Zuckerberg Marries Long-Time Girlfriend After Facebook IPO

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Mark Zuckerberg surprised the world – and less than 100 of his friends – on Saturday when he married long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan at his Palo Alto, California residence.  The guests, including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, were stunned to discover that the graduation party invite turned out to be a wedding date. The previous week [...]


Facebook closes at $38.23 [+0.6%]

Facebook stock price at close day of IPO

It’s not a beautiful day for Facebook. And not a bad day. Facebook IPO Price was $38. Facebook public opening price at 11:31 am was $42.05. At the close it was $38.23, falling back to IPO Price… “Facebook Inc. shares lost steam at the end of their first public trading session on Friday following a [...]


Facebook Opens at $42 [LIVE IPO Stock Price]

facebook ipo price

Facebook Debuts on Nasdaq this morning at a $38 IPO Price in a initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares. Official first Public Price at 11:31 was $42.05. 4:00 pm. Close at $38.23 (+0.6%). 3:14 pm : $38.73 2:19 pm : $40.08 1:36 pm : $41.18 12:18 pm : $39.88 11:49 am : $38.03. Zynga stock [...]


Facebook Pushes Up Price per Share Due to High Demand, Symbol : FB

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A high demand for Facebook shares have prompted the company to raise its prices, which now stand between $34 and $38, reports BBC. Previous prices have been pegged at $28 to $35, but the social networking giant has decided to capitalize on the growing number of interested investors to hike up share prices. In a [...]


Facebook Testing Paid Posts, Gets Mixed Reactions

Facebook Paid Posts

A new paid feature that Facebook has been fiddling with for the past days or so has sparked a flurry of mixed reactions from users. In what was first assumed to be a scam, the feature charges Facebook members $2 to underscore important posts, making them more prominent and consequently more visible on the social [...]


Facebook Launches App Center

Application Center

Facebook is set to launch the App Center in the coming weeks, where people can view and review social apps in one central location before installing them. The App Center also serves a venue for developers to improve their apps and allows them to produce more relevant, useful, entertaining apps. Facebook advises developers to begin [...]


Facebook Patent by Abraham Lincoln in 1845 ?

If you think Mark Zuckerberg had it first with Facebook, well, think again. An interesting discovery by reporter-slash-historian Nate St. Pierre points to the idea that Abraham Lincoln may have been the first one to think about all the cool features of Facebook – profile pictures, visibility options, profile updates, and the like. And he [...]


Facebook IPO at $28-$35 Per Share

Facebook is now set to go public, as it plans to push forward an initial public offering at an anticipated price of $28 to $35 per share. Investors have been expecting this Facebook offering for some time, which is speculated to overwhelm Google’s IPO back in 2004, making it the biggest IPO in the Internet [...]


Facebook Debuts New Feature on Organ Donation

Facebook Organ Donor

Facebook now makes it easier for millions of Americans to sign up as organ donors, as it launches a new feature that makes organ donation registration fast and simple. This move was reportedly spearheaded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself, who believes that his social networking site can potentially accelerate the number of willing organ [...]


Facebook Interns Earn $5000 Monthly

Facebook

Recent reports have it that interns over at Facebook enjoy a generous monthly offering of $5,000 plus additional $1,000 as housing and living allowance – an impressive and munificent amount  - given that these interns, mostly undergraduates anywhere in their freshman to senior year, have very minimal real-world programming experience. The responses over at Quora [...]


Facebook has 901 million users and 500 million are mobile users

Facebook 900 millions users

Facebook just amended its S-1 filing (SEC), unveiling some interesting figures : -901 million users as of 31 March 2012, an 33% increase compared to March 31, 2011 -488 million mobile users as of March 31 2012 and 500 million mobile users as of April 20, 2012 (remember that Facebook doesn’t yet monetize its spaces on mobile devices) -526 [...]


Facebook IPO : May 17 or May 24

Zuckerberg IPO

Facebook IPO will be either May 17 or May 24 according to Techcrunch. Facebook valuation is $100 billion and deal size will be between 5 to 10 billion. See our infographic for all details on Top 10 Internet IPO of all time. “According to multiple sources close to the company, Facebook is eying IPO on [...]


Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion

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Mark Zuckerberg just wrote on Facebook that the Social Network is buying mobile photo application Instagram for one billion dollars in cash and stock. Instagram is a mobile application with photo editing effects (filters) and sharing capabilities on social networks, available on iOS and Android (Google Play) since April 3. Instagram had 30 million users in late March while the application was only available through the Apple Store. The first day the Android app was available, it has been downloaded 1 million [...]


If Facebook was invented in the 90s…

What… If Facebook was invented in the nineties ? “VHS tape with the popular science show ‘Wonders of the World Wide Web’ about Facebook.”


Facebook vs Google+ [infographic]

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Here’s a little comparison between two of the biggest Social Networks: Google + (created in June 2011) and Facebook, the giant (created in 2004). Some notable statistics : -100 million users for G + members and 845 million members for Facebook. -Google is a social network  with more men (71%) than Facebook (43% male). -G+ is much frequented by young people : 78% are under 34 years while on Facebook this proportion is only 32% (surprising?) -Time spent on site : [...]


Yahoo files lawsuit against Facebook for violating 10 patents

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Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits, after all it is considered the most powerful social media platform. In a bold move, Yahoo! – now under the direction of a new CEO – has filed a 19 page lawsuit claiming that Facebook is violating not one, but 10 patents, effectively abusing the intellectual property of Yahoo!. [...]


Facebook Messenger for Windows

Facebook Messenger

You might have heard about Facebook’s new messenger, for some it is old news. In December, a tester of the Facebook messenger leaked a link to download the app. Facebook responded, in turn, by making the client available to the public. For those of you who did not know about the app, you should see [...]


World Top 10 Internet IPOs [infographic]

Top Web IPO

Here are the World Top 10 largest IPOs of Internet companies in the last 10 years. Yelp (IPO was March 2) does not make this Top10 List because Deal Size was only 107 million (no10 Linkedin was 353 million). The information on Facebook is not yet unveiled, so we put only known data (An update [...]


Zynga.com : a New Platform for Social Games

Zynga

Zynga will launch new Zynga.com platform in a public beta this month. The social network game developer has a valuation of 10 billion dollars and 240 million players each month. Today Mark Pincus announced that his startup is offering a new destination off Facebook. The initial beta release of Zynga.com features: “-zFriends – Connect and [...]


Facebook Timeline for Pages launched [will be mandatory March 30, 2012]

Timeline Page

We all remember the revamp of Facebook that led to the implementation of the timeline for Facebook users. Now, the social media giant has revamped its site again, this time aiming to make the entire platform more uniform in nature. This week Facebook launched Timeline for business, organization and brand pages. At the moment, businesses [...]


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