We have some good news for irritated Facebook phone users. In the coming weeks Facebook plans to add controls to let users hide all those pesky mobile ads if they so desire, a Facebook spokesperson told The Atlantic Wire this afternoon.
Google's latest quarterly earnings report arrived on Thursday evening, and it reveals as much about broader shifts in the tech sector as it does about Google's relative success. And that success is relative.
Word has leaked that Mark Zuckerberg will unveil separate feeds for different types of content at an event tomorrow, transforming the News Feed of 2013 into Facebook's September issue, only with five subdivided sections of the second most popular website in the world.
Facebook is holding a mysterious event next week to introduce "a new look" for its tired News Feed, and, yes, the speculation has begun. Here's what a revamp might look like.
In her first big product overhaul, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has announced a redesign of Yahoo Mail — and it focuses a lot on the mobile experience, as promised.
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The batlle has just begun to heat up, but we can already see which browser has pulled ahead — and which others stand a chance. Here's the early take on Apple, Mozilla, Google, Amazon, and more... with superlatives!
In her first public interview since taking over as Yahoo's CEO, Marissa Mayer gave a little insight into the company's plans going forward, and her strategy sounds like that of a lot of other tech companies these days: mobile first.
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Facebook's little stock-that-couldn't is on track for its biggest one-day gain ever and it has everything to do with yesterday's earnings report in which it reported a $59 million loss.
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As more people do things on their phones the mobile advertising industry has started figuring out what works, and it sounds like it "sucks" as much as Steve Jobs thought it would.
While talking up its mobile strategy world domination plans to the outside world, Facebook has been pushing its employees to shift focus from big to little screen.
Facebooks says its Facebook iOS app update makes the notoriously slow iPhone version of the social network "twice as fast as the previous version when launching the app, scrolling through News Feed and opening photos in feed," per an announcement on their website. But is it fast enough?
Stuck in a 40 day quiet period following its IPO, Facebook has to show, rather than tell, that it has a real business model that works.
Today Twitter did something we're not used to from the company, it showed some business savvy, with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announcing the company's mobile strategy is working, and the company is predicted to be bringing in $1 billion in revenue by 2014.
Facebook is apparently trying to develop their own smartphone again, and they're prompting us to wonder if we really need one, and if a smartphone is really the answer to their problems.
In the sixth update to its S-1 filing so far, Facebook admitted in unambiguous terms on Wednesday that it's in trouble on the mobile front and not quite sure what to do about it.
As Internet use moves from the big screen to littler pocket computers, Facebook is struggling with turning its popular, yet buggy, phone aps into money-makers.
As Steve Jobs once said, "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower"
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