“Facebook‚ Inc: The Initial Public Offering” Introduction Facebook‚ which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004‚ is an online social networking platform with the mission of making the world more open and connected. Within a few years‚ Facebook attracted millions of new users‚ from 1 million Monthly Active Users to 845 millions Monthly Active Users. Though competing with global and regional corporations in the industry‚ Facebook kept growing rapidly. With the high expectation of investors
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Both Facebook and Twitter are social networking tools. But while they have many similarities‚ they are different in many ways. Are the two competing for the same audience? Content Sharing Content shared on Twitter is likely to always be different than content shared on Facebook. Twitter only submits text posts‚ while essentially all forms of media can be posted on Facebook. Advertising Facebook’s advertising business is largely based on targeting users according to information they declare
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Case Study: Face Book 1. Why do people use Facebook and what do they do when they are there? What are the implications of this behaviour-for individuals‚ for organisations and for Facebook? According to a recent report‚ the total number of users of Facebook has reached one billion already in October 2012 (Piskorski et al. 2013). This number is more than the population of Europe and people spend more than 10 billion minutes per day on Facebook (Wilson‚ Gosling and Graham 2012‚ 203). People cannot
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Facebook vs. LinkedIn - What’s the Difference? Now that Facebook is a public company‚ it’s very natural to compare Facebook to other social networking companies like LinkedIn. While they both appear to be similar businesses‚ in reality they are very different. First from a numbers standpoint‚ the two companies look similar. Interestingly they both generate almost exactly the same revenue per “user.” LinkedIn’s growth rate is nearly twice that of Facebook (and even greater when considering Facebook’s
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Facebook vs. Fastbook A team of mobile app developers offended by Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg dissing HTML5 have created a Facebook app that they say works better than native versions because of the HTML5 coding. Zuckerberg famously knocked HTML5 in an interview this fall when he said relying too much on it instead of developing native mobile apps was “the biggest mistake we made as a company.” “When Mark Zuckerberg said HTML5 wasn’t ready‚ we took a little offense to the comment‚”wrote developers
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STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Facebook Inc. Report Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg‚ Dustin Moskovitz‚ Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes as a college networking website while they were University Students. On 4th October 2012 Mark Zuckerberg (CEO-Chairman) announced that Facebook have reached 1 Billion users worldwide‚ which makes it the largest social network on the planet. On May 2012 Facebook was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange raising $16 billion. Giuseppe
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Facebook after IPO Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin‚ Andrew McCollum‚ Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. "Facebook was not originally created to be a company‚" CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18‚ 2012. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." Facebook
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2012 [4P’S & 5C’S MARKETING ANALYSIS ON FACEBOOK] This report is to research on the 4P’s and 5C’s of Facebook. With analysis and research done on Facebook‚ we come out with a prediction on Facebook whether Facebook will continue to grow or otherwise. Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ...............................................................
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Facebook We all use social media web sites. They have been around for years. The first big social media website that we all used was Myspace. But then another one came along. At first only a few people converted. Then more and more people made the switch. The few people still holding on to Myspace where forced to switch‚ because there was no one left to message. Myspace was digitally killed. Killed by non-other than‚ Facebook. Facebook became the top of social media websites‚ and it has
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development of the company? Mark Zuckerberg is betting on virtual reality‚ drones‚ and artificial intelligence. Buying a virtual-reality startup and investing in drones‚ as Facebook has done this year‚ may not seem to fit into its evolving mobile-platform strategy. And in some ways‚ those deals don’t. In the near term‚ Facebook is focused on building out its potential in today’s mobile-social nexus. Five years from now‚ the company may look more like a direct competitor to Google. Facebook’s interest
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