Facebook boasts more than 900 million active users—that's roughly 13% of the Earth's population. It has made famous the iconic "like" button and turned "friend," "Facebook," and other nouns into verbs. It has spurred jokes, memes, parodies, competitors—even a best-selling book and Hollywood blockbuster. It, being a social network, has also witnessed its users develop particular online habits and etiquette.
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Toronto's RentCompass has added a Facebook app to its portfolio.
Self-touted as Canada’s first renters’ mobile App available on iOS and Android devices, web startup RentCompass has been dedicated to making renting easy and accessible for Canadians.
The Facebook app is naturally social: it allows you to get your friends' opinions on neighbourhoods and building and share listings friends who are hunting for their next space.
RentCompass says its goal is to create "a streamlined rental property solution that is always up to date, on the web and mobile." The RentCompass iPhone app is th most downloaded Canadian rentals search app in the iTunes store and is rated four out of five stars.
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Facebook Offers never really took off in the US. In fact, it was killed off after just a few quiet months of testing.
Yet the social networking giant is resurrecting the service and bringing it to Canada. Offers, which is a daily deals service akin to Groupon, will let businesses send out deals to the newsfeeds of Facebook users who have "liked" them. Should that user accept the deal, they'll get an email voucher and redeem it.
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Vancouver's Invoke Media announced today that they have been selected by NBC to help power the interactive marketing strategies for the television series The Voice.
Invoke has built a Facebook application called The 5th Coach Game that should suck fans even deeper into the singing competition show. The app lets fans to create their own virtual team, essentially becoming the fifth coach. The application provides interactivity, social game mechanics, community sharing and features exclusive content, weekly prizes, and a sweepstakes contest.
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Dartmouth-based SimplyCast, which specializes in multi-channel marketing platform-as-a-service solutions, has released a Facebook app generator. The generator streamlines the process for any business to create, publish, and promote marketing campaigns on Facebook, the Canadian company says.
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Facebook now has more than 900 million monthly active users and more than 500 million mobile users, according to an update to its IPO filing. More than half of those active users come back every single day.
The social networking giant also revealed it generated just over $1 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2012, up 45% from one year ago but down 6.5% from the previous quarter. Advertising made up 82% of Facebook's revenue in the first quarter.
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People complain that Facebook isn't private enough, how it mishandles one's personal information. But it seems that another privacy breach is also rampant: your own family. Indeed, over half of Canadian parents secretly access their teenagers' Facebook accounts, according to a survey conducted by security firm AVG. This is well above the global average of 44%. ("Global," in this instance, is 11 countries.)
However, Canadian parents weren't the world's snoopiest. Than went to our neighbours to the south: 61% of American parents snoop their teenagers' accounts.
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Facebook today announced the combination of the Preferred Developed Consultant and Marketing API programs and the subsequent launch of the newly minted Preferred Marketing Developer program. There are now 232 of these developers spanning 35 countires. One of those countries is, of course, Canada.
So who are the Canadian preferred developers? The most notable PMD is Invoke Media, which was created by Vancouver entrepreneur Ryan Holmes—now the CEO of HootSuite, a $200-million, Canadian Startup Awards finalist—several years ago. Invoke, which is hiring, is a full-service digital agency specializing in social media, web, and mobile. Its most recent project is Foodee.
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Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook's chief operating officer. With the social networking giant slated for a $100-billion IPO next month, she's one of the world's most prominent female executives.
But she very recently came out with some bizarre, sweeping generalizations about men versus women that has left many people scratching their heads. Sheryl, who is likely a role model for many aspiring female execs, said in a Makers video that if a woman can marry a woman, "that's better" than marrying a man—even the "right" man.
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Social networking giant Facebook has acquired mobile photo sharing app Instragam for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock.
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