Friday, August 17, 2012

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News29 new results for Facebook
 
When the Network Effect Goes Into Reverse
New York Times
Just a year ago, social media seemed the next big thing. With dizzying user growth at Twitter, Zynga and especially Facebook, investors were euphoric about Internet sites that connected people with shared interests and experiences, seemingly the ...
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DEAR FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES: Here's The Truth About Your Stock Price
Business Insider
Facebook's stock crash is also hurting morale at the company, and damaging perception of the company's business and brand. The impact is big enough that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been crystal clear about his desire to ignore the stock ...
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Business Insider
Facebook Will Ice Backup Data in 'Sub-Zero' Building
Wired News
We now know what Facebook is up to in Sub-Zero — the mini data center it's building right beside its 330000-square-foot Prineville, Oregon, facility: It's reinventing the way it does emergency backup. The plan is to use the building to house a brand ...
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Wired News
Morgan Stanley Distributes Facebook IPO Profits
MarketWatch
Profits made by banks underwriting Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering as the stock fell were distributed this past week from a pool of about $100 million, say people with knowledge of the deal. The banks together made the money through a process ...
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Facebook Now the Worst Performing Stock in Past 3 Months
CNBC.com (blog)
Thursday's six percent sell-off capped a very rough first three months for the social-network giant's stock. Its price has fallen 48 percent since it went public at $38 on May 18. During this period, Facebook has underperformed every single other Dow ...
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Facebook finally gets around to deleting your deleted photos
CNET (blog)
Facebook is finally getting around to deleting those embarrassing photos you thought you had already deleted. For years, the social network had been unable to remove deleted photos from its servers, meaning that even though such a photo wouldn't be ...
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Facebook flashes 'buy' signal
MarketWatch
Right on cue, shares of Facebook Inc. FB fell to new lows as the expiration of lockup agreements made 271 million shares of the social network eligible for sale, adding to the 421 million shares already in circulation. Facebook was down 3% at $19.19 in ...
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Can Facebook Learn From Microsoft, Kodak Mistakes?
Forbes
In Facebook (FB) I am seeing a lot of Microsoft's tendency toward invasiveness and a lot Kodak's oblivion. I'll start with the "Microsoft problem." Facebook has an astronomical number of users, just like Microsoft (MSFT) used to. Not too long ago ...
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Ed Page On Facebook: Was Paul Ryan The Smartest Pick Mitt Romney Could ...
Hartford Courant
Andrew Teixeira: He is absolutely insane. The Ryan budget proposal would ruin the country ... I haven't heard him say he wants to help anyone. Speeches stick to what government "shouldn't" do ... such negativity ... hate this ticket more than anything.
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Germany reopens proceedings against Facebook's facial recognition
Network World
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information reopened proceedings against Facebook's facial recognition technology on Wednesday, the commissioner said. "We stopped the investigation two months ago," said Johannes ...
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Facebook Lockup Ending Triggers Yandex Rally: Russia Overnight
Bloomberg
While Facebook, the biggest social network website, disappointed investors on July 26 by reporting slowing sales growth in the second quarter, Yandex reiterated five days later that it expects sales to increase as much as 45 percent this year. Yandex ...
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Facebook Inc. - Class A, Molycorp Among Stocks falling to Annual Lows Friday
Fox Business
While trading on above-average volume, Facebook Inc. - Class A (FB) slipped today, hitting and then dropping past its previous 52-week low to $19.01. Trading at a volume of 66.8 million, the stock price is down 3.4%. The share price of Molycorp (MCP ...
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The Facebook distribution dilemma
Fortune (blog)
FORTUNE -- Approximately 271 million shares of Facebook (FB) stock were "unlocked" yesterday, under a provision that had prevented certain investors from selling shares until 90 days after the company went public. And, as happens after most lockup ...
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Fortune (blog)
Facebook Fixes Its Ad Problems
Business Insider
Social networking giant Facebook is relying more and more on advertising, which despite the company's Wall Street woes, remains highly profitable and a major part of the platform's appeal. But questions raised over the effectiveness of that advertising ...
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Remember How Facebook Is Monitoring Chats for Criminal Activity? Well, It ...
WebProNews
A Winnipeg man is being charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, and internet luring after Facebook intercepted communications between him and a 13-year-old girl. According to Winnipeg police, the chat messages were sexual in nature, and were ...
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Trading Facebook and Waiting for the Want Button
Forbes
The catalyst for the overwhelming selling pressure that has taken shares of Facebook to new lows is the "Little Boy" of expiring sales restrictions for many of the earliest investors in the company. And with a second, "Fat Man" lockup expiration ...
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Facebook removes some Hezbollah-related content
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Although some Facebook pages in praise of Hezbollah could be accessed on Friday, a page on its radio statio, Al-Manar, displayed only text about the station and no commentary or reports. "To help keep our site safe, we use the State Department List of ...
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Facebook turns its attention to datacenter backup
ZDNet
Thanks to a report from Wired, we now know that the mini-datacenter (code named Sub-Zero) that Facebook is building as an add-on to their existing Oregon datacenter campus, will be dedicated to datacenter backup. According to the report, Facebook will ...
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App.net: A social network made possible by Facebook and Twitter
CNET
Dalton Caldwell tells a standing room-only audience in San Francisco that App.net was created because the "platform risk building on Facebook was not acceptable." (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET). SAN FRANCISCO -- Starting a new social network is a ...
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Deals of the Day: Facebook Investors Cash Out
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook Founder Cites 'Painful' Drop: Facebook shares plumbed a new low as early investors were freed to sell some stakes. CEO Zuckerberg acknowledged that the selloff could hurt them. [WSJ]. Prudential pulls ahead in Southeast Asia "sweet spot": ...
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Should Facebook unfriend Zuckerberg over slumping stock price?
Computerworld
"I think so much of stock price is about confidence and perception, and Facebook has shattered a bit of the faith that investors had," said Andrew Stoltmann, a securities lawyer based in Chicago. "I think there's a lack of confidence in his ability to ...
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Facebook, Meet Live Video
Fast Company
Ustream is launching an app that powers live video in Facebook Timeline. Called BFF, it puts your live broadcast next to photo and video updates in your friends' Newsfeeds and on your profile page (all with an Instagram-like lens, if you're feeling ...
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Fast Company
Here's What A Facebook 'Want' Button Would Really Be Worth To Brands
Business Insider
When blogger Tom Waddington revealed that he'd discovered the code for a potential 'want' button in Facebook's Javascript SDK, word started buzzing on the impact it could have for businesses and advertisers. Along with the "Want" button, he also ...
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Facebook feeds users more advertisements
Seacoastonline.com
SAN FRANCISCO (MCT) — Facebook is testing a new advertising service that lets marketers drop more messages into users' news feeds. The messages can target users on their mobile devices and computers even if they haven't "liked" the advertiser.
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Watch Out! Facebook Gets Pushy With Social Media - FishbowlDC
mediabistro.com
Watch Out! Facebook Gets Pushy With Social Media. By Eddie Scarry on August 17, 2012 9:00 AM. The Politics and Government team at Facebook has big plans for several workshops and meetings to make both Party conventions more social media-friendly.
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mediabistro.com
Facebook Passed Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The US ...
TechCrunch
comScore's monthly online video data is in and it looks Facebook passed Yahoo in July to become the second largest video site in the U.S. behind Google/YouTube. According to comScore, more than 184 million U.S. Internet users watched 36.9 billion ...
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TechCrunch
Cisco gains lift techs, but Facebook slips
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Led by advances from Cisco Systems Inc., the tech sector put in a strong performance Thursday, but Facebook Inc.'s shares tumbled following the expiration of its post-IPO lockup period. Cisco (US:CSCO) shares rose ...
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Webs.com Adds A Facebook Cover Image Designer To Its DIY Page Creation ...
TechCrunch
Webs.com, a DIY website creation service that helps non-technical, non-designers build good-looking websites on the fly, is introducing a new product today to complement its other offerings: a tool for creating professional Facebook Cover photos. Given ...
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TechCrunch
Facebook falls: should you copy Reed Hastings?
MSN Money
Last week, Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings purchased $1 million worth of Facebook (FB) stock. At right around the same time, I invested just over $2000 in FB, upping my share total to a modest 103, a mere fraction of Hastings' 48000-or-so buy. It took ...
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Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Investors Cash Out - Shayndi Raice - News - AllThingsD
By Shayndi Raice
Facebook Inc.'s FB -3.22% stock price plumbed a new low Thursday as early investors were freed to sell some of their stakes, leaving the once-prized stock down nearly 50% from its debut and forcing executives of the young Internet giant to ...
AllThingsD
Facebook starts really, truly deleting removed photos -- Engadget
By Jon Fingas
For those who haven't kept track, Facebook has had a years-long history of only maybe-sort-of-more-or-less purging our photos: they could be removed from.
Engadget
Facebook building deep storage buildings at data centers - GigaOM
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Facebook is building a deep storage facility at its data center in Oregon.
GigaOM
Facebook Shares Hit New Low as a Lockup Ends - NYTimes.com
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Facebook slide on Wall Street continues amid fears that early investors eligible to sell their shares will create a surplus on the market, reports Somini Sengupta in The New York Times. Read more...
NYT Bits
Customize Classic 'Godfather' Clips With Klondike's New Facebook ...
By Todd Wasserman
At first blush, Klondike, the Unilever ice cream brand, and the classic 1972 film The Godfather appear to have little in common. Well, maybe on sec.
Mashable » Business
Nationalize Facebook? Really? - Reason Online
By Ed Krayewski
Of course, Facebook is not a public good, it's a publicly traded company (for less than three months) that may well be a social resource, but it is not a unique or particularly pioneering one. Much of the utility of Facebook comes from the ...
Hit & Run
Zuckerberg Admits Facebook's Plummeting Stock Is 'Painful' To ...
By Seth Fiegerman
Facebook's top execs have been meeting with employees to boost morale over the stock's poor performance.
Business Insider
Facebook Is 'Full Steam Ahead' On A New ~$400 Million Business ...
By Nicholas Carlson
"Our focus is on stories in the newsfeed," says Facebook VP Carolyn Everson.
SAI
Untagged: German official says Facebook tagging system illegal — RT
By RT
German officials say Facebook's facial recognition system violates its privacy laws, as it stores a trove of tagged photos without explicit member consent. The Internet giant faces a fine of $31000, a drop in the bucket of its billions in annual ...
News RSS : Today
Facebook fixes photo deletion issue 3 years after privacy questions ...
By Brittany Darwell
Now Facebook has moved its photo storage to newer systems and instituted a 30-day maximum age for CDN links. A Facebook spokesperson told Ars Technica that some content will expire on the CDN much more quickly, though he couldn't ...
Inside Facebook
Tech Report: Facebook Effectively Removes Deleted Photos From ...
By Keith Mizuguchi
Facebook has fixed a problem in which photos that users thought they had deleted were still accessible.
CBS San Francisco
Facebook Fixes Its Ad Problems
By Small Business Editor
Social networking giant Facebook is relying more and more on advertising, which despite the company's Wall Street woes, remains highly profitable and a major.
Small Business News, Tips, Advice...
Diaspora, the privacy-first Facebook competitor, shifts focus to meme ...
By Adrianne Jeffries
Diaspora, the social network inspired by privacy concerns about Facebook, has some odd news. Its high-minded, idealistic founders have taken a break from preaching against the dangers of giving...
The Verge - All Posts

Web3 new results for Facebook
 
Ten Things I Hate About Working at Facebook « The World As Best ...
These past two years at Facebook have been an absolute nightmare, something that I hope never to repeat in my career. I've held my feelings back long enough ...
worldofsu.com/.../ten-things-i-hate-about-working-at-faceboo...
Victory for Speech: Facebook To Allow Marijuana Reform Ads ...
Responding to Outreach by EFF and the ACLU of Northern California, Facebook Corrects Error and Affirms its Goal of Providing a Politically-Neutral Platform for ...
https://www.eff.org/.../victory-speech-facebook-allow-marijua...
Facebook hits new low as IPO lock-up ends - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Facebook's stock plunged to a new low Thursday as some of the social networking leader's early backers got their first chance to sell their ...
news.yahoo.com/facebook-hits-low-ipo-lock-ends-144142797...


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