Last February, Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp announced that it had reached a billion monthly active users, beating Messenger to the same milestone by five months. Now, WhatsApp has underlined its continued growth, announcing that it’s reached a billion daily actives, the second Facebook app to hit that mark. To put that in perspective, Facebook itself […]
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Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has done it again. The social networking giant has beaten analyst projections and generated close to $9.32 billion in revenue (PDF) during its second quarter. That’s up 71 percent from the same quarter last year. Fueled by ad revenue from targeted ads by small businesses, the milestone puts Facebook in a league of its
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Does your business have a mission, which goes above and beyond making money and profit? The savviest of companies use their mission to build their brand. They never falter in their unwavering commitment to develop their brand around their unique mission. One highly reputable business magnate who has successfully built a brand around a mission,
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This week’s biggest news was Google being fined 2.42bn euros by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results. Below we highlight the most indepth discussion of the news you’ll be able to find online. In other news,
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The meteoric rise of the number of active monthly users on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is nothing short of amazing. And when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has 2 billion monthly users, the company both appreciated the accomplishment, and the sense of responsibility that came with it. Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox told TechCrunch, “We’re getting
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Facebook has surpassed the two billion-user milestone, doubling their number of monthly active users in five years. The social media giant reached one billion monthly active users in October 2012, a few months after the company went public. Facebook’s new milestone makes its user base larger than the population of any single country. In fact,
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They were close in their last market update, and now Facebook has confirmed that they’ve surpassed their latest major milestone – 2 billion monthly active users. And while, to some degree, this may seem like a minor announcement – Facebook, already the largest social media platform in the world, is now bigger – it’s worth taking
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PNR: This Old Marketing with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose can be found on both iTunes and Stitcher. If you enjoy our show, we would love it if you would rate it or post a review on iTunes. In this week’s episode Robert ponders whether our jobs are what we signed up for – and what
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Google has been fined a record $2.7 billion for a breach of E.U. anti-trust rules. The search giant was charged with giving “illegal advantages” to another Google product within search results in a case that started more than seven years ago. The case relates specifically to Google Shopping, Google’s increasingly profitable shopping comparison engine. This fine
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Expected for months, the antitrust penalty was supposed to be closer to $1 billion. However, today the EU leveled a much larger 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) fine against Google for alleged abuse of its market power in vertical (shopping) search. Though the fine is not a surprise, the amount is. In the climax of a decade-long antitrust saga that at
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