Facebook obtains money transmitter licenses in 15 states
Facebook holds money transmitter licenses in at least 15 states, according to an analysis by American Banker . In it’s filing for an initial public offering, Facebook said it applied for certain money transmitter licenses and planned to apply for more in the U.S.
Posted by Dassano Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Categories: News
Tags: application, credits, facebook, governing-money, ipo, north-dakota, payments, progress-toward, said-it-applied, social
Facebook insights lag for some pages
Insights for a number of pages haven’t updated in days — a bug that Facebook has marked as as high priority. According to a bug report filed on the Facebook Developers site Sunday, some page owners are only seeing insights data up until Feb.
Posted by Dassano Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Categories: News
Tags: a-bug-report, filed-on-the, insights, page-insights, platform, problem, social, stuck-at-feb
Timeline coming soon for businesses
Facebook plans to convert business pages to the new Timeline format as early as the end of February when the company will host an invitation-only marketing conference in New York City, according to AdAge . Marketers have been dreaming up ways to use Timeline for businesses since the new profile debuted at f8 , but Timeline hasn’t been an option for brands because the social network requires companies use pages instead of profiles
Posted by Dassano Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Tags: a-new-design, a-unique-cover, a-user-scrolls, facebook, format-as-early, google, history, marketing, Mobile, more-consistent, over-the-past, return-or-spend, social, weeks-or-even
New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: GREE, SocialPoint, SponsorPay and more
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms.
Posted by Dassano Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Tags: a-unique-cover, a-user-scrolls, android, facebook, marketing, Mobile, social
Facebook tests read/watch/listen Sponsored Stories — too soon?
Facebook is testing new types of Sponsored Stories based on Open Graph actions, a spokesperson from the company confirms. In the test, advertisers can pay to promote stories about a user listening to a particular artist, watching a particular video or reading an article, even if the advertiser does not own the app in which the action was taken
Posted by Dassano Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Categories: News
Tags: a-large-source, a-limited-test-, a-live-example, demographic, development, facebook, netflix, open graph apps, social, type
Hidden Chronicles, Tetris, birthdays, tabs, WashPo, Pinterest, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
Games were a big hit on our list of growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week.
Posted by Dassano Date: Monday, February 13, 2012
Categories: News
Tags: apple, facebook, gained-the-most, monetization, music, social, timeline, week, woobox-custom
Tabs, Heineken, Yahoo, games, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
A number of Tab Builder page applications saw tremendous growth this week and dominated our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users. Heineken, Yahoo, a sweepstakes app and games also made the list. The apps grew from between 240,000 and 880,000 MAU, based on AppData , our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook
Posted by Dassano Date: Friday, February 10, 2012
Categories: News
Tags: a-few-months, amazon, basic-blue, builder, data, list, millionaires, post, quickly-as-page, social, traffic, week, yahoo
60 million users engaged with apps on Facebook mobile platform since launch; average 5 times per month
Facebook Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen revealed that over 60 million users have engaged with mobile applications via Facebook, 320 million times per month since the mobile platform launched in October 2011 . Sjogreen shared this statistic during a fireside chat with Founder of Inside Network Justin Smith at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco.
Posted by Dassano Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Tags: a-50-50-split, a-template-from, Applications, developers, director, feed-or-ticker, inside-social, made-the-point, Mobile, pages, panelists, sjogreen, social
New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: GREE, Atari, Spooky Cool Labs, more
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board , including positions at Lolgames , GREE International, Inc
Posted by Dassano Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Tags: advertising, artist, designer, director, inside-network, manager, media, Mobile, senior-producer, social, software
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