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Facebook aims to make new moves toward media and mobile commerce

09/22/201109/22/2011 Julie Campbell

According to the director of platform partnerships at Facebook, Ethan Beard, the ever evolving social media network, has taken aim at enabling the sharing of media, as well as taking a bigger step into mobile, and using the social connections in order to increase commerce. Beard made this announcement in San Francisco, at the Yerba Buena Arts Center for the first Ad Age Digital West conference. Facebook is also expected to make significant announcements at its developer conference in San Francisco, called f8. There, it is expected that there will…

Northern state in Germany prohibits Facebook pages and website “like” buttons

08/22/201108/22/2011 Jennifer Goula

The Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD), located in Schleswig-Holstein, a state in the north of Germany, has demanded that websites take down their Facebook pages, and that they eliminate any Facebook “like” buttons located on their websites. The website owning businesses were given a deadline of September 1, 2011 by which to comply to this demand, or they will be required to pay fines as high as €50,000 (approximately $72,000). Commissioner Thilo Weichert of the ULD in Schleswig-Holstein, stated that a plugin used by the social network, which permits…

Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook

08/10/2011 Stephanie Beck

Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook’s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, has quit her job as marketing director for the social networking platform in order to begin her own social media venture. It has yet to be determined what kind of impact her resignation will have on Facebook now that Google+, a growing competitor for Facebook, has been launched. Randi Zuckerberg’s intentions are to grow her new organization, RtoZ media, which will work alongside other media firms in order to develop programming that will assist in the creation of platforms that will…

Will Google+ hold up against the competition?

07/18/2011 John Montgallo

Google has finally pushed its way into the social networking world, with Google+ taking off in a way that Wave, Buzz, and other attempts never did, but tech experts are asking whether it will be able to maintain its popularity beyond its novelty, or whether the competition will drown it out. In the first two weeks of Google+, it managed to break the 10 million user mark. So far, user feedback seems to indicate that people are happy with the service once it passed the initial feelings that they don’t…

Facebook and Google+ faceoff over leadership of ecommerce

07/08/2011 Sam Lambert

In its latest efforts to dominate ecommerce, Google has been making moves that have clearly shown that it considers Facebook to be a threat to its leadership of the online world, and has indicated that it intends to start to move into the social mobile industry with a vengeance. Among the largest moves that it has made has been its recent unveiling of Google+, which is a combination of its existing tools and services that have been brought together to function within a social networking collective that accesses a wide…