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Sheryl Sandberg Testimony In Meta Antitrust Trial Touches On Efforts To Stifle Ads From Google Plus, KakaoTalk — Mark Zuckerberg Says TikTok Bigger Than Facebook, Instagram Combined
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 2:02am | 780On Wednesday, in the ongoing antitrust trial against Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), former COO Sheryl Sandberg testified about the company's efforts to block advertisements from potential competitors like Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Plus, KakaoTalk, and LINE. What...
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Could Facebook Be Berkshire's Next Tech Buy?
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 3:02pm | 688In a note to investors last week, Wedbush analysts paid Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) the compliment of saying it “has a virtually insurmountable competitive advantage,” which may have gotten some investors thinking of where they’ve heard that term before. Moats Competitive advantage...
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Will Google+ Be An Utter Failure?
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 3:22pm | 1282Wow, people are going wild over Google+. Even here at Benzinga, some analysts are touting Google's social networking service as the next best thing. Let's be serious, is it really that great? Who is Raving About Google+? Not surprisingly, social media mavens are extremely hyped up about the...
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The Evolution of Social Networking is Happening…Today!?
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 8:32am | 335We should be really excited, apparently. I know that today is the long-awaited day of Facebook announcement(s), but it's hard to feel anything but concern. Not too long ago, Mark Zuckerberg bored us to tears when Facebook announced its partnership with Skype. Zuckerberg's speech was so boring that...
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Google Really, REALLY Wants You to Join Google+
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 8:41am | 127Instead of a cool doodle, Google.com features a visual reminder to sign up for the company's social network. Will it work? You tell me: Are you intrigued? If not, that's okay. This is far from the first time that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has struck out of the social networking ballgame. If the...
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Google+ Introduces Several New "Don't Forget About Us!" Features
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 1:23pm | 158It's Google's way of handing the crown to Facebook. After harassing celebrities and treating its social networking site as an exclusive club for select individuals, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has decided to let everyone sign up for Google+. This news comes at a time when consumers are walking away...
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Google +1 Button Now on More Than One Million Sites, Receives Four Billion Views Daily; New Features Coming
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 6:51pm | 544Google announced via its blog that the +1 button for websites that it introduced earlier this year is now embedded on more than one million sites. The button also receives 4 billion views everyday. Alongside these stats, Google also announced two new features coming to the +1 button: support for...
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Who is the Anti-Facebook?
Monday, July 25, 2011 - 6:59pm | 749Facebook and Google+ (NASDAQ: GOOG), say hello to a social network that is truly private. Chattertree.com, a new site whose mission is to promote “positive synergy within the core of the modern family,” isn't technically a social network. It has all the components of one – the ability to...