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Facebook (FB) Active Users Continue Lower as Monthly Visitor Numbers Remain Firm - GWI

GlobalWebIndex (GWI) is out with more Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) analysis Wednesday.

The firm took a look at overall traffic trends versus active usage over th last several quarters. While the percentage of Internet users outside of China that visit Facebook... More

Facebook (FB) Instant Articles Positive for The New York Times (NYT) - FBR Capital

FBR Capital analyst William Bird weighed in on The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) amid news Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) began hosting instant articles provided by nine media companies, including The New York Times. The firm views this as a near-term positive for the company, although not enough to upgrade the stock.

"We view... More

Facebook (FB) Debuts Instant Articles

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) posted the following to its Media blog on Wednesday:

Today were excited to introduce Instant Articles, a new product for publishers to create fast, interactive articles on Facebook.

As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook. People share a lot of articles on Facebook, particularly on our mobile app. To date, however, these stories take an average of eight seconds to load, by far the slowest single content type on Facebook. Instant Articles makes the... More

AOL (AOL) Deal a Sign of 'Desperation' for Verizon (VZ), Macquarie Says

Macquarie analyst Kevin Smithen weighed in on Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) after the company acquired AOL (NYSE: AOL) for $4.4 billion. The analyst said the move comes as Verizon arms for the video ad-tech battle versus Google and Facebook. He said the price tag was "hefty" and the deal shows signs of desperation for Verizon as its core wireless business comes under pressure... More

Half of Facebook (FB) Users Say They Visit at Least Once Per Day - GWI

GlobalWebIndex posted the following to its blog on Tuesday:

For Tuesdays blog, we draw on more findings from our new GWI Social report (download a free summary here) to look at visit frequency on five of... More