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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Could Buy Zynga
NBC Bay Area (blog)
Facebook recently changed the way it's featuring games, showing the newer ones first and the older ones down the list, and that's been the death knell for Zynga, according to Seeking Alpha. So far this year the company had a 70 percent drop in share price, ...
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Here's The $2 Billion Business That Facebook Wants To Dominate Next
Business Insider
Facebook's mobile ad revenue stream—at a run rate of $180 million a year—was the big news out of the company's Q2 2012 earnings call, but less attention has been paid to a piece of the company that many expect to become a far larger part of Facebook's ...
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Business Insider
Firm ditches Facebook for Twitter, claims 80% of clicks are bots
CNET
While testing Facebook's advertising system, Limited Run noticed it could only verify about 20 percent of the clicks that were supposedly being converted to users showing up on its website. After trying a few analytics services to figure out the remaining traffic, ...
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Google and Facebook's new tactic in the tech wars
CNNMoney
In fact, Google (GOOG) did transfer $1 million to the EFF last year, but the money did not have to be, and wasn't, reported as a corporate donation. And if, as currently planned, the EFF receives another $1 million this year from Facebook (FB), it won't have to ...
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CNNMoney
GM Marketing Chief, Who Quit Facebook Ads, Is Out
Forbes
General Motors' advertising chief Joel Ewanick made some bold moves in his short tenure, such as severing ad ties with Facebook right before it went public. Now he's out. GM announced this evening that Ewanick, 52, had "elected to resign effective ...
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Facebook's stock sinks, so who should buy it?
The News Journal
In this May 16 photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia. Facebook's stock hit a new low Friday, July 27, 2012, after it reported second-quarter results that disappointed investors. The stock fell $3.90, or nearly 15 percent, to $22.94 in ...
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Joel Ewanick, GM Ad Chief Who Quit Facebook, Ousted
Huffington Post
General Motors fired the ad man who quit Facebook and spurned the Superbowl because he "failed to meet the expectations the company has of its employees," spokesman Greg Martin said in an email. Marketing chief Joel Ewanick was fired for failing to ...
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Be Very Skeptical About Suggestions Facebook Will Buy Zynga
Business Insider
First off, the whole acquisition talk is centered on a conspiracy theory that Facebook is no longer featuring Zynga's games to drive its stock price down. Zynga confirmed that Facebook changed its algorithm to feature newer games on its earnings call, and this ...
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Business Insider
Start-up says 80% of its Facebook ad clicks came from bots
Los Angeles Times
A start-up company has said it's leaving Facebook because 80% of its ad clicks are coming from bots and the social network will also not let it change its Pages name without committing to paying thousands in advertisements. Limited Run said it's done with ...
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Facebook Bears Turn to the Options Pits
Schaeffers Research
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB - 23.39) toppled roughly 11.7% on Friday on the heels of its first-ever public earnings report. Not only was this another few million out of Mark Zuckerberg's pocket, but because the move was greater than 10%, it triggered the ...
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Facebook Flop Shows Market Favors Structural Dynamics Over Fundamentals
Minyanville.com
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Following a week where Facebook (FB) and Zynga (ZNGA) both disappointed investors in their earnings releases, investors interested in new Internet companies need to understand why valuations aren't driving any of these stocks ...
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Facebook Could Buy Zynga, But Probably Won't
AllFacebook
It seems like every week, Facebook acquires a company or is rumored to do so. This time, a report surfaced over the weekend, saying that Facebook could buy Zynga, now that the stock price of the popular game developer has fallen far enough. However ...
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AllFacebook
Facebook Shares Drop to New Low
AllAfrica.com
Shares in Facebook have fallen to a new low, as investors react to the social network's first set of results since its flotation. Late Thursday, in its first report as a public company, Facebook said it lost $157m (£100m) from April to June. Its shares plunged more ...
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Social media news: Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, and more
Examiner.com
Facebook added a new social plugin to its list on Wednesday. Called the Recommendations Bar, the plugin displays a small pop-up window at the bottom of articles, which features a "Like" button and personalized suggestions based on what a visitor's friends ...
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Examiner.com
Does Facebook Need a Miracle?
TechNewsWorld
The numbers Facebook reported last week in its first earnings call as a public company weren't really that bad, by some accounts, but is "good enough" good enough for Facebook? "When you price at $38 per share, you are literally saying that management is ...
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Investing: Why we don't like Facebook
Chicago Tribune
By now, you've heard that the underwriters botched Facebook's much-ballyhooed initial public offering. What you want to know is whether this is a good time to pick up shares of the social media innovator at a bargain price or whether you should steer clear.
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Apple and Twitter Alliance - Could Facebook Survive?
ValueWalk
Yesterday, we mentioned that a buyout could pose a threat to both Google and Facebook. Facebook has also been under pressure from a 50% decline in price since its IPO, just several months ago. While different parties express contrasting views on the ...
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ValueWalk
Options For Facebook; And One Is Not To Dump The Stock
Seeking Alpha
Facebook (FB) on Thursday served up a hefty dose of disappointment when it reported its earnings for the second quarter of this year. As the market continues to digest the lackluster earnings report, many investors are getting in on the options action for this ...
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Facebook, Hate on Social Media Against President Obama All time high.
ThyBlackMan
Baylor University researchers, for instance, recently tracked more than 20 Facebook page groups and users and found them jam packed with racist venom aimed at President Obama, blacks and other minorities. The growing number of groups that churn hate ...
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ThyBlackMan
The Social-Web IPO Window Is Now Closed
Businessweek
This isn't how things were supposed to unfold with Facebook's IPO. The social network's public offering was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime moonshot, triggering a frenzy of interest in other social-web companies that would then ride that wave of demand ...
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BLiNQ Media Launches Advanced Facebook Ads API Platform: BAM 2.0
MarketWatch (press release)
"Using our collective media and technology experience as a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) since 2009, we have rethought and redeveloped our BAM platform, taking into account all of our learnings, to build one of the most robust social ...
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Developing Better Search A Key To Facebook's Future
Search Engine Land
During last week's Facebook earnings call COO Sheryl Sandberg argued that the company could and would compete for marketing dollars "throughout the entire marketing funnel." That is, from branding and awareness at the "top" of the so-called funnel to ...
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A Zynga Takeover: Facebook The Front-Runner But ...
Seeking Alpha
It was mentioned that because of a recent change in the way Facebook (FB) shows the listing of its games and apps, it directly affected Zynga and not in a positive way. I had suggested that because of the share price of the stock sinking like the H.M.S. Titantic ...
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Silverpop Launches "Marketing of Champions" Facebook Sweepstakes
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Silverpop(TM), the only digital marketing provider that unifies marketing automation, email, mobile and social, today announces the launch of its "Marketing of Champions" Facebook trivia sweepstakes ...
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Opera, Mum On Facebook Rumors, Says Mobile Users Double To 200M, And ...
TechCrunch
The buzz about a possible acquisition by Facebook has almost completely died down, but Opera today released an update on the state of its business that nevertheless highlights how its own strategic direction is closely following that of its rumored suitor.
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Kenshoo Social Illuminates Value of Social Media Through Impression ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"To date, Kenshoo Social has helped our teams drive positive return on investment from Facebook Ads just based on post-click attribution. Now, with the ability to incorporate post-view metrics, we can further expand our clients' investment in social media." ...
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Facebook hammered as earnings fuel doubts
Bizcommunity.com
NEW YORK: Facebook shares took a beating after uninspiring earnings in the first results since the much-hyped public offering of the world's biggest social network. In morning trade, Facebook shares plunged 15.22 percent to $22.76, worse than the declines ...
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Facebook unveils central location for games and apps
Buffalo News
The App Center, available on Facebook's website and on Apple and Android mobile devices, will recommend apps to users based on their interests, the types of apps their friends like, or the apps they have liked in the past. Many people are introduced to ...
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Buffalo News
Exec who pulled Facebook ads out at General Motors
msnbc.com
Those moves triggered angry responses, Facebook management, for example, going directly to Akerson hoping to reverse the embarrassing decision -- which became fodder for headlines just days before the social media site's disastrous IPO. Not everyone ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Artist Photographs 252 U.S. Facebook Friends, Preps for World Travel
By Zoe Fox
Tanja Hollander is in the process of photographing all 626 of her Facebook friends.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook: gateway for entrepreneurs - The Nation
Facebook: gateway for entrepreneurs. In pre-social media times, we used go to Chatuchak Weekend Market or a gift fair to shop for new and niche products.
NationMultimedia.com - National
Not using Facebook? You might be a mass murderer! - Neowin
By Christopher White
Do you have a Facebook account? New research suggests that if you don't, you may be more likely to commit violent crimes against humanity. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Neowin
Terra Nova: The decline of Zynga and Facebook?
By Edward Castronova
IPO darlings Facebook and Zynga have seen their stock prices falling quite a bit lately. There's more analysis than information, but one thread stuck out at me: The idea that the attention garnered by Zynga and Facebook is not sustainable.
Terra Nova
Report: Facebook Mobile Ads Only Seen By 3%-13% Of Users ...
By David Cohen
A new study by eye-tracking outfit EyeTrackShop illustrated Facebook's struggle to monetize its mobile ads without diminishing its users' experience.
AllFacebook
Half of people would never buy Facebook phone: Study - Tech ...
By IBNLive.com editor@ibnlive.com
Half of people would never buy a Facebook phone if the social networking giant ever produced one, a new study has found.
IBN Top Headlines
Are Facebook Apps More Profitable Than Niche Websites ...
By Catalin Zorzini
Josh Sturgeon is a Boston-based entrepreneur and search marketing consultant. He is the founder of FacebookAppRush.com, a community that gives away 7 figure.
Inspired Magazine
Oklahoma Doctors Use Online Network Similar To Facebook ...
Doximity is a sort of Facebook for doctors only. And several doctors in Oklahoma already "Like" it.
NEWS ON 6 - News
Pay Facebook to get activists to like you, to really really like you ...
By Jen Schradie
Why do you click "like" on an organization's page on Facebook? Possibly to show support for the group. But if you're like me, I also want to get occasional updates in my newsfeed about current activities and actions of the group or cause.
Mobilizing Ideas
Facebook Exec Fears Too Much Technology Will Ruin Our ...
By Alyson Shontell
If you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn up the heat, it'll boil to death — it's a nice analogy."
Business Insider
Is Facebook Hurting Your Self-Esteem? [AUDIO]
By Kelly Waldron
Facebook is the perfect forum for people to create and idealized view of themselves. But, you can't always believe everything you read. Recent studies.
New Jersey 101.5
Facebook Friend of the Day | WTVR.com – Richmond News - WTVR 6
By Pierce Sharpe
The CBS 6 Facebook Friend of the Day for July 30 is Marc Fields.
WTVR.com – Richmond News &...
Is Oreo the NY Giants of Facebook content marketing? |
By arikhanson
Get the reference? Yeah, I'm claiming Oreo is the Super Bowl champions when it comes to content marketing. Sure, there are other brands doing lots of things right when it comes to content marketing online, but I love what Oreo is doing for so ...
Communications Conversations
GM Boots Ewanick, BMW Boosts Olympians, And Facebook Brings ...
By Micheline Maynard
This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more ...
Jalopnik: Top

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook shares sink to new low after 2Q results - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: Facebook's stock hit a new low Friday after it reported lukewarm second-quarter results and didn't give an outlook for the coming months.
finance.yahoo.com/.../facebook-shares-sink-low-2q-results-13...
Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious - Slashdot
bs0d3 writes "According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de, not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.(German) ...
tech.slashdot.org/.../facebook-abstainers-could-be-labeled-susp...


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