Facebook announced its new experiment called Facebook Home yesterday. Last week, speculation was rife among silicon valley tech pundits about Facebook’s event and what ‘Come see our home on Android’ meant. Facebook phone and custom android OS were some of the possibilities being discussed. What Facebook ended up showing was – to put it frankly – pretty okay! Facebook home is what...

Give that we just published a post that says people are no longer hooked to Facebook, this post is sure to shock. But here is the deal. While users in the US are slowly yet surely shying away from Facebook addiction, Indians – India is one of the top 3 fastest growing internet markets in the world – are getting hooked to this social site. According to data released by Facebook, the site in December...

You will remember that just before Facebook IPO’d, the most pressing problem it was facing was the monetization problem on mobile. More than half of Facebook’s users were accessing it from mobile and Facebook didn’t have a solid mobile ad strategy in place to leverage this. If you have looked at your Facebook mobile app (iOS, Android) you will see that quite a few sponsored posts are popping...

Facebook has announced an important update to its iOS app which completely revamps the the way it works. There were parts of the old iOS app which did not use the iOS system architecture natively and thus took a longer amount of time to load. Facebook’s announcement makes it clear that the new update uses native code, which has been built from scratch to utilise the iOS platform. This makes the rendering...

Facebook India’s Kirthiga Reddy has confirmed that the social network has reached a 50 million user-base in the country. When Facebook India started its operations 2 years ago, the user count was  8 million, a decent figure when you realise that its mobile usage was not big in the country. We can safely assume that this spike in user-base has a significant proportion of mobile users driving it....

Facebook is in the centre of a lot of news and gossip due to its upcoming IPO and the pundits are out there everywhere overanalyzing Zuckerberg’s every move. Just last week, he got a lot of flak from traditional Wall Street analysts on the lack of his business attire when he attended one the Investor Road Shows in New York City. Facebook has one thing for going for it! It will become one of the...

Facebook is developing quite an appetite in terms of acquiring companies. Their recent acquisition is the location sharing and discovery app called Glancee. The app received quite some exposure at this years SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. The acquisition announcement was published onGlancee’s blog on May 5th. Source: gioko.in Location aware apps are definitely a dime a dozen these days. So, what...

 Facebook has announced availability of its Mobile site in 8 Indian languages. The transition & availability in regional languages will take place over the coming few weeks. Over 50 Million Indian users are provided with the freedom to access the mobile-centric site in any language they want. The original application was made available July last year & till date supports over 3600 different...

Facebook turned around the whole social networking game when they introduced ads on the website. Over the years it has become a very profitable entity and at the same time has managed to keep its service absolutely free. There has been a lot of buzz lately about the Timeline for brands after their official announcement. All brand pages will be shifted to the new look in 30 days. The announcement...

When 2010 was about to end, Facebook had said that the coming year will see a lot of upgrades to its mobile interface. Facebook seemed serious about this proclamation because it has over 250 million users who access the site via their mobile devices, a number which is far greater than even Twitter and LinkedIn’s user base. The social network is keen on keeping its word. In January this year,...