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Facebook warns advertising revenue growth will slow

Facebook has warned growth in advertising revenues will slow "meaningfully" in the next few months as it tries to avoid alienating users.

The social media giant's chief financial officer David Wehner said there was a limit on the number of ads it could put on people's timelines.

Shares fell 7% in after-hours trading.

The comments came as Facebook reported profits of $2.4bn (£1.9bn) between July and September, up 166% from the same period in 2015.

Most of Facebook's revenues came from adverts, of which mobile accounted for 84%.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described the results as "another good quarter".


Nearly 1.1 billion people now log onto Facebook on their mobiles every day, compared with 894 million a year ago.

But it has not been all plain sailing for the firm. In the past few months it has apologised for unfairly removing certain content, and admitted it overestimated how much video users have watched for the last two years.

Meanwhile Whatsapp, the messaging app Facebook bought for $19bn in early 2014, has been warned by European privacy watchdogs about sharing user data with its parent company.




'Opportunity'

Facebook expected to add fewer adverts and for "ad revenue growth rates [to] come down meaningfully" in 2017, Mr Wehner said on Wednesday.

Analysts argued it would force the business to invest in other ways of making money.

"The traditional engine of their growth will slow down, but Mr Wehner didn't give numbers on what it could make from new revenue streams," said Martin Garner, an analyst at CCS Insight.

Josh Olson, an analyst at Edward Jones, said the group could still make more money from charging advertisers higher prices and through adding new customers.

"We have been down this road before with Facebook, they have invested something like this in mobile and we have seen it pay off.

So we are looking at it as an opportunity," he said.

Facebook is trialling a number of other potential money-making projects including a marketplace that allows users to sell items, and is experimenting with chat 'bots' in its messaging app, with a view to companies using them as a way to communicate with customers.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

iPhone 7 to come in five colours and include one VERY useful feature for photo fanatics



New iPhone 7 details have emerged just days before Apple's big event in San Francisco on September 7, where the company is widely expected to unveil its next flagship smartphone.

The details come from well-connected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, who issued a new research note on Saturday.

According to the note, the iPhone 7 will include one very useful feature for photo fanatics - it will have four LED flash lights, up from two in the iPhone 6s .

Furthermore, two of these LEDs will be in cool colours, and two in warm colours, and Apple is also expected to add an ambient light sensor to the iPhone 7.

While the iPhone 6s ' camera is widely praised, it still struggles to take good photos in low-light situations.

It is unclear whether the new features will appear on the 4.7-inch iPhone 7 or just the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus, which is also expected to feature a dual-lens camera capable of taking SLR-quality photos.

Either way, Apple is clearly stepping up its photography capabilities in the face of growing competition from the likes of Samsung, Sony and Huawei.

According to Kuo, the iPhone 7 Plus camera will feature two 12-megapixel lenses - one wide angle, and one telephoto.

The new design is expected to offer optical zoom and light field camera applications.

The research note, seen by AppleInsider , also contains a few other juicy tidbits.

According to Kuo, the iPhone 7 will boast a next-generation A10 processor that could be as fast as 2.4GHz - a dramatic increase over the existing A9 chip

It will also be waterproof to a depth of one metre for up to 30 minutes - a rating known as IPX7, which is the same as the Apple Watch .

To accommodate this waterproofing, it will have a redesigned pressure-sensitive click-less Home button, that will provide haptic feedback to mimic a clicking sensation when the button is pressed.

The iPhone 7 will come in 32GB, 128GB, and 256GB storage options , eliminating both the 16GB and 64GB tiers, according to Kuo.

It will feature the same "True Tone" display technology the company unveiled earlier this year on the 9.7-inch iPad Pro , and will come in five colours - silver, gold, rose gold, dark black and "piano black".

The glossy piano black variant could be limited in availability, so Apple is expected to focus on large-storage models for that shade.

Finally, Kuo reiterated the rumour that Apple will remove the 3.5mm headphone jack .

The iPhone 7 will reportedly ship with both Lightning EarPods and a Lightning-to-headphone adapter in the box.

The change has supposedly be made to make space for a second speaker with an audio amplifier.

Apple is expected to unveil its iPhone 7 at an event in San Francisco on September 7.

For all the latest rumours, check out our full round-up here .

Samsung Shares Slide On Galaxy Note 7 Recall

Samsung shares fell sharply on Monday, hitting a two-month low after the firm urged users not to use it and exchange devices due to fears it might catch fire.

The South Korean company's shares dropped more than 5% on Monday morning.

Samsung recalled 2.5 million phones last week after reports of the device exploding during or after charging.

Airline passengers were warned by US authorities not to use or charge the phones while on board.

Aviation authorities in several other countries and individual airlines have since then also banned the use of the devices on their flights.



Hand in 'exploding' phones - Samsung

The company has said it will replace all devices that were handed in from 19 September.

Samsung has said that battery problems were behind the phones catching fire, but that it was difficult to work out which phones were affected among those sold.

The phone was launched last month and has been otherwise generally well-received by consumers and critics.



MacBook Pro: Apple launches three new laptops


The new MacBook Pro comes in two flavours, 13in and 15in, and the headline new feature is the Touch Bar, a touch-sensitive display along the top of the laptop, where the function keys used to be.

Also added is a Touch ID sensor.

A sort-of new MacBook Pro enters at the bottom of the range, not offering the Touch Bar but replicating the rough physical layout of the top-end laptops.