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Facebook-style mishaps avoidable with co-ordination, NYSE says
U.S. stock exchanges need the ability to halt trading in a given security on all venues when technical problems similar to Facebook Inc.’s debut threaten orderly buying and selling, an NYSE Euronext...
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How Facebook polices its site
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. offered a rare peek on Tuesday at one facet of the elaborate system it uses to police its 900 million-user social network, as it attempts to keep it free of content it...
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Facebook IPO raises ‘$64,000 question’ for Canadian firms
When lawyers at Borden Ladner Gervais in Toronto looked at the debacle that was the Facebook IPO, they decided the “glaring” fallout should prompt a reminder of disclosure obligations during initial...
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Top 25 tech companies to work for right now
Google and Facebook get a whole lot of hype. But what are the real best tech companies to work for in the world? Does Google have the best benefits and job security? Which tech company has a jazz...
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Facebook changes default email addresses to @facebook.com without asking
Way back in 2010 Facebook relaunched its Messages feature to include @facebook.com email addresses for all users. The service never really took off as an email replacement, but it’s still there. Today,...
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Facebook appoints COO Sandberg to board, naming first female director
Facebook Inc., facing criticism for a lack of diversity on its board, appointed chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as its first female director. “Sheryl has been my partner in running Facebook,”...
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Facebook shares continue slide
Facebook Inc., operator of the world’s largest social-network, declined as much as 3.9 percent, adding to an 8.1 percent slide yesterday, after a report from Capstone Investments said the number of...
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No room for error in Facebook’s debut quarter
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc faces immense pressure to beat Wall Street’s financial targets when it delivers its inaugural quarterly earnings report next week, hoping to wash away the bad taste left...
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Zynga shares dive after results miss expectations, firm slashes outlook
SAN FRANCISCO — Zynga Inc, the social gaming company, slashed its 2012 earnings outlook after its second-quarter results badly missed Wall Street’s targets, sending its stock plunging more than 40% to...
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How to make money on an earnings surprise
In a post previewing Tuesday’s Apple earnings announcement, NYU finance professor and valuation expert Aswath Damodaran examined how stock prices react to earnings announcements. Damodaran identified...
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Outlook for Zynga cut as investors ponder shift to mobile ahead of Facebook...
As Facebook Inc. prepares to post its first quarterly report as a public company, its shares are under pressure as the outlook for social media and gaming is increasingly called into question amid...
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Facebook earnings narrowly beat Wall Street expectations
Listen to Facebook’s Q2 earnings call About 955 million people now log on to Facebook every month, but with a growing number using mobile devices to do so, the company is still struggling to prove...
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Facebook shares plunge to new low
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook Inc.’s shares dived 6% to another record low on Tuesday, sliding for the third straight day since a lackluster quarterly report showed decelerating user growth. Investors have...
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Why Facebook is spiking
Facebook Inc. climbed as much as 11% on Friday after Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser said the social networking giant should be able to increase its online advertising revenues. He pointed...
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How Facebook Canada keeps in fighting trim
Facebook is not only the world’s leading social-networking site, or the most-watched IPO of the decade. It’s also an organizational culture that works hard and runs fast to live up to the immense...
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Facebook beating Google in browsing ads – partners
Facebook Inc. is doing a better job than Google Inc. in getting Web surfers to click on advertising based on browsing history, according to partners using the social network’s ad service that debuted...
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Google hits all-time high on rosy outlook for ad growth
Andrew Barr/National Post Google Inc., owner of the world’s largest search engine, rose to a record amid optimism about its growth prospects from online advertising revenue. The shares increased 2.1%...
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Facebook mobile ads going strong, but supply limited
Facebook Inc.’s mobile ads appear to be more successful than standard ads on its web site. However, there is limited availability for mobile ads, which also threaten to cannibalize desktop spending....
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Are ‘friendships’ the next business strategy?
If you have 347 followers on Twitter, what are the chances that they’ll click on the same online ad you clicked on last night? Are firms trying to capitalize on the social media explosion to market...
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On the tenth day … Invite UGC
On the 10th day of marketing this column gave to you … Pointers on leveraging UGC. Anyone who has ever watched a homemade video on YouTube has experienced user-generated content, or UGC — think...
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