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Chart Of The Week: Facebook The Full Stack Internet Company

Mark Mulligan

11 Jan 2016

android

Apple

Chart Of The Week

Facebook has 1.4 billion monthly active users, up by 58% since Q3 2013. Quite simply, Facebook is big and is getting bigger. But the metrics only tell part of the story. Since its inception in 2004 as...

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Facebook Doubles Down On Messaging With Messenger Bots

Karol Severin

7 Jan 2016

chat bots

chat sdk

Facebook

Facebook released a Chat SDK to a limited group of developers allowing them to build official bots on Messenger. When users message these ‘official accounts’, bots can immediately reply with further...

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Quick Take: New Facebook Events

Karol Severin

21 Dec 2015

Facebook

facebook events

google

Facebook launched a new event browsing experience on iOS. It suggests and allows users to look for events on specific days as well as to adjust their location to see what events are going on anywhere in...

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The Uber Button: The Greatest App Growth Opportunities Are Outside Apps

Karol Severin

4 Dec 2015

app economy

app ecosystem

apps

Uber announced an option for developers to easily integrate a button for requesting rides. Examples include getting an Uber to a show or to a restaurant. Uber released an API in the past, partnering with...

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Quick Take: Facebook’s Notify Builds An Ecosystem In Your Notification Feed

Karol Severin

13 Nov 2015

Facebook

Instagram

messenger

Facebook has launched app notification aggregator Notify. It allows users to follow a range of categories or ‘stations’ and receive notifications with relevant content from a large array of content...

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Quick Take: Facebook Music Stories

Karol Severin

6 Nov 2015

Amazon

Apple

digital content

Facebook launched‘Music Stories’ for iPhone users who use Spotify or Apple Music with more hardware and listening options to follow. Music Stories let’s you share 30 second music snippets from Spotify...

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MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Facebook Video

Mark Mulligan

6 Nov 2015

Data Point Of The Day

Facebook

Facebook video

31% of US adultswatch Facebook Video weekly. Facebook's decision to prioritize video in user's newfeeds and initate a three second autoplay default setting for native videos has led to a quardupling of...

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Quick Take: Been Choice, Apple Happy To Eat Its Own Lunch With Native App Adblocker

Karol Severin

7 Oct 2015

Ad Blocking

Apple

Been Choice

Up until now, the on going ad blocker discussion was confined to the web rather than apps. But now an upcoming VPN based adblocker Been Choice promises to block ads in native apps like Facebook or Apple...

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