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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook, a year after IPO
Washington Post
After a market debut marred by technical glitches and a deep dive in the company's stock price, Facebook has spent the past year focused on its biggest weaknesses: how to make money and keep its more than 1 billion users tethered to the social network.
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Australian politician apologizes for 'liking' Facebook pic of exposed teen
New York Daily News
In 2011, Western Australia Minister for Education Peter Collier "liked" what he thought was an innocent Facebook picture of a 16-year-old member of the WA Young Liberals and an older man. It turned out that the teen was flashing his genitals in the photo.
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: I cry at work
Times of India
"I think we are all of us emotional beings and it's okay for us to share that emotion at work," said Facebook's number two, who was named in Time magazine's 2013 list as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Studies have shown women are ...
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Facebook billionaire Sean Parker's $10 million wedding in jeopardy after ...
Daily Mail
Facebook pioneer Sean Parker's extravagant wedding to Alexandra Lenas is in jeopardy after California planning officials launched an investigation into the elaborate construction for the nuptials. The 33-year-old billionaire has been planning an ...
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Tech: Would Yahoo or Facebook Make a…
Adweek
So Adweek asked marketers this afternoon to weigh in on whether Yahoo or Facebook would make a better parent for the site. Responses were split, with slightly more of the small sample contending that Tumblr would thrive more under the stewardship of ...
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Facebook IPO Anniversary: No Sugarcoating It
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook went public one year ago tomorrow. It was a stock that held out so much promise for Wall Street. It was a new-tech stock that fit the classic "buy what you know" mantra of Peter Lynch. Facebook was going to reignite Main Street's love affair ...
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Facebook's like feature faces free-speech test in sheriff firing
Chicago Daily Herald
Facebook, in a March 20 filing asking the appeals court for time to argue, said it has a "vital interest" in ensuring that speech on Facebook and other online communities "is afforded the same constitutional protection as speech in newspapers, on ...
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Why Facebook is an unfriendly reminder of IPO risk
MarketWatch
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE. Facebook's flubbed IPO a year ago isn't the reason individual investors are reluctant to participate in the record equity rally, but it did lay bare some important investing truths. See full story.
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A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus
Boston.com
Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.
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Facebook IPO one year later: Ripple effects still being felt
San Jose Mercury News
Instead, Facebook's initial public offering one year ago today was derided as "the Faceplant." Shares of the Menlo Park social network dropped almost as soon as they began trading in a debut marred by glitches with the Nasdaq trading system. In the ...
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Baby Foxes Check Into Facebook
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The foxes, which include a mother and her three babies, live in Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., campus. They have a Facebook page, dubbed "FB Fox," and a growing following: 8,172 "likes." That group, which is far larger than Facebook's official payroll ...
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Fugitive to police on Facebook: Catch me if you can. They do
CNET
Fugitive to police on Facebook: Catch me if you can. They do. Taunting the police on Facebook has limited benefits -- as one wanted man in the U.K. discovers when it takes police just 12 hours to catch up with him. They leave him a taunting message on ...
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Is Facebook Home a Bigger Success Than We Think?
Motley Fool
Recently, AT&T (NYSE: T ) dropped the price for the HTC First, an Android handset with Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB ) Home app pre-installed. The move called into question Home's attractiveness as a platform. Now it seems the criticism may have been ...
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A Year After Its Debut, Facebook Still Looks Overpriced
Wall Street Journal
A year after its turbulent public debut, shares in the social-networking giant are still 31% below their offering price. Yet, with virtually no earnings over the past 12 months, Facebook's price/earnings ratio is in the stratosphere—more than 2,000-to ...
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These Are The International Social Networks Closing In On Facebook
Business Insider
Perhaps nowhere are stakes higher than in China, where the blocking of Facebook and Twitter has given rise to wildly popular homegrown alternatives. By some estimates, nearly half of the country's population of 1.3 billion is online and active socially.
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Wanted man who wrote 'Catch me if you can' on police Facebook page is ...
Daily Mail
They then returned to Facebook to respond a second time: 'Caught you. Do not pass Go, do not collect £200, go straight to jail.' Inspector Umer Khan of Rochdale North said: 'Unfortunately this man was always going to be a hostage to fortune once he ...
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Rwanda recovering and Facebook's face time issue
BBC News
Also it's a year since Facebook went public - and its shares tanked. Now it could be losing its appeal amongst younger users. We hear from the British film company hoping for success at Cannes; plus we have our review of the week's business news with ...
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Social Star Awards: Actor George Takei, the funniest guy on Facebook
Straits Times
Dubbed the funniest guy on Facebook by Forbes magazine last year, Takei, 76, has built a rapidly growing fan base with more than four million likes on his Facebook fan page and 656,000 followers on Twitter. And he did this in only about three years.
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The 5 Best Facebook Parodies
TIME
Whenever Facebook does a redesign, everyone complains. Suddenly, everything gets rearranged, and it always seems like your privacy settings change, or new features crop up that reveal more information than you'd care to share. This video by Extremely ...
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Police Facebook page brands criminals 'numpties' and 'Billy Burglar'
Metro
A police Facebook page that brands criminals 'numpties' and says thing like the 'kettle's on for another Billy Burglar' is winning support from the online community. Tandridge Beat, run by Surrey Police, had 1,617 'likes' by this afternoon. The ...
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Facebook IPO: 1-Year Anniversary
ABC News
Facebook IPO: 1-Year Anniversary. Previous · Next. Facebook IPO: Social Network's Timeline. Facebook became a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq May 18, 2012. Founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg ring the Nasdaq opening bell.
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Facebook Needs to Take a Page Out of Google's Playbook
Motley Fool
In order for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) to grow its business and live up to the high expectations many investors have for the company, it needs to expand its product offerings. We saw this in the past with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) , a company which started ...
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Photos: Facebook HQ Overrun With Adorable Fox Infestation
SFist
While we don't often find ourselves wishing we had a daily commute down the Peninsula, this adorable news we just can't even deal with: A mother fox and her adorable litter of pups have made their home between the buildings of Facebook's Menlo Park ...
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Facebook Buck and xctool: Open Source Build Tools for Android and iOS - InfoQ
InfoQ.com
Facebook has recently open sourced Buck, their build tool used for native Android applications. Inspired by Google Blaze, Buck was created to deal with the complexity associated with multiple Android libraries and to reduce the build time. After ...
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Facebook Appeals Decision Saying 'Likes' Aren't Protected By Free Speech
AllFacebook
Facebook is appealing a ruling made last year over a dispute regarding a Facebook like as free and protected speech. After a Virginia sheriff's office employee liked the Facebook page of his boss' political opponent, resulting in a post on the News ...
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McClellan: Larry Conners "issue" proves Facebook is not your friend
STLtoday.com
"To Whom it May Concern: As the attorney for Larry Conners, I am constrained to advise you that he is barred by corporate from making statements, posting on Facebook, or participating in interviews on the IRS issue. That is the only reason for his silence.
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Prosecutors: 3 teens posted taped sex assaults of girl, 12, on Facebook
Chicago Tribune
Three teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said. Scandale Fritz, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Justin Applewhite, 16, were all ordered held ...
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Facebook's next act
MSN Money
And on Friday, Facebook's stock trades around 30% below its IPO price. Are shares headed higher? What will Facebook do for its next act? In our lead story on Investor Beat, Motley Fool analysts James Early and Ron Gross discuss the future of Facebook.
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Facebook's First Investor Pays Teens to Not Go to College
KUGN
(PALO ALTO, Calif.) -- 19-year-old Indian immigrant Diwank Singh Tomer has an impressive resume. The accomplished hacker and startup founder who initially enrolled in college in India quickly decided he would learn more by moving here and immersing ...
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Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Will Facebook Buy Tumblr Instead Of Yahoo? - Business Insider
By Henry Blodget
Not going to happen, says the man who broke the news.
Business Insider
Facebook exec and 'Lean In' author Sheryl Sandberg says it's OK for ...
By Agence France-Presse
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview published Saturday says it's ok for women to cry at work, share emotions and be honest about their femininity. Sandberg shot to global fame after her the publication of her ...
The Raw Story
Australian Politician Tricked Into Liking Photo of Teen's Nuts on ...
By Josh Wolford
An Australian politician fell victim to a photo prank on Facebook that resulted in "liking" a picture of a 16-year-old boy's testicles. Peter Collier has since apologized, claiming that the photo looked innocent enough to him when he liked it in late ...
WebProNews
Facebook Cover Photo Call-to-Action Can Convert | Social Media ...
By Cara Tarbaj
In light of Facebook's new policy that allows for cover photos to include calls-to-action (CTAs), here are five ways to start converting visitors.
Social Media Today - The world's...
'The Five' Answer Your Facebook Questions | Fox News Insider
By Fox News Insider
On today's 'The Five,' our favorite crew took to Facebook to gather the questions you wanted answered. From wondering when the hosts identified themselves with a certain political party, to whether or not Dana Perino has any interest in ...
Fox News Insider - The official...
A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus - seattlepi.com
By By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer
Even amid the hype and excitement surrounding Facebook's May 18 stock market debut a year ago, there were looming doubts. Investors wondered whether the social network could increase advertising revenue without alienating users, ...
Business Heds Index
Library to Host Session for the Facebook Photo Novice - Gant Daily
By Gant Team
CLEARFIELD – The Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library is hosting a PA Forward Information Literacy event, Facebook Photo Novice, an introductory session.
GantDaily.com
IRS demanded Facebook posts, book titles, names of donors during ...
By oldthinkernews
Natural News | May 18, 2013 By J. D. Heyes The scandal surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's illicit, politically-motivated scrutiny of conservative, patriot, Tea Party and pro-Israel groups continues to expand daily, as more information is ...
Old-Thinker News
PET QUESTIONS: Facebook Queries | WHOTV.com - Des Moines
By Staff Writer
This week on Pet Questions ARL's Paula Sunday answers your Facebook questions. First up are some tips on training larger dogs....
WHOTV.com
100,000 Facebook likes for african french speaking blog | Facebook ...
r 100K facebook likes ASAP. NO - Bots, Spam or fake accounts. They must be REAL PEOPLE and targeted the following french speaking eareas: • Belgium • Benin • Burkina Faso • Burundi • Cameroon • Canada (Quebec; less than 3% ...
Freelancer.com - New Projects
50,000 UK Facebook likes for new music facebook page - repost ...
Project Description: It's a new Facebook music information page. Please only bid if you can do the following: - Likes NEEDS to be from the UK only - They have to be permanent - One month maximum. Hours of work: 7 hours / week Project ...
Freelancer.com - New Projects
5 Things We'd Change About Facebook Mobile – Mashable ...
By Gadget Reporter
5 Things We'd Change About Facebook Mobile - Mashable Mashable At the beginning of this year, Facebook overtook Google Maps as the most-used mobile app in the U.S. The social network giant also recently introduced a controversial ...
Killer Apps TV
Facebook is Feeling "Emotion" About Watching "Film" | Soshable ...
By Lewis Austin
Emoticon. Facebook has brought out a brilliant new addition to status updates that was desperately needed. Prepare for your news feed to be flooded with emoticons and more than likely irrelevant adjectives. Without being too cynical, I'd like ...
Soshable | Social Media Blog

Web3 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook for Google Glass | Facebook Help Center | Facebook
You'll first need to enable Facebook for Glass: Visit your MyGlass page. Click the Facebook card to turn it on. If you're not logged in to Facebook, a window will ...
https://www.facebook.com/help/googleglass
Facebook's rocky year as a public company - CBS News
The social network's first post-IPO year was punctuated by extreme highs and lows, but in the end Facebook stayed Facebook.
www.cbsnews.com/.../facebooks-rocky-year-as-a-public-comp...
A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: NEW YORK (AP) — It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering.
news.yahoo.com/ipo-facebook-aims-ad-colossus-194809195....


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