Facebook For Every Phone? Not Quite, But Getting There

The social network announces it is seeing huge mobile success, even on non-smartphones. That great mobile push launched by Mark Zuckerberg six months ago is starting to bear fruit. Yesterday Facebook published a blog post claiming 100 million users sign into the social network via its Facebook For Every Phone app, which is aimed mostly at people without smartphones. What's more, said Facebook, this is a "milestone." Given that Facebook has more than one billion monthly users, the number of people using the network via the app is just under one-tenth of its entire user base. Mobile use is, as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg well knows, intrinsically important to the firm. She feels mobile advertising rates should carry the same cachet as TV advertising rates, hence the impending arrival of video advertising on the site.Read Full Story     Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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