Facebook Celebrates 8th Birthday by Filing for IPO
February 6, 2012 by elegant · Leave a Comment
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
February 4, 2012 by publisher · Leave a Comment
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
February 3, 2012 by publisher · Leave a Comment
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
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New Search Tool Out as Social Web Tells Google: “Don’t Be Evil”
January 25, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
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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Facebook Shedding Its Echo Chamber Name
January 19, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
For some time now, Facebook has been saddled with the unfortunate sobriquet of Echo Chamber. As anyone who’s ever tried knows all too well, ditching an unwanted nickname is more than a little complicated (read: Difficult). But, since the company behind your online life record has the motivation, human resources, and economic means to carry
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Facebook Increases Status Update Limit to 63,000 Characters
December 2, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
On Facebook, the company team posted an image whose graphic text announced a new limit for status updates: 63,206 characters. It’s rather staggering if compared to Twitter’s or even Facebook’s own from a few years back. Nevertheless, Google weighs in as the heavyweight champ in this matter; it currently boasts a peerless 100,000 character limit.
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Salman Rushdie Overturns Facebook’s Decision to Call Him “Ahmed Rushdie”
November 20, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Like many people, Salman Rushdie goes by his middle name, even on Facebook, which prefers, apparently, that folks go by their first. This Monday saw the two sides come to a head-to-head battle in public. After unceremoniously deactivating Salman Rushdie’s account until he complied with a passport copy request to verify his identity, Facebook reinstated
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Facebook Gets Friend.ly, But Will It Also Get Sweet?
October 17, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
At just two years old, Friend.ly has entered the whale’s mouth that is a Facebook acquirement. It seems like a fitting cap for a very eventful sophomore showing — this was the year, after all, that the startup experienced a robust growth spurt in user numbers, clinched $5 million in venture funds, and scored a
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Social Media Urges On a New Statistics
October 12, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
The world’s twitter and Facebook output — along with its googling and cell phone geo data — is about to be stirred, strewn out on a researcher’s desk, and examined like a sacrificed animal’s entrails during the heyday of ancient Greece. It seems that social media has done wonders for the acceptance of an old
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Congressional Bi-Partisan Caucus Throws the Book at Facebook
October 1, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
Is Facebook tracking you without lawful permission? The co-Chairs of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Caucus seem to think so. The concerned and chairing congressmen are Ed Markey, from Massachusetts and Joe Barton, from Texas — their political persuasions correspond to well-established national topoi of northern and southern states. Jointly, they’ve signed and sent a letter to
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