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Facebook, a modern day technological success story, has fallen back onto old school marketing techniques when it comes to announcing the availability of Gift Cards which can be purchased online for a friend or relative living elsewhere. Basically, Facebook users will soon be able to gift their mates items from Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target, thanks to the introduction of the reusable gift card from Facebook.

How does it work? The premise is rather simple, really, where you first pick a gift for your friend from the Gift Cards & Digital category. Following that, choose a value and complete your purchase. Your friend be informed immediately about your gift, and checking their mail, they should see a Facebook Card in the mailbox not too long after. They can then take a quick trip to a nearby retailer that you have selected, and spend whatever credit is in there. Best of all is, Facebook Gift Cards are reusable, and each card can hold multiple gift balances, with individual balances dedicated to the associated retailer. Expect the ability to send a Facebook Card gift being made available in stages to folks living Stateside.

If only Facebook Gift Cards were launched before Christmas last year…[Press Release]

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If you’re still desperate to get that Facebook acquaintance something for their birthday or some kind of anniversary, the Social Network has instituted a new way to take your money give. You’ll be able to pick up gift credit for the likes of Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora and Target, plucking what you’d like from the “gift cards and digital” category inside the existing Gifts tab, and stating an amount and the name of the lucky gift-getter. The friend will be immediately notified and a lovingly Facebook-branded card will be sent to their residence. The credit can be used immediately, reused and even hold multiple balances for the differing providers — ideal for the times you need fragrances, electronics and … olives. Balances can be monitored direct from your Facebook page or app, even updating and sending notifications when credit is being used. Facebook says the cards will roll-out gradually across the US, though wasn’t specific on any launch regions. Expect to hear more in the next few days.

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Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone. Today was RIM’s big day, as it rebranded itself as BlackBerry and launched the latest version of its mobile OS, BlackBerry 10. We were there at the launch event to take it all in and get some hands-on time with the new handsets the company has introduced, and you can catch all of the news from the show in our BlackBerry 10 event wrap-up. Be sure to read through the hands-on posts, because it seems that BlackBerry is doing some interesting things with its new phone.

Of course, there were plenty of other headlines to cover throughout the day, with Dropbox announcing a new feature called Documents Preview. Speaking of Dropbox, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer had some not-so-nice things to say about the service today. Zynga’s chief game designer has left the company after four years, while Twitter has improved photo and video viewing in its website interface. Nintendo slashed its Wii U sales predictions today, and the white Nexus 4 took some time to pose for the camera once again.

A trio of Galaxy Tab user agent profile worked their way into the spotlight today, and Toyota has recalled 1.1 million vehicles. Rovio was spotted teasing its new “Escape from Hoth” update to Angry Birds Star Wars, and Netflix is planning at least five new shows a year to compete with HBO. A giant asteroid will be zooming past the Earth on February 15, while Apple has secured a trademark for the layout and design of its stores.

Qualcomm shared quarterly earnings today, as did Facebook, Electronic Arts, and Lenovo. IBM’s Watson will soon be heading off to his first university, while a new trailer for INJUSTICE: Gods Among Us dropped today. Foursquare delivered a bunch of different Best of Foursquare lists today, while Ticketmaster has announced that it will be ditching CAPTCHA. Finally tonight, Cory Gunther spends some quality time with 2014 KIA Forte, Chris Burns delivers his review of the Acer Iconia W510, and Chris Davies asks if RIM even realizes what went wrong with its business. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, we hope you enjoy the rest of your night folks!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 30, 2013 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Facebook has beat expectations of its Q4 2012 earnings, recording a revenue of $1.59 billion, which is just above the expected $1.53 billion that the company would rake in. However, the social networking giant didn’t make much of a profit, and instead recorded only a net income of $64 million during the quarter.

Compared to figures a year ago, which were $1.13 billion in revenue and a profit of $302 million in Q4 2011, the company has seen some slight setbacks. After going public for the first time in 2012, the company’s stock hasn’t done too well. It’s never reached its initial $38 per share, but it has jumped by 30% within the last six months after it tanked.

As far as the company’s user base goes, they saw an average of 1.06 billion monthly active users, with 618 million of them being daily active users. What’s perhaps even more incredible is that their monthly active user count for those accessing the service on mobile devices was 680 million, surpassing the number of users using the web interface.

This marks the first time for Facebook where this has happened, and it’s proof that mobile devices are becoming more and more prevalent in people’s lives, continuing the speculation of whether or not we’re all in a post-PC era. We’re not sure when or if the mobile MAU will peak, but we’re guessing that this won’t be the last time that mobile usage has surpassed desktop usage.

Facebook posts $1.59b revenue for Q4 2012, more users on mobile than desktop is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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