FACEBOOK News, May 26, 2012

How Nasdaq Lost Control of Facebook IPO, by the Minute CNBC.com For nearly 20 minutes on the morning of Facebook's Well after the stock was supposed to have opened at 11 am New York time, no one from Nasdaq was talking—and there was still no sign of trading. Finally, at 11:28 am, an unidentified person announced ... See all stories on this topic »

Embittered Facebook investors ponder next move Fox News To say that Facebook's debut as a public company was bungled is something like saying Facebook is a website you might have heard of. Either way, a colossal understatement. The response from small-time investors has been equal parts frustration, ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's stock debut shows not all investors are equal Boston Herald By Andrew Tangel / The Los Angeles Times NEW YORK - Facebook Inc.'s bungled stock-market debut made it clear that big money still rules Wall Street. But this time, the small money got a look at how Wall Street really works - and that could spell ... See all stories on this topic »

Why that flat Facebook IPO isn't so bad after all New York Daily News NEW YORK — The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions, but at least we don't have to worry about the one that plagues many IPOs: How are a few select investors able to buy in early at lower prices and then pocket ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

RPT-INSIGHT-Minute by minute, Nasdaq chaos engulfed Facebook IPO Reuters For nearly 20 minutes on the morning of Facebook Inc's trading debut last Friday, the line Nasdaq had opened up to keep traders informed about the social media company's $16 billion IPO had been mute. Well after the stock was supposed to have opened at ... See all stories on this topic »

A Look at How Facebook Makes Money San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Facebook is one of the most visited websites in the world, and is the most popular social network. Thenology.com breaks down their revenue. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 26, 2012 TheNology.com is tech commentary and news site it has looked at "How Facebook ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook IPO is flashback to dot-com class action Reuters A growing number of lawsuits are being filed against Facebook. Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over the botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of ... See all stories on this topic »

In Facebook's Fiasco, Hope for Reform Barron's The fiasco involving the pricing of the giant Facebook IPO could end up changing the way new equity issues get sold. The $18 billion initial public offering has thrown a harsh light on Wall Street practices that benefit institutions over retail ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's IPO Fiasco Seen as Deepening Distrust of Stock Market San Francisco Chronicle May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering, plagued by trading errors and a 16 percent drop in the share price, will push more individual investors out of a stock market they already distrust after the financial crisis. See all stories on this topic »

Facebook IPO falls short of expectations Post-Bulletin By Evelyn M. Rusli and Michael J. de la Merced Just days before Facebookwent public, some big investors grew nervous about the company's prospects. After publicly warning about challenges in mobile advertising,Facebook executives held conference ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook flop hurts small investors' trust in stocks Reuters By Jed Horowitz and Olivia Oran | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just when brokers thought Mom-and-Pop investors were getting excited about the stock market, along came Facebook. The 17 percent plunge in Facebook's shares since its ballyhooed debut last Friday, ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's pokey IPO a short-term problem looming large Chicago Tribune Those caught up in social media colossus Facebook's initial public offering are plenty angry. And there are lingering questions about the effect of Nasdaq technical woes, Goldman Sachs' allegedly selective dispersal of data and other factors on the ... See all stories on this topic » Chicago Tribune

Facebook's Brilliant Disaster New York Times No, I'm not talking about Facebook. I am referring to Splunk, an 8-year-old, money-losing, data analytics company that went public five weeks ago. Splunk's investment bankers priced the stock at $17 a share. But it closed its first day of trading at ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook ripple on IPO market already felt Reuters By Olivia Oran (Reuters) - The ripple effects of Facebook Inc's botched IPO appear to already be hitting the market for initial public offerings as two companies this week pushed back their market debuts. PC hardware components maker Corsair Components ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook IPO glitch prompts margin calls, headaches Reuters By Tim McLaughlin | BOSTON (Reuters) - Just hours before Facebook Inc made its stock market debut last Friday, Seuk Kim put in a limit order $4 above the initial public offering price. "I thought it was going to have that first day pop," Kim said. See all stories on this topic »

Facebook IPO was a case study in greed STLtoday.com FILE - In this May 18, 2012 file photo provided by Facebook, Facebookfounder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Robert Greifeld, second from right, ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook May be Eyeing Opera Web Browser, Reports Say PCWorld With Mini in hand, Facebook could vastly expand its reach into mobile. It could also mine more information about users even when they're not onFacebook. Whether any such purchase of Opera by Facebook is imminent is pure speculation, but if it happens ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook IPO offers a lesson Boston Globe By Beth Healy Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen on a big screen moments after their the firm's IPO in New York. For many investors, whether novice or experienced, the Facebook Inc. stock offering was an eye-opening lesson on the potential pitfalls... See all stories on this topic » Boston Globe

The stupid things you do on Facebook -- and how to fix them msnbc.com (blog) By Adam Dachis Reluctantly or otherwise, Facebook is the place most of us have chosen to share our lives online. In spite of its many useful features, the social media site can be a constant source of annoyance, embarrassment and trouble if you make a ... See all stories on this topic »

Star Banker Is On the Spot Wall Street Journal By ANUPREETA DAS, AARON LUCCHETTI and GINA CHON FacebookInc.'s botched initial public offering left Morgan Stanley investment banker Michael Grimes in an unusual spot: on the defensive. The 45-year-old Mr. Grimes, co-head of global technology banking ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook IPO: The end of an era Christian Science Monitor The failure of Facebook's public debut may signal the end of the pie-in-the-sky tech start up, as well as the possibility that the post-crisis recovery rally is screeching to a halt. By Bill Bonner, Guest blogger / May 25, 2012 The sun rises behind the ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO CBS News Facebook Inc. began trading publicly last Friday following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. The initial public offering of stock priced at $38 a day earlier. That was at the top of a projected range that Facebookhad already ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's Royal Wedding New York Times A publicist for Facebook eagerly offered photos afterward of the beaming couple, who met at Harvard and have dated for much of the last nine years. Well-placed anonymous sources leaked to reporters the dinner menu, which included sushi and Mexican food ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Jenkins: Guess What? Facebook Is Speculative Wall Street Journal As was true of the dot-com bubble, so with the Facebook bubble: There's a need to lie in the aftermath about what caused it. It wasn't "hype." Whatever organs of the media investors turned to, they found a range of views aboutFacebook's value, ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's Advertising Problem InformationWeek GM says Facebook ads don't work. While search was made for advertising, social will be harder for marketers. It may never be clear how much General Motors' public disparagement of Facebook advertising helped cool investor enthusiasm for the social ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook Rolling Out 'Trending Videos' [REPORT] By Alex Fitzpatrick Facebook is reportedly rolling out a "trending videos" feature that highlights videos popular with your friends. Mashable » Social Media

How Facebook Is Killing Itself! | Social Media Today By Prasant Naidu For me social media began since the good old Orkut days. In those days, most of us were unaware of the term “Social Media”. It was simply a cool way to talk and keep a tab on what friends were doing. Apart from this, it was also used as a ... Social Media Today - The world's...

Suing Facebook? Best of Luck. - Ronald Barusch - News - AllThingsD By Ronald Barusch By Wednesday, after just three days of trading, several lawsuits had been filed against Facebook complaining about the adequacy of its prospectus disclosure. However, at least so far, there is no indication that anything is wrong with that ... AllThingsD

Pedro Lozano's sandbox: Facebook Publish | drupal.org By Pedro Lozano Description. This module allows the user to post a link to a Facebook wall for the node been created or updated. Usage. Make sure you have installed and configured correctly the module fboauth. You will need to create a FB application for the ... drupal.org - Modules

Facebook Is Building The Facebook Phone Right In Front Of Our ... By Jay Yarow The core applications are being rolled out one by one. SAI

Facebook: Opera acquisition rumor suggests Facebook eying Web ... By Dan Graziano Following Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, it looks like the company has no intention of slowing down. According to a report from Pocket-l. BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Facebook to acquire Opera? [Rumor] | Ubergizmo By Gene Ryan Briones Rumor has it that Facebook is planning to acquire the company behind the Opera web browser. The rumor mill exploded earlier today from various sources on the web. According to Pocketlint, a trusted source of theirs reportedly told them that ... Ubergizmo

Report: Nasdaq Used Untested Software To Launch Facebook IPO ... By David Cohen The negative spotlight from Facebook's initial public offering refocused its glare on Nasdaq, as the stock exchange and its chief executive, Bob Greifeld, were slammed in a published report for using untested software to launch the IPO last ... AllFacebook

How Facebook Security Guards Your Info By Leslie Horn It goes without saying that Facebook has the responsibility to protect a huge number of users—900 million to be exact. But how, exactly, does it go about doing that? The Verge has an interesting look at the behind-the-scenes hidden security ... Gizmodo

Bianca Bosker: Is Facebook About to Crash Its Own Party? By Bianca Bosker Having attracted 900 million users to the biggest party in history, Facebooknow has to sell them stuff -- without being a buzz kill. The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

Facebook Camera for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch ... Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more aboutFacebook Camera on the App Store. Download Facebook Camera and enjoy it on ... itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-camera/id525898024?mt...

Facebook's IPO: Trading opens at $42 per share - May. 18, 2012 Facebook's IPO will raise at least $16 billion, making it the third-largest IPO in U.S. history. money.cnn.com/2012/05/18/technology/...ipo.../index.htm

Facebook IPO: $38 Shares Biggest Tech Offer - ABC News (Image credit: Mark Lennihan/AP Photo) Facebook announced today that its initial public offering of common stock will be priced at $38 a share, valuing the... abcnews.go.com/.../facebook-ipo-38-shares-biggest-tech-offer...

Facebook's business model - Chris Dixon Facebook relies on an old internet business model: display ads. Display ads generally hurt the user experience, and are also not very efficient at producing... cdixon.org/2012/05/15/facebooks-business-model/

Facebook, banks sued over pre-IPO analyst calls | Reuters (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and lead underwriter Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders who claimed they hid the social networking company's weakened ... www.reuters.com/.../us-facebook-lawsuit-idUSBRE84M0RK2...

Facebook vs. Twitter - NYTimes.com In the world of social networks, Facebook and Twitter can be compared to the old children's story "The Tortoise and the Hare." But this race is not judged by ... bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebook-vs-twitter/

Does Facebook Wreck Marriages? - Real-Time Advice - SmartMoney Real-Time Advice: Newlywed CEO Mark Zuckerberg may want to watch his status updates, divorce lawyers say. Facebook often gets blamed for breakups. blogs.smartmoney.com/.../does-facebook-wreck-marriages/

Historic Facebook debut falls short of expectations - Yahoo! Finance From Yahoo! Finance: The historic initial public offering of Facebook Inc did not go as planned on Friday, as the social networking company's sky-high valuation ... finance.yahoo.com/.../facebook-prices-top-range-landmark-00...

Facebook Releases Instagram Clone Facebook has released an iOS app that looks and functions almost exactly like Instagram's. mashable.com/2012/05/24/facebook-camera-app/

Facebook fiasco : CJR The repercussions have already begun, with a class-action lawsuit already filed against Facebook and Wall Street for misleading investors about the company's ... www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_facebook_fiasco.php

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