With a $100 billion valuation to justify Facebook has been under investor pressure to increase revenue streams. Last month Silicon Valley’s VC firms like Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, and Wall Street biggies like Goldman Sachs recommended that Facebook start off its online stores like eBay and Amazon. Facebook it appears is taking the investors [...]
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Students and other focused users have started depending on smaller dedicated education centric search engines or apps
Mobile users are slowly taking over social media as smart phones,texting and aps downloads become order of the day.
A PwC report for IAB shows a high 22% growth in digital adverising and a explosive 3 fold growth in the mobile segment
Will Facebook convert its social relationship website into a bustling e commerce mega store ? Revenue stream compulsions post IPO !
Can online micropayments for content be succesful after the mobile world and Kindle and iTunes have shown the way. ?
What not to do at Facebook. Product Manager Paul Adams is now advising brands on how not to use Facebook
As per Forbes Google earns 96% of its revenue through ads. Google ads do little for other stakeholders like the publisher who gets less than 1% of the revenue or the advertiser but have helped built a $44 billion cash pile for Google .
Facebook Timeline with a cool new format takes a leaf out of Social media newbie Pinterest !
In December 2012 the UN will vote on a resolution to regulate the internet that could benefit mobile users but harm the free flowing nature of the world wide web
Social shopping and image sharing sites like Pinterest are gaining great brand coverage and increased eyeballs that was once considered a Facebook preserve.
Cloud Services are slowly becoming the ‘work engine’ of the internet.. However with big and small sevice providers getting into the act price slashing has already started
As Apple prepares to introduce the next generation iPad in March, speculation is rife on its advanced features and how it is driving a wedge into Microsofts preserve of blue blood multinationals




