Redwood City, CA | August 3, 2012
Did you miss any of our Crunchup on Facebook’s ecosystem this past Friday? Perhaps you didn’t hear how Facebook deals with 7,000 different devices accessing its platform every day. Maybe you didn’t find out whether Zynga expects it will make back its money on the OMGPOP purchase. Or, want to learn how many people played games on Facebook.com last month. If you guessed less than 200 million, try… → Read More
In the final discussion of our Facebook ecosystem CrunchUp today, AKQA Chairman Tom Bedecarre and Facebook VP Greg Badros took the stage to address Facebook’s advertising strategy. Bedecarré wasn’t as skeptical as his new boss Martin Sorrell (whose advertising conglomerate WPP just announced that it’s acquiring agency AKQA, and who has said that Facebook is “not necessarily an advertising… → Read More
Today at The TC CrunchUp at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, a group of founders and entrepreneurs took the stage to talk about the future of Facebook’s platform, where it’s been and where it’s going as a result. Although the company’s stock has been limping of late, Facebook continues to be impossible to ignore — by the end of June, for example, the platform was seeing 955 million monthly active… → Read More
Peter Deng of Facebook said on stage at the TechCrunch CrunchUp today that the company’s mission is now focused on mobile.
There is no single team that is focused on mobile, said Deng, Facebook’s director of product development. Instead, each group, be it the messaging or location teams, are thinking about mobile development. → Read More
Doug Purdy, Facebook’s Director of Developer Products, just announced that 230 million people played games on Facebook.com in the past 30 days and that 8 of the 10 top grossing iPhone apps are integrated with Facebook. This is an interesting bit of news when thinking about actual user interaction with the service and what third party developers could expect to see when building for the platform. → Read More
Peter Deng was joined on our Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp stage by Zynga product development VP Sean Kelly, Bump CEO David Lieb, and Xyologic co-founder Matthaus Krzykowski to tackle the prospect of creating and nurturing “modern” mobile applications.
One of the juicier tidbits that came to light during the panel came courtesy of Zynga’s Kelly, who noted he believed that the company would make… → Read More
Why is mobile such a challenge for Facebook? Well, for starters, 7000 different device types are used to access Facebook each day. At today’s Facebook Ecosystem Conference, VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer said that part of the difficulty Facebook faces in reaching mobile users is just that there are so many different SKUs. As a result, Facebook can’t re-build mobile apps and iterate on the… → Read More
For all its successes Facebook has yet to conquer mobile. With that thought in mind TechCrunch is hosting our 5th annual CrunchUp today at the gorgeous Fox Theater in Redwood City, CA. Throughout the day leading developers, Facebook executives and industry experts will take the CrunchUp stage and speak on the state of Facebook’s platform, products, ads and mobile initiatives.
Our live stream… → Read More
Facebook moves pretty fast. If you don’t attend the Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp, you could misunderstand it. To give us the lowdown on how well Facebook’s ad business is doing and what it’s like to ride the Facebook traffic roller coaster, we’ve got two big new additions to the day’s panels.
Rick Marini- Founder and CEO of BranchOut, the most popular Facebook-based professional networking… → Read More
Guys, guys, so because everybody obviously wants to party with Josh Constine, tickets to the TechCrunch annual summer party at August Capital are officially sold out.
In case you want a backdoor way in, don’t know a guy and don’t want to scale the fence, our Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp tickets are still on sale, though we’ve only got a few left so yeah, roll the dice. → Read More
Mobile usage is upending web empires, as Silicon Valley has come to realize over the last few years. And we’ll have two companies smack in the middle of the shift present at our Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp this Friday in Redwood City, Calif., sharing how they’re surviving in this new world.
Get your CrunchUp tickets here.
Zynga, the dominant social game developer on Facebook, has been… → Read More
Facebook is still huge and growing — it added another 50 million users this past quarter, and it’s about to break the one-billion-humans mark. But it still has to figure out how to survive on mobile. So we’re focusing on Facebook and its developer ecosystem at our annual CrunchUp event this Friday in Redwood City, Calif.
Our aim is to detail what’s working and what’s not, so entrepreneurs… → Read More
The Facebook Ecosystem Crunchup is closer than we think — just a little more than one week away! We have revealed the agenda and have announced a couple of Facebook all-stars, all of whom will be joining us on August 3rd at the beautiful Fox Theater in Redwood City. Those announced so far include Facebook’s VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer, Director of Product Management Peter Deng and Director… → Read More
Hey, guys, looking for something to do on August 3rd? Well, you’re in luck … We are releasing the final round of August Capital tickets today! We typically sell out of these tickets within an hour so go here now if you want one.
We also have a limited number of tickets for the Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp which will get you a fast track ticket to August Capital Summer Party, if you miss the… → Read More
It’s that time of the week again! We’ve released another set of August Capital Summer Party tickets – and we expect them to sell out quickly. If you can’t click fast enough to purchase a ticket to the August Capital Summer Party, remember that Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp tickets give you fast track entry into the August Capital Summer Party. You can purchase tickets here.
And, here’s the agenda… → Read More
We’re excited to announce that Facebook’s Peter Deng and Greg Badros are joining Doug Purdy and Mike Schroepfer as speakers at this year’s Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp. Peter Deng is the Director of Product Management and Greg Badros is the Vice President of Engineering & Products at Facebook. Peter and Greg will participate in panels that will provide insight into the road ahead for… → Read More
As promised, we have released another batch of August Capital Summer Party tickets. Tickets sell out quickly and if your buyer bot is too slow to snag passes for you and 400 of your closest friends, you can always purchase a ticket to the Facebook EcoSystem CrunchUp here which includes a ticket to the Facebook Ecosystem Conference and a fast track ticket to enter the August Capital Summer… → Read More
Summer is here and our annual CrunchUp mini-conference is just a month away. The focus this year is on Facebook, its developer ecosystem, and how it is adapting its product and business to a mobile-first world.
And we’re excited to announce two speakers who will be joining us from Facebook. The first is Doug Purdy. He’s in the middle of the action on the product side these days. As a director… → Read More
TechCrunch has been throwing an annual summer party at August Capital since 2006, the point at which Michael Arrington realized it had gotten too big for his Atherton back yard. And this year we’re doing it again, on the same big sunny Sand Hill balcony at the venture firm’s headquarters. The party starts at 5:30 p.m. and goes til 9:00 p.m.
And, we’ll also be back with our fourth-ever CrunchUp… → Read More
