Will the overseas expansion of facebook succeed?

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 69-73

  Wan, Yun ^a   Kumar, Vaishali ^a   Bukhari, Amina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON VICTORIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Communities; Culture; Facebook; Internet; Medical services; Operating systems; Orkut; Social network services; Social networking sites; Social networks; Survey; Web sites

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MARKETING; WEBSITES;

SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES;

INTERNET;

EID: 44449083832     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2008.70     Document Type: Article

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