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The following is an excerpt from Gerry Shih | March 22, 2013 | msnbc.com |
Online game publisher Zynga relaunched its website on Thursday, allowing users to play its games without first signing on to Facebook, a significant step toward establishing its independence from Facebook.
The relaunch of Zynga.com is the latest ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Will Oremus | June 4, 2013 | Slate.com |
In a surprising development, the company that made FarmVille, Words With Friends, and a bunch of other Facebook games you don’t play anymore announced today that it is sparing 82 percent of its workforce—some 2,900 employees, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Julianne Pepitone | September 5, 2012 | CNN.com |
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Some of Facebook's early investors sold off their stock at the first chance they got, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hanging on to his shares for at least the next year.
Zuckerberg, who ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Bloomer | May 30, 2012 | Slate.com |
Mark Zuckerberg’s famous indifference toward money must be coming in handy right about now.
Bloomberg provides some context as to just how much Facebook's slumping stock is bringing down the 28-year-old billionaire's personal fortune: Zuckerberg's estimated net ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Roland Jones | May 5, 2012 | msnbc.com |
Now that Facebook has declared what it thinks it’s worth, it’s time for company executives to hit the road and convince investors.
On Thursday Facebook filed a document with regulators setting a price range of $28 to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Michael Falcone | April 11, 2013 | Yahoo.com |
Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his new political group today that has the powerful backing of a who's who of technology leaders.
The group, which will be called FWD.us ("Forward U.S."), represents the most ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Foxnews.com | May 6, 2013 |
Would you pay to watch cat videos on YouTube?
The popular video-sharing website will reportedly announce it will introduce paid subscriptions as early as this week.
The subscription-only videos will include up to 50 YouTube channels, according to the Financial Times. ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Nancy Gibbs | August 16, 2012 | Time.com |
Just as remarkable as the power of mobility, over everything from love to learning to global development, is how fast it all happened. It is hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in ... Read More
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Excerpt from: Brad Tuttle | November 2, 2011 | moneyland.time.com |
Apparently, it’s totally legal to scam people, so long as you inform them they’re being scammed in the fine print. How brilliant! And how evil!
The Los Angeles Times‘ David Lazarus highlights an offer you may have received in the mail ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Joanna Stern | February 23, 2012 | ABCNews.go.com |
Social media isn’t only invading the operating room this week; it is also hitting the courts.
UK High Court judge Nigel Teare approved the use of Facebook to serve legal documents in a British case regarding an ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Andrew Sullivan | October 22, 2011 | Thedailybeast.com
A lot of us have to confess something about the Occupy Wall Street protests: we have a hippie problem. As a post-boomer, I’ve been trained to giggle at them my whole life. And anyone who has had ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Will Oremus | December 3, 2012 | Slate.com |
Starting now, Facebook's billion users around the world have one last opportunity to preserve their power to vote on changes to how the site uses their personal data.
At 3 p.m. eastern today, spokesman Elliott Schrage announced ... Read More
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