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Facebook Graph Search — The Arms Race Begins
David Schubmehl, Karsten Weide
Jan 2013 - Doc # lcUS23910413 IDC Link

On January 15, 2013, Facebook announced a new feature called Graph Search that helps people navigate through the wealth of information available to them in Facebook. Facebook calls Graph Search the third "pillar" around how they expect peop ...

Rocket Fuel Expands into Japan with Dentsu Affiliate CCI
Karsten Weide
Oct 2012 - Doc # lcUS23742912 IDC Link

Rocket Fuel, one of the leading real-time bidding (RTB) digital advertising companies, just announced it's expanding its business into Japan through a partnership with cyber communications inc., more commonly known as CCI, Japan's biggest d ...

Facebook Earnings 2Q12: No Second Google
Karsten Weide
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcUS23625112 IDC Link

The jury is in: Facebook is not and will not be a second Google. That's the bottom line of Facebook's first quarterly earnings call on July 26, 2012. Its revenue growth rate continued to decline rapidly. The company posted revenue of $1.2 b ...

IDC Online Ad Forecast: Digital Overtakes Print in U.S. in 2012, Growth in Western Europe Slow
Karsten Weide
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcUS23579812 IDC Link

Spending on Internet advertising in the United States will overtake print advertising this year for the first time ever. That is one of the key findings of IDC's Worldwide and U.S. Internet Advertising 2012–2016 Forecast and Analysis (IDC # ...

Facebook's Growth Slowdown Causes Market Share Loss
Karsten Weide
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcUS23570712 IDC Link

Facebook's domestic advertising growth has slowed dramatically, from growth rates of 60%+ in the first three quarters of 2011 to 30% in 4Q11 and now to just 21.2% in 1Q12. This has led to an actual market share loss after what seemed to be ...