Statutes Facebook: when money comes into play!

Highlight his Facebook status can cost up to $ 2...

A few days separate Facebook of his scholarship and, as if it were a final strong message to investors, the social network announces a new lever of monetization: the opportunity to highlight its statutes for an understood amount between $ 0 to $ 2! Not yet deployed to all users of the network, this function could of course interest companies and brands who use Facebook to disseminate their messages and generate the hearing. This "building in front of the post as a major publication" therefore applies to the posted articles, but also photos and links.

The first users who have been offering this option sometimes pay up to $ 2 were soon to contact Facebook to learn more, not having the habit of being offered to enter their PayPal accounts or information cards Visa or MasterCard at the time of posting a status. Facebook has so well was forced to communicate on the subject, explaining be testing this function on a panel of users on the network. "We try to without judgment of new features on the site." "This test is intended to measure the interest of the members of Facebook for the promotion of this new way to share with friends" says the spokesperson.

But we guess wrong a lambda user pay to ensure that his kick of the evening hangover or his album of holiday photos are more visible to its list of friends. No, clearly, it is to the media and other brands to address this new paid service. Mark Zuckerberg wants clearly go beyond the simple display of advertisements and mix a notion of money directly to the social function. Not sure that this is well taken by users who see always be displayed on the Facebook home page (before login) the following message: "it's free (and it will always remain").

For the first time, Nintendo losing money...

Nintendo nippon group recently published annual losses for the first time in its history...

Nintendo yesterday published the results of its 2011-2012 fiscal year ended March 31. In one year, the company still there shortly if successful, capitalizing on the success of the Wii and the DS, has lost EUR 425 million while she mailed still 675 million euros of profit 12 months earlier.

It must be said that on this exercise, turnover fell by 36.2% to € 6.4 billion. Sales of consoles and games are in sharp decline, and this despite the launch of a newcomer, the Nintendo 3DS portable and auto-stéréoscopique (see test). These poor figures can be explained in part by poor sales of this 3DS who forced Nintendo to quickly respond by lowering a few months only after its sale price, of ever.

In total, 13.5 million Nintendo 3DS have been sold on the exercise. In lack of strong games and still too dear (including accessories), the Wii also recorded a large decrease in sales with 9.8 million units over the year. Is that Nintendo, more than ever concurrencé of the casual game market and portable by smartphones and other tablets, moral guard and ambition. The consolier and Publisher plans to return to the green as from 2012-2013 thanks to the democratization of the 3DS and the launch of a new living room console, Wii U and its handle in the form of Tablet. Posted objectives: 7,690 billion euros of turnover and profit EUR 188 million.