Facebook to launch new mobile ads?
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Bad news for folks who hate ads on Facebook: it looks like the world’s most popular social network will be serving up some new ads in the near future. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook plans to launch “a new type of mobile advertising that will target ads based on the apps that consumers use, in an effort to boost mobile revenue and find a way to make money off the millions of websites that connect to the social network”. In case you’re wondering how or why Facebook is collecting data about the apps you use it’s got nothing to do with the apps on your phone/tablet – just the apps that rely on Facebook Connect (i.e. services like Soundcloud etc).
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