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http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/08/12/facebook-acquires-mobile-technologies-speech-recognition-and-jibbigo-app-developer/?icid=tc_home_art&
"Making the world more open and connected..."
Nope bought around 0.05. I'm down but still very bullish.
I got a million shares :) lets go $1 pps!!
Awesome news!!!
Oh I didn't recommend. I just disclosed my position and made it known that I'm not recommending it.
Bought a box on Amazon and took it to work. Everyone loved them and some said they're gonna invest. One guy who drinks 5 hour energy everyday said this was better than 5 hour and he would drink it over 5 hour!!!!
Pic: http://i.imgur.com/08aEACC.png
Ha! Tell me how that works out for you...
Laugh all you want, but who called the explosion in after hours? This guy.
$50 pps by Nov 1st.
None. FB is just getting started. Everyone in mobile advertising is getting killed by FB right now. Just go look at $MM's quarterly growth since FB started doing mobile ads.
Facebook isn't dying.
You have to understand that there is a user life cycle. Yes, users do get burned out after awhile, but if Facebook can bring in more new users and resurrected old users than the number of users who delete their account, they will be growing their numbers.
YES.
PEOPLE LEAVE FACEBOOK.
That's part of life -- people get sick of it, get their feelings hurt, DIE, or whatever else. It happens. Facebook just needs to keep their user acquisition costs low and acquire more users than go stale, and they will have a net gain.
Eventually it will completely saturate the globe (think feature phones and cheap laptops and tablets), and they will start acquiring smaller social networks and more niche networks (think alumni, neighborhoods, city social networks, lgbt networks) and growing and monetizing them the say way that they did with Facebook.
Think of Facebook as masters of social and communication with e SUITE of apps and websites. Facebook.com being one. Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android, Instagram, Facebook for Mobile Web, Facebook for Feature Phones, Facebook for iPad, Android, iPhone, etc.All different apps, but all very monetizable powered by the same monetization engine with the highest level of data to be able to target... (age, gender, geo, married, religion, groups, music, movies, likes, etc)
What if Facebook had 10 different apps, all with +2B active users?
You know they're already released, right?
They won't start declining for a LONG time. They are only monetizing 30% of their mobile pageviews in the Facebook app. And they haven't even started showing ads to Instagram (200M users!). Plus video ads are just around the corner. Trying to warn you!!!!
They use the 10B to buy their fad social network and continue to make their ad targeting and effectiveness better?
It's a platform installed in 80 of the top 150 cell phone apps... Oh, and it's ONE app, Facebook, accounts for 20% of all the time spent on smartphone. More than the actual "Phone" app and "Browser" app combined.
$63.9 Billion locked up in TV advertising!!
Facebook to start TV-ads in stream soon!
I got in at $21 pps. Still holding until at least Q4 2013
MySpace was a email spam company that almost went out of business when the CANSPAM law was passed. They pivoted into a social network after the popularity of Friendster in hopes to profit off the lucrative user data. Their entire mindset was "how do we profit off this data". Which showed in their willingness to bombard users with full screen takeover video ads, ads on the homepage, everywhere they could fit an ad they did. This dropped user engagement as users got pissed.
The difference is with FB is that they prioritize user engagement and retention over monetization. If an ad lowers engagement they will pull it. Their mission is to create a communities platform first, them monetize second. As long as they stay true to that, they will find ways to monetize that engagement.
MySpace couldn't scale their traffic. They constantly went down once they hit 150M users. As did Friendster. Facebook is doing 660M user PER DAY and never goes down. They are also in 80% of the top 150 iOS games and continually open source and publish engineering white papers that help the industry scale their infrastructure. They have the industries top engineers from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and VM all working there.
If you really think FB is like MySpace, you really don't understand this space and have no business trading this stock.
History of myspace: http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/08/14_myspace.html
MySpace CEO says, “Facebook will always be the social glue that brings everything together on mobile,” - http://www.marketwatch.com/story/myspace-founder-lauds-facebook-raps-zynga-2013-06-04
She sells on a known schedule, if she didnt it would be insider trading.
Amazon is +1,000 -- your point?
Just like Amazon, right?
I'll be holding until the next earnings at least. This is just the beginning... Wait until they at least monetize Instagram!
$30 PPS in after hours. Calling it!
This thing will hit $27 after earnings. Just wait. Everyone in mobile advertising knows facebook is owning the market right now... Boom!!!
Look at $MM revenue numbers since FB launched mobile ads. FB is killing it in mobile and desktop advertising.
Could be ex-employees or people with insider knowledge
I bet they crushed their quarterlies and insiders are picking up tons of shares.
Facebook news feed ads generate 49X more clicks at 45% less cost
http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/27/facebook-news-feed-ads-generate-49x-more-clicks-at-45-less-cost-study/?fb_action_ids=10102132568766942&fb_action_types=og.likes
Again, no facts. They have to follow the same protocol as everyone else.
No, it's not archived by the government. The government has to make legal requests for specific information and has to be part of a criminal or civil case.
The real question is: Why does the government tap every single communication (phone calls, text messages, and ALL internet data)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A -- THIS IS REAL. What you're talking about is FALSE.
Wow. Got your foil hat on?
First of all, $FB isn't one site, it's 2 (Instagram is 150M monthly users). And $FB has enough cash to buy 3-4 more other popular social networks. $FB does social and owns two social properties with plans to buy more. They are building the monetization tools for only one right now but could easily use the same tools to monetize everyone else's apps too (hence why there is FB login on 80 of the top 100 apps in the Apple App Store).
More DD might help...
I think you give our government too much credit.
So how would they get said petabytes to these Government datacenters? It would take years to transfer the raw data... or they can pick up physical drives, but again, you run into the whistleblower problem. If hundreds of semis showed up at FB HQ to pick up hundreds of thousands of harddrives... someone would say something.
The amount of data were talking about isnt hundreds of gigs, it's in thousands of petabytes. Good luck, NSA.
It really doesn't though. My point was that if the NSA had direct access, hundreds of employees would know (just because of the way the systems are designed). All engineers have access to EGRESS (traffic going in and out) and everyone has access to all code written (its open and transparent). This is for all tech companies. So if you take all companies in the PRISM PowerPoint and all the ops engineers (1,000s), there's no way this wouldn't leak if it really happened.
Nope, they most certainly would lock your account if you signed in from different locations around the world. They did this to me when I traveled abroad. I had to answer security questions that only I would know.
The NSA is definitely tapping the backbones of the internet (fiber optic lines owned by AT&T and Verizon, etc. This is known for years.
So? It doesn't mean the NSA has backdoor access to Facebook's Hadoop interface. The ops guys would see huge spikes on their EGRESS which would have thrown all sorts of red flags to hundreds of ops engineers. Surely one of those guys would have come forward by now as a whistleblower. No one, I repeat, NO ONE, but Facebook has direct access to the user information.
What do you know? You don't even have a Facebook account, much less ever worked at a large internet company. You probably don't even know what SFTP means (which is how Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc securely deliver the user data requested by law enforcement. Of which, has only happened 18k times (across local law (sheriff departments), state, federal, and NSA)) since 2006.
Read this and educate yourself. The Guardian and The Washington Post were wrong when they said the NSA has "direct" and "unilateral" access to internet companies direct servers: https://medium.com/prism-truth/82a1791c94d3
Me? I've worked at one of these companies for over 7 years on the ops side. What your claiming is FALSE.
Says nothing about the NSA having FB data. They only REQUEST data if its judge approved, and then FB gives them a SFTP (very common file transfer protocol) with only the data they requested.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/06/12/google-nsa-servers-secure-ftp/2416181/
Now the transport layer (At&t and Verizon backbones), the layer that holds the Internet together is a different story, and the Feds have had that tapped for years. But that has nothing to do with FB or GOOG.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619
Dunno. I'm a chart newb. You tell me :)