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Facebook Plunge Limits Goldman Sachs Gain as Lockup Ends: Tech
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. (FB)'s stock plunge has robbed Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) of much of the potential gain they could unlock as soon as this week, when a ban on sales of insiders' shares begins to lift. While the end of the lockup ...
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FTC accuses Facebook of misleading developers over security
ZDNet (blog)
However, an in-depth investigation into Facebook's practices, conducted by Commissioners Jon Leibowitz, J. Thomas Rosch, Edith Ramirez and Julie Brill, has found that the social networking giant did not take the steps to review applications that it ...
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The Best Analyst Covering Facebook Is A 24-Year-Old In Kazakhstan
Forbes
As Facebook prepared to conduct its widely anticipated initial public offering in May, the hype reached as far as Kazakhstan, the landlocked Central Asian country known for its rich oil reserves. In Almaty, Kazakhstan's biggest city, Erlan Abdikarimov ...
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Forbes
Facebook, Twitter Compete for Gold in Olympics Coverage
PC Magazine
Facebook also measured unprecedented growth in users' "likes" of athletes' posts. Based on Twitter's data, the most exciting moments came during the heat of competition, not necessarily during the medal-winning conclusion of a sport. Kobe Bryant's dunk ...
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Twitter, Facebook Battles Show the Value of an Open Web
Businessweek
As Twitter and Facebook continue to fight a variety of skirmishes in the ongoing "platform wars," with both companies trying to control as much of their networks as they can in order to monetize them as quickly as possible, it's worth remembering what ...
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Facebook investors in vulnerable position as share values pass 40% loss
Examiner.com
An article at The New York Times on Sunday, August 12, 2012, points out that the Facebook stock closed at just under $21.81 on Friday, down from it's original $38 on May 18. In less than three months shares have lost more than 40 percent of their value ...
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Examiner.com
Olympic athletes score big on Facebook
CNET
With the summer games coming to a finale yesterday, their influence on Facebook was examined in a report released today by Wildfire, Google's new social media marketing business. Gold medal Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas now boasts more than ...
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Republican VP Nominee Paul Ryan No Stranger To Facebook
AllFacebook
The photo below was posted on Romney's Facebook page immediately after the rally in Virginia where the announcement was made Saturday morning. Shortly thereafter, the Paul Ryan VP Facebook page made its debut, and it had more than 409000 likes at ...
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AllFacebook
You Should Ignore This Facebook Advice
DailyFinance
Last week, Facebook director Reed Hastings funneled some of the wealth he's created as CEO of Netflix (NAS: NFLX) into buying Facebook shares. According to SEC filings, Hastings acquired nearly 48000 shares last week at a weighted average price of ...
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Facebook Is Compelling Me
Seeking Alpha
As compelling as Facebook (FB) may be, it certainly hasn't sucked me in as far as believing that I have more friends than I really do. In fact, other than you reading this, I have no friends. However, Facebook has been a good way to keep track of my ...
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A Steep Climb Back for Facebook's Stock
New York Times
In May, when investors tripped over themselves to buy a piece of Facebook, not even the skeptics predicted what has happened. Three months after the offering, shares have lost more than 40 percent of their value, closing at just under $21.81 on Friday ...
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Alt Text: Gambling on Facebook? You Bet
Wired News
Facebook's bigwigs have promised gambling won't be available to anyone under 18, and we can trust them because of their exemplary work in making sure nobody under 13 is on Facebook in the first place. News outlets worldwide, however, are pulling out ...
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Wired News
Your Doctor as a Facebook 'Friend'?
HispanicBusiness.com
And where they are these days may be on their phone or computer, tweeting, texting, posting on Facebook. But Twitter, blogs and text messaging aren't in the comfort zone of most physicians -- even if some of their patients crave that less formal and ...
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HispanicBusiness.com
Is Kortne Stouffer Using Facebook While Missing?
Examiner.com
Is Kortne Stouffer still missing or does someone have control of her Facebook account? It seems that as recently as August 9th the missing woman's Facebook account is showing new activity of friends being added and music being played via Playlist.Com.
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Confessiondolls Reveal the Dark Side of Facebook
Sacramento Bee
They can use their virtual Confessiondoll as a personal electronic diary or share their stories with other people, thus creating a new kind of Facebook for secret confessions. People who read their stories can 'like', share, twitter or link them to ...
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You Don't Need A Facebook Account To Be Considered 'Normal' (But It Helps)
Forbes
Last week, I touched a nerve — or the Internet's third rail — when I wrote about the suggestion that people without Facebook accounts are "suspicious." As more and more people have succumbed to Facebook's Siren call, not being on it — or one of the ...
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Forbes
ACCC 24-Hour Facebook Warning
SmartHouse
Last week, the Ad Standard Bureau ruled brands with Facebook pages must censor public and company generated comments and ensure social network pages do not contain misleading information. Company social network pages are now deemed part of a ...
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Google, Facebook, Apple, ARM: Tech Premarket
TheStreet.com
The search giant, which bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion last year, revealed the 20% work force reduction in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Google also indicated that the Motorola Mobility cuts are an attempt to return ...
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Usain Bolt tops Facebook Olympic charts
Telegraph.co.uk
Douglas was the most talked about female athlete on Facebook, followed by Team GB's gold medal winner Jessica Ennis and then US tennis ace, Serena Williams, who took the gold in the Olympic tennis competition. Phelps grew his Facebook fan base the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Milyoni Gives Ovation Facebook Fans 'A Chance To Dance'
AllFacebook
Facebook users who like the Ovation page will be able to watch all seven episodes via the social network, at the same time they air on the cable channel, and access exclusive interviews and content as they chat with friends. Milyoni is making "A Chance ...
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Man Plagued by Amnesia Puts Together Forgotten Past Using...Facebook
TheBlaze.com
Among the negative publicity Facebook has been receiving of late — settling its privacy violations with the Federal Trade Commission, plummeting stock, and continued griping from users as they're forced into its Timeline format — there is a story ...
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TheBlaze.com
"Unfriending" on Facebook
Naples Daily News (blog)
Almost all of the people on my Facebook page are people I've known, friends of friends, acquaintances, or fans of my blog and music. Occasionally a "stranger" will invite me as a "friend." If they seem to be someone I'd like to know, I include them. I ...
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Crime Poll: 'Liking' on Facebook and the First Amendment
About - News & Issues
Daniel Ray Carter Jr. was a sheriff's deputy for the state of Virginia until he logged into his Facebook account and "Liked" the person who was running against his boss during a 2009 election. Sheriff B.J. Roberts of Hampton, Virginia ended up winning ...
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Facebook photos from the poolside and picture messages mean we no longer ...
Daily Mail
Nothing worse than logging onto Facebook on your lunch hour on a rainy Monday lunchtime, after a terrible morning at work with post weekend blues, and seeing photos and updates from your friends such as "lazing by the pool in the blazing sunshine with ...
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Daily Mail
'Facebook rapist' pleads guilty to murder
Independent Online (blog)
Cape Town -"Facebook rapist" Thabo Bester on Monday pleaded guilty to robbing and murdering model Nomfundo Tyhulu. The Western Cape High Court heard that Bester got into an argument with Tyhulu, 26, while they stayed in Cape Town at a bed and ...
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Independent Online (blog)
Facebook: How we cope with remembering all the significant events in our lives
Daily Mail
Social media helps, with Facebook users getting reminders of friends' birthdays or reading posts from old schoolmates and friends jogging the memory of times gone by. Dates of pictures uploaded to networking sites such as Facebook help too. Just over ...
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Daily Mail
Take that, Facebook: New social utility App.net blasts through $500K funding goal
VentureBeat
The new social utility that serial entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell started in response to being, in his words, screwed by Facebook, is live. App.net, which Caldwell ran a Kickstarter-ish campaign to fund, blew through its $500000 goal and currently sits ...
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VentureBeat
Facebook page calls for American-only hours at US Costco
CBC.ca
Many Canadians are taking advantage of the high Canadian dollar by shopping across the border — with cheap milk and gas being two of the big draws — but some Americans are fed up with the cross-border crowd. Some Bellingham, Wa., residents started ...
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CBC.ca
The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
Daily Mail
'Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it,' said Nashville-based advertising agency Redpepper. They are already trialling the scheme in ...
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Daily Mail

Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Six Reasons Why Facebook Should Buy a Mobile Messaging Service
By Jon Russell
Facebook dominates the desktop but not mobile, that could change if it invested in a mobile messaging company.
The Next Web
NBC Olympic Coverage Mistakes Jesse Eisenberg For Facebook's ...
By NIKKI FINKE
Another NBC Olympic gaffe. Cameras for the Numbskull Broadcasting Company spotted actor Jesse Eisenberg sitting in the audience during the USA vs Spain gol.
Deadline.com
Google piracy penalty unlikely to affect YouTube, Facebook, Twitter ...
By Dante D'Orazio
It turns out that Google will weigh more than just the number of valid copyright removal notices it receives to downrank sites in search results as part of its updated algorithm penalizing pirate...
The Verge - All Posts
Bronx Assemblywoman's Facebook Page Inspires a Spirited Round ...
By Doug Barry
The Post today published a gleeful takedown of Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi D. Rivera's private Facebook page, which, featured (until Rivera recently took the page down) a picture of the assemblywoman with her bra exposed.
Jezebel
Facebook Moving To The JVM | Nerds Central
By Alexander Turner
Now they are looking into compiling PHP to run on the multi-language VM. The presence of Facebook engineers at the JVM Language Summit in San-Francisco along with their interest in implementing PHP using invoke-dynamic on the JVM ...
Nerds Central
Facebook accused of deceiving developers over security | The Raw ...
By Josh Halliday, The Guardian
Facebook has been accused of deceiving developers after it emerged that the social networking site did nothing to verify the security of applications it was paid tens of thousands of dollars to review, and which it assured users had been ...
The Raw Story
Facebook Verified Apps Weren't So Verified - AllFacebook
By David Cohen
When the Federal Trade Commission announced Friday that its privacy settlement with Facebook was finalized, one of the conditions mentioned in last November's agreement was the social network's December 2009 shuttering of its verified ...
AllFacebook
Capitol Confidential » A.M. Roundup: Naomi Rivera's Facebook beau
By Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol bureau
Good morning! I hope you enjoyed the weekend. We'll have one seasonably sunny day until rain arrives (again) tomorrow in Albany. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in New York City with no announced public schedule. Wendy Long is in the Capital ...
Capitol Confidential
Facebook Didn't Actually Verify Verified Apps, Says FTC ...
By Rollin Bishop
Facebook hasn't exactly been doing so hot lately, what with their 83 million fake users and everything. A recent investigation by the United States Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, includes interesting allegations on some of the company's ...
Geekosystem
Facebook Plunge Limits Goldman Sachs Gain As Lockup Ends ...
By Brian Womack
The dilemma for Goldman and Microsoft: Sell now and lock in a small profit, or wait and hope for the stock to rise.
Business Insider
Facebook Share Lockup Ends - 24/7 Wall St.
By 247wallst
The "lockup" of shares held by investors who took part in rounds of Facebook Inc.'s (NASDAQ: FB) funding that happened before the firm's initial public offering will end on August 16. Many current investors are worried that, with as many as 1.6 ...
24/7 Wall St.
Morning Links: Facebook Resident Artist Edition | GalleristNY
By Rozalia Jovanovic
Bryant Park starts an artist's residence program. The management company may keep your paintings, though. [NYT]. Facebook's first resident artist has a show in San Francisco's Project One Gallery. [ArtDaily]. Cleveland Museum of Art draws ...
GalleristNY
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist finally on Facebook
By Patrick
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist finally on Facebook. After years of holding back because I felt it wouldn't make much of a difference in terms of traffic, I finally caved in and created a Facebook page for the Hotlist. This will supposedly put even more asses ...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist

Web3 new results for Facebook
 
FTC Approves Final Settlement With Facebook
Following a public comment period, the FTC has accepted as final a settlement with Facebook resolving charges that Facebook deceived consumers by telling ...
www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/facebook.shtm
Facebook agrees to tighten its privacy policies | Technology ...
Social network settles dispute with FTC over 'deceptive act' of making confidential information public without consent. By Josh Halliday.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../facebook-to-tighten-privacy-policies
Facebook Photo Book. Turn Facebook photos into a book | Blurb
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