Facebook doubles 2011 revenues
Facebook doubled its revenues in the first half of this year, to 1.6 billion dollars ($A1.5 billion).The Wall Street Journal reports that, with 750 million Facebook members worldwide, the online site has attracted major interest from advertisers. View the original article here Share and Enjoy:
Cybercrime to get even bigger – expert
An expert says cybercrime is soaring, it already costs Australians more than burglary and will only increase as more people use smartphones.Marian Merritt, internet safety advocate with computer security company Norton, said a new global study showed 69 per cent of adults around the world experienced cybercrime in their lifetime, much more than previously thought [...]
UK not pursuing limits on social media
A meeting on Thursday between the British government and Internet communications firms was friendly, not confrontational, according to people from the organizations that took part in the meeting.At the meeting, the government “did not seek any additional powers to close down social media networks,” the British Home Office, the government’s home security department, said in [...]
Older Facebook Users Click More, Like Less
While propensity to click-through on Facebook is positively correlated with age, propensity to like is not, according to data released in August 2011 by Facebook marketing consulting firm SocialCode. Age has a strong positive effect on whether a user will click, but has a less pronounced opposite effect on the likelihood of them becoming a [...]
Google deal set to ‘supercharge’ Android
Google has struck its biggest ever deal – to buy Motorola’s smartphone and tablet business for $12.5 billion in cash. Both companies say the move will give a ‘supercharge’ to Google’s Android platform.Android-based devices, which include Motorola’s smartphones and tablets – are the major rivals to Apple’s iPhone and iPad.As such, the acquisition appears to [...]
