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Facebook Gets Serious About Making Money
Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com On the anniversary of its IPO, mobile is taking off on Facebook.
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Facebook's improved, but IPO value still distant
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15, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Google boosts photo offerings to rival Facebook
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Armed prostitutes arrested after posting photos with attack weapons on Facebook
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Pentagon sex assault watchdog calls Web page despicable
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Lakewood scam artist Eli Weinstein charged in $6.7 million scheme selling Facebook IPO
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Vin Diesel: 'Facebook owes me billions of dollars'
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