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 IPO won’t stop Facebook from its acquisition plans. After Instagram and Lightbox , they acquired Karma, a gift giving service that relies on the social network to make the [gift giving] “process” as seamless as possible . . . → Read More: Facebook acquires gift giving service Karma  Facebook’s $38 share price would make its deal to buy Instagram worth nearly $1.2 billion, up from the roughly $1 billion price the company announced in April . That’s a nice little bump, but the deal hasn’t gone through given regulatory reviews . . . → Read More: Facebook’s $38 Share Price Makes Instagram Deal Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion  If you’re pining for another way to keep tabs on your Facebook pages while out and about, you’re in luck — that is, if you live in Australia, New Zealand or Ireland. Stealthily launched yesterday for iOS, Facebook’s Page Manager app lets administrators keep an eye on page-specific notifications and Page Insight (read: number of likes, shares, views, et cetera) in addition to the normal management fare already available in Facebook’s official app. . . . → Read More: Facebook Pages Manager for iOS sees soft launch, stats junkies rejoice  Seems like the Facebook train just keeps on rolling, with todays news that the Lightbox team will be joining the social network. . . . → Read More: Lightbox closing its doors as the team joins Facebook  Maybe it was inspired by the other app’s most recent update, or perhaps by Zuck’s newly-minted commitment to mobile applications. Regardless, Facebook’s redesigned its iPhone / iPod and Android apps along with its pocket-sized site, clearly taking some design tips from none other than its fresh acquisition , Instagram. As you can see in the image above, the news feed is now showing one large post rather than the usual two or three (at least on the iPhone / iPod variant), this mainly due to pictures now being up to 3X larger than before . . . → Read More: Facebook redesigns mobile site and apps, takes a tip (or two) from Instagram  For Facebook fans, it's always a little bit scary when Facebook decides to rollout some new layout changes considering you never know if they're going to make the experience better or worse. . . . → Read More: Facebook rolling out improved News Feed layout for mobile devices  What does it mean when Facebook says it has 901 million monthly active users on its network? According to figures out from the International Telecommunication Union, it effectively signifies that Facebook is the world’s largest social network by a very long shot. The ITU says in a new report that that the number of people using all social media services have passed the 1 billion mark . . . → Read More: ITU: There Are Now Over 1 Billion Users Of Social Media Worldwide, Most On Mobile  Despite deep Synergy integration between webOS and Facebook in the Contacts, Calendar, Photos and Videos apps, we have yet to see Facebook Chat make its way to the Messaging app without the benefit of any homebrew assistance . Although there are a few instant messaging apps in the App Catalog that includes Facebook Chat, none have the ease and simplicity of QuickChat for Facebook , by pcworldSoftware, nor are any of them built using Enyo to support both the small screens of webOS phones and the larger real estate of the TouchPad. For $2.99 (on sale, normally $3.99), QuickChat for Facebook is available for any webOS device running webOS 2.1 or higher and brings you a dedicated Facebook Chat app that does its best to mimic the stock Messaging app of the TouchPad . . . → Read More: App Review: QuickChat for Facebook  As Facebook inches ever closer to its IPO — which some are projecting may be the biggest-ever in U.S. . . . → Read More: FTC: It’s Up To Facebook To Decide Whether An Instagram Investigation Will Impact The IPO  If you were hoping that Facebook’s buyout of Instagram would wrap up quickly and let you directly integrate your heavily filtered photos into Timeline, you might be disappointed. Citing the ever-present “people familiar with the matter,” the FT believes the Federal Trade Commission is orchestrating a competition probe. These kinds of investigations are common for most deals over $66 million — we suspect the $1 billion Instagram pact qualifies — but could add six months to a year to Facebook’s originally planned spring closure date . . . → Read More: Rumored FTC probe could delay Facebook / Instagram deal, Toaster filter will have to wait |
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