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Why Facebook is worth so much money

Facebook is widely expected to make a preliminary filing for their IPO today. Bloomberg reports that they have chosen Morgan Stanley as their lead banker and plan to raise $5bn.

At this point it is clear that Facebook is worth a lot of money. The company has 800m+ users who love the service [...]

February 1st, 2012 | Category: Facebook | One comment

Facebook launches ‘Actions’, driving social into everything

Facebook’s initial partners for ‘Actions’ launch

Last night Facebook announced a bunch of new partners that are using ‘Actions’, a Facebook feature which lets developers make just about any action a verb. We can now expect Facebook buttons to pop up everywhere inviting us to declare our relationships to all sorts of [...]

January 19th, 2012 | Category: Facebook | Leave a comment

The web may not prevail

Regular readers will know that I’m a strong believer in open standards.  I think they provide the best platform for innovation and are the best protection against monopolists.  Hence I would love it if the open web prevailed, and the rising power of gatekeepers like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and even Google annoys me as [...]

December 22nd, 2011 | Category: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Startup general interest | 21 comments

Facebook’s Android app now beats their iPhone app for daily actives

I’ve been saying for some time now that the fundamentals of the Android ecosystem are stronger than that of Apple’s iOS, largely because Apple doesn’t know how play nice with its ecosystem partners.  I think we are now getting near to the tipping point where Android starts to claim dominant mindshare and the shift [...]

December 19th, 2011 | Category: Facebook, Google, Mobile | 7 comments

Social saturation

The talk below from Forrester CEO George Colony was perhaps the most interesting one I saw at Le Web last week.  He had two big points to make:

Web service/application architectures will shift to more local processing and storage.  This is a natural result of the fact that processor and storage technologies are improving [...]

December 12th, 2011 | Category: Facebook, Social networks | 7 comments

Google’s domination is total

I was going to write about how I’m getting on with the new Google Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone today, but I was so gob smacked when I saw this table on AllThingsD that I had to re-blog it.

It is easy today to think of Google as slightly old hat.  The startup that [...]

December 6th, 2011 | Category: Advertising, Facebook, Google, Yahoo! | Leave a comment

Wal-Mart’s social shopping app

Last week I blogged about how e-tailers can improve their conversions and sales using data from Facebook and other social media sites.  I also made the point that e-tailers will look for innovations that encourage us to link our ecommerce accounts with our Facebook accounts via Facebook Connect, so they they can get at [...]

December 1st, 2011 | Category: Facebook, Social networks | Leave a comment

50% of ecommerce site visitors are logged into Facebook – personalisation will follow

I seem to be posting a lot of stats this week, and today it is that 50% of ecommerce visitors are logged into Facebook.  This is data from a Sociable Labs study of 456 million visits to ecommerce sites.

As Sociable Labs CEO Nisan Gabbay says:

People look at Facebook’s active user count [...]

November 23rd, 2011 | Category: Facebook | 6 comments

Facebook is driving the enterprise

The diffusion of social through society is going to touch all of our lives in many ways over the next five years and the software that enables it is one of our investment themes.  Our portfolio company Conversocial fits into this theme.  Its software helps enterprises take advantage of Facebook and Twitter to better [...]

October 20th, 2011 | Category: Conversocial, Facebook, Social software | Leave a comment

Recent Facebook changes will force brands to be more open and transparent

I love social media for the way it gives power to the people and forces governments and brands to be more transparent and have more integrity.  Now that everyone has a printing press the truth surfaces more quickly – not always and in all sectors, but there is a clear trend in that direction.  [...]

October 4th, 2011 | Category: Conversocial, Facebook | One comment
 
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