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Facebook Celebrates 8th Birthday by Filing for IPO

elegant — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:29:53 +0000

The day investors and tech watchers have been waiting for is here: Facebook filed its IPO today, which happens to be its eighth birthday. Its anticipated valuation range is $75 billion to $100 billion, but in the papers submitted with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the wildly popular company states that it hopes its IPO

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The Fortune and Power of Mark Zuckerberg

publisher — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:19:27 +0000

Among the deluge of Facebook articles currently in circulation, two are particularly interesting for their distinct focus on the man behind it all: twenty-seven-year-old Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, of White Plains, New York (at this stage, his saga certainly deserves some historicizing). The first, written by Somini Sengupta, appears in the New York Times; the second

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Graffiti Artist David Choe’s Facebook Stock Worth $200 Million

publisher — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:22:35 +0000

Thanks to Facebook’s upcoming IPO, David Choe, a graffiti artist from Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood is about to become a millionaire hundreds of times over. Back in 2005, Choe was invited by then-Facebook president Sean Parker to paint interior murals for the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Choe was invited again recently, this time

The Advantages of Hiring an SEO Agency

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:15:09 +0000

Select your SEO agency wisely and you’ll be on track to improved online traffic and more engagement from your online audience. Folks in the business know that improved audience engagement is a surefire indication of incoming rises in profits or in the faster attainment of the particular goals of your site. If the purpose of

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Effort Underway to Replicate Silicon Valley Near Harvard University

creative — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:55:53 +0000

Last Friday, inside Harvard University’s Maxwell Dworkin lecture hall, Patrick S. Chung, W. Hugo Van Vuuren, and Harry Weller introduced the Experiment Fund, which will represent “seed money” along with structural and networking support to exceptional student entrepreneurs in the Cambridge-Boston area. Among those eligible for funding will be students from Harvard, MIT, and Boston

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Be aware of these legal precedents on search ranking

elegant — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:34:03 +0000

The Oklahoma City based Search King, a Web hosting and advertising company, filed a law suit on October 17, 2002, against Google (Search King, Inc. v. Google Technology, Inc.; United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma), claiming that Google unfairly removed links to its Web site as well as its partners from the index, causing financial damage. Search King’s complain was centered on Google’s PageRank algorithm which bumped Search King and its ad network out of listings. They sought a preliminary injunction against Google, restore to previous PageRank and claimed an award of $75,000 damage. The court on May 27, 2003, dismissed the case on the grounds that Google’s PageRank constitute opinions protected by the First Amendment.

In KinderStart v. Google case, KinderStart sued Google in March, 2006 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California due to its unhappiness with Google search engine ranking. KinderStart’s amount of traffic dropped 70% and prior to the case Google dropped them from the index. Judge on March 16, 2007 dismissed the case and issued Rule 11 sanctions against KinderStart’s counsel ordering him to pay part of Google’s legal expenses.

New Search Tool Out as Social Web Tells Google: “Don’t Be Evil”

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:20:45 +0000

Download the “bookmarklet” released today by an ad-hoc group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, and you might get better search results from Google. Last week, Google announced that information from its fledgling social network, Google+, would be surfaced in its search results all while effectively suppressing data from other competing, and much more

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The Underestimated Power of SEO

publisher — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:28:06 +0000

While search engine optimization (SEO) has been around for more than a decade, many entrepreneurs are still not convinced that it is an important part of internet marketing. Does keyword research and SEO really make a difference in the world of organic search engine results? The answer is yes. SEO companies have the tools and

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Interviewed by a Valley Girl

creative — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:20:40 +0000

Facebook’s new digs in Menlo Park were recently visited by Jesse Draper, the host of “The Valley Girl,” an online talk show based in the Silicon Valley. Draper was on the hallowed (for tech devotees) premises to interview the company’s celebrated chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. During the interview, Sandberg chatted about her first job

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SOPA and PIPA Disowned By President, Republican Senators, and the Public

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:03:37 +0000

On Wednesday, Internet users came together to denounce two bills making their way through the American legislature: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, also known as SOPA and PIPA. Many took directly to the streets, but the overwhelming majority expressed their opposition by spreading information about the issue on online

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