{"id":5470,"date":"2012-02-06T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2012-02-06T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T05:17:08","slug":"facebook-looks-to-mobile-devices-for-revenue-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/5470\/facebook-looks-to-mobile-devices-for-revenue-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook looks to mobile devices for revenue: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on <a id=\"\/controller\/search.action?type=entity&amp;entityId=http%3A%2F%2Fd.opencalais.com%2FgenericHasher-1%2F38c58bd0-2536-3f03-bfa0-be1867f6fce8&amp;display=%22mobile%20devices%22\">mobile devices<\/a> before its $5 billion initial public offering, <a id=\"\/controller\/search.action?type=entity&amp;entityId=http%3A%2F%2Fd.opencalais.com%2FgenericHasher-1%2F15fa0e26-fa8e-35a2-8119-c27062f2fa33&amp;display=%22the%20Financial%20Times%22\">the Financial Times<\/a>reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has already discussed proposals with unidentified advertising agencies for displaying what it calls &#8220;featured stories&#8221; in the news feed seen by users on the site in an effort to tap a new source of revenue, the newspaper cited several people familiar with the plans as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook <a id=\"\/controller\/search.action?type=entity&amp;entityId=http%3A%2F%2Fd.opencalais.com%2FgenericHasher-1%2F3357b40c-67cd-3717-bf13-e19533df713d&amp;display=%22mobile%20device%22\">mobile device<\/a> users are likely to see advertisements in March ahead of its initial public offering, which is expected in May, according to the FT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Timesreported on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,45,189],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-mobile-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}