Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by cloudjacker on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @06:07PM
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Too bad Snapchat is also turning into a tabloid
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by angryasian on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:47PM
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Agree, I think this is a problem with Snapchat being a LA company vs a Valley company. They want to be a media company rather than a technology company.
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by chridal on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:18PM
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Might we see Snapchat turning into a Yahoo instead of a Google?
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by Yhippa on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:15PM
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Mystery meat features is kind of cool but kind of annoying at the same time.
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by quotemstr on Thursday July 28, 2016 @02:26AM
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Why do you think that is?
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by cloudjacker on Thursday July 28, 2016 @08:40AM
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because they found they could sell space in the app to media companies who are FOMOing at the mouth.
Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
by tedunangst on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @08:01PM
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Is snapchat setting up to be the next facebook or the next groupon?
The big strength Facebook has now is very similar to Google's. They can rake in cash without having to spend a bunch of money to generate it. Unlike Apple they don't need to produce extremely polished and innovate hardware every single year.
Secondly it was very difficult for any other party to aggregate as many advertisers as Google had; Facebook pulled it off but it took a long time. Someone else may be able to do that too, but once virtually all ad revenue is digital there will be plenty of room for a third participant. There are other business models, but the ad revenue one allows companies to really laser focus on just growing and keeping their marketshare.
AI and post-mobile platforms are going to change things in ways investors aren't predicting. Facebook knows this and they certainly are demonstrating it, between wit.ai/messengers "bots" and Oculus. This larger generational shift may well open up gaps that directly threaten Google's core model more so than Facebook's.