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Half Of The American Public Thinks Facebook Is A Passing Fad
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-popularity-2012-5
Despite the fact that Facebook has 900 million users, almost half of people think it’s a passing fad.
CNBC and the AP surveyed 1,003 Americans about Facebook and found 46% think it will fade away. Amusingly, only 31% of the people surveyed think it’s a bad investment.
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Facebook Insiders’ Stock Sale In Context
57% of the Facebook stock being offered in the IPO is coming from insiders selling shares. For some context on how unusual that is, the Wall Street Journal reports that only 37% of Google’s IPO offering came from insiders, and 0% for Amazon and Yahoo came from insiders.
In Facebook’s case, it’s going public at a later stage in its development, so investors are itching to get out. And word is that Facebook asked insiders to sell during the IPO so they don’t crush the stock when the lock-up period ends.
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GM’s Facebook Ads Don’t Work Because GM Sucks — Ours Work Fine
A funny comeback from Ford on the heels of news that GM is pulling its entire $10 million advertising campaign from Facebook…
GM said it was pulling its ads because they didn’t work.
Ford said on Twitter that, if GM’s ads didn’t work, it’s because GM didn’t know what it was doing:
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Video’, Just Lost About Half Of Its Daily Users
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/socialcam-daily-users-2012-5
It looks like SocialCam, the hottest app on the App Store, is in serious trouble.
AppData has finally updated the daily users for Facebook-connected apps after a few days of lag, and it shows that SocialCam’s Facebook-connected daily users fell off a cliff.
That drop probably includes the past five days, which basically showed no change in daily users.
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Video’, Just Lost About Half Of Its Daily Users
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/socialcam-daily-users-2012-5
It looks like SocialCam, the hottest app on the App Store, is in serious trouble.
AppData has finally updated the daily users for Facebook-connected apps after a few days of lag, and it shows that SocialCam’s Facebook-connected daily users fell off a cliff.
That drop probably includes the past five days, which basically showed no change in daily users.
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One Of The Best Predictors Of The Stock Market Is In Freefall
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/one-of-the-best-predictors-of-the-stock-market-is-in-freefall-2012-5
One of our favorite indicators to watch is the Citi Economic Surprise Index, as it measures the latest economic data against expectations.
Anyway, it’s been plunging.
This chart from Scotty Barber, via Cullen Roche, shows not just hte plunge in the index (blue line) but how nicely it anticipates forward equity performance (yellow line).
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More People Have Mobile Phones Than Electricity Or Drinking Water (AAPL, GOOG)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-putting-global-mobile-in-context-2012-4
How big is mobile? Really big. This slide from analyst Chetan Sharma shows that mobile is the most pervasive technology ever invented.
As you can see, mobile has deeper penetration than electricity and safe drinking water.
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In Case You Had Any Doubt About Where Apple Gets Its Money From (AAPL)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-makes-money-2012-4
In case you had any doubt, Apple is an iPhone company now.
The iPhone accounted for 58% of Apple’s total revenue last quarter.
The iPhone didn’t exist five years ago. Today, the iPhone business alone is more profitable than Exxon.
Below, you can see how the iPhone has gone from zero to a hundred billion annually in the span of five years.
And if you think that’s mind blowing, then you need to check this out >
The Most Remarkable Instagram Chart You’ll See
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-increase-in-downloads-and-twitter-shares-2012-4
This chart plots both how many times Instagram has been downloaded, in gray, and how often it has been used to share photos over Twitter, in red.
Look at how, moving left to right, the red bars extend away from the gray bars.
Know what that means?
It means, in the words of the Distimo analyst who put together the chart, that “the average number of shares per users are increasing.”
That’s profound: The app isn’t just getting more popular, it is becoming a more important part of its users’ lives.
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The Scariest Thing For Anyone Thinking About Buying The Facebook IPO
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-revenue-growth-ahead-of-ipo-2012-4
Here’s the scariest thing to come out of Facebook’s updated financials yesterday: The company’s growth is rapidly decelerating.
Last quarter it was only up 45%. The quarter before that it was 55%, and the quarter before that it was 104%. 45% is good for most companies, but for a company that’s supposed to be a hot IPO it’s underwhelming, as is the growth trend.
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