May 19th
The world kept moving ahead of Friday’s Facebook stock debut, which, it turned out, wasn’t all that spectacular. Did you manage to tear yourself away from the IPO coverage? [Read more]
Original post: This week in Crave: The Facebook phone home edition
May 19th
NEW YORK, May 19 — US stocks fell yesterday as investors turned cautious before leaders of the Group of Eight nations met about the euro zone debt crisis and after a shaky market debut by Facebook Inc. The S&P 500 dipped below the 1,300 level, seen as a key support point, for the first time since mid-January, before the meeting by the leaders of …
Original post: US stocks: Wall Street falls before G8 leaders meet on euro zone
May 18th
NEW YORK, May 19 — World stocks erased the year’s gains yesterday as investors fled risky investments for safe-haven assets on concerns about the euro zone‘s deepening debt woes, while US stocks lost ground after the market debut of social network Facebook failed to lift optimism. Brent crude briefly slipped below US$107 (RM334.91) per barrel to ..
Read the original here: World stocks fall into negative territory for year
May 18th
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 — For a company that is dramatically upending business strategies and social relationships around the world, Facebook Inc made a surprisingly modest debut on the Nasdaq yesterday as a sky-high valuation and trading glitches capped the stock’s rise.
Read the rest here: Historic Facebook IPO marred by trading glitches
May 18th
CNET created a “timeline” to highlight important milestones along Facebook’s road from a Harvard dorm room project to a giant public company. [Read more]
Read the rest here: Key moments in Facebook history (graphic)
May 18th
People in the U.S. gobbled up a whole lot of videos from YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, Hulu, and other sites in April, according to ComScore. [Read more]
Follow this link: Americans watched 37 billion online videos last month
May 18th
NEW YORK, May 18 — Facebook Inc shares opened 11 per cent higher today, after the pioneering online social network raised as much as US$18.4 billion (RM57.59 billion) in one of the biggest initial public offerings in US history.
See the original post here: Facebook shares rise 11pc in frenzied trade
May 18th
On the eve of Facebook’s IPO, the estranged company co-founder offers congratulations to fellow co-founder but manages to mangle the surname spelling. [Read more]
See the rest here: Saverin posts congrats to ‘Zukerberg’
May 18th
NEW YORK, May 18 − US stocks were set to open higher today but major indexes were still setting up to close their worst week of the year, while Facebook’s market debut could help lift battered investor sentiment. The S&P has fallen 6.7 per cent so far in May, and while volatility is expected to continue, some analysts were forecasting a near-term …
Read more: US stocks: Wall Street to rise after steep decline as Facebook debuts
May 17th
Greenlight, a digital marketing agency, says that 44 percent of Facebook users would “never” click on ads on the social network.
Read the original post: Study: You’re not clicking on Facebook ads — and you never will