Facebook 4Q Earnings Make Wall Street Happy

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Throughout this week, many major public companies have reported their fourth quarter 2013 earnings, and Facebook just so happens to be one of them. Facebook 4Q earnings have been well received by Wall Street, as the company’s revenue beat analysts expectations, resulting in a sharp spike in stock price during after hours trading. Facebook also revealed that 53 percent of its revenue now stems from mobile advertising, calming down the Street which was skeptical about the shift from desktop to mobile after the company’s IPO.

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    Facebook Paper app: dousing the “mobilize it” farce

    This week the folk at Facebook have taken a giant step forward in creating a new way for internet-based companies to represent themselves in app form. Instead of creating an … Continue reading

    Zuckerberg: standalone apps will pepper Facebook’s future

    During its fourth-quarter earnings conference call yesterday, the social network’s Mark Zuckerberg discussed Facebook’s mobile future, and it looks to be one peppered with standalone mobile apps that provide a … Continue reading

    Paper From Facebook Is Now Official

    paperFacebook has just introduced Paper, which is a brand new app that will assist you in exploring and sharing some stories from friends as well as the rest of the world around you. How does Paper work? Well, it would make storytelling a whole lot more “beautiful” thanks to an immersive design in a glorious full screen, distraction-free layout. Apart from that, Facebook also claims that it is a whole lot easier to craft as well as share beautiful stories of your own.

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    Facebook’s Reader App, Called Paper, Is Official–and It’s Beautiful

    After much speculative rumor, Facebook this morning announced the arrival of a new standalone iPhone app called Paper.

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    Mark Zuckerberg Talks Fragmenting Apps, Anonymous Facebook and… Poke

    Mark Zuckerberg Talks Fragmenting Apps, Anonymous Facebook and... Poke

    Ahead of Facebook’s 10th anniversary on February 4th, Bloomberg Businessweek scored an interview with Mark Zuckerberg to chat about the company’s future. Here are some choice cuts from the social network’s head honcho, before you go read the whole thing.

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    Facebook’s New Cold Storage: 10,000 Blu-Ray Discs, 1 Petabyte of Data

    Facebook's New Cold Storage: 10,000 Blu-Ray Discs, 1 Petabyte of Data

    Facebook has a whole heap of data to store, but much of it sits so deep within our profiles that it rarely need to be served. So the social network has been trying to develop cold storage systems to file older content away—and a new prototype uses Blu-Ray discs.

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    Facebook mobile use surges as Q4 2013 revenues jump

    Facebook saw a dramatic increase in revenue for Q4 2013, the social network has announced, up 63-percent year on year with a significant percentage in mobile users noted. Total revenue … Continue reading

    Obama hosts real West Wing “Big Block of Cheese Day” across social

    Fans of the West Wing – and of getting greater insight into how the US government ticks – will be excited to hear that today is Big Block of Cheese … Continue reading

    Super Bowl 2014 Sparks Partnership Between Facebook And Fox Sports

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    One of the biggest sporting events of the year is about to take place soon. Super Bowl 2014 will be watched by millions of fans in the U.S. and around the world, who will no doubt be consuming information and content about the game throughout Super Bowl Sunday. In a bid to rival Twitter as one of the biggest destinations for real-time online conversations, Facebook has struck up a new deal with Fox Sports for the Super Bowl broadcast.

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