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Facebook Director Thiel Sold 20.1 Million Shares After Lock-Up
Bloomberg
Thiel, one of Facebook's earliest investors, sold about 20.1 million shares (FB) in the company on Aug. 16 and Aug. 17, raising $395.8 million, according to a filing yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Thiel, a venture ...
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Bloomberg
Going public: Key developments in Facebook's IPO
Businessweek
April 23: Still privately held, Facebook says first-quarter net income fell 12 percent to $205 million, weighed down by higher expenses even as its revenue rose 45 percent to $1.06 billion. Facebook also says it plans list its stock on the Nasdaq Stock ...
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Facebook: A Desperate Need to Be 'Liked'
Huffington Post
It's easy to imagine that these days Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is sitting at his laptop repeatedly hitting "refresh," like his character in The Social Network trying to connect with an old girlfriend. The real Zuckerberg must be hoping that the next ...
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Facebook's Ambition Collides With Harsh Market
New York Times
Once hailed as the most valuable technology company to hit Wall Street, Facebook is now worth just over half what it was three months ago, with shares closing at $20.01 Monday. Wall Street analysts are openly wondering whether its chief executive, Mark ...
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Why Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon All Should Have IPO'ed Two Years Ago
Forbes
Screen grab of the search engine Google displaying diferent images related to Facebook, taken in Buenos Aires on May 10, 2012. Social-networking giant Facebook will go public on the NASDAQ May 18 with its initial public offering, trading under the ...
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Prosecutors investigate alleged anti-Semitic cartoon on Austrian politician's ...
Washington Post
VIENNA — Austrian authorities are investigating a cartoon on a rightist political leader's Facebook page that critics say smacked of anti-Semitism by showing a repulsive fat banker with a large hooked nose and what appeared to be Star of David ...
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Brandon J. Raub, Former Marine, Detained After Anti-Government Facebook ...
Huffington Post
A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights. Brandon J ...
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Is Facebook Making You Switch to Timeline? The GeekMoms Are Here to Help!
Wired News
While most Facebook users have been accustomed to the Timeline feature for nearly a year, any users who didn't go out to seek the new feature, or consistently chose "No, thank you" when given the option are not being given a choice for much longer.
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Facebook Exposes Itself in Oregon
Businessweek
One of the least-likeable things about Google (GOOG) is its fascination with secrecy. The company watches over our searches, e-mails, photos, documents, movies, and friends—mining our digital lives for any morsel it can feed to advertisers. Yet Google ...
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Facebook Paid $91000 Last Year For Mark Zuckerberg's "Estate And Financial ...
Business Insider
Most companies of Facebook's size rent (or buy) private jets to fly their senior executives around. It's more efficient and convenient, for one thing. And it's basically like renting a flying conference room--when you stick a few execs together in a ...
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Business Insider
Send a Facebook Friend a Real Burger or Cocktail With Treater
ABC News (blog)
The site allows you to log in with your Facebook account, bringing in your Facebook contacts. It then suggests friends to whom you might want to send gifts, based on whether their Facebook timelines show it's their birthday, they've just gotten engaged ...
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ABC News (blog)
Account of 'a Lynch' in Jerusalem on Facebook
New York Times (blog)
A witness to the attack, who described it in an emotional account on her Facebook page, referred to it as "a lynch," using the English loan word that is common in Hebrew. Mairav Zonszein, an Israeli-American writer and translator, included a ...
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New York Times (blog)
GOP wants Facebook picture removed
Sacramento Bee
The chairman of the Spokane County Republican Party is trying to persuade Shea to remove the photo from his Facebook page. Amy Biviano, the Democrat challenging Shea, has accused Shea of trying to intimidate her by posting the photo of her home and ...
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Facebook's Cofounder And First Investor Are Trying To Replicate The Human ...
Business Insider
Startup Vicarious is trying to build a computer with the human ability to see and perceive. It's a really hard artificial-intelligence problem that once solved, has immense potential to change the world. And this particular startup just got an immense ...
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Business Insider
US stock futures signal gains; Facebook eyed
Reuters
PARIS Aug 21 (Reuters) - * U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.2 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.2 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.32 percent at 0911 GMT. * European stocks ...
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Judge rejects Facebook's $20 million settlement in ad lawsuit
CNN
Five Facebook users filed the lawsuit in April 2011, three months after Facebook introduced controversial ads that include users' names and faces. An earlier ruling in the case ordered Facebook to allow users to opt out of having their information used ...
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Facebook bounces as Apple sets record
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Apple Inc. climbed to record levels Monday — making Apple the most valuable company ever by market capitalization — while Facebook Inc. slumped to its lowest point before bouncing back after an upgrade.
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MARKET PULSE-Facebook, Daktronics, Urban Outfitters, Nordson
Reuters
FACEBOOK INC, $19.70, down 2.2 pct (1015 ET). The social networking site's director Peter Thiel sold roughly $400 million worth of shares in the company last week, cashing out most of his stake, according to a regulatory filing. ** SuperMedia Inc, $3 ...
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Big B joins Facebook, gets about 8 lakh likes
New York Daily News
This is Amitabh Bachchan and I just want all of you to know that now I am on Facebook and this is a welcome device. The way the digital world is going is just unbelievable. And I thought that I would use facebook to connect with all my well- wishers ...
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Facebook Ad Startup Nanigans Grabs Ex-Yahoo Exec Marc Grabowski As Its ...
TechCrunch
Yahoo has been losing a lot of steam to Facebook in the advertising game, and now it's lost one of its execs to it, too. Nanigans, the Facebook advertising company, is today announcing the appointment of a new COO, Marc Grabowski, a nine-year veteran ...
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Facebook page imitating four-year-old boy lost at sea is removed after mother ...
The Independent
A Facebook page carrying a post apparently pretending to be from a four-year-old boy lost at sea has been removed after his mother said she had been "destroyed" by the comments. Dylan Cecil was on holiday with his family when he walked on to the jetty ...
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The Independent
MARKET PULSE-Facebook, Dell, Cheniere Energy, Groupon
Reuters
FACEBOOK INC, Monday close $20.01, down 1.2 pct premarket. The social networking site's director Peter Thiel sold roughly $400 million worth of shares in the company last week, cashing out most of his stake, according to a regulatory filing. ** DELL ...
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Facebook's high costs are driving game developers away
Los Angeles Times
Tom Byron used to spend a couple of hours each day playing games on Facebook, attending to his virtual diners in "Restaurant City" and waging war against the Raven in "Empires & Allies." "I'd check into these games every chance I got," said the 50-year ...
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Recommended: Stocks hit a new four-year high
NBCNews.com (blog)
Facebook Inc director Peter Thiel sold roughly $400 million worth of shares in the Internet social networking company last week, cashing out most of his stake. The sale comes as Facebook shares lost 50 percent of their value since its IPO earlier this ...
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Facebook Pushing Further Into Search Ads
Adweek
Last month Techcrunch reported that Facebook had begun placing text ads—i.e. sponsored listings— directly within the search results that automatically appear as a user types in a query on Facebook.com. Then last Thursday Facebook began expanding that ...
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Adweek
Facebook insider Peter Thiel sells 20.1 million shares
USA TODAY
By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press. Updated. Comments. NEW YORK – Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's earliest investors and a member of its board, was among the insiders selling stock in the social network after a lockup expired last week. Stace Maude ...
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USA TODAY
Facebook Director Stock Sales Top $1B as Lock-Up Ends
Businessweek
With an investment of $500000 in 2004, Thiel is one of the biggest beneficiaries of Facebook's gain before going public. Later backers haven't fared as well, with the stock losing almost half its value since the IPO amid signs that the company's growth ...
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Apple becomes more valuable then Facebook
NBCNews.com
MSNBC's Thomas Roberts talks with CNET's Dan Ackerman about a tale of two tech stocks: Apple, now the most valuable company & Facebook, which lost half of its value. Share This: facebook · twitter · googleplus. Related videos; Transcript of this video ...
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NBCNews.com
Biz Break: Apple's rapid rise makes history, Facebook's fast fall seemingly ends
San Jose Mercury News
And now it seems to have stabilized," Eric Kuby, the chief investment officer at North Star Investment Management, told Reuters. Facebook stock may have "found a level which seems more of a better price for people valuing the company in terms of the ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Update: Peter Thiel Sold Majority Of His Facebook Shares On ...
By Billy Gallagher
PayPal co-founder and famed investor Peter Thiel has sold the majority of his shares in Facebook, according to an SEC filing. Thiel has sold 20.6 million Class A shares, leaving him with only 5.6 million shares, all of which are Class A. A ...
TechCrunch
Business Day Live: Facebook and Apple - NYTimes.com
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Times's daily business show looks at whether Facebook has lost credibility with Wall Street and the remarkable transformation of Apple. Read more...
NYT Bits
Rosie O'Donnell Divulges Heart Attack on Facebook, Twitter
By Brian Anthony Hernandez
Comedic entertainer Rosie O'Donnell published a poem on her blog Monday, detailing her scare with a heart attack last Tuesday morning.
Mashable » Social Media
Peter Thiel Unloads Roughly 20 Million Facebook Shares - AllThingsD
By John Paczkowski
Facebook's first outside investor cashes out the majority of his stake in the company.
AllThingsD
Microsoft And Facebook Director Peter Thiel Unload Stock ...
By Justin Lafferty
It was rumored that Facebook Director Peter Thiel was going to sell some of his stock in the social network when it was possible. The rumor is now fact. CNBC reported Monday that Thiel offloaded nearly all of his shares — about 22 million of ...
AllFacebook
How Facebook Pitched Itself Before You'd Ever Heard of It
By Sam Biddle
In 2004, Facebook had 70000 users—most of them Ivy League elites. Most people had no idea it existed. But before the site hit the nearly billion yokels it boasts today, one kid traveled NYC to sell the idea. This is what it looked like.
Gizmodo
Browser Extension Turns Off 'Read Receipts' On Facebook Chat
By Robin Wauters
To showcase its technology, which enables developers to create cross-browser extensions in minutes, Crossrider has built a nifty add-on that enables Facebook users to turn off the 'read receipts'. You may remember that Facebook recently ...
The Next Web
Ann Winblad: Too many VCs on Facebook board - The Term Sheet ...
By Dan Primack
Should Zuckerberg make a change? FORTUNE -- Veteran venture capitalist Ann Winblad appeared on CNBC this afternoon, to comment on Peter Thiel's decision to sell approximately 20.1 million shares of Facebook (FB) stock last week.
Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds,...
PayPal Co-Founder Dumps Facebook Stock | TheBlaze.com
By Becket Adams
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) -- Noted libertarian and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's earliest investors and a member of its board, is among a handful of insiders dumping their stock following the social network's disastrous ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Just Revealed What A Huge 'Lord Of ...
By Owen Thomas
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel, the first outside investor in Facebook, is a huge fan of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series of fantasy books. So much so that he held some of the Facebook shares he just sold through Tolkien-named entities, ...
SAI
Facebook shares now at half-price | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
If you bought Facebook shares in the May IPO and held onto them, by Monday morning you would have lost more than half your investment — and not see any encouraging signs of making your money back. Three months after the largest tech ...
The Raw Story
Government Involuntarily Detains Former Marine for Facebook Post ...
By Patterico
A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.
Patterico's Pontifications
State Investigator Criticizes Feds On Facebook Over Richmond ...
By Keith Mizuguchi
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said that despite some criticism, they are cooperating with state officials on investigating the fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond.
CBS San Francisco
Peter Thiel sold majority of his stake in Facebook for nearly $400M ...
By Jennifer Van Grove
Cashing out as quickly as possible, Facebook's first outside investor Peter Thiel sold a majority stake of his holdings for close to $400 million.
VentureBeat

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook workers suffer pain of stock's sharp sell-off - Los Angeles ...
Facebook Inc. is in a world of hurt on Wall Street but its employees are also feeling the sting of the stock's sharp sell-off.For many staffers, the precipitous drop ...
articles.latimes.com/.../la-fi-0818-facebook-employees-20120...
Facebook director Thiel sold 20 million shares after lockup - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! News: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc director Peter Thiel sold roughly $400 million worth of shares in the Internet social networking ...
news.yahoo.com/facebook-director-thiel-sold-20-million-shar...


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