JP Mangalindan says, “Love it or loathe it, Facebook is as integral to our day-to-day lives as checking email or texting that special someone. And in case there was any doubt, the social network unleashed new data on Wednesday to prove it. Nearly 1.4 billion people around the world use Facebook every month. Some 890 million people visit it daily and now view more than 3 billion videos a day. Unsurprisingly, much of the growth is happening on the mobile side. Almost half of Facebook’s 1.89 billion mobile users now check the social network exclusively on their phones and tablets. In other... [...]

Seth Fiegerman says, “Facebook just had its first $10 billion year. The social network posted earnings of $0.54 per share on revenue of $3.85 billion for the December quarter, coming in well ahead of Wall Street estimates for earnings of $0.48 per share on revenue of $3.77 billion. That holiday performance brings Facebook‘s total revenue for 2014 to nearly $12.5 billion, compared to just under $7.9 billion in 2013, and it’s more than double the annual revenue it reported for 2012″. Facebook’s annual revenue topped $10 billion for the first time in 2014 Mashable  [...]

Seth Fiegerman says, “Facebook just had its first $3 billion quarter. The company reported earnings of $0.43 per share on revenue of $3.2 billion in the September quarter, coming in ahead of analyst estimates for earnings of $0.40 per share on revenue of $3.12 billion. That’s up nearly 60% from its revenue of $2.02 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. “These results show that Facebook is getting stronger every day,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s cofounder and CEO, said during the earnings call on Tuesday”. Facebook has its first $3 billion quarter, beats Q3 earnings... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Investors to Facebook: Thank You, Thank You, Thank You”. Seth Fiegerman says, “”I’m a shareholder since the IPO,” a Facebook investor said on Thursday. “Thank you for making me money.” Those words would have been almost unthinkable a year ago when Facebook held its first annual shareholder meeting as a public company. But several Facebook investors echoed that sentiment during the company’s second annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. “It’s quite a difference from last year to this year,... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Pinterest Brings Place Pins to iPad, GIFs to Mobile”. Kurt Wagner says, “Pinterest updated both its mobile and iPad apps on Friday, offering some of its most recent product updates to mobile users. Updates to the iOS and Android apps now support GIFs, a feature that Pinterest unveiled in late January. Pinterest said at the time that there are “tens of millions” of GIFs on the platform, and those will now be playable on mobile devices“. Pinterest Brings Place Pins to iPad, GIFs to Mobile Mashable.com  [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Is Bigger Than Amazon, by Market Cap”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Apparently pokes and Likes beat ecommerce and drones. Facebook is now more valuable than Amazon, at least by market value. Facebook’s market cap topped $170 billion this week, while Amazon’s market cap has dipped below $165 billion, according to data provided to Mashable by FactSet Research. The social network’s stock hit a new high this week, following a strong December quarter earnings report, in which it handily beat revenue estimates and revealed... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Top 10 Brands on Social Media in 2013”. Colin Daileda says, “Samsung was the most popular social-media brand worldwide in 2013, according to Starcount, which compiled data across Facebook, YouTube and other sites to come up with its top 10 list.Although Samsung wasn’t the most popular brand on any particular social network, it earned 16 million new followers across multiple platforms in the past 12 months — enough to get data aggregator Starcount’s top spot. Walt Disney came in second place, largely due to a one-million-follower... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “7 Tips for Building a Social Media Audience”. Stephanie Walden says, “Self-proclaimed “social media gurus” are a dime a dozen these days.When it comes to a successful social media marketing strategy, it can be tough for small businesses to sort through the noise, statistics and flurry of misinformation.One statistic we found online, for instance, claims that a Facebook fan is worth about $174 — but ask a small business with 300 Facebook fans if they’ve seen that $52,200 reflected in their revenues and you’re... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “U.S. Mobile Shopping Offsets Drop in Last-Minute Mall Traffic”. Jason Abbruzzese says, “Need to go to the mall? Baby, it’s cold outside.Shoppers unwilling to brave the elements for a final weekend of holiday shopping (although the East Coast didn’t exactly have a frigid weekend) took to their phones and tablets to order last-minute knickknacks.PayPal logged a 96% increase in the number of customers shopping on mobile devices from Dec. 21 to 22 compared to the last weekend before Christmas in 2012, according to data from the... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Stock Hits New High After Joining S&P 500”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Facebook is ending 2013 on a high note.The company’s stock topped $58 a share in early trading Monday, a gain of 5.5% for the day and a new high for the public company.The stock surge comes on Facebook‘s first full day on the Standard & Poor’s 500, a blue chip index that comes with a broader base of investors. Facebook officially became a member at the close of trading on Friday after several months of rumors“. Facebook Stock Hits... [...]