Mar 06
Did you check Facebook today? Perhaps you wrote a status update or shared a cool link? Maybe you sent out a tweet to your followers, or just couldn’t resist posting a picture of this morning’s sunrise or this evening’s dinner on Instagram? If any of this sounds familiar, you’re probably well engaged into social media. …
Jun 23
The dust kicked up by Ann-Marie Slaughter’s brilliant essay, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, in The Atlantic continues to swirl around the far reaches of the Internet. Slate published a terrific round-up of the many voices weighing in. A key part of the current debate is of course Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and …
Jun 07
Facebook’s IPO continues to make news … and not in a good way. What started at $38 a share has now dropped (as of today) to $26.41–that’s a 30 percent drop. It’s rare for a company as popular and as hyped as Facebook to experience such a significant decline during what should have been a …
Jun 05
Don’t judge a beautiful CEO of a cosmetics company by the pretty packages she sells. Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, who is known just as Iman, the founder of Iman Cosmetics and wife to David Bowie, had a few harsh things to say about Twitter and Facebook at the WWD Beauty CEO Summit last month. She also …
May 16
Silicon Valley never seems to learn. It’s always looking for the next big thing that will change the world and everyone’s bank accounts. The latest? Facebook and its Friday IPO, which is expected to value the social media company at $16 billion, making it one of the largest IPOs in history. Investors want in on …
May 04
It happened to Microsoft and now it’s happening to Google. The digerati are starting to question, disparage (and even hate) Google’s strategies. It’s a common story, the more powerful and successful a company becomes, the more we enjoy watching it fall from grace. The latest example comes from Om Malik, founder of GigaOM. “Google,” he …
Apr 26
This week we touched briefly on how Facebook is fast approaching 1 billion users worldwide–an astounding amount of growth since the company opened its social media platform in 2006 to anyone with an email address aged 13 and up. With those users comes an extraordinary amount of data in the form of personal information such as …
Apr 24
Last quarter, Facebook had 845 million users; this quarter it’s grown to a whopping 901 million, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Earnings: Facebook reports income as IPO looms. The company has come a long, long way in a short period of time. Back in 2007 this is what Facebook looked like: Facebook: …
Apr 09
Today Facebook announced it would acquire the photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Here’s what Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page: “For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also …
Mar 30
As Facebook gears up for what is expected to be one of the biggest IPOs of all time, it’s worth noting that companies like Facebook and Google can suffer from the hype of trendiness. In his best-selling book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Harvard professor Clayton Christensen broke new ground when he detailed how a disruptive innovation …
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