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Facebook Investors Brace for More Shares Coming to Market
Businessweek
While Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg operates the world's largest social-networking service, he's facing investor concerns about how it can generate more revenue from its growing user base. That, plus the end of the first lock-up ...
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Facebook stock slides to all-time low
Fox News
Facebook stock slid to an all-time low of $18.75 Monday morning -- less than half the initial public offering price, following a disastrous performance last week -- and Mark Zuckerberg saw his own personal fortune halved from nearly $20 billion to ...
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Judges Dislikes Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' Settlement
Forbes
A San Francisco federal judge doesn't 'Like' the terms lawyers have agreed to in a class action lawsuit over Facebook's "Sponsored Stories" tool, which puts users' names and photos into ads on the site based on things they have 'Liked' (including vats ...
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Capstone Upgrades Facebook On More Favorable Risk/Reward, Sets $26 PT
Barron's (blog)
By Teresa Rivas. Facebook (FB) may be clawing its way back from a fresh 52-week low this morning, but Capstone analyst Rory Maher sees smoother sailing ahead. In a note out today, Maher upgraded the stock to Buy from Hold, establishing a $26 price ...
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Facebook shares edge up after hitting new low
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Facebook (FB.O) edged up 2.3 percent to $19.48 on Monday after hitting a new low of $18.75, more than 50 percent below the price they were issued at three months ago. The stock briefly traded at $19 late on Friday, ...
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Facebook hits record low for third straight session, falls to less than half ...
San Jose Mercury News
Facebook shares reached a record low for the third consecutive trading session Monday, when the Menlo Park social network's stock fell lower than half the price commanded in the company's record-breaking initial public offering. The world's most ...
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Feds try Facebook approach to financial rules
MarketWatch
Their experimental solution, this time around, is Regulation Room, an Internet chat room run by Cornell University where the public can air opinions—sometimes with hurried grammar and all-caps script of the Facebook generation—as well as ask ...
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Facebook IPO: The biggest Ponzi scheme in history?
Christian Science Monitor (blog)
I bring this up because I keep hearing a persistent undercurrent of furor about how "Facebook's IPO was the largest ponzi scheme of all time." Upon researching all available definitions of the term, I believe that it was not. But it took me awhile to ...
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Christian Science Monitor (blog)
Facebook Stock Slides, Zuck Grills Steaks
WebProNews
It must be a rather tense time for Zuckerberg and crew, as Facebook stock continues to plunge. Last week, the "lockup" period ended, allowing shareholders to sell their frozen shares – and the price tanked to its then-lowest point, $19.76. Today ...
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How Rep Akin Should Have Apologized On Facebook For Rape Comments
TechCrunch
Republican Representative Todd Akin failed to quell an onslaught of social media criticism after issuing a vague statement on Facebook related to his assertion that "legitimate rape" rarely causes pregnancy, because "the female body has ways to try to ...
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TechCrunch
Quickly upload photos to Facebook by pasting the image URL
CNET (blog)
Reddit user Markesh revealed recently that pcitures you find on the Web can quickly be uploaded to Facebook by copying and pasting the image URL in the Upload Photo dialog box. (Credit: Sharon Vaknin/CNET). Here's the step-by-step: In your browser ...
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Leaked presentation points to 'TheFacebook' ad sales pitch in 2004
CNET
The presentation was reportedly given by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin just months after the social network had launched. Don Reisinger. by Don Reisinger. August 20, 2012 10:38 AM PDT. Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. (Credit: Facebook) ...
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END OF AN ERA: Once-Dominant VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Gets Blown Up In ...
Business Insider
The firm missed its chance to invest early in many companies that went on to drive the next wave of Internet development, including Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, LinkedIn, and Groupon. It was also eclipsed by a new breed of more aggressive, creative, and ...
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Business Insider
Microsoft offloads 20 percent of its Facebook shares: report
ZDNet
A report suggests Microsoft has offloaded around 20 percent of its shares in Facebook shortly after it went public. In doing so, the software giant received $249 million back -- close to $10 million more than it first invested. The Redmond, WA.-based ...
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"Is Facebook's Zuckerberg In Over His Hoodie?" (And Other Quotes Of The Week)
Forbes
The market put in some of the most somnolent trading of the year this week and tightest ranges, but the path of least resistance remained to the upside. The cliché, "Never short a dull market" comes to mind. It was "All Quiet on the European Front", as ...
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How Instagram Could Have Cut a Better Deal
New York Times
The problem is that Facebook did not agree to pay $1 billion in cash. The deal terms said Instagram would receive $300 million in cash and about 23 million shares of Facebook stock once the deal closed. Facebook stock at the time of the deal was valued ...
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New York Times
Facebook Now Second for Videos, Still has Serious Problems
Business 2 Community
Once again, the week's news begins with Facebook. Expect it to be continually making news throughout the week as well. However, the social networking site of 900-plus million users actually has some good news today. Of course, there's a lot more bad ...
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Business 2 Community
Wal-Mart gives its Facebook fans early access to layaway
InternetRetailer.com
The holiday season continues to get started earlier and earlier. The latest example is Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which is giving shoppers who Like its stores' local Facebook pages early access to holiday-only layaway program. Shoppers who Like their local ...
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Starbucks Facebook Game Decides Who Gets Pumpkin Spice Latte First
Mashable
Starting Monday, the cities that really want the drink can compete at the brand's Facebook Page; the U.S. and Canadian city that get the most points will get the drink first. How do you get points? Starbucks is judging by three criteria: sharing on ...
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A Facebook initiative everyone can 'like'
Green Bay Press Gazette
This June 20, 2012 photo shows a Facebook login page on a computer screen in Oakland, N.J. Facebook is expected to report their quarterly financial results after the market closes on Thursday, July 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Stace Maude) / Stace Maude/AP ...
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Facebook gets comeuppance
The Australian Financial Review (blog)
Thanks to a 4.13 per cent drop on Friday, Facebook shares are just 5¢ away from precisely halving from their $US38 float price (I'll save you the trouble, they closed at $US19.05). I'm so confused about the changes occurring to my Facebook account at ...
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Veteran in Facebook flap has hearing today, mother says
Inside NoVA
A Chesterfield County Marine Corps veteran remained at John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell on Sunday after being picked up last week by federal and local law enforcement officials for ominous Facebook posts. Brandon J. Raub, 26, was taken to ...
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Kimco holds back to school Facebook contest to win $1000
Newsday (blog)
As part of an effort to boost its social media footprint, real estate trust Kimco Realty Corp. is launching a back-to-school contest on Facebook for its Airport Plaza shopping center in Farmingdale. The Melville-based investment fund, which owns nearly ...
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Sirius, Facebook, Groupon, Cisco: Tech Premarket
TheStreet.com
Facebook(FB), which saw its shares plunge on the expiration of a lock-up period last week, crept up 0.21% to $19.09 on share volume of 347726. Shares of Groupon(GRPN), which tumbled 36% last week following the daily deal site's second-quarter results, ...
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Facebook faces backlash over images of naked children
The Age
Kate Drury a member of informal watchdog group the Watchers, has accused Facebook of allowing the creation and dissemination of child pornography to go unchecked via pages using the ''naked selfies'' theme. As of yesterday, The Age found more than 30 ...
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The Age

Blogs10 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Trumps Yahoo as Second Most-Popular Video Site
By Alex Fitzpatrick
Facebook has overtaken Yahoo as the Internet's most popular site for videos, according to a new report.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook's Stock Dive Isn't Over
By Antone Gonsalves
Facebook's stock hit a new low last week -- and it could be poised to plunge even further. The spiral that started last Thursday ended the next day at $19.05 a share, just shy of half of Facebook's initial public offering price in May.
ReadWriteWeb
Scam Alert: Watch Out For Those WhatsApp Facebook Requests
By Robin Wauters
Should I mention that the person who sent me the initial Facebook request in the first place is someone who works at antivirus and Internet security software juggernaut Kaspersky Lab? I should, because it's only a little embarrassing and I ...
The Next Web Top Stories
Diablo III Interview Leads to Unexpected Facebook Bitching
By Luke Plunkett
What should have been a harmless little interview with a video games website has turned into something of an internet Diablo soap opera after David Brevik, the co-founder of Blizzard North and one of the key men involved with the creation of ...
Kotaku
Schools Matter: No More Facebook
By Jim Horn
I am just back from holiday, and one of the first things I noticed is the intrusive, controlling Facebook team has crossed the line with their new tracking and Timeline imposition. This comes atop their financing of segregated neo-eugenics camps ...
Schools Matter
Inside look at CNN and Facebook's first election analysis
By Natan Edelsburg
In July CNN and Facebook announced a major partnership around the election. "America's Choice 2012″ is an analysis of Facebook's more than 160 million users in the U.S. and CNN's multi-platform audience. Their first big report is out and ...
Lost Remote
Social Media Newsfeed: No Facebook Deal | AT&T and FaceTime ...
By Tim Sohn
Social Media Newsfeed: No Facebook Deal | AT&T and FaceTime | Zynga Stock.
SocialTimes
Facebook Has Been More Than Halved - Business Insider
By Joe Weisenthal
Facebook is one of the largest websites in the world, with more than 500 million monthly users. The site was started in 2004 by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg when he was an undergraduate student at Harvard. Facebook became a.
Business Insider
Judge rejects Facebook's "Sponsored Stories" settlement - Neowin
By John Callaham
The judge presiding over the "Sponsored Stories" lawsuit against Facebook has now rejected the company's proposed settlement of $10 million to charity and $10 million in legal fees.
Neowin
Facebook Needs PR Advice Now More Than Ever - PRNewser
By James F. Thompson
Maybe you've heard: The once-heralded Facebook IPO is in trouble and losing value by the minute. PR experts live for big, challenging cases like this one–after suffering through an economic collapse caused by over-inflated home values ...
PRNewser


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