South African legal history was made in the Durban High Court yesterday when Judge Esther Steyn agreed to allow the service of a legal notice on a man being sued to be posted on his Facebook page.
Generally speaking, some of the more prominent Facebook investors have lost a collective $19,2 billion since Facebook’s public listing. Zuckerberg has fared the worst though: he’s lost $7,5 billion.
The BBC has conducted an investigation into marketers’ obsession with ‘Likes’ and how this is impacted by fake user accounts and advertising on Facebook. An interesting read for all marketers.
According to a recent report, social media sites, including Facebook, monitor users’ chats and scan for criminal activity. The invasive measures are intended to “ensure the safety of public” and authorities are notified if any suspicious activity is detected.
Facebook may in the future be doing for your banking what it’s done for your online privacy in general. Who doesn’t want to be able to pay their bills while at the same time looking at photos of their friends at that braai that got a little out of hand?
That’s right folks, just when you thought you the social networking market was saturated, Lady Gaga goes launches her own one, forcing you plunge once more into the pool of superficial social integration. However LittleMonsters.com, which is a little bit Facebook and little bit Pinterest with a dash of Reddit, claims to be more than just another glorified sharing app. Click for the full breakdown.
There is nothing worse than being tagged in a Facebook photo that you don’t want to be tagged in. You know, that time at the bar, after tequila number 7, hanging off your mate Jeff? Turns out it wasn’t just a mass upload.
You know that thing where you post a comment on Facebook and immediately regret your decision? Well, Facebook sure does. Which is why they’re rolling out a comment-editing functionality over the next few days. Rest easy, people whose grammar falls apart whenever they get excited.
In an attempt to create hype around an upcoming range of sneakers, Adidas posted a picture of their new “JS Roundhouse Mids” trainers on their Facebook page. But, as they soon learned, they were the only ones who thought accessorising a pair of shoes with slave shackles was a good idea.
Within the next few days, every single Facebook user will be met with a request for a verified phone number, which will apparently help users “stay in control” of their accounts. This is partially a response to security breaches at LinkedIn, Last.fm and eHarmony, but it’s also because Facebook wants to know more stuff about you.
Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle from Roxette have called Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport “possibly number one on the list of the world’s worst airports.” This after their flight was delayed for about 90 minutes over the weekend. Read their full Facebook post inside.
He may be worth $20 billion, but when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took his new wife, Priscilla Chan to lunch during their honeymoon in Rome he spent 32 Euros – and elected not to leave a tip. The cash-flush couple’s bill came to 32 euros after a lunch of deep-fried artichokes, fried pumpkin flowers, and […]
More details are emerging about Buffy, apparently the codename for Facebook’s HTC smartphone which may run with Android, all the Facebook trimmings and an Opera browser. Or will it? We try sort the facts from the fiction as excitement mounts over the phone that might topple Apple.
Facebook is set to float on the stock exchange today and all its early investors must be smiling. One of them, U2’s frontman Bono, has shares worth over $1,5 billion alone. This puts him well above Paul McCartney – currently the world’s richest musician. Who knew devoting your career to charity, world peace, and good causes could be so profitable?
Facebook lately been experimenting with a small group of users by offering them the opportunity to promote their own status messages by paying for them. If the “Highlight” feature is more widely adopted, people will soon be able to pay to make sure their cutesy status updates are at the top of everyone’s news feed.
Microsoft announced today that they are preparing to roll out a revamped version of their net-based search engine Bing, after spending nearly US$6 billion on the service over its three year existence. They’re attempting to increase Bing’s market share of search engine revenues globally. But how is Facebook involved? Before you all go Google what a “Bing” is, read on…
Mark Zuckerberg officially filed its IPO with Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday afternoon, announcing its intention to sell 337 million shares at between $28 and $35 a pop – in the biggest Internet stock offering since Google went public in 2004. They’ll be going roadshow for the next two weeks to let big investors see what they’re buying.
Facebook is set to go public soon, and while this might be good news to Mark Zuckerberg, it kind of puts things in perspective for the rest of us. Techcrunch did a simple calculation to determine how much the average Facebook user (yes, you too!) is worth in terms of money. Be prepared to feel rather insignificant after the jump.
Signs suggest that Facebook is looking to have its initial public offering launch on on May 17th, assuming that the Securities & Exchange commission rubber-stamps all of the social network’s paperwork – including documents concerning Facebook’s recent billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram. Facebook is set to be initially valued at around $100 billion.
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
There are two ways of taking out your competition: offer a similar, yet superior and/or cheaper product than your opponent. Or simply buy the entire rival business and start offering its service as your own. The latter happened yesterday when Mark Zuckerberg announcd that Facebook is about to buy Instagram for $1 billion.
You might have caught this billboard in Cape Town CBD. It’s been created by our buddies over at Bletchley Park, for their client – Bronx Shoes. From the road it might just look like a guy with stubble. And what’s more, that stubble is in 3D. It actually comes out of the billboard. But wait, […]
A new once-click payment system focused on social media is currently being tested in Belgium. Paycento enables internet users to pay to read a single article or download a piece of music without having to fill out forms or enter their credit card details on the website. More details inside.
Things have moved pretty quickly for Jonathan Ovadia, I’m sure. Following the announcement by Malema this weekend that he (Ovadia) had become Malema’s protégé, the media have been all over him – as his interests, education and background were investigated and reported. News24 confirmed via Ovadia’s Facebook page, that he went to King David High […]
Toronto’s Deadmau5 has been blasting Madonna on his Facebook page for asking folks at the Miami Ultra Music Festival if they’ve seen “molly,” which is young-person speak for MDMA. Deadmau5 moved from slating Madonna’s embarrassing use of drug slang to a spiel about equating electro with drug use – with a couple of tasteful expletives thrown in.
What happens to your social networking presence after you die? Who does the online you belong to? These are pressing issues being deliberated by at least two U.S. states this week as more and more pressure is being applied to social networking platforms like Facebook to allow the relatives of users that have passed away to directly access their late loved ones’ profiles.
We were quite stunned by this little diatribe that appeared on the Facebook page of respected local political scientist, Prof. Steven Friedman, yesterday, where he calls into question the integrity of Proteas captain, AB De Villiers.
Facebook is expected to file for an IPO later today – Wednesday morning stateside – raising $5 billion. This is a fair deal less than the $10 billion previously rumored. Folks figure Zuckerberg wants to start with a conservative base at first. Because he can’t be sure this “Face-book” thing is going to take off.
Angry Birds is quite possibly the most successful phone game in recent history. It’s available for just about every kind of smart phone, tablet, and even browsers such as Google Chrome. Soon you’ll be able to fling wingless birds right from your favourite social network – Angry Birds is coming to Facebook.
Whoops. Looks like somewhere between Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, Google forgot their ‘don’t be evil’ rule and turned into the creepy uncle of the internet. Well, the other creepy uncle of the internet. It now follows users’ activities across YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus and Google Search, among others. Everybody, clear your history.