Consumers shouldn’t expect a different Facebook — they should expect more Facebook, analysts said.
Charles Platiau / Reuters fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a 3,200-word memo last week outlining a vision he said he had for privacy and messaging, industry analysts who follow the company closely weren’t particularly surprised.
“Arguably, the most important things were already on the call,” said Brian Wieser, the global president for business intelligence at the media-buying firm GroupM. What Zuckerberg did in the memo, he said, was to put those thoughts under the heading of a “vision.” “There were quite a lot of people who took what he wrote as a change in business model for Facebook,” said Carolina Milanesi, a tech industry analyst at Creative Strategies, a market research firm.More Facebook
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