Lindsay Kolowich says, “After being the tactic du jour for generating more Likes on your Page, Like-gating will be completely gone from Facebook starting tomorrow. You might have heard about this, but if not, here’s what happened. In early August 2014, Facebook announced on their developers blog that page admins haveuntil November 5, 2014 to knock Like-gating from their Facebook strategy. The announcement cited two key changes with regard to Like-gating: a policy change and an API change. In this post, I’ll go over both of these changes and what to do about them before tomorrow”. Like-Gating... [...]

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “Now more than ever, governments around the world are eager to get their hands on data about Facebook users — and now more than ever, they want to remove content disappear from the social network. Global surveillance requests for Facebook user data in the first half of 2014 increased 24% from the second half of 2013, according to the social network’s transparency report revealed on Tuesday. A total of 34,946 requests were made between January and June, including messages, IP addresses and account information. Censorship also increased worldwide; compared... [...]

Rex Santus says, “You might have noticed that your Facebook News Feed is faster than it used to be on youriPhone or iPad. You’re not crazy. Facebook has made the News Feed operate 50% faster than the previous version in the iOS app, according to the company. About two years ago, Facebook switched from HTML5 to native iOS code to make the app perform as smoothly as possible. But the developers noticed something strange: Each time the app updated, it would take longer for the News Feed to load. And gradually, users started noticing, too”. If you haven’t noticed, Facebook’s... [...]

Lara O’reilly says, “Facebook reported better than expected Q3 revenue and earnings per share Tuesday,although its stock price fell in after hours trading last night as the company spooked investors with its 2015 outlook – a year described as a major “investment” year for the world’s largest social network. But marketers and advertisers had plenty of reasons to be excited by the future Facebook the company described in both its earnings release and call. Here’s a few of the key outtakes: DAILY ACTIVE USERS Facebook’s daily active users continue to... [...]

Seth Fiegerman says, “For the first time in several quarters, Wall Street didn’t like what Facebook had to say in its earnings report. Facebook posted its first $3 billion quarter and beat earnings estimates for the September quarter, but concerns about the company’s plans to ramp up spending pushed the stock down by as much as 10% in after hours trading. The stock was down by about 6% in early trading Wednesday, effectively shaving off more than $10 billion from the company’s market cap overnight”. Facebook’s spending spree is making investors nervous Mashable  [...]

Selena Larson says, “Facebook hasn’t peaked yet, but that point may not be far off. While 1.35 billion people use Facebook each month, its growth continues to slow, as it reported in its third quarter earnings report on Tuesday. Facebook’s monthly active user count rose 13.5% year over year in the third quarter, compared to 14% in the second, 15% in the first quarter, and 16.3% in the fourth quarter of 2013. Its continued slow growth points to a problem, albeit an enviable one. So many people already use Facebook that it’s having increasinging difficulty attracting more of... [...]

Seth Fiegerman says, “Facebook just had its first $3 billion quarter. The company reported earnings of $0.43 per share on revenue of $3.2 billion in the September quarter, coming in ahead of analyst estimates for earnings of $0.40 per share on revenue of $3.12 billion. That’s up nearly 60% from its revenue of $2.02 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. “These results show that Facebook is getting stronger every day,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s cofounder and CEO, said during the earnings call on Tuesday”. Facebook has its first $3 billion quarter, beats Q3 earnings... [...]

Seth Fiegerman says, “For the sixth consecutive quarter, Facebook beat Wall Street estimates. The company posted earnings on Tuesday of $0.43 per share and topped $3 billion in revenue for the first time, a gain of more than 50% from the revenue it reported in the same quarter a year earlier. Much of that was thanks to its success on mobile; mobile ads accounted for nearly $2 billion in revenue, or two-thirds of Facebook’s total ad revenue. Some of the highlights from the quarter, in charts”. 5 charts that break down Facebook’s $3 billion third quarter Mashable  [...]

Mashable has reported that Facebook Stock crossed $80 in midday trading. The Facebook Stock price has grown by 46% in the past year. Todd Wasserman says, “The stock price means Facebook’s market capitalization is now around $208 billion, which is more than IBM ($162 billion), Amazon ($145.2 billion) and Intel ($162.3 billion.) The previous high for the stock was $79.04 on Sept. 30. Facebook seems to be enjoying a surge in the market over the past few days, which followed a freefall earlier this month. Around noon EST, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up about 250 points or 1.5%”. Facebook... [...]

Todd Wasserman says, “Facebook is the second-biggest source where Americans with Internet access get their political news, trailing only local TV, according to a Pew Research study. The report, based on a recent poll of 2,901 people, found 49% of respondents got political news from local TV and 48% from Facebook in a typical week. That compares to 44% for CNN and 39% for Fox News. SEE ALSO: Seeing More Politics in Your News Feed? Facebook Boosts Partisan Sites Pew cautioned, however, that those percentages were based on the 89% of Americans who have Internet access. If you include unconnected... [...]