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Facebook is experiencing high revenue and profit growth, similar to Google in the 2000's.
Facebook is gaining in areas such as mobile ads, video ads, messaging platforms, Instagram popularity, and are getting into Virtual Reality as well. How will Facebook look in 5 or 10 years from now?
Some people say Facebook isn't as popular among teens anymore, but I still see teens using it for contacting one another, forming groups with similar interests, setting up meetings, and even selling items like you would on ebay.
For a recent article on how Facebook is growing, see below:
http://business.financialpost.com/investing/trading-desk/facebook-is-looking-a-lot-like-google
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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Facebook IPO - a Virtual Fail?
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I'm lucky enough to be driving a truck that has XM satellite radio in it right now, and in the past two weeks I've been listening to channels 112 and 113 while driving. Those are the channels for CNBC and Bloomberg business news. And both of those channels have been talking a lot about the Facebook IPO. Probably too much.
Sure, the stock exchange had troubles in the first half hour. But a lot of people are talking about how the IPO price isn't up, how Facebook is overvalued right now, and how some people got too many shares.
First off, a company should price the IPO at a level that will sell all the shares offered for the highest price it can get. This money is going to the company, and if the IPO is priced too low then they are missing out on funding. If the share price had flown up after the IPO, analysts would be complaining about how the IPO was priced wrong. At $38, it was priced right.
Yes, Facebook is highly valued now compared to other tech companies. Will Facebook last? Will it face competition? Being the first mover into real social networking, and having almost 1 billion users, makes me think they will continue to be to social networking like eBay is to online auctions, and Amazon is to online retail. Facebook just has too much of a head start in their space. They are still figuring out ways to make money, especially in mobile which is becoming huge. Their value is their user base, if you have the eyeballs then you can figure out the rest as you go. You can have the best monetization scheme in the world, but if you don't have the users it's useless. Give me the eyeballs anyday and I'll figure it out.
Prior to the IPO, some people put in for more shares thinking they would only get a low % of them. Simply, it's their own fault if they got all the shares they asked for. Many of these people probably hoped to flip the shares for a quick buck, but got caught when the shares went below the IPO price. Too bad, but that's the game you decided to play.
So Facebook is now a public company. It is down in share price, but I've seen many more stocks fall by a lot more in share price in the last few years. It still has some upside as it figures out it's monetization. Now let's move on and stop talking so much about the Facebook IPO, it's in the history books.
I'm lucky enough to be driving a truck that has XM satellite radio in it right now, and in the past two weeks I've been listening to channels 112 and 113 while driving. Those are the channels for CNBC and Bloomberg business news. And both of those channels have been talking a lot about the Facebook IPO. Probably too much.
Sure, the stock exchange had troubles in the first half hour. But a lot of people are talking about how the IPO price isn't up, how Facebook is overvalued right now, and how some people got too many shares.
First off, a company should price the IPO at a level that will sell all the shares offered for the highest price it can get. This money is going to the company, and if the IPO is priced too low then they are missing out on funding. If the share price had flown up after the IPO, analysts would be complaining about how the IPO was priced wrong. At $38, it was priced right.
Yes, Facebook is highly valued now compared to other tech companies. Will Facebook last? Will it face competition? Being the first mover into real social networking, and having almost 1 billion users, makes me think they will continue to be to social networking like eBay is to online auctions, and Amazon is to online retail. Facebook just has too much of a head start in their space. They are still figuring out ways to make money, especially in mobile which is becoming huge. Their value is their user base, if you have the eyeballs then you can figure out the rest as you go. You can have the best monetization scheme in the world, but if you don't have the users it's useless. Give me the eyeballs anyday and I'll figure it out.
Prior to the IPO, some people put in for more shares thinking they would only get a low % of them. Simply, it's their own fault if they got all the shares they asked for. Many of these people probably hoped to flip the shares for a quick buck, but got caught when the shares went below the IPO price. Too bad, but that's the game you decided to play.
So Facebook is now a public company. It is down in share price, but I've seen many more stocks fall by a lot more in share price in the last few years. It still has some upside as it figures out it's monetization. Now let's move on and stop talking so much about the Facebook IPO, it's in the history books.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Instagram Sold for $1 Billion to Facebook
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The virtual world keeps getting more expensive!
Facebook buys photo sharing site/app Instagram for $1 Billion in stock and cash.
I think that this is a good buy for Facebook because Instagram is becoming very popular. 30 million users already and only on the Apple iOS. Instagram just launched an Android app which should get it more users. Young people especially love sharing and liking photos, and following others. Instagram also allows you to edit your photos with different effects; to make them look old, shiny, cartoonish, etc. It is fun and easy to use, which is probably why it's becoming so popular. They are riding the mobile trend and the fact that every mobile device now has a camera.
If Facebook hadn't bought Instagram, someone else probably would have. Although Instagram doesn't have any revenues and is barely one year old, it shouldn't be hard to monetize with all the photos having keyword hashtags. Facebook likely won't change too much right away in order to keep users happy. It is a good purchase for them; they keep Instagram from their competitors and gain from the growing user base of photo sharers.
If Facebook grew up on dorm room — and later family room — laptops, Instagram's success was firmly based on mobile devices, and although its 30 million-strong user base is a mere drop in the bucket compared to Facebook's 850 million-plus, CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw the writing on the wall: His about-to-go-public company is vulnerable to smaller, more agile, mobile-based apps and services, and it makes more sense to buy them than fight them.
to read the full article, click below:
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/facebook-acquires-instagram-behind-bold-billion-dollar-buy-121857870.html
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The virtual world keeps getting more expensive!
Facebook buys photo sharing site/app Instagram for $1 Billion in stock and cash.
I think that this is a good buy for Facebook because Instagram is becoming very popular. 30 million users already and only on the Apple iOS. Instagram just launched an Android app which should get it more users. Young people especially love sharing and liking photos, and following others. Instagram also allows you to edit your photos with different effects; to make them look old, shiny, cartoonish, etc. It is fun and easy to use, which is probably why it's becoming so popular. They are riding the mobile trend and the fact that every mobile device now has a camera.
If Facebook hadn't bought Instagram, someone else probably would have. Although Instagram doesn't have any revenues and is barely one year old, it shouldn't be hard to monetize with all the photos having keyword hashtags. Facebook likely won't change too much right away in order to keep users happy. It is a good purchase for them; they keep Instagram from their competitors and gain from the growing user base of photo sharers.
If Facebook grew up on dorm room — and later family room — laptops, Instagram's success was firmly based on mobile devices, and although its 30 million-strong user base is a mere drop in the bucket compared to Facebook's 850 million-plus, CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw the writing on the wall: His about-to-go-public company is vulnerable to smaller, more agile, mobile-based apps and services, and it makes more sense to buy them than fight them.
to read the full article, click below:
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/facebook-acquires-instagram-behind-bold-billion-dollar-buy-121857870.html
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Thanks for Applying - What is your Facebook?
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Latest item of interest I saw on the net involving the Virtual World - Employers asking for applicants Facebook page info, and even passwords.
Over at GeekTown.ca there is a post stating that a police department was asking applicants for their Facebook login info. They want to know everything about who they are hiring. Other places are also starting to ask for at least your Facebook page, so they can check it out. Most of the comments to the post are against this, saying it is a privacy issue. Will people start creating a fake Facebook page for circumstances such as this? Would you give this information to a company you wanted to work at?
Always remember, never put anything on FB or anywhere else online if you want it to be private.
The Virtual World continues to evolve!
See the full post here:
http://www.geektown.ca/2011/03/employers-asking-job-applicants-for-facebook-passwords.html
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Latest item of interest I saw on the net involving the Virtual World - Employers asking for applicants Facebook page info, and even passwords.
Over at GeekTown.ca there is a post stating that a police department was asking applicants for their Facebook login info. They want to know everything about who they are hiring. Other places are also starting to ask for at least your Facebook page, so they can check it out. Most of the comments to the post are against this, saying it is a privacy issue. Will people start creating a fake Facebook page for circumstances such as this? Would you give this information to a company you wanted to work at?
Always remember, never put anything on FB or anywhere else online if you want it to be private.
The Virtual World continues to evolve!
See the full post here:
http://www.geektown.ca/2011/03/employers-asking-job-applicants-for-facebook-passwords.html
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Did Facebook pay $8.5 million for FB.com domain name?
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The price of virtual real estate keeps going up!
Last year it was learned that Facebook had acquired the domain name FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation. What wasn't disclosed at the time was how much Facebook had to pay to get it.
Today a report from Reuters came out that:
“At their annual meeting in Atlanta, Farm Bureau officials on Tuesday said the organization earned $8.5 million by selling a couple of domain names but is barred from identifying the buyer.”
If you put two and two together, we now know what happened in the FB.com sale. It looks like this was uncovered at Tech Crunch.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/facebook-paid-farm-bureau-8-5-million-to-acquire-fb-com/
Facebook also owns the domain FB.me, which it uses for a url forwarding/shortening service. The price of good domain names keeps going up, because virtual real estate is becoming more in demand.
If you had owned FB.com and Facebook came calling, how much would you have asked?
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The price of virtual real estate keeps going up!
Last year it was learned that Facebook had acquired the domain name FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation. What wasn't disclosed at the time was how much Facebook had to pay to get it.
Today a report from Reuters came out that:
“At their annual meeting in Atlanta, Farm Bureau officials on Tuesday said the organization earned $8.5 million by selling a couple of domain names but is barred from identifying the buyer.”
If you put two and two together, we now know what happened in the FB.com sale. It looks like this was uncovered at Tech Crunch.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/facebook-paid-farm-bureau-8-5-million-to-acquire-fb-com/
Facebook also owns the domain FB.me, which it uses for a url forwarding/shortening service. The price of good domain names keeps going up, because virtual real estate is becoming more in demand.
If you had owned FB.com and Facebook came calling, how much would you have asked?
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