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Mark Zuckerberg calls President Obama to rant about his NSA frustrations

Sorry, Barrack, but Zuck is not impressed with your snooping… and he’ll tell you so. The social network founder and CEO is trying to…

10 years on, we’re still getting Facebook ROI all wrong

As Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary with record advertising revenue and more than a billion users, most marketing types admit they’re still not sure…

Facebook News Feed makeover: simpler experience, bigger pictures, less grey

Last year Facebook started rolling out an updated News Feed to some of its users across the globe only to find that they hated…

Facebook ads: pay up or get lost in the noise

If entertaining an increasingly attention-divided online audience wasn’t already difficult enough, Facebook has made a strategic move that forces brands to invest in advertising….

Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition: wasted billions or a clever mobile play?

On 19 February 2014, Facebook announced that it reached an agreement about the acquisition of WhatsApp, one of the leading mobile messaging services, for…

Remember Facebook.com email addresses? They’re going away

You might recall that, in one of its bids to be everything on the internet to everyone, Facebook introduced email addresses a few years…

Even with WhatsApp, Facebook still doesn’t own Asia

News broke this morning that Facebook has acquired WhatsApp for a whopping $19-billion. What does this deal means to Asia, a continent filled with…

8 Reasons small businesses should use Facebook ads

With websites continuing to proliferate unabated, small businesses find themselves grappling with the question of how to reach an increasingly fragmented audience in the…

Google +1 over Facebook Like and is it worth it?

Google’s +1 service is akin to Facebook’s “Like” system, but, unlike, well, Likes, it’s applicable to the whole of the web – think of…

The black marks: Zuckerberg’s legal legacy

As with most semi-biographical films, The Social Network convinces many who watch it that they develop a comprehensive knowledge of its subject matter, in…

Facebook: Benchmark of F-Commerce services

One of my recent obsessions is social commerce, the idea of shared shopping experiences online. On a global basis, Facebook has been leading the…

Jailed for Facebook: Be careful who you befriend

Joanne Frail, a 40-year-old mother from Manchester, UK, was recently given eight months jail time for contempt of court. Her crime: engaging in Facebook…

You just got served … via Facebook

Most of us think of Facebook as a positive, fairly innocuous, tool for social engagement and peer-to-peer networking. But courts and lawmakers are increasingly…

Why the French media ban on Facebook and Twitter is just plain silly

Have you ever wondered why media businesses across the world advertise that blue Facebook “F” and the turquoise Twitter “T” and demand nothing in…

Facebook vs Google: The dirty tricks campaign

Journalists and bloggers around the world last week woke up to an email screaming in all caps: “Google quietly launches sweeping violation of user…

Farmville goes Gaga: Watch out for the sheep on motorcycles…

Adding yet another weapon to her arsenal in her drive to overwhelm the world, pop singer Lady Gaga has announced that she will be…

Symantec: Facebook accidentally leaked your data

In yet another case of online security being breached, US computer security firm Symantec has said that Facebook accidentally left a door open for…

33% of Facebook posting is mobile

Some stats have been published, by researchers and the company themselves, about mobile usage of Facebook. But to content creators, one of the most…

The story of the Martin Luther King ‘quote’

The death of Osama Bin Laden has already brought one man Sohaib Athar, the man who “unwittingly” gave the world a front row seat…

‘Facebook is the most appalling spying machine ever invented,’ says Assange

Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit…

Is Facebook still for small businesses?

Once upon a time Facebook was the most effective, inexpensive marketing platform for small businesses. Due to its viral newsfeeds, share buttons and tagging…

Facebook Studio launched: A platform for creatives

Facebook has recently launched a new community site called Facebook Studio – a platform for creative and innovative social media agencies and marketers to…

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