Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Facebook Looking to Develop their own Smartphone (again)

May 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Again, rumours surface that Facebook has interest in developing their own smartphone. To do so, Facebook is rumoured to have hired staff from Apple that worked on the iPhone.

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Pakistan Blocking Twitter

May 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Depending on the Twitter API’s for the Pakistani market? You might want to look a bit further as the government from Pakistan has started blocking out the Twitter services.

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Facebook Acquired Glancee

May 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Only weeks after purchasing Instagram for a massive $1 billion, Facebook makes yet another mobile purchase. This time, the social network swallows Glancee. A social mobile service that has been running for about two years.

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Juniper Analyses the Instagram Acquisition

April 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Charlotte Miller from Juniper has written about Facebook’s acquisitions before. Today, she wrote her view on the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook. What made the company worth a billion to The Social Network.

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Facebook Acquired Instagram

April 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Facebook announced the acquisition of Instagram. Earlyer today we reported about the massive success of the photography app on the android platform. Now it will be part of the ever growing Facebook family.

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Playstation Vita Has Mini Problems and More

February 25th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Playstation Vita, Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Developers of PS Minis apps might be looking toward a bunch of issues with their paying customers, but that’s not all. Sony’s social strategy has been compromised as Facebook had to pull the Facebook app.

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Facebook Goes J2me

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Facebook took a rather interesting step yesterday as the social network announced their new Facebook for ‘Every Phone’ app. Yes, Facebook has chosen to enter the ‘old’ world of J2me.

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BlackBerry Receives Official Facebook App Ahead of iPad

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

While iPad consumers are still stuck without an official Facebook app, RIM is proud to announce that Facebook is launching first on their new Playbook device.

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Facebook Acquires Snaptu

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Facebook has acquired Snaptu, a developer of mobile apps that focuses on the J2me market for feature phones. The two companies were already working on a mobile Facebook client for J2me devices. Facebook paid $70 million for the J2me developer.

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Angry Birds to hit Facebook

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

While Angry Birds just passed 30 million downloads on Android, Rovio has announced the game will make it’s way onto Facebook. This will be the first real ‘social’ move for the franchise.