12 Nov 2010
, it seems Facebook has embraced the movie, up to a point....Diary hears that Facebook organised a trip to see the film near its Palo
Alto base and that Stephen Haines, Facebook's UK sales director,
convened a similar jolly to the West End for staff last week. Facebook staff are well drilled on what to say if asked about the film.
One agency tells us: "It's like ...
24 May 2012
| by Alasdair Reid
, the motoring manufacturer announced it had decided that advertising on Facebook didn't really work - and it was pulling its $10 million budget.
Ouch. Facebook's launch valuation, an utterly surreal $104 billion ...
.73, it seems that the Facebook dream bubble may have started to burst just in time for it to go public ...
21 Sep 2009
| by Hadassah Nymark
LONDON - Facebook is set to pay out $9.5 million to shut down its advertising platform Beacon...their friends to visit the same websites. Although advertisers reaped huge benefits from the service, Facebook ...
Facebook users planned to sue the website. Facebook has therefore made the decision to close down the ad ...
and security. Quoted on Cnet.com, Barry Schnitt, a spokesperson for Facebook, said: "We learned a great deal ...
28 Aug 2009
| by Kate Nettleton
LONDON - Facebook has been forced to make a number of changes to its privacy policy following a...games and quizzes for the site. Facebook has agreed to restrict this practice by ensuring that third ...
that is currently being kept on file indefinitely. While there are many critics of Facebook's use of personal ...
Facebook's storing of personal data was in breach of Canadian law. The changes will take Facebook ...
13 Oct 2011
| by Katherine Levy
Neither Facebook's Carnaby Street office, nor the company's vice-president of EMEA, Joanna Shields ...
, Facebook's California office circa 2004 is a high-ceilinged, hi-tech and hot-desking space with a gigantic ...
holds forth on Facebook Places and the "like" button.
The latter has particular resonance for Shields ...
22 Mar 2012
Two weeks ago, at a bash in New York, Facebook unveiled the next phase of its commercial evolution ...
on which Facebook is betting the future of the company.
At the start of February, it filed ...
.
Facebook is already a phenomenally successful company, returning a profit of around $1 billion in 2011 ...
16 Sep 2009
LONDON - Facebook has reached 300 million users and has also recorded an important milestone...than it spent, and that it had reached this target ahead of its initial projections of 2010. Facebook ...
not take into account recent investments in the company. In a blog to Facebook users, its founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said: "This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a ...
19 Apr 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Facebook Studio, a hub to view and discuss campaigns that have run on the social networking site...Facebook Studio includes work for Wrigley's Skittles 'Mob the Rainbow' campaign created ...
in the Spotlight section.
UK agencies involved so far are MEC, Maxus and LBi.
Facebook will also provide agencies and brands with information on how to strengthen their Facebook strategies through its learning ...
13 May 2009
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - Tesco has become the latest brand to remove its advertising from Facebook group pages...It was reported this week that ads for Tesco, Vodafone and O2 were appearing next to content from the British National Party and groups advocating Holocaust denial on Facebook. Vodafone has also removed its advertising from the pages in question. Tesco will now only advertise on the Facebook homepage or profile ...
26 Nov 2010
| by Alasdair Reid
Facebook. Now, with the conspiratorial ardour of those who feel they
have been betrayed, they are preparing to burn effigies of Mark
Zuckerberg, its founder. Because last week, Facebook launched a vastly improved ...
". Facebook's 500 million active users (one
thirteenth of the world's population) spend an inordinate amount ...