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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Southwest's Facebook promotion backfires on 'glitch'
USA TODAY (blog)
Southwest Airlines' effort to thank its growing number of Facebook "friends" backfired over the weekend when customers booking a special Facebook fare were charged multiple times for what should have been half-priced tickets. Southwest offered a 50%-off ...
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USA TODAY (blog)
Facebook Bears Garner 500% Profit From Structured Product Bets
Bloomberg
A put warrant, a security for speculating on the future direction of a company's share price, which predicted Facebook would be at $22 by March, cost 6 euro cents ($0.07) to buy in the week after Facebook went public with an initial price of $38. Today, with ...
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Alaska Airlines flier's post sparks online backlash
CBS News
Alaska Airlines officials posted on Facebook that the man's ticket was refunded, and he boarded a new flight Saturday morning. A spokesman said the man never said he was disabled, and airline employees, smelling alcohol, believed he was intoxicated.
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CBS News
Facebook's Stock Crash Has Created A Bunch Of New Problems For The ...
Business Insider
A huge number of Facebook shares will become eligible for sales in the next year. Realistically, with the stock this far below the IPO price, Facebook can no longer do a "secondary" stock offering to manage this process. As a result, the shares may hit the ...
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Business Insider
Facebook Stock Drop Could Cost California
Wall Street Journal (blog)
California had been budgeting on $1.9 billion in revenues from Facebook, based on a stock price of $35 a share, but Facebook shares have slumped broadly, ending Friday at $21.09 per share Friday, 45% below the initial $38 share price. The stock was up ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook's Facial Recognition to Be Probed in Norway
PCWorld
The Norwegian Data Protection Agency is planning to launch an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition feature this fall, a spokesman said on Monday. Last year, Facebook added the ability to use facial recognition technology to help to tag images as ...
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Computer glitch turns Southwest Airlines deals into a debacle
Los Angeles Times
To celebrate reaching 3 million Facebook friends, Southwest Airlines offered flights of up to 50% off, with several restrictions. But the airline's online system malfunctioned in response to an unusually high number of bookings from passengers hoping to take ...
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Los Angeles Times
Southwest Airlines Facebook Promotion Goes Awry
AllFacebook
A Southwest Airlines promotion Friday celebrating the carrier's Facebook like No. 3 million turned into a huge dislike, as a computer error caused several customers to be booked and charged multiple times, with the airline receiving mostly negative reaction to ...
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AllFacebook
Facebook User Comments Can Amount to False Advertising, According to ...
WebProNews
Facebook User Comments Can Amount to False Advertising, According to Australian Ad Board. If you run a brand page on Facebook, you may have to pay a little more attention to the kinds of comments that your fans are leaving on your posts. In Australia, the ...
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Facebook Vs. LinkedIn
TheStreet.com
Facebook, used by plain-old folks to post photos of the cake pop they just bought at Starbucks(SBUX), has been put on the defensive by mobile competition in both the marketplace and the perception of traders. LinkedIn, not used with the same sense of ...
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Southwest's Big Bonanza Sale Turns Facebook Fare Fail
Jaunted (blog)
Last week—August 3 to be specific—Southwest Airlines held a flash sale only advertised within their Facebook page. To celebrate reaching three million Facebook fans, those fans could book for up to 50% off certain flights on certain dates in September, ...
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Jaunted (blog)
Southwest Airlines LUV2LIKE promotion multi-charged users after error
ZDNet
Summary: Southwest Airlines probably wishes it had not run its promotion to celebrate getting 3 million Facebook likes. But it has proved itself to be expert at managing the social media crisis that escalated after an 'error in the system' caused customers to be ...
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How consumers are killing Facebook's investors
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) Facebook (FB) had a problem with its stock price right after its May 18 IPO -- it began to sink. But that has proved to be nothing compared to the adverse effect of its first earnings call as a public company, when big investors grew nervous about ...
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CBS News
Apple's Fancy e-commerce could trump Facebook's
ZDNet
If Apple expanded its e-commerce footprint by acquiring New York-based company, The Fancy, it would have much more success at e-commerce than Facebook has had, according to analyst firm Telsyte. Business Insider reported that Apple is currently in ...
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Why Facebook Should Pay More Attention to Google
NBCNews.com
Much of the recent hype on Wall Street has been revolving around Facebook. As the social networking has fallen well below its initial public offering price of $38 on its way to the meager current price of just over $21, Google has continued to return solid gains ...
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Should Facebook Comments Be Viewed As Advertisements?
Marketing Pilgrim
One of the great things about Facebook is the fact that a brand can have an active community that is constantly commenting on how much it loves (or the flip side is hates) the brand and why. It's the idea that Facebook is a community and a place where people ...
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Southwest Facebook Promo Hits Turbulence
MediaPost Communications
Some news reports carry words like "fiasco" to describe the computer glitch that resulted in Southwest Airlines booking numerous flights for customers responding to a Facebook promotion. Short term, it was indeed a social media black eye for the airline.
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LinkedIn Stock: It's Amazing How Much More Valuable It Is Than Facebook Stock
WebProNews
At the time of this writing, LinkedIn stock is sitting at $108.51, compared to Facebook stock at $21.09. Granted, LinkedIn is slightly down (107.98‎ -0.53) and Facebook is slightly up (21.29‎ +0.20‎) in pre-market trading, but LinkedIn surged, following its Q2 ...
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Roundtable Notes: Facebook vs. Google Ad Platform Battle
Business Insider
First, thank you to David Kaplan of AdExchanger for leading last week's breakfast roundtable on Facebook vs. Google and the battle of advertising platforms. We had a great mix of senior executives from the broadcast, advertising/marketing and media ...
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Facebook Judge Doesn't Realize $10 Million Is The Going Rate To Settle ...
Forbes
Last week, a San Francisco federal judge threw a possible wrench into Facebook's plans to settle its 'Sponsored Stories' lawsuit. (In case you haven't been following, this is the suit filed by Facebook users that don't like that when they 'Like' something on ...
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Forbes
Stop Playing Games: Sell Facebook And Zynga Stock
Seeking Alpha
On July 26, 2012, Facebook (FB) reported its second-quarter results at the closing bell. In its first quarterly report since going public, Facebook posted a loss of $157 million upon revenue of $1.18 billion. Taken further, this $157 million loss breaks down to an ...
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Facebook's Free Fall
Newsweek
It would be all too easy to wager that Facebook's market meltdown is coming to an end. After all, Mark Zuckerberg's social network incinerated as much as $50 billion of shareholders' wealth in just a couple months. To put that in context, since its NASDAQ ...
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Newsweek
US Awaits Biggest Week Since Facebook
Wall Street Journal
By CHRIS DIETERICH. NEW YORK—The IPO market is set for its biggest week since Facebook Inc.'s troubled offering in May, with Manchester United Ltd. and the operator of Outback Steakhouse among those scheduled to hit the tape. Enlarge Image. image ...
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Wall Street Journal
Facebook's Folly: Prop 30 and California's Budget Pains
Fox and Hounds Daily
Proposition 30's reliance on the rich could make the state budget long-term problems worse because it adds more volatility to state taxes. While the Legislative Analyst pointed that out in the Prop 30 analysis –"due to swings in the income of upper-income ...
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Is market being irrational about Facebook?
MSN Money
In the months since Facebook (FB) made its unpromising debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market, investors have collectively rendered their verdict on the value of the company's stock. As of late Friday, they decreed a share in the premier social networking ...
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After special offer, Southwest Airlines scrambles to recover from glitch
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Southwest Airlines said over the weekend it will issue refunds to customers who were charged more than once for reservations after a promotion on the carrier's Facebook page hit a glitch. Southwest said its limited-time fare discount offer to celebrate 3 million ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Facebook's Fall
Seeking Alpha
In my May 25th article on Facebook (FB), written shortly after the company's ballyhooed and subsequently beleaguered IPO, I compared the value that the newly public Facebook was commanding to a similarly valued basket of industry leaders.
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Why This Facebook Post Could Destroy A Business
Forbes
In the last few weeks, there has been ample chatter about social media "fails" – whether it has been NBC's response to tweets about the Olympics or a small business being ignorant on Twitter about the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado. One incident that ...
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Facebook post inspires backlash against Alaska Airlines
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Cameron Clark got hundreds of people fired up on Friday with a Facebook post slamming Alaska Airlines. The Oregon-based concert promoter posted on his own wall that he had seen a disabled man miss a flight because airline personnel refused to help ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Ecosystem Crunchup: Video Highlights (TCTV ...
By Jon Orlin
Jon Orlin is the Executive Producer and Production Director for TechCrunchTV at TechCrunch. Jon founded the video production studios at Yahoo! and also co-founded the live daily streaming webcast, Yahoo! FinanceVision. Before that, he ...
TechCrunch
In This Wonderful Life: Facebook :)
By In This Wonderful Life
I finally decide to make a Facebook page for my blog :) For a while, I didn't really see a point, but lately I've had quite a few friend requests from people that read my blog. So, I thought I would keep my personal page for those I "know" ...
In This Wonderful Life
Futurity.org – Facebook popularity may hurt good causes
By Kelly Parkes-Harrison-Warwick
Facebook popularity may hurt good causes. "As well as relying on others to pass on information, it may also be true that people are even relying on others to donate," says economist Kimberley Scharf, who says people with more Facebook ...
Futurity.org
Report: Olympian Facebook Gains By Jamaica, German Gymnast ...
By David Cohen
Jamaica and German gymnast Marcel Nguyen (pictured) soared at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London last week in terms of Facebook likes, according to statistics from social media marketing software provider Wildfire Interactive.
AllFacebook
Alleged Anonymous hacker arrested for Facebook threat | The ...
By noreply@blogger.com (THN Reporter)
Alleged Anonymous hacker arrested for Facebook threat. The Hacker News is Most Comprehensive resource in providing news related to Information Technology, Hacker News, Hacked by, Learn Hacking, email hacker, Anonymous Hackers ...
The Hacker News [ THN ]
VatorNews - Norway looking at Facebook facial-recognition software
By Steven Loeb
Norway looking at Facebook facial-recognition software. Data Protection Agency concerned over possible privacy violations by Steven Loeb on August 05, 2012.
Vator.tv news stories and report
SC governor goes to Facebook to get message across ...
By The Associated Press ()
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she almost always writes her own Facebook posts and uses the social media site to make sure she gets the information she wants to voters.
The Charlotte Observer -- News...
Facebook Friend of the Day | WTVR.com – Richmond News - WTVR 6
By Pierce Sharpe
The CBS 6 Facebook Friend of the Day for August 6 is Kelly McCauley.
WTVR.com – Richmond News &...
Facebook bans non-celebrity Selena Gomez | The Daily Caller
By Josh Peterson
Unsurprisingly, there is more than one Selena Gomez in the world.
The Daily Caller
cryptogon.com » Facebook Bears Garner 500% Profit From ...
By Kevin
Facebook Inc. (FB)'s 45 percent drop since its initial public offering generated returns of more than 500 percent for European investors that bought structured products benefiting from the stock's decline. A put warrant, a security for speculating ...
cryptogon.com
2000 Facebook Fan Page REAL Likes - Targeted Area ONLY ...
2000 Facebook Fan Page REAL Likes - Targeted Area ONLY- Malaysia Budget - USD 62 I am looking for 20000 Facebook People to click Like on my Fan Page... I.
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LG Netherlands Wants You to Read Your Facebook News in 3D ...
By Julie
Watching movies in 3D is becoming commonplace these days and playing video games in 3D isn't far behind in popularity. But what about mundane every day activities like catching up on your Facebook news? Do you think 3D would make.
The Gadgeteer
Mule School: Integration with Social Media: Part II – Facebook ...
By Tom Stroobants
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of May 2012, Facebook has over 900 million active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device.
From the Mule's Mouth » Mule ESB
Facebook popularity may hurt good causes - Holy Kaw!
People with more Facebook friends are less likely to share information about charitable causes, according to a new study. University of Warwick economist Kimberley Scharf claims that when we have larger online social networks we rely on ...
Holy Kaw!

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work , study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ...
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Stories - People using Facebook in extraordinary ways - brought to ...
People using Facebook in extraordinary ways. Play. Video: People You May Know August 2, 2012. Mayank Sharma would probably tell you that going through ...
www.facebookstories.com/?ref=fb


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