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The following is an excerpt from BARBARA ORTUTAY | Jul 13, 2012 | Yahoo.com |
NEW YORK (AP) — With new public stock offerings for guitar maker Fender and travel booking website Kayak on deck next week, there are signs demand is starting to grow for IPOs after a five-week freeze ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ryan Mac | May 18, 2012 | forbes.com |
(Picture on Left: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg may become Silicon Valley's next billioniare in six months. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Amid the feeding frenzy of its initial public offering, Facebook will likely be creating its first female billionaire: Chief ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from EVELYN M. RUSLI | January 29, 2013 | WSJ.com |
To reclaim its status as a $100 billion company, Facebook Inc. FB +1.42% is re-engineering itself into a mobile business.
Such a transformation has been daunting for one of the world's most-trafficked websites. Just over a ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from TANZINA VEGA | June 13, 2012 | Nytimes.com |
In its quest to bolster the growth of its digital advertising, Facebook is slowly breaking down its walled garden for advertisers.
On Wednesday, the company announced it would begin testing a new advertising mechanism using a technology ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jordan Robertson | December 28, 2012 | Bloomberg.com |
Facebook has patched a security vulnerability that would have allowed hackers to turn on users’ webcams without their knowledge and post the videos to their profiles.
The bug was discovered in July by two computer-security researchers in ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Barbara Ortutay | March 7, 2013 | Time.com |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid chatter of “Facebook fatigue,” real or imagined, the world’s biggest social networking company is getting ready to unveil a new version of News Feed, the flow of status updates, photos and advertisements ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Barbara Ortutay and Michael Liedtke | Associated Press | August 6, 2012 | Yahoo.com |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook's stock plunged to a new low Thursday after the expiration of a ban that had prevented some early investors and insiders from dumping millions of ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Erik Sherman | May 18, 2012 | cbsnews.com |
(MoneyWatch) Facebook (FB) finally had its IPO, with insiders cashing out and selling 57 percent of the available shares. A number of people -- not just CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- and companies have seen their net ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Douglas Rushkoff | January 31, 2012 | CNN.com |
Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff, who writes regularly for CNN.com, is a media theorist and the author of "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" and "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Trefis Team | July 10, 2012 | Forbes.com |
Facebook is apparently working on a job postings board that will launch later this summer, according to a report by the WSJ. “Facebook Jobs” will be an aggregator that pulls in job postings by third party ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jeff Macke | January 10, 2013 | Yahoo.com |
After a famously disastrous start, Facebook (FB) finally looks like a money-maker for true believers. The stock is 10% higher already in 2013 and over 50% in the last three months. While impressive, those gains were ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from SUSANNA KIM | May 24, 2012 | abcnews.go.com |
Facebook stock closed up for the second day in a row as Facebook's underwriters continued to face heat over whether they gave an unfair advantage to preferred clients. Many average investors lost thousands of dollars betting ... Read More
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