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The mystery of Aurora suspect's missing Facebook account
CNET
The mystery of Aurora suspect's missing Facebook account. As details unfold about the life of James Eagan Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shootings, many are puzzled by the 24-year-old's apparent lack of a digital footprint.
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Nasdaq to up Facebook IPO payback to $62 Million
MarketWatch
An unusually high number of orders lodged for Facebook's stock snarled Nasdaq OMX's process for matching buy and sell orders to form the first trade in the hotly-anticipated shares, exchange executives said in the days after the episode. Getting around that ...
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Facebook CEO gets super-low 1% rate on home refinancing
USA TODAY
But wealth experts say the Facebook co-founder's loan - at just 1.05% - is symptomatic of a new credit gap in America between the haves and have-nots. While the wealthy are able to take advantage of record-low rates and home loans at between 1% to 2%, ...
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USA TODAY
Nasdaq Boosts Facebook IPO Payout to $62M
Businessweek
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., the second- biggest U.S. stock exchange owner, revamped its proposal to compensate brokers that lost money in the public debut of Facebook Inc. (FB) (FB), boosting the payout to $62 million cash. The amendment, which follows ...
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Nasdaq boosts Facebook compensation plan to $62 million
Reuters
In its filing, Nasdaq said market makers that, on the day of the Facebook IPO, had covered client orders that were canceled but not confirmed in a reasonable amount of time, should bear some of the losses themselves. Nasdaq's plan calls for the market ...
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Facebook vs. Google? Maybe not
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It may be time to throw out the conventional wisdom that says Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. are locked in a struggle for the online advertising market. For several years now, Facebook boosters have been saying that the ...
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Nasdaq boosts Facebook compensation plan to $62 mln
Reuters
By Rick Rothacker and John McCrank. WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc plans to pay out $62 million in cash to firms that lost money in Facebook Inc's bungled initial public offering in May, modifying an earlier plan that ...
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Nasdaq Raises Compensation Offer on Facebook IPO
New York Times
"We deeply regret the problems encountered during the initial public offering of Facebook," Mr. Greifeld said. "We failed to meet our own high standards based on our long history of providing outstanding technology to our members and exchange customers.
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New York Times
Kayak rises in Wall Street debut
Boston.com
Shares in online travel company Kayak Software Corp. rose 28 percent to close at $33.18 on Friday, the company's first day of trading in the only initial public offering for a consumer Internet company since Facebook Inc.'s disappointing market debut in May.
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5 Best Reasons to Recruit With Facebook Ads
Mashable
But Facebook ads aren't just good for sales. They also represent a tremendous opportunity in the field of recruitment because they can essentially target and attract candidates who are unreachable through traditional channels. If you want to know why your ...
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IPO market heats up after Facebook freeze
KOKI FOX 23
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors showed their appetite for freshly public technology stocks on Friday, but a decidedly old-school company — Fender Instruments — bowed out of its planned initial public offering citing market conditions. Analysts were quick to ...
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Biz Break: Tech IPOs break the 'Facebook freeze'
San Jose Mercury News
Today: The calm after the storm elapsed Friday on Wall Street, as Palo Alto Networks and Kayak Software ushered technology back into the initial public offerings realm with substantial increases. Also: The rest of Wall Street has a poor Friday showing, ...
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Nasdaq Revamps Payout for Brokers in Facebook IPO
Wall Street Journal
The company has sought to contain the reputational damage from the Facebook snafu, and Nasdaq Chief Executive Robert Greifeld offered another apology Friday. "We failed to meet our own high standards.…We have learned from this experience and we ...
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Nasdaq ups ante in Facebook reimbursement plan
Philadelphia Inquirer
Facebook went public May 18 amid great fanfare, but computer glitches at the Nasdaq threw the day into chaos. The opening was delayed by half an hour. Technical problems kept many investors from buying shares in the morning, selling them later in the ...
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Nasdaq to Revamp Payback for Aggrieved Facebook Brokers
Wall Street Journal
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. increased to $62 million the amount of money it plans to pay back to brokers that lost money during Facebook Inc.'s glitch-ridden market debut. The exchange operator expects the payouts to be made within six months if approved by ...
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Nasdaq to Boost Payback in Facebook IPO Case to $62M Cash--Source
Wall Street Journal
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) announced plans Friday to increase compensation to brokers that lost money trading in Facebook Inc.'s (FB) problematic stock-market debut to $62 million. The exchange operator said it expects the payouts to be made within ...
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Nasdaq hikes payout figure for botched Facebook IPO
AlterNet
Pedestrians walk past a sign welcoming Facebook at the NASDAQ stock exchange on Times Square in New York, in May 2012. Nasdaq raised to $62 million the amount of money it will set aside to cover trading losses due to computer glitches that disrupted ...
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AlterNet
Two Tech IPOs Shine Following Facebook
Wall Street Journal
Shares of technology companies Kayak Software Corp. and Palo Alto Networks Inc. surged about 30% apiece in their market debuts Friday, making the case that investors have moved past Facebook Inc.'s fizzled offering. "There are still a lot of investors ...
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Wall Street Journal
James Holmes' missing Facebook account
CBS News
If he was on Facebook, we might know what's been on his mind, what he had for dinner or how he spent the Fourth of July, offering insight into his mental state ahead of the events, but Holmes is not found on that social network, or Twitter. He doesn't have a ...
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CBS News
James Holmes, Facebook User With Same Name As Suspected Shooter ...
Huffington Post
Facebook has at least 11 accounts with the name "James Holmes," and bunches of others that have sprung up in the past few hours to condemn -- though some look more like they're commemorating -- "The Dark Knight Rises" screen shooting in Aurora.
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Nasdaq says filing $62 million Facebook compensation plan
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc (NDAQ.O) said on Friday it will file a $62 million compensation plan for firms that lost money in the bungled Facebook Inc (FB.O) initial public offering in May. The fund is $22 million larger than the original ...
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Wall Street Week Ahead: Apple, Facebook take the spotlight
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The trend of better-than-expected earnings will be put to the test in the coming week when investors hope Apple (AAPL.O) can exceed already high expectations for the tech giant and Facebook (FB.O) reports its first quarterly earnings.
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Why You Should Be Interested In Facebook Interest Lists
PCWorld
A few months ago Facebook rolled out a new feature called Interest Lists. On top of enabling users to follow specific topics on Facebook, Interest Lists also provide you with a means of promoting yourself and driving traffic to your own Facebook page or profile.
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3 Reasons Facebook May Move Higher Next Week
DailyFinance
TBG Digital's Global Facebook Advertising Report Q2 2012 finds that advertisers are now paying 58% more per impression on Facebook than they were a year ago. That's a sharp contrast to Google (NAS: GOOG) , which reported this week that advertisers ...
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Facebook expects to report second quarter losses
Gant Daily
New York, NY, United States (4E) – With other tech companies like Microsoft and Yahoo posting second quarter losses, Facebook is expected to share the same fate. Facebook's shares may have gained by 3.6 percent on Wednesday to $29.11, but since it ...
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Blogs10 new results for Facebook
 
James Holmes Facebook: Users With Same Name As Alleged ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
After police identified 24-year-old James Holmes as the Aurora Theater shooting suspect early Friday, a pair of Facebook users from Colorado with the same name took to the site to deny their involvement. One James Holmes issued a short ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
3 Things Facebook Must Improve to Succeed
By Mark Hughes
So Mark and Co., here's some free advice. Execute on three things to make shareholders happy: video, mobile, and analytics. Here's why.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook Acqui-Hires Mac and iOS Developer Acrylic Software ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Facebook just acquired Acrylic Software, a Vancouver, CA-based startup that developed two paid desktop and mobile apps: Pulp, a personalized newspaper app for Mac ($9.99) and iPad, and Wallet, an app that lets you "sync, store and ...
TechCrunch
Facebook Acquires 'Pulp' and 'Wallet' Developer Acrylic Software ...
By Eric Slivka
While today's big acquisition news has been Google's purchase of Sparrow, another prominent Mac and iOS developer has also been swallowed up...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
Facebook "Acqhires" Acrylic App Designer Dustin MacDonald - Mike ...
By Mike Isaac
Canada-based design studio Acrylic announced Friday that founder and engineer Dustin MacDonald has been "acqhired" by Facebook. It's a talent deal, which means Acrylic's existing apps and technology -- Pulp and Wallet -- aren't a part of ...
AllThingsD
Facebook adds iOS and Mac development studio Acrylic to design ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook has hired the team behind Acrylic, a development studio that makes iOS and Mac software, including news reader Pulp and secure database app Wallet. [Update 7/20/12 1:22 p.m. PT - AllThingsD reports that Acrylic is only one ...
Inside Facebook
Would You Register to Vote on Facebook? - The Blaze
By Liz Klimas
Washington has become the first state ever to allow citizens to register to vote via Facebook, but some wonder whether this is the best idea given privacy issues the social media site has had in the past. Policymic, for example, writes that a ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Mac, iOS developer Acrylic joins Facebook design team | TUAW ...
By Mike Schramm
Sparrow isn't the only big Mac developer that's switched to a high profile project today. Mac and iOS shop Acrylic has been called away from its own.
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
How To Get A Job At Facebook - Business Insider
By Kevin Smith
If you say you're an "expert in X," Facebook will try to schedule you with a proven expert in that subject, so be prepared. If you are not, leave it off your resume. The interviewers would rather have a short list of the things a candidate is awesome ...
SAI
Facebook snatches up Mac and iOS developer Acrylic Software ...
By Élyse Betters
Our Next Project: Facebook; I'm happy to announce today that we've packed up our small Vancouver studio and will be making the move to San Francisco in the coming weeks to join the design team at Facebook. For the past four years, we've ...
9to5Mac


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