Instagram: ads come during the next two months

After more than a year, and get Facebook Instagram transactional successful and profitable in the future, confirmed the service share images they are going in the plan start to display ads on Anstaqram, to be done in the next two months, and will begin in the United States, with a failure to clarify more details on arrival in the same time as other markets or not.

Last July, said Mark Zuckerberg - co-founder and CEO of Facebook - that the ads coming to Instagram and continued many of the rumors about the details of that during the past month.

The Instagram as a service they are well aware that users do not like ads, so she "will start slowly," and users will have the ability to control it, but that does not mean that they would be able to stop the ads, if you see a declaration does not want it, you will able to hide it, as well as provide feedback about what not Satisfies you, just as is the case in Facebook, be ready from now; the matter became inevitably imposed upon you.

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Facebook wins $ 3 million from Vachani and Power Ventures

By court order, I got a company Facebook on Wednesday on a $ 3 million from companies Vachani and Power Ventures which send spam, and raised by the company Facebook by a lawsuit where the claim for compensation due to damage received as a result.

This was a win real after a long battle against Vachani and Power Ventures, and was the final judgment against them that they had violated copyright laws and send e-mail unwanted by sending tens of thousands of spam messages and unwanted users of Facebook.

Said Craig Clark - General Counsel Assistant Company Facebook "We are pleased with today's ruling, which gave Facebook more than $ 3 million because of damage Olhaktna with enjoined and forbidding companies to return to do so," he added, "We will continue to get our rights against bad elements that seek to inflict damage the Facebook network and its users. "

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Report is expected to decline Facebook revenues 25% this quarter

Claimed the report issued by a company specializing in measuring spending on ads that Facebook revenues for the second quarter of 2013 will be reduced by a quarter.

This report issued by the company Standard Media Index, which measures spending 60% of advertising agencies on the Internet one day before the expected date for the announcement of the results of the company's financial Facebook and planned on Wednesday.

Analysts expect the check Facebook centrist total returns for the second quarter of the current fiscal year amounted to $ 1.62 billion, an increase of 16.7% from the same quarter of revenues last year.

And 83% come from Facebook revenues from selling advertising on its ad network only.

In a report SMI talking about significant growth in revenue Twitter is estimated at 112% and Amazon by 165% while Yahoo revenue down 6% and 25% Facebook and Google maintains a growth of 16% and Microsoft's 17%.

And offers Standard Media Index statistics and a detailed and comprehensive look and performance across different media forms and in various publishing markets.

And come outlook for falling revenues Facebook through lower spending advertising agencies on the ads on Facebook, and considering that Facebook owns million unspoken, mostly from individuals and small and medium enterprises, which holds up advertising campaigns himself, therefore all spending these categories are not included in the accounts of the report of SMI we are talking about today.

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Report: 60% of Saudis share everything on social networks

Report: 60% of Saudis share everything on social networks

Foundation published KPCB a detailed report on Internet trends coming through interventions at the D11 The report highlights a number of important issues such as the growth network rates and share content such as images, video, audio and data, and also smart phones and computers tablet and new forms of technology wearable and leadership and even aviation.

And beginning with the overall rate of growth of Internet users where he entered the 902 million user completely new to the Internet during the period between 2008 and 2012, bringing the number of Internet users (GDP) in the world to 2,406 billion people means an annual growth of 8%, but the majority of this growth coming from emerging countries .

 

We note the control of U.S. companies on the overall traffic, where companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon and other controls on the first centers of the most visited sites, and the majority of visitors to those sites from outside the United States.

For the content published on the network, it has become interdependent more with some of what is easily accessible via the search, as rates rose share content with others and the reference to them in which rose this rate nine times during the five years only, and is expected to reach the size of digital content on the Internet the originator and co by 2015 to slightly less than 8 zettabyte (1 zettabyte the = more than 1 trillion gigabytes)

The detail of the content in this co-publication, according to its kind, for example, shared on Facebook every day about 300 million million a picture, and this rate is growing twice annually and note the rapid rise by post the pictures on Facebook after the founding of the site.

As for the video are up 100 hours of video every minute to YouTube, compared to 7 hours per minute in 2007, then the rate increased to 20 hours per minute by mid-2009, and in 2010 the rate increased almost doubled to more than 45 hours in the middle of the year 2011, but the biggest growth was in the past year where the loading rate increased from 70 hours per minute to 100 hours per minute.

And the sound it is raised to 11 hours of music and podcasts and audio clips every minute to serve soundcloud.

There is growth doubled in users of map data on the application of waze, where she works applications maps and navigation like waze to establish a relationship with the benefit of a common exchange between all users by helping each other to identify the state of the roads, as there are more than a billion miles of roads by the users waze explored.

We recall that Facebook had halted negotiations possession that had been initiated with the company emerging Israeli waze.

And social networks have emerged some serious indicators, where there is a decline in the rate of use of Facebook between 2011 and 2012 while he was a significant growth in the use of YouTube and Google Plus and Instagram and Templar.

 Among the most important statistics that relate to the Middle East said 61% of the respondents in Saudi Arabia, they share almost everything, or the most important things on the social networks and Internet sites, reflecting the openness, the highest rate recorded, while there are a number of countries, including the United States participates users things about themselves and their lives less than the global average.

The report said that the number of Facebook users has become today's 1.1 billion active users, 68% of them communicate via smartphones and 60% of them who logs on at least once a day, and there are an average of 200 friends each user.

An analysis of returns Facebook ads growth was about 83% in the second quarter of 2011, but this growth fell to levels of 43% per year, but at the same time I started Facebook check returns from the platform smart phones where the check is now 30% of its revenue from this rostrum.

And is certain that the next direction of computing is moving more towards smart phones is expected to increase the number of smart phone users than 1.5 billion user to more than 5 billion mobile phone users by the end of this year

As for the smart phone manufacturers note rising market share for Samsung by 7-fold over two years to jump from 4% to 29%, while the rise in the share of Apple's slow moving from 16% to 22%, in the period between the beginning of 2010 and the end of the 2012.

And talk about smart phones leads us to talk about computers tablet, where we note that the growth of sales of the iPad was three times the sales growth of the iPhone, and this reflects a big trend globally towards the acquisition of hardware computing smaller than desktops to facilitate the process of movement, comparing global shipments of desktops and computers Notebook and tablet computers, we find tremendous rapid jump in the latter to reach the levels of shipments of desktops in spite of the short life.

And technology is one of the most change sectors, where computing has moved from the giant computers in the sixties to reach wearable computing in the current era and the passing PC personal and search engines, smart phones and tablet computers.

These new forms of technology may take the shape of the car self-driving like a car Google, the technology involved in modern cars such as maps and navigation, and technology plane and in small aircraft controlled remotely and carrying technique geographical positioning GPS and can be used in several areas, and technology survey symbols like barcode and QR can find a myriad of uses such advanced technology, including mobile include access codes and promotional offers and e-payment,

Facebook reminds users the possibility to disable the Facebook interface Home

Facebook reminds users the possibility to disable the Facebook interface Home

Facebook published a letter addressed to users of the Facebook interface Hom, reminding them that they can stop the interface and thus return to the forefront of the real system.

And even a Facebook interface Home which comes pre-focused within the HTC First, users can disable thus return to the basic Android interfaces in the device.

The Sheryl Sandberg head of operations at Facebook have been reported in the D11 latter that people who use Facebook across the front of Facebook Home rate increased their use of the social network by a quarter, and the rate of sending messages and chat by 10% compared with those who communicate over the network on traditional platforms, whether personal computers or smartphones without Facebook interface Home.

And fit the Facebook interface Hom those who use the network extensively every day, people who routinely communicate through them, they would feel upset about the control of Facebook and defenses in his own way arrange and display other device applications.

It is noteworthy that Facebook Home interface is available for download on a certain number of devices only formally from Google Play store, and go down as a Launcher application can be deleted at any time, or temporarily disabled as reminiscent of Facebook here.

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Likebook .. Book your Facebook account

Likebook .. Book your Facebook account

Shared many of us precise details of his daily life on Facebook more than they shared with his friends, where if you look over the past year, for example, you will find that you participated the most important moments of your life, graduation, vacation summer, marriage, a new job, and all the moments that you would like to tell the world out on Facebook.

Service Likebook  mission is to convey to you your life from Facebook to a real book is printed on paper, so you can put the status updates, photos, comments from close friends and others, you can select the time period you want to be covered by the book, do you want for the full year to a few months Just for example, in the summer, and you can choose from 2007 until today.

And you can form your own book a minimum of 25 pages and costs $ 12, and you expand it up to 500 pages and costs $ 137, and you can also choose to be a tough cover luxury or plain cardboard flexible.

According to company statistics Her service, all of us publishes, on average, an average of 100 pages of paper as content on Facebook annually.

And for those who wish to keep archives and was promoted to the beautiful memories, share them on Facebook, this is an opportunity to design in an elegant paper book, rather than just keep your data in digital form downloaded from the social network.

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Mary Meeker: 500 million photos are shared daily

Mary Meeker: 500 million photos are shared daily

In case you may have noticed, people pick up and deal with a wide range of images, it may be boring some thing that was about photography only, unless you were on Flickr or Anstagram, or Facebook, in this case certainly be much better for you.

As part of the study, noted Mary Meeker - Internet analyst and social networks - that now are shared 500 million photos every day, and this number is ready to double on an annual basis every year.

Meeker said "the number will double this year, perhaps the primary engine of that process is Snapchat, but instagram and Facebook taking also rising well."

Anyway, this explains a lot of things, including the reason HE Facebook is paid billion dollars to buy instagram, and why Yahoo bet on Flickr, those companies that have the pictures, it is likely to have a huge project, but must also possess a large part of loyal users, just wondering: This speech means that by 2020, the owners will not do something smart phones only to capture and upload pictures, can you imagine that?!

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$ 10 million fine on the Nasdaq for shares of Facebook

Financial Markets Authority imposed a fine in the amount of U.S. $ 10 million on the NASDAQ and the problems that you got when you put Facebook shares for public subscription a year ago.

This is the largest fine imposed by the financial markets in its history, the regulator says that should the financial market to ensure that the systems work and procedures and contingency plans to have a strong and adequate to manage any process put public offering of shares without the occurrence of interruptions in the market or the effect on him and on other stock listed therein.

The inclusion of shares Facebook on the stock exchange of the largest listing with a large number of investors willing to buy the stock, but that the system of financial market failed to meet all the requests for buying and selling on the stock then on the first day for inclusion led to a series of decisions troubled investors thus violating the rules and procedures laid down.

And agree NASDAQ management to pay the fine without progress in recognition of dereliction of winning tip as well without denying it or make a formal apology.

And then investors claimed they suffered losses amounted to $ 100 million as a result of these technical problems experienced by the market.

And NASDAQ Administration said that they are testing capacitor and widely organized before offering any shares for public subscription, the test did not reveal when you insert Facebook share for design flaws that caused the technical errors.

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Finally, FB documentation system called pages and personal accounts

One of the easiest ways to make sure that the user account or page in Twitter and Google Plus is a destination well-known and important and real is to be marked authentication before the account name or page, and today the FB followers of Twitter and Google Plus is called a system of pages and accounts documented.

An image to a file marked user authentication

The only problem in the system of Facebook as a system similar to Twitter where there is no clear steps to make these accounts and pages reliable and all the user that is expected to be the Facebook himself put this label, but I think that Facebook will make the document pages that you periodically announce faster than the other pages and this method are followed in the straining and made of companies and government agencies resort to advertise even documented calculated.

Facebook confirms the problem in the visions of page

Note managers Facebook pages this week that the Department of visions Page Insights page has not been updated since May 13 last year, and Facebook confirmed that there is a defect in the service and are working to fix it.

And a number of directors said Facebook pages that visions of page data from the period May 5 to 13 have not been updated, and this time the problem took a long time where unresolved until today, May 25.

Recall that six months ago, also suffered service thread visions of a similar problem.

Provides insights managers page see if people are interested in the content published on the page, where they offer insights grouped corner on the activity of people on the page.A number of people who viewed each publication, as well as the number of people who pressed on the links in publications.

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Google think Facebook competition to buy a navigation application Waze

Think a company Google acquired the company owner mapping and navigation application Waze so as to compete with Facebook , which reached negotiations possession of them for the last stages.

Bloomberg reported that the Israeli company Waze intend to get the amount of more than billion dollars of possession.

And the application uses the actual traffic data sent by millions of users devices for application around the world to tell the rest of the users and alert them in the event of the closure of one of the streets, congestion or a traffic accident, for example, and others and giving other alternatives they can Askouha.

The application uses information publications on social networks to improve the driving directions on the roads gives greater effectiveness for the use of mapping applications in directing our lives.

Google can take advantage of the technology Waze and annexed to its maps service adds more social benefits and increases the competitive advantages that are not available in maps services to rival companies, especially Apple.

According to the latest news from sources close to the deal that all possibilities are possible, including reject the company's possession and proceed to search for external funding.

The Waze application receives proceeds from the sale of ads that are displayed in the application, according to the geographical location of the user, and can be obtained free application is also available on the Web.

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