Risks for Facebook

By Ankur Sengupta and Ramandeep Singh (PGDRM Batch July’20-21 and Jan’21-22)

• Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College friends.​
• ​Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets, and smartphones where one can post text, photos, and multimedia, etc.​
• Users can also use various embedded apps, join common-interest groups, buy and sell items or services on Marketplace, and receive notifications of their Facebook friends’ activities and activities of Facebook pages they follow.​
•  Facebook said that it had 2.8 billion monthly active users as of December 2020 and Facebook was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s globally.

Timeline

Growth Pattern

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Acquisition

Facebook’s business model constitutes the following companies.​

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• WhatsApp: Instant Messaging Client.​
• Instagram: Media Sharing Platform.​
• Oculus: Virtual reality technology.​
• Facebook Payments Inc.: Generate revenue through payment business.​
• Atlas: Ad-serving and measurement platform, for advertisers & agencies.​
• Onavo: Mobile utility application.​
• Parse: Back-end infrastructure provider for mobile applications.​
• Moves: Exercise (steps) tracking application.​
• LiveRail: Publisher Monetization Platform.​
• Masquerade: Visual Filters mobile application.

Business Model

Value Network

Risks

Risks Related to  Product Offerings​

• The ability to add and retain users and maintain levels of userengagement with the products.​
• The loss of, or reduction in spending by, the marketers.​
• Reduced availability of data signals used by the ad targeting andmeasurement tools.​
• Ineffective operation with mobile operating systems or changes inrelationships with mobile operating system partners.​
• Failure of new products, or changes to existing products, to attract orretain users or generate revenue.

Read the full research study here: Research study on Risks for Facebook

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