Facebook Getting Ready to Announce IPO Soon after the Celebration of Its 8th Birthday Facebook celebrates its 8th anniversary this Saturday. According to people familiar with the matter, Facebook is to mark the event with the filing of an initial public offering, which could value the company at around $100 billion. Continue reading →
LEGO Has Launched ReBrick, a Hub for Fans LEGO has launched an online platform for those passionate about building LEGO and sharing it with other fans. Called ReBrick, the social media platform is open for fans ages 13 and up. Continue reading →
Facebook Rolling out Timeline Apps Facebook has started introducing new Timeline apps from Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, TripAdvisor etc. Continue reading →
Louis Vuitton Encourages Fans to Read Its ‘New, Now’ Online Magazine Louis Vuitton that will enter the fragrance market soon, continues to use video and social media to attract fans to its online magazine called ‘New, Now.’ Continue reading →
Dole Makes Americans ‘Go Bananas Every Day’ Dole, the No. 1 US banana brand is rolling out a nationwide campaign encouraging people to ‘go bananas’ every day. Continue reading →
Facebook Cards Let Users Go Offline Facebook has invented a new thing to let users communicate with each other as well as attract them to its new Timeline service. Now users can bring their virtual brands to their real daily routine due to a new service called Facebook Cards. The Cards allow people to create personalized business cards based on images and posts from their profile. Continue reading →
Facebook Shows How It Makes Money and Runs Sponsored Stories in News Feeds Facebook reveals its own ‘business secrets’ and adds one more business instrument to its portfolio: in January sponsored stories advertisements will start to appear in users’ news feeds. Continue reading →
Myspace Unleashes World’s Largest Online Music Library to Fans Everywhere with New Music Player Myspace announced the release of its new Myspace Music Player, which empowers people to access the world’s largest catalog of music online. The new player is the first to provide free unlimited on-demand listening, lean-back personalized radio mode, improved search functionality, as well as instant sync capabilities that allows people to share the music they’ve listened to on Myspace with their friends on Facebook. Continue reading →
Top Trendsetters of 2011 in the Global Brands Community With less than a few weeks left before we all enter the year of 2012 (as some believe, the last one in our calendar), we are looking back at what innovations captured consumers’ attention over the past 12 months. Some of the new projects and products appeared within the trends, which emerged earlier, and some of them are truly innovative and ambitions and pave the way for something completely unseen and unpredicted by average minds. Continue reading →
Google Reveals ‘Most Searched’ 2011 List The year is running to the end, and it’s time to summarize its results. Google does it in its 11th annual Zeitgeist report aimed to show what people around the world were searching for during the last 12 months and give some idea of the spirit of the time. Continue reading →