Facebook to borrow 100mn$?
Facebook is taking up 100mn$ to buy servers (?). And apparently it is burning at least 150mn$ per year. Noty bad for the enfant prodige company that was able to get 240mn$ at 15bn$ valuation from Microsoft. They had better figure out a way to make more money, pronto.
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Facebook openess
Last night launch of Facebook product aimed at aggregating external mini-feeds within its own platform is a first big step toward real openess and the ultimate goal of gluing users to Facebook even when using other products and services. A complete two-ways openess would make much sense for the end users, yet it would pose […]
Mobile social network
A very interesting article from Michael Arrington of TechCrunch on mobile social networking.
Social network profit
Interesting, the Chinese seem having figured out how to make money from social networks. At least, it looks like, with half a billion USD revenues and a quarter billion profit in 2007. This is not change money.
Read it here
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Social Directory?
Found this interesting one:
“The declining relevance of telephone directories erased 95 percent of publisher RH Donnelley’s market capitalization over the last 12 months…”
Available here.