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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 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 Tiernan Ray | May 20, 2013 | Barrons.com |
Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer is holding court at 2 Times Square in New York, where the topic is “How we can make Flickr awesome again,” referring to the company’s photo-sharing service.
Mayer offered some brief remarks ... Read More
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Excerpt from Jennifer Booton | November 1, 2011 | FoxBusiness.com
Yahoo (YHOO: 14.91, -0.73, -4.67%) will acquire ad network Interclick (ICLK: 8.95, +1.55, +20.95%) for $9 a share, or $270 million, in cash as it tries to build up localized advertising.
The announcement comes as a bit of a surprise since Yahoo ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Matt Peckham | November 8, 2012 | Time.com |
The Verge recently restoked a rumor started in June. Its claim, five months ago, was that Microsoft was building a 7-inch gaming tablet dubbed “Xbox Surface.”
You’ll recall Microsoft unveiled its Surface (not “Xbox”) tablet on June ... Read More
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Excerpt from: Michael Noer and Nicole Perlroth | money.msn.com | Complete article found on Forbes.com |
What do the president of the United States, the Dalai Lama, a billionaire drug dealer and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have in common? For one thing, each is included in this year's ranking by Forbes ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Will Oremus | November 6, 2012 | Slate.com |
Women make up about 51 percent of the population and 53 percent of the electorate in U.S. presidential elections. But for some reason they are absolutely clobbering men when it comes to clicking on Facebook's "I ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Liz Gannes and Kara Swisher | August 10, 2012 | Allthingsd.com |
Now that she could have $4 billion more to play with from the proceeds of Yahoo’s sale of its Chinese assets, here’s a fun new Silicon Valley parlor game to enjoy: “What will ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Steven Bertoni | November 8, 2012 | Forbes.com |
Yes, Sheldon Adelson crapped out on Election Day. But Adelson has plenty of more chips to place on the table–billions more.
True, the casino billionaire spent at least $53 million on this election cycle with little to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Omar L. Gallaga | May 17, 2012 | CNN.com |
(CNN) -- Flush with cash and drunk with power after its $100 billion IPO, Facebook could be caught secretly brainwashing millions of new users into signing up (mind-control hoodies, anyone?) -- and still I might ... Read More
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