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Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could Involve Investment - 11 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 20 Jan 2008 03:46 PM PST

[by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned. The…

@ CMO Leadership Forum: YouTube, Facebook Offer Social Media 101 For CMOs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Jan 2008 01:28 PM PST

As he began an afternoon panel discussion on social media at Argyle’s CMO Leadership Forum in New York, Doug Weaver, president of digital ad consultancy Upstream Group, asked how many…

Facebook Gets Investment From German Online Entrepreneurs Samwer Brothers; Between $10M-$15M - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 15 Jan 2008 11:03 AM PST

Updated below: Facebook is continuing to raise money, though this one seems to be a relatively smaller amount and mainly strategic for European expansion: it has taken an undisclosed amount…

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Facebook To Add More Privacy Controls, Mass Messaging; Zuckerberg On ‘60 Minutes’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 10 Jan 2008 04:12 PM PST

Facebook plans to release new features giving users more control over their privacy settings and messaging capabilities, according to its “What’s New” page. Recently, Facebook added Friend Lists, a way…

CondeNet Reworks Flip.com As Social Net App Starting With Facebook; Site Will Remain - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Jan 2008 03:50 PM PST

CondeNet is remaking its teen-focused community site Flip.com into an app that will live on other social nets. The first to get the new Flip app is Facebook, with others…

Buddy Media Acquires Facebook Apps From ChipIn - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jan 2008 11:10 AM PST

NYC-based Buddy Media, an incubator of sorts for Facebook apps, has acquired apps from ChipIn. The deal’s size was unannounced, although Inc. suggests the apps may have sold for somewhere…

CES Wire: Panasonic And Google; AOL; TiVo; Sony - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 08 Jan 2008 11:04 AM PST

-- Panasonic And Google Developing Internet TVs: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd’s Panasonic unit and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will team up to develop televisions enabling users to watch online content,…

Facebook Counters OpenSocial; Bebo Playing Both Sides - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 12 Dec 2007 03:00 PM PST

Facebook is ready to counterattack Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial. The site revealed today that its Facebook Platform would be made available to other social networking sites, allowing developers to easily…

Ad Agencies Show Willingness To Forgive Facebook’s Beacon Missteps - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Dec 2007 06:49 AM PST

The concern over Facebook’s Beacon ad system appears to be waning quickly into a non-factor among media buyers, Mediaweek reports. Not only are advertising agencies unlikely to pull their ads…

AdKnowledge Acquires Facebook Ad Platform Cubics - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 07 Dec 2007 01:23 PM PST

Behavioral targeter AdKnowledge has bought Alberta, Canada-based Cubics, an online ad network that is primarily focused on Facebook developers. If that seems like a narrow purview in which to operate,…

Zuckerberg: I Apologize - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Dec 2007 12:26 PM PST

Really. Here. Also, Facebook is now releasing a privacy control to turn off Beacon completely. “If you select that you don’t want to share some Beacon actions or if you…

More Details On Facebook’s $60 Million Investment With Li Ka-Shing - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Dec 2007 02:55 PM PST

Last week we reported on Facebook getting $60 million investment from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, citing the report by Kara Swisher on AllThingsD (which is part of Dow Jones).…

Correction on Coca-Cola & Facebook: Relationship Not On Hold; Not In Beacon To Begin With - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Dec 2007 02:23 PM PST

So a correction on a post this weekend about Coca-Cola’s participation in Facebook’s controversial Beacon ad program, and from the NYT’s understanding of what Coke said, and then our interpretation…

@ UBS Media Week: FIM’s Michael Barrett: HyperTargeting Yields 50 Percent Premiums - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 03 Dec 2007 01:32 PM PST

Fox Interactive’s Michael Barrett kicked off his presentation at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference in a feel-good manner, talking up all of key players in the industry. But…

Coca-Cola Holding Out on Facebook Beacon Participation; Overstock and Travelocity As Well - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 01 Dec 2007 01:10 AM PST

Correction: See our correction on the story below, here. Coca-Cola, who was one of the charter advertisers when Facebook’s controversial ad program Beacon was announced earlier this month, is taking…

Social Media Aggregator Flux Releases New Platform Aimed At Expanding Services Beyond MTVN - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 30 Nov 2007 12:48 PM PST

Social media aggregator Flux.com is releasing two products today designed to let web publishers move their content seamlessly among community sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and more. Flux Lite and…

Facebook Gets $60 Million Additional Investment From Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka-Shing: Report - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 30 Nov 2007 12:29 AM PST

Facebook has closed another big tranche of its planned funding round, this time from an unlikely source: Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, who has made an investment of $60 million,…

Facebook Overhauls Controversial ‘Beacon’ Ad System; Users To Get More Control - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 29 Nov 2007 09:37 PM PST

Once again, Facebook is refining a controversial program that overstepped privacy bounds and drew negative reaction from tens of thousands of users. The social net provided opt-outs for ‘Beacon’ a…

Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets With Facebook, OpenSocial - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 27 Nov 2007 10:01 PM PST

It’s tempting to shrug off most of the announcements about this and that service embracing various social net standards as “well, duh”—but this one includes so many media outlets, it’s…

US Media Owners Substituting ‘Pennies for Dollars’ Online? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Sat 24 Nov 2007 11:25 AM PST

Are new online business models just substituting “pennies for dollars” for media owners? That was the woeful conclusion of Mort Zuckerman, publisher of the New York Daily News and US…

Privacy Issues Spur EU Scrutiny Over Behavioral Targeting; Facebook’s ‘Beacon’ Provokes Backlash - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 23 Nov 2007 06:57 PM PST

The European Union expects to bring its regulatory power to bear on online behavioral targeting practices next year, as protests over privacy concerns has begun to stir a potential backlash…

Facebook Denies Offering To Buy For Chinese Social Net Zhanzuo - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 19 Nov 2007 04:07 AM PST

Updated: Facebook PR writes in to us and says the Times UK report is false, and says: ”no offer has been made and no acquisition in China is being considered…

Interview: Chris DeWolfe, Co-Founder and CEO, MySpace - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Nov 2007 12:30 PM PST

Last Friday evening in Monaco, I spoke to Chris DeWolfe, the founder and CEO of MySpace, part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). on a slew of issues. A very-jetlagged DeWolfe…

More On Facebook Ads; No Way To Opt Out Short Of Clamming Up - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Nov 2007 04:46 PM PST

Over at the NYT, Saul Hansell writes about turning Facebook users into endorsers. That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that, with the Facebook Ads program announced today,…

Facebook Ads Unveiled; 60-Plus Advertisers Have Signed On - 5 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Nov 2007 01:23 PM PST

Facebook has discovered targeted social marketing ... at least, I think that’s what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to get across in today’s announcement about Facebook Ads, pitched as “a…