Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
With both MySpace and YouTube off the market, the hottest property on the Web right now is social networking site Facebook, said to be valued at a massive US$15 billion by suitors such as Microsoft and Google. The latest liaison for the site with 50 million fresh faces on its books is with RIM, purveyor of the Blackberry, the smartphone of choice for business professionals.
The new alliance see a customized version of
Facebook made available for Blackberry users, complete with the social
networking features already used on computers such as exchanging
messages and photos and inviting friends to join the network.
The Blackberry, already used extensively by professionals because of
its operating systems'push email capabilities would seem to be an ideal
device to make use Facebook's social connectivity features.
While some have tried to portray the pairing of RIM and Facebook as an
odd couple alliance, in reality the university roots of Facebook make
the demographic a very valuable one for a company like RIM which
targets and is popular in the business professional market space.
Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, after all, was a Harvard student when he
started Facebook as a networking sites for university students,
ostensibly the professionals of the future.
While Facebook is now open to all-comers, its demographic is still
widely viewed as being a generally more sophisticated and mature
audience than the all-out consumer oriented MySpace.
With Microsoft already said to be lining up to spend US$240 million for
small slice of Facebook putting a value of the company of US$15
billion, the question is whether Facebook has become to valuable for
any one company to take it out. If so, will Facebook be the first
social network to go to IPO?
David Bass
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