 14, just a door down from Mark Zuckerberg's office, Kevin Systrom and the Instagram team plot the future of their beloved photo-sharing app. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2014
Ryan Bradley |
Understanding Facebook's Lost Generation of Teens The social network is not a cool hangout spot anymore, which is why its user rate among young teens is dropping off. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Facebook Takes Over Your Lock Screen With Its New App, Notify Notify is designed as a one-stop notifications center that will keep users updated on everything from weather forecasts to sports scores to celebrity news, courtesy of selected media partners. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
As Snapchat Explodes, Another Executive Flees Emily White, the seasoned Silicon Valley executive hired as Snapchat's COO in 2013, is leaving the company, according to Re/code. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Twitter Removes 140 Character Limit For Direct Messages Twitter is formally lifting its 140 character limit for direct messages, after informing developers of the update in June. |
Search Engine Watch
October 21, 2010
Kristine Schachinger |
Facebook Privacy -- Again? Hey, Facebook, stop being careless, stop being sloppy, and stop giving out all our data. Get a security team, and audit your apps and your app companies. If Apple can do it, so can you. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Facebook To Start Sharing Ad Revenue With Video Partners The move is similar to YouTube's profit-sharing mechanism, and is aimed at the same brands that work with YouTube. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
The Other Shoe Drops: Facebook May Soon Host News Sites' Content Inside Facebook Facebook is more interested in hosting the things media companies make than just spreading them and it sees Facebook-hosted video as an example of the solution. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Instagram Just Stepped Up Its Advertising Game Instagram officially debuted its advertising API this week as part of a major push to turn the app into a major mobile advertising platform. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2010 |
Bigger Threat to Google: Apple or Facebook? As more and more people flock to social networking sites, how will this affect Google's bottom line? |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Facebook Will Let You Bookmark Videos With "Watch Later" Button Facebook users will soon start seeing a "Watch Later" button when they hover over the upper-right-hand corner of a video, much like the one that's already offered on YouTube. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Fred Vogelstein |
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet -- and Keep Google Out Today, the Google-Facebook rivalry isn't just going strong, it has evolved into a full-blown battle over the future of the Internet -- its structure, design, and utility. |
Fast Company
February 2014
Om Malik |
Facebook Backlash Why we're embracing spare, single- purpose apps and why that's likely to continue. |
PC Magazine
July 26, 2011
Eric Griffith |
20 Best Facebook Apps Aren't sure what you should do on the social network after you update your status? Here are 20 of the coolest apps to keep you busy. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
Instagram Testing Facebook Places Integration To Replace Foursquare Popular photo-sharing app Instagram is testing integration with Facebook Places, Facebook's venue database. Facebook, of course, owns Instagram. |
Entrepreneur
September 2009 |
The Twittering Class How social media can elevate your company's online cred. |
