There is no denying that the Internet has had a profound impact on this U.S. Presidential race. I have discussed this at length in a previous article. Google has contributed a lot to this, but they are by no means the only Internet entity that has played a role.
Financial Woes For Facebook?
TechCrunch today has no treats—and no joy, no, not even Almond Joy—for Facebook in reporting about its projected financial woes. For a company once valued at $15 billion, things are looking grim as the cash supplies may dwindle long before Facebook is ready or willing to go to IPO.
Facebook Planning Overnight Hackathon
Stay up a little too late, and you might get tired. Stay up way too late – think weeks of insomnia – and you may start to lose it. But somewhere in between, creativity strikes a lot of people, and Facebook’s planning an overnight hackathon to take advantage of this fact.
Man in UK Sentenced for Facebook Slaughter
Back in February a man named Wayne Forrester murdered his wife Emma in cold blood (and a cocaine and alcohol-fueled daze) by stabbing her in the head and neck with a kitchen knife and meat cleaver. The reason he did this he said, was because she changed her Facebook profile to "single" shortly after he moved out of their home. Today, Forrester was sentenced to life in jail, and ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years. BBC News reports:
Facebook Mulls Digital Music Business
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly considering entering into the digital music business and becoming a streaming competitor to iTunes and MySpace.Zuckerberg is in talks with several song streaming services and music community sites including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com, and Lala.com, sources familiar with the situation said, according to the New York Post.
Facebook Supporting Legislation Fighting Sexual Predators
Facebook, Facebook. A year ago, it seemed we could hardly go a day without some newsworthy tidbit from the sweetheart of the social networking scene. These days, positive headlines—or any at all, since “ink is ink”—are much fewer and further between. But today, Facebook has two reasons to make the news: they’ve endorsed the new KIDS Act from the US federal government and they’re finally disbursing the fbFund for startups.
Facebook Announces Top 25 fbFund Recipients
There’s a heck of a lot of bad economic news out there, but for a group of Facebook application developers, it’s a great day. A full 25 teams were named as fbFund recipients, and they’ll receive $25,000 each as a result.
Facebook Continuing To Grow In The UK
Forget eBay, YouTube, Bebo, and the BBC. When it comes to the most visited websites in the UK, Facebook’s topped them all. According to new Hitwise data, the fast-growing social network only sits behind Google UK.
Facebook Launches Microsoft Live Search Integration…
Facebook temporarily launched Microsoft Live Search integration with its site before removing it a short time later. It’s unclear why the feature has been removed, but the post announcing it on the Facebook Blog was removed as well, so I’m guessing it wasn’t quite ready for primetime, and they goofed.
MySpace, Facebook Top Mobile Social Networks
Close to half (46%) of those who use social networks have visited a social network by using their mobile phone, according to ABI Research.The majority (70%) have visited MySpace and another 67 percent have visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15 percent mobile adoption.