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News30 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook is worth $5 a share
Christian Science Monitor
Everybody knows the price of Facebook stock has fallen to just above $19, nearly half its value back in May, when it first sold shares to the public. But that plunge is nothing compared with the deluge that's coming. Skip to next paragraph ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Nasdaq slammed over Facebook IPO settlement
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) Nasdaq continues to have problems as the result of the chaotic Facebook (FB) IPO. Citigroup and UBS are asking the SEC to reject an offer by the exchange to cover losses incurred by brokers, saying the $62 million proposal would only cover ...
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CBS News
Is Zuckerberg to blame for Facebook's slumping stock?
CNN
Facebook has had a rough first three months as a public company. The social network's stock has performed poorly since going public in May, and on Monday morning it dropped to an all-time low of $18.75 -- less than half of the company's initial share ...
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Facebook, Gehry Build Idea Factory for RipStik Geeks
Bloomberg
A RipStik might become an essential means of transport at Facebook West, the social-networking company's headquarters expansion designed by Frank Gehry. The two-wheeled cross between skateboard and snowboard could be the perfect means to get ...
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Facebook's wounds are self-inflicted
CNN
Facebook's wounds are self-inflicted. The company did a poor job of managing its investor growth and was forced to go public because of Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing companies with assets of more than $1 billion and more than 500 ...
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Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With 'Project Prism'
Wired
That's because many of the web's largest operations — including Facebook — spent the last few years building massive software platforms capable of juggling online information across tens of thousands of servers. And they've shared much of this "Big ...
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Judge Orders Release of Marine Vet Held Over Facebook Postings
The New American
A circuit court judge in Virginia ordered the release August 23 of Brandon J. Raub, a Chesterfield man held involuntarily as a psychiatric patient at the Salem Veterans Affairs hospital in Virginia over anti-government postings on his Facebook page ...
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Hits and misses in Facebook's 8-year history
Washington Post
This week, Facebook launched a new app for iPhones and iPads, while the federal government clears the company's deal to buy Instagram. Here are some key developments in the eight years since Facebook Inc.'s creation: February 2004: Mark Zuckerberg ...
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Was Facebook a set-up for Morgan Stanley?
MarketWatch
It's a fair question not only because of the massive losses many investors have suffered since Facebook's FB IPO — it's tumbled nearly 50% — but because of a recent trend on Wall Street where customer cash is used to support company interests. What ...
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MarketWatch
When Facebook Says They Are Now Mobile First, Do They Mean Advertising First?
Forbes
As the graphic below from Facebook's own data shows, mobile growth (and particularly mobile only growth) are now outstripping desktop growth. The Times article explains the company's efforts to train its engineers in native app development for Apple's ...
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Forbes
Facebook's Search Ads: Why Do You Hate Us?
ClickZ
A long, long time ago, we used to talk about "walled gardens." America Online (in the 1990's, the company was more frequently referred to by its full name, rather than its initials, AOL) was always seen as the ultimate walled garden. Due to a few lags ...
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How to save a photo in latest Facebook for iOS
CNET (blog)
Yesterday, Facebook released a new version of its iOS app. Facebook 5.0 was completely rebuilt, showing some major speed improvements. There weren't any major new features included in this release, but the workflow for some tasks did change. One of ...
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Facebook Denies 'Screwing Wall Street'
Forbes
Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg was reported to have to said that the reason Facebook's IPO performed so poorly was that the company wanted to "screw Wall Street traders," according to a tweet from Fox Business Channel reporter Charlie ...
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Are Facebook's costs driving away developers?
Gamasutra
Former EA Mobile head and venture investor Mitch Lasky argues that the high costs of player acquisition on Facebook are driving away some of the biggest publishers and developers from the platform. Lasky believes Facebook is still a viable platform for ...
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Gamasutra
Facebook: Your Cat Is a Public Figure, Not a Person
Escapist Magazine
Perhaps that's the reason why millions of cat owners have decided to feature their beloved felines on Facebook with profiles of their own, often complete with way too many pictures, aribitrary political rambling, and non-stop torrential updates of what ...
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Facebook, Gehry Build Idea Factory for RipStik Geeks
Businessweek
Gehry's project will rise, beginning spring 2013, across a busy highway from Facebook East, the company's current home at the edge of San Francisco Bay in Menlo Park, California. The company won't disclose the project cost but says it's consistent with ...
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Facebook May Be Stuck in Its Teens
Schaeffers Research
Short-term options traders are targeting Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB - 19.51), and they may be among the many who hold a losing position in the stock. Today's most-active FB option is the August 31 20-strike call, with more than 10,000 contracts trading on ...
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New Facebook app for iPhone should improve speed, user interaction
Florida Times-Union
MENLO PARK, CALIF. | What's the biggest complaint about Facebook's iPhone app? Users say it's slow. Facebook Inc. says it's addressing those gripes, with the launch of a new, faster version of the app for Apple's iPhone and iPad on Thursday. Rather ...
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Facebook Messages Dresses Up as Email
TechNewsWorld
Facebook has redesigned its Messages platform, giving the service a new paneled look that resembles that of a typical email client. The changes will roll out to users over time. Giving Messages a more email-like feel may motivate some members to use ...
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The Top 9 Reasons You're A Terrible Facebook Friend [STUDY]
WebProNews
Let's face it: Facebook is, by default, annoying. It's basically a platform that gives people you don't really care about the unfettered ability to share whatever word diarrhea they want, at any time of the day. And you have to scroll through your news ...
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Facebook unveils faster apps for iPhone and iPad
Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has rolled out new iPhone and iPad apps rebuilt from the bottom up in a drive to boost speeds and give better performance. The long-awaited move was part of the social networking giant's effort to appeal to the growing ...
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Los Angeles Times
Facebook Looks For More Revenue From Search
brandchannel.com
When Facebook went public back in May, shares went out the door for $38 a pop. The price has never closed higher than that, and in fact has plummeted. On Monday, it hit a low of $18.75, less than half the original stock price. Not helping the site's ...
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Juror Seeks to Shield Facebook Trial Postings
Courthouse News Service
The juror, identified only as "Juror Number One," asked for an injunction in Federal Court that would bar the Sacramento County Superior Court from enforcing its February 2011 order requiring him to let Facebook reveal his trial postings. While serving ...
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Facebook Censors Internet to Prevent Violence
Infopackets
Freedom of speech online is once again the topic of heated debate, this time in India. That country's government has now urged major sites like Facebook to remove threatening material that may have provoked a mass exodus from some regions. The issue ...
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George Zimmerman's Facebook page closed by attorney Mark O'Mara
ABC Action News
The attorney for the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin says he is shutting down a Facebook page the defense team was using because it was leading to unhelpful discussions. Attorney Mark O'Mara announced the decision Wednesday on a separate ...
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ABC Action News
Fake Facebook voucher offer scam
BBC News
If you see a post on a friend's Facebook page offering you a £175 Tesco voucher, and think it's too good to be true - it is. You are invited to share the offer on your Facebook page, and post the comment 'Thanks Tesco'. The page that pops up when you ...
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BBC News
Facebook posts by 2nd boy earn suspension from Center Grove school officials
Indianapolis Star
Center Grove officials are planning to expel a 12-year-old boy who police say posted Facebook messages offering to help an older student carry out threats at the high school, Superintendent Richard Arkanoff said Friday. "This is the kind of thing where ...
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2013 BMW X1 Takes Facebook Fans on a »
Inside Line
The 2013 BMW X1 is on a road trip with a social media bent from Seattle to New York City in a Facebook campaign that raises funds for national parks, beaches and forests. "X1 Restore the Outdoors" will take a photo at various stops at outdoor places ...
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The Call Blog: Cops Disciplined For Insensitive Facebook Remarks
NY1 (blog)
The department disciplined 17 officers for insensitive comments made on Facebook about revelers at last year's West Indian American Day Parade. The Facebook page elicited comments from more than 150 people, and referred to "savages" and "animals," ...
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Pagelever Releases Minilytics, A Free Tool That Shows Fans Reached On ...
TechCrunch
Pagelever, a popular Facebook analytics company, released a new, free tool called Minilytics today. The company claims it is the first tool that lets users measure how many fans see their posts on Facebook pages. Previously, page owners could not ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Daily Report: Facebook Tries to Go 'Mobile-First' - NYTimes.com
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Facebook's executives say the company is diving deep into mobile and trying to transform itself into a "mobile first" company. Developing mobile products has become a priority, they said, and every team inside the company has been ...
NYT Bits
What To Do If Your Facebook Account Gets Hacked [VIDEO]
By Kate Freeman
Your friends, your messages, your personal photos and events -- so much of our lives is stored on Facebook.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook Launches Sponsored Results Search Ads API - Search ...
By Miranda Miller
Facebook delves deeper into search ads with the wider rollout of their Sponsored ads in search. The ads will appear at the top of the organic results, are clearly marked ads, and cannot drive traffic outside of the Facebook site.
Search Engine Watch - Latest
Facebook Didn't Snub Google With iOS Update
By Dave Copeland
While the iOS update Facebook released Thursday was far superior than the Android update, it's too soon to say Facebook has chosen sides in the Google vs. Apple mobile device war.
ReadWriteWeb
Facebook 5.0 for iOS hands-on | Ubergizmo
By Ubergizmo Team
Facebook is one of the most downloaded apps in the world, but yet, it got fairly average app-store reviews for something that is so universally used. There are basically two main points of friction for mobile Facebook users: speed and [...]
Ubergizmo
Facebook Android app criticism: Mandated employee use until fixed
By Brad Reed
Give Facebook (FB) some credit: The company can seemingly admit when it has screwed up. And now that it has made some much-needed improvements to the.
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Dead or Alive 5 to feature Facebook integration, online training ...
By Jordan Mallory
The feature's implementation hasn't been explicitly demonstrated as of yet, but it will somehow allow players to "rock bragging rights by posting titles and sharing fighting records with friends on Facebook," according to a press release from ...
Joystiq
Facebook Releases iOS App Update, Speeds And Overall ...
By James Johnson
Before the update an HTML5 heavy application caused Facebook users to wade through an ultra-slow mobile version of the social networks system. Even simply opening the Facebook app took longer than other programs installed on a users ...
The Blog Herald
Facebook's Stock Price vs Social Sentiment: Linked? - The Next Web
By Martin Bryant
As we've reported in the past, there's academic evidence that social media sentiment can be used to predict future movements in the stock market. One UK company even launched a (short-lived) hedge fund based on the principle.
The Next Web
Attorney of Former Marine Detained for Facebook Posts - The Blaze
By Jason Howerton
Earlier today, 26-year-old former U.S. Marine Brandon Raub was released from a psychiatric facility via a judge's order, who ruled that the government had no legal grounds to hold him. Tonight on Glenn Beck's show on GBTV, ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly forcing Facebook's Android team to use ...
By Quentyn Kennemer
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly forcing Facebook's Android team to use app and see how bad it is. posted on Aug 23rd 2012 at 3:35pm by Quentyn Kennemer. Share This Story. It's no secret that the Facebook app for Android hasn't been the most ...
Android Phone Fans
The pros and cons of Facebook's new iPhone app | VentureBeat
By Jolie O'Dell, Meghan Kelly, & Christina Farr
Facebook's new iOS app is better, faster, and rebuilt from the ground up for your poking pleasure! Gee, whiz! But that's only one side of the story.
VentureBeat
Facebook Introduces Sponsored Results | Social Media Today
By Mark_BigDot
Following in the footsteps of Google, Facebook have now officially launched their own version of sponsored results. Tests of the ad program all went according to plan last month, and this represents the latest move from Facebook towards ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook iOS App | Reddit Bus Tour ...
By Tim Sohn
Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook iOS App | Reddit Bus Tour | Twitter Developers.
SocialTimes

Web1 new result for Facebook
 
Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS | Facebook
Facebook Engineering wrote a note titled Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS. Read the full text here.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/.../10151036091753920


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