If you have suicidal Facebook tendencies — as in, you want off the social network but just can't bare to part with your photos, wall posts, and all those precious, precious likes — then you should probably try playing the new game Social Roulette. If you feel lucky.
There won't be any more surprises (we think) with the Facebook IPO. In a week that saw Facebook raise the number of shares it was selling by 25 percent (some 85 million) and raise its price range, sources tell CNBC that the current $34-$38 range for shares will be its final price range.
After receiving a $100 million investment from Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, the "next Facebook," got a valuation 50 percent bigger than the already unbelievable price of Instagram.
Eduardo Saverin's plan to renounce his American citizenship to save millions in taxes is getting more complicated: a pair of lawmakers want to tax Saverin even if he flees to Singapore and then bar him from ever returning to the United States.
Today in publishing and literature: The Problem With Translated Books; Robert Caro To Tweet (Someday), and a Facebook memoir from The Zuck's former assistant.
As Facebook gears up for its big IPO day tomorrow, its hallmark metrics -- advertising and engagement -- have started to look as murky as ever.
Proving that this Facebook IPO, a.k.a. the sexiest thing to happen to Wall Street, just might be unstoppable, Zuckerberg and friends announced today that the company would be selling 25 percent more shares on Friday--421.2 million to be exact.
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Once upon a time a big tech company bought a smaller photo sharing tech start-up and ruined both.
General Motors is ending their $10 million ad campaign with Facebook, reports The Wall Street Journal, because the automaker determined their ads "had little impact on consumers."
Apple's update to its iCloud service sounds a lot like Instagram.
Don't blame us. Look in the mirror and blame that optimistic, wide-eyed investor who totally bought the hype, looking right back at you. Because of him or her, Zuckerberg and Co. have now raised the price range on their stock to $34-$38
As the world braces for Facebook's earthshaking IPO, a new AP-CNBC poll shows that most Americans don't trust Facebook and are not optimistic about the company's future.
Unlike the other Internet tech bubble before it, this social media variant, which the Facebook IPO will only further prove exists, has kept its money pretty contained.
As you might imagine, Facebook's initial public offering is going to amount to a pretty hefty tax bill for the company's main stakeholders, but don't you worry, they have lawyers who are helping them avoid paying as much of it as possible.
There's a lot of nothing going on in the tech industry because companies are no longer motivated by technology, but by crazy, super-fast success.
There's nothing much heroic about Mark Zuckerberg or the social network he runs -- it's a website and he's just the nerdy awkward man-boy who runs the operation. Or is there something more?
It's that time of year again, boys and girls: Time for Facebook to test the boundaries of how much of your data it can collect and sell to advertisers.
In a move that will test your Social Network sympathy, shafted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has decided to renounce his U.S. citizenship just before that vaunted Facebook IPO and save several yachts-ful (heck, planes, too) of money.
How do we explain the two contradictory headlines about Facebook's IPO this morning? From Reuters, we get "Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed: source"; and from Bloomberg comes, Facebook IPO Said to Get Weaker-Than-Forecast Demand."
The road to Facebook's IPO didn't get any smoother Thursday, when The Financial Times' April Dembowsky reported an impending Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company's Instagram purchase.
Following Google's unsuccessful rollout of its Google+-integrated social search at the beginning of the year, Bing has announced its own version of the same idea, which, interestingly, does not involve Google+.
Silicon Valley likes to think it has a nice meritocracy going on, where smarts and ingenuity trump money and social class, but the circle of tech companies, described in today's New York Times proves, yet again, that's not exactly how it works.
In the sixth update to its S-1 filing so far, Facebook admitted in unambiguous terms on Wednesday that it's in trouble on the mobile front and not quite sure what to do about it.
Mark Zuckerberg has committed a big business-fashion faux-pas, say the very fashionable suits of Wall Street, who are chastising the nerd-turned-billionaire for wearing his hoodie on day one of his big IPO road-show.
After two days on the road, Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg has not impressed investors with his business savvy, when that's just what he should be doing.
After proclaiming in that loud-and-proud BuzzFeed way that Facebook's social reader collapsed because nobody liked product, Buzzfeed's John Herrman still won't take back that assessment, even after TechCrunch's Josh Constine proved him wrong.
Based on accounts we've seen, the first stop on Facebook's IPO roadshow was a hectic event.
Discovered: The official medical scale for Facebook addiction, dino farts caused global warming, the high risk of assisted reproduction techniques, and a crocodile big enough to eat humans.
With Facebook's IPO debut upon us, we're seeing a shift in perception of the once immature founders: They've gone from a bunch of lucky kids to shrewd entrepreneurs and CEOs.
At the annual shareholder's meeting for Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday, Warren Buffett and his business partner, Charlie Munger, both said they won't be investing in Facebook when the tech company finally releases its IPO.
A judge has ruled that "liking" something on Facebook doesn't protect you under the First Amendment, which is bad news for at least one man in Virginia.
Just a few days before their IPO roadshow is set to kick off, Facebook has released a half-hour long video love letter to would-be investors.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Eduardo Savarin, the shafted founder of Facebook we all got to know via Andrew Garfield's portrayal in The Social Network, is living quite the lavish life as a pseudo-celebrity in Singapore.
Investors gritted their teeth on Thursday afternoon when The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook will set its initial public offering in the high-$20 to mid-$30 range, putting the social network at a $85 to $95 billion valuation.
As Facebook has become more hegemonic, about a quarter of its users have started crafting fake personae, fudging some personal details on the social network in order to, they say, protect their privacy and data, according to a new Consumer Reports survey.
Less than a week before Facebook starts its IPO roadshow on Monday, advertisers have started to figure out that Facebook's ad strategy isn't all that strategic.
Mark Zuckerberg has been an easy target of late--from going rogue to buy Instagram to the constant privacy concerns. But we're going to put our snark aside for a moment and hope his new project aimed at promoting organ donation actually works.
His fate's been in limbo for nearly three weeks, but on Wednesday, Sgt. Gary Stein was discharged from the Marines without honor for making fun of the president on Facebook.
CNBC reports that Facebook's much-ballyhooed IPO may be pushed from May to June due to "a string of acquisitions and other business distractions."
Dissatisfied with this afternoon's inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame, Gizmodo has posted an alternate list of people it says "made the Internet worth coming to in the first place, and kept us clicking."
In the amendment Facebook filed Monday to its S-1 SEC filing, some of the best information about the company is embedded in the infographics it used to illustrate its points.
Lost in the thunder of Facebook buying Instagram for $1 billion a few weeks ago was Microsoft buying a portfolio of patents from AOL for the same amount, a portfolio which Microsoft has now parlayed into a $550 million cash deal with Facebook.
This weekend, we got the latest in a recent spate of articles arguing how technology and social media has led humanity to lead lonelier, shallower lives with a diatribe from MIT's Sherry Turkle in The New York Times, who believes today's youth, growing up in an Internet controlled world, don't know how to have a real-life, deep conversation.
The social media sphere continued to spin this week as spring set in. National Amusements topped the charts, bumping Disney down to number two. Whereas the rest of the top 10 stayed stagnant, there was a lot of movement in the teens, with NBC Universal and WWE both winning the biggest mover status.
Wall Street analysts and tech bloggers are still talking about the news of Facebook acquiring Instagram, holding a magnifying glass close to the deal to see if they might spot a clue about the imminently huge Facebook initial public offering.
As more details of the Instagram deal come out, it has become clear that Mark Zuckerberg pulled off a big billion dollar app deal while he still could, before the Facebook founder has to answer to the shareholders and board members of a public company.
The new "Listen" button on Facebook musician pages does exactly what you think it should do: It plays that artist's music, for free and for as long as you want to play it.
Greenpeace isn't pulling any punches with its annual report on Internet companies and their energy consumption.
It seems like every time we turn around, Google's trying to convince everybody that they're the best and every other tech company is just the worst. And who can blame them?
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