Facebook’s Recent Filing Raises Questions About Its Expected $100 Billion Valuation Mark
In an article published this week, Diane Mermigas stated that “Facebook’s developing social search framework will be a catalyst for redefining and monetizing mobile, unleashing a torrent of new revenue and value that eventually will make its $100 billion IPO valuation look like child’s play.” Mermigas argues that Facebook’s endless source of personalised information is […]
Facebook Takes Lead In Brazil: Global Domination Continues
Data released by comScore has shown that Facebook is now the leading social network in Brazil, with a staggering 192% increase in the number of visitors in the past year. Brazil is the fifth biggest user of social networks globally, yet Facebook has until now struggled to compete with the popularity of Google owned Orkut, which had […]
How social media is shared online – Part 2
I have written before about how Bryan Eisenberg introduced me to his tools site and how there were several tools that stuck out as “must try now” tools. Among them was a tool based on the data from a WordPress plugin called AddThis. When reviewing the data it got me thinking that there was another […]
The Netherlands Leading Global LinkedIn and Twitter Reach
Social Media has now reached 96% penetration in The Netherlands, with global sites Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all growing rapidly in the country. It is still one of the few markets where a local social network is the most popular and Dutch site Hyves is still hanging on to its lead over Facebook. However Facebook […]
Korean Mobile Messenger App To Take On Twitter and Facebook
Kakao Talk, a Korean Mobile Messaging App, is to launch an aggressive international campaign to grow its subscriber base and compete with global giants Facebook and Twitter. The free messaging service, which currently has 9 million subscribers in South Korea, and a further 1 million around the world, is compatible with Apple and Android Operating […]
Google Search Is Going Social
Google has once again implemented a new search criteria, adding social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to SERPs. The updated functionality will be rolled across the English language search engines when a user is logged in his or her Google mail account. This is not a new feature for Google Search but an update […]
Quick worldwide Facebook stats in 2010
According to Internet World Stats there are close to 2 billion Internet users worldwide. According to same source there are around 520 million Facebook users or 7.6% of the total Internet population. Europe has the most Facebook users or just above 162 million, North America comes next with around 150 million. Asia comes number three […]
Facebook overtakes Orkut as most popular social network in India
Facebook is now the most popular social network in India, having overtaken Orkut for the first time ever. The latest comScore figures show that Facebook has grown by 179% in the past year, and boasted 20.9 million visitors in July. Orkut, Google’s own social network, has until now held the top spot in the country, […]
Dutch Social Media Activity: A Steady Growth
In the Netherlands the biggest social network is not Facebook, but Hyves. And its our luck that the people at Hyves like numbers. On a regular basis they are publishing new numbers, usually showing us their growth. They always try to be as ‘honest’ as possible with these numbers, and therefore using numbers from for […]
Internet Censorship: Pakistan Blocks Facebook and YouTube
Pakistan has become the latest country to censor internet access following so called sacrilegious content being posted on Facebook and YouTube. A Facebook competition which invited users to post drawings and images representing the prophet Mohammed has sparked outrage amongst Muslims who find the content offensive and blasphemous. YouTube was blocked a day after Facebook […]