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Nasdaq stands behind Facebook payback plan, profits up
Reuters
(Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ.O) Chief Executive Robert Greifeld was optimistic on Wednesday that the exchange operator's $62 million plan to compensate customers for its part in Facebook's (FB.O) glitch-ridden market debut would pass muster ...
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Facebook Opens London Engineering Office
PC Magazine
"London is a perfect fit for Facebook engineering—it's a global hub, and it has a vibrant local startup community with lots of great technical talent," Su said. "Our team in London will start small, focusing on building a core of great engineers, and then grow over ...
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Nasdaq CEO Takes Firm Line on Facebook Payback Plan
Wall Street Journal
The chief executive of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. said a revamped compensation plan for firms hit by glitches in the stock-market debut of Facebook Inc. represented the exchange company's "definitive" response to the debacle. Robert Greifeld, Nasdaq OMX's ...
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Iran wants Facebook's help in fighting porn
CNET
Iranian officials are hoping to team up with Facebook in an effort to remove Pages and Groups that feature pornography or are soliciting prostitution. More broadly, the Iranian police force has announced plans to cleanse the Internet of content its country ...
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Nasdaq CEO Defending Facebook Compensation Plan Today
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The top executive of Nasdaq OMX Group said Wednesday that a revamped compensation plan for firms hit by glitches in the stock-market debut of Facebook represented the exchange company's "definitive" response to the debacle. Greifeld reiterated that the ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Knight nears compromise in Nasdaq-Facebook repayment plan-source
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Knight Capital Group is closer to accepting Nasdaq OMX Group's repayment plan for firms that lost money due to Facebook's bungled initial public offering, but still has some concerns, a source familiar with the company's thinking said ...
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Facebook to Set up London Engineering Team to Focus on Platform and Mobile
PCWorld
The team will be kept fairly small at first and will consist of 12 people, all experienced engineers who have been working with Facebook in the U.S., said Iain Mackenzie, spokesman for Facebook Europe in an email. This "landing team" will get the London ...
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New Facebook engineering team to focus on platform and mobile
Computerworld
Facebook is establishing an engineering team in London to get closer to engineers in London and the rest of Europe. The social network wants to have a presence in a city where engineers want to live and work, Mackenzie said. Besides the group in London, ...
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Facebook's first earnings report since going public will be crucial
Los Angeles Times
Facebook disclosed in regulatory filings leading up to the IPO that advertising accounted for most of its $3.7 billion in sales last year. It also said that ad sales during the first quarter declined from the previous period, although they were up year over year.
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Los Angeles Times
Facebook chooses London for first non-US engineering base
ZDNet (blog)
Facebook is hiring engineers for a new team based in London, the company announced on Wednesday. It will be Facebook's first engineering centre outside the US. The news will bolster London's growing reputation as a tech hub, given Amazon's revelation ...
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Despite Facebook Botch, Nasdaq Earnings Up
CNBC.com
Nasdaq OMX Group said Wednesday its profit rose in the second quarter, which was marked by the bungled Facebook IPO, as cost controls and growth in the exchange operator's market data business helped offset a slowdown in trading volumes.
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CNBC.com
Facebook faces low-key expectations
MarketWatch
Facebook is dealing with a fast-growing base of users accessing its service through mobile devices, over which the company does not display the advertisements that are its main source of revenue. Usage of the site over standard desktop computers is ...
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MarketWatch
Investors brace for wild ride when Facebook announces earnings
Reuters
After dropping about 25 percent since its highly anticipated market debut in May, it is not surprising the market is bracing for big swings in Facebook Inc shares after the social media company reports earnings for the first time as a public company. The options ...
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Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay form new Washington lobbying group
Washington Post (blog)
Google's Schmidt defends the search engine at a Senate Hearing. (Bloomberg) Google, eBay, Amazon and Facebook are launching lobbying group The Internet Association, an effort meant to increase their voice in Washington D.C. as federal officials focus ...
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Much riding on Facebook's first earnings report
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) Facebook (FB) on Thursday will issue its first earnings report as a public company. Depending on the social networker's performance, the results could either restore confidence in the company following its botched initial public offering earlier ...
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3 things to watch for in Facebook's earnings
CNNMoney
FORTUNE -- Facebook will face a tough audience when the company reports its first quarter earnings on Thursday. After a theatrically disastrous initial public offering in May, the Menlo Park, Calif-based social network must now show Wall Street it can ...
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Facebook opens engineering office in London
CNET (blog)
Facebook announced today it has opened an engineering office in the U.K. capital, its first engineering office outside the U.S. Calling London "a perfect fit" for Facebook engineering, Facebook software engineer and London team leader Philip Su touted the ...
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Zynga earnings may presage Facebook's
San Francisco Chronicle
That's because about 15 percent of Facebook's first-quarter revenue was attributable to Zynga, mainly from the social network's cut of virtual goods sold within games, but also from direct or indirect advertising. Investors jittery over reports of user declines for ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Knight Capital Likely to Back Nasdaq Plan for Facebook Compensation -Source
Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK--Knight Capital Group Inc. (KCG) is likely to express support for a revised proposal from Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) to compensate brokers for losses stemming from Facebook's glitch-ridden IPO, according to a person familiar with the ...
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Facebook's Promoted Posts: A Facebook Engineer Tells All
Inc.com
Is Facebook hiding posts from your page and making your business pay for the privilege of reaching your fans? The engineer behind Promoted Posts clears up the confusion. Tweet. Make no mistake: a Facebook fan page can be a powerful marketing tool for ...
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Inc.com
Facebook working on 'want' button?
CNN
"Offering a 'want' button and enabling users to tell friends and Facebook what products they want would give Facebook data closer to what Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) has when users type an explicit commerce related search query," Munster wrote.
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Knight Capital Likely to Back Nasdaq's Revamped Payout in Facebook IPO
Wall Street Journal
Knight Capital Group Inc. is likely to express support for a revised proposal from Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. to compensate brokers for losses stemming from Facebook Inc.'s glitch-ridden IPO, according to a person familiar with the broker's position. Knight is ...
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Facebook faces major test with earnings Thursday
San Jose Mercury News
MENLO PARK -- Facebook is preparing to release its first quarterly earnings report as a public company Thursday, in what amounts to the giant social network's first financial test since its controversial stock market debut this spring. While experts caution ...
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Facebook Loses Another Head Honcho Before Q1 Results
Benzinga
Amongst a slew of recent departures, Sjogreen's comes at a time when Facebook is not in the finest of public graces. Shareholders and analysts alike have been recurrently unimpressed by the previously buzzed-about Facebook IPO, with issues plaguing the ...
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Q&A: Staking the Right Spot on Facebook
New York Times (blog)
Facebook has some fairly strong distinctions between these two types of non-individual accounts that it offers on the site. In general, Groups are geared more for small clubs or people who just want to have a semi-private space on Facebook, while Pages are ...
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Blogs10 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook VP Elliot Schrage Appointed to U.S. Holocaust - AllThingsD
By Mike Isaac
President Barack Obama nominated Facebook Vice President of Communications and Public Policy Elliot Schrage to the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council on Tuesday. The council serves as the governing body to the Washington ...
AllThingsD
Facebook Tests Sponsored Results in Search Bar - Search Engine ...
By Danny Goodwin
Facebook's search box could become home to a new form of advertising – Sponsored Results – alongside its organic results when users conduct searches for specific pages or places on the social network. No word yet on if or when the ads ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest
Facebook tests subscribe button for pages to make it easier for users ...
By Brittany Darwell
Brittany Darwell•Jul 24th, 2012. Facebook, Featured, Pages, Subscribe. Some Facebook users are seeing a subscribe button on business pages that allows them to receive News Feed updates from a page without indicating that they "Like" it.
Inside Facebook
Did Chick-fil-A Pretend to Be a Teenage Girl on Facebook?
By Casey Chan
Chick-fil-A, home of chicken-loving bigots, is in the middle of a PR nightmare. After Chick-fil-A's COO admitted to being anti-gay, the Jim Henson Company (bless their heart) pulled their toys from Chick-fil-A's kids meals. Only Chick-fil-A ...
Gizmodo
Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen Leaving Facebook ...
By David Cohen
Facebook Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen, best known for leading the social network's charge ahead with its open graph application platform, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the company, offering no details about his ...
AllFacebook
Facebook Taking More Cues from Pinterest | Social Media Today
By maggiefox - Social Media Group
Karly Gaffney is a Manager on the Content and Community team at Social Media Group. Follow @_topshelf//
Social Media Today - The world's...
Iran Facebook: Police Hope To Fight Porn And Cyber-Crimes With ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
TEHRAN, Iran -- A semi-official Iranian news agency says police hope to work with Facebook to fight cyber-crimes and pornography – a turnabout in Tehran's stance toward the social networking giant that it previously banned after activists ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Is Facebook Chicken Sh&t? Journo Banned for 24 Hours - Mediabistro
By Betsy Rothstein
Is Facebook Chicken Sh&t? Journo Banned for 24 Hours.
FishbowlDC
Facebook Testing 'Subscribe' Button for Business Pages
By Pamela Vaughan
Learn about a new Facebook feature in beta, the ability to subscribe to business pages.
HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing...
Truth Wins Out - Facebook Bans Karl Frisch From Posting For A Day ...
By Evan Hurst
Lame, Facebook, really. Really, really lame. They banned radio host Karl Frisch from posting content today because he posted this: I agree with Frisch's assessment entirely. Dear Facebook: fix it, please. There is absolutely nothing vulgar ...
Truth Wins Out » Blog


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