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43 min ago | Wall Street Journal

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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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Menlo Park, CA, Internet, Science / Technology

Fri May 17, 2013

All Things Digital

How to Sell a Yahoo-Tumblr Deal: Point to Facebook-Instagram

It's easy to argue against a Yahoo-Tumblr deal . Internet history is full of misguided M&A, and Yahoo has its own , very expensive chapter .

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Related Topix: Startups, Tumblr

Adweek

Obscure Direct Response Brands Dominate Facebook Chatter

Even though Facebook's deals strategy has involved hits and misses , it appears that its 800 million users love to either comment about or share low-priced offers.

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Related Topix: Startups

KTEN-TV Denison

A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

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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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

Forbes.com

Facebook Marks IPO Anniversary With Bulls And Bears Still Scrapping

's initial public offering, an IPO that will be the foundation of case studies for years to come but may have been so unique that it provides little in the way of insight.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Financial Services, T Rowe Price Group, Investment Services

MarketWatch

John Shinal's Tech Investor: Facebook doomed investors with huge float

Today is the day to pull up a one-year chart of Facebook Inc. stock and explain how the largest tech initial public offering ever became the biggest disappointment in years for many Main Street investors.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

MarketWatch

Dell's price cuts weigh heavy on profits

Dell Inc. reported a dramatic drop in quarterly profits on Thursday afternoon, as the PC maker admitted to cutting prices in an effort to maintain sales and market share.

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Related Topix: Computers, Dell, PC, Startups

SiliconValley.com

Facebook, Twitter announce apps for Google's Glass

Google says it's still figuring out the best ways to use Glass, but the company announced Thursday that Facebook , Twitter and several other media firms have built their own applications for the futuristic-looking wearable computer.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, iPod touch App, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Computers

Thu May 16, 2013

The Age

Facebook photo gaffe proves an education for Minister

A social media gaffe has left the West Australian Minister for Education red-faced after it emerged he "Liked" a Facebook photograph of a teenager exposing his genitals.

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Related Topix: Startups

Examiner.com

'Bea Arthur Naked' painting sold for $1.9 million but banned from Facebook

Bea Arthur depicted in a nude painting is not something that you'd expect to bring in the big bucks, especially because the painting was done from a photo of Bea completely clothed.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Maude, Bea Arthur, Startups

MarketWatch

Facebook's improved, but IPO value still distant

At the one-year anniversary of its initial public offering, Facebook Inc. investors find themselves struggling with the question of whether the glass is half-empty, or half-full. debut was one of the hottest and largest initial public offerings of the young century.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

Marketing Pilgrim

[Infographic] Do Facebook Friend Recommendations Influence Purchasing?

Our friends at PPC Associates have put together an infographic to hopefully clear up the age old question about the importance of recommendations in the purchase process.

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KTEN-TV Denison

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15, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Social Software, Startups, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, CA, Georgetown University

Wed May 15, 2013

NewsOn6 Tulsa

Oklahoma Waitress Fired Over Facebook Post

A local waitress is causing a national uproar over a picture and comment she posted about some Oklahoma sheriff's deputies.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software

National Review Online

French: Tea Party-IRS Scandal: A Facebook FAQ

Right now, across this vast land, conservative Americans are doing social-media battle with their friends on the left.

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Related Topix: Tax, Tea Party, US News, Startups

WMDT

Google boosts photo offerings to rival Facebook

Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing more popular.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Social Software, Science, Computer Science, Internet, Science / Technology

The Orlando Sentinel

Armed prostitutes arrested after posting photos with attack weapons on Facebook

Two Florida women who were snared in a January prostitution sting were arrested Monday after bragging about guns on their social-media accounts, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office .

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Related Topix: Startups, Polk County, FL

The Daily Times

Pentagon sex assault watchdog calls Web page despicable

The Pentagon's officer in charge of combating its sexual abuse crisis branded "despicable" social media posts that depict female Marines in sexually degrading ways and said an effort is underway to target such material.

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Related Topix: US Marine Corps, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Representative Jackie Speier, Democrat, Startups

NJ.com

Lakewood scam artist Eli Weinstein charged in $6.7 million scheme selling Facebook IPO

Eliyahu Weinstein, already facing 25 years in prison in connection with a Ponzi scheme, was charged today in a new scam involving shares of Facebook before the social media company went public.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY

Tue May 14, 2013

Examiner.com

Vin Diesel: 'Facebook owes me billions of dollars'

Vin Diesel believes that Facebook owes him billions of dollars. The actor thinks that, without him, Facebook would not be as popular as it is now.

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Related Topix: Fast & Furious, Startups, Celebrities, Vin Diesel

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