By Todd Haselton |
Waze is quite the hot item right now. The social traffic application apparently shot down a buyout bid from Apple and is currently in talks to sell to Facebook for $1 billion. But wait, things get even hotter: apparently Google is interested in bidding on Waze…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft announced on Friday that it has updated its Bing search engine with an updated version of its Facebook sidebar, which was first introduced last year. The bar shows social results, so if you search for the Galaxy S4, for example, you’ll see posts from…
By Todd Haselton |
Yesterday Facebook held a brief event in which it revealed that Facebook Home has been downloaded a million times. That might seem like a large figure, but the social network didn’t reveal the important stat: the number of active Facebook Home users. Aside from that…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook will make good on its promise to frequently update its Facebook Home software by releasing a new patch today. CNET said the update will land at about 1p.m. Pacific and will mostly include bug fixes and will be available for the half-dozen or so devices that…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook may be close to finalizing another $1 billion deal. According to several new reports spotted by TechCrunch, the social network is readying a $1 billion bid for the social traffic application Waze. Apparently the offer currently sits between $800 million and $1 billion, right around…
By Todd Haselton |
Target is trying a new ad program it calls “Cartwheel” on Facebook that it hopes will bring users of the social network into its stores, and away from online retailers such as Amazon. The Cartwheel approach is relatively simple: a Facebook user can decide to…
By Todd Haselton |
Do we have another Kin on our hands? The HTC First – a phone that puts Facebook front and center to a user’s experience, launched less than a month ago on AT&T for $99 with a new two-year contract. It’s now available for $0.99, which…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook recently unveiled Facebook Home, a skin that covers the entirety of Android and keeps its users inside the social network, and the HTC First which launched as the first smartphone with the UI layer installed out of the box. There seemed to be a…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook on Wednesday published its first quarter 2013 earnings report. Wall Street analysts were predicting revenue of $1.44 billion and an earnings per share of $0.13. The company reported revenue of $1.46 billion for the quarter and an earnings per share of $0.12, missing predictions…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new beta of the Facebook application for Windows Phone that it promises has a major redesign. As with all betas, the product is not final and will likely have several bugs, and Microsoft wants to know about them. So what’s…
By Adriana Lee |
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. And when it involves Facebook, the truth is often even stranger: Reportedly five people have been arrested in India in connection to the Facebook sale of a baby — including the boy’s grandfather. Ferox Khan, 47, kicked off a bizarre…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook Home has already been downloaded on more than 500,000 Android smartphones, a milestone that was reached in just a week. It’s unclear how many of the people who downloaded the application are active users, however, which is a key metric to measuring the real…
By Adriana Lee |
Is there anything about social media that researchers haven’t yet zoomed in on? This time, the study (.pdf) comes from a Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student and a Facebook staffer, who reveal that most Facebook users tend to self-censor their comments at the last minute before posting.…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook is allegedly preparing a new messaging feature in addition to Chat Heads and VoIP calling. According to iMore, the company’s Messenger app on iOS will get something called Facebook Blast, which handles group messages a little differently than we’re used to. Through Messenger right…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook recently introduced “Chat Heads” in its Facebook Home application for Android, and now the feature is about to make its way to iOS devices. Chat Heads work like this: if a friend on Facebook messages you, a small picture of the person will pop…
By Adriana Lee |
Used to be, you could tell someone was over-the-hill if they were hitting you up via email instead of text or Facebook. Now, according to a recent Piper Jaffray survey, the demarcation line has shifted, as Zuck&Co’s popularity seems to be sliding among the teen…
By Todd Haselton |
Want a taste of Fafcebook’s new Facebook Home Android skin before it launches officially on April 12? You’re in luck, because a beta build of the software recently leked thanks to MoDaCo. We use the word taste of course because it’s not completely functional just yet.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Facebook has posted the advertisement for Home that it played during the announcement event, and it’s still just as weird as it was then. During the introduction of the Facebook Home app for Android phones last week, the social network ran what appeared to be…
By Sean P. Aune |
While Facebook Home didn’t turn out to be a Facebook phone exactly, it sure came pretty close. Todd Haselton went on CNN International on Thursday to discuss the latest announcement from the top social network and what these moves could mean for it.…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook unveiled its “Facebook Home” Android skin yesterday, alongside the HTC First which will launch with it pre-installed, but one question was left unanswered: how will ads play into the whole experience? We don’t yet know that, but Facebook is expected to make a pretty…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook announced its Facebook Home product on Thursday in conjunction with a new smartphone, the HTC First which will launch on AT&T on April 12 for $99.99. Facebook Home literally takes over your entire homescreen and lockscreen to create an all-encompassing Facebook experience. One analyst…
By Jon Rettinger |
Thanks to countless rumors and timely leaks, we already knew Facebook Home was coming. Still, we’re a bit shell shocked to see an actual existing product, and a phone no less, that completely re-imagines the big blue social networking experience. On Android at least. Say…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T just announced that it will offer the “first and only phone” that was built from the ground-up to feature Facebook Home, the social network’s new experience on Android. The device, aptly named the HTC First, will be available on April 12 for $99.99 with…
By Brandon Russell |
As part of today’s Facebook Home announcement, Mark Zuckerberg talked about how messaging would work within the app itself, including SMS. Instead of jumping out of the new Facebook experience, Zuckerberg has designed something it calls “Chat Heads,” which essentially pops a picture up of…
