Articles tagged with facebook
Tue, May 22, 2012
Man Sent to Jail for Hacking Selena Gomez's Facebook Page
A 21-year-old British man who hacked into Selena Gomez ’s Facebook page last year has been sent to jail for 12 months.
According to ...
Tue, May 22, 2012
Insight: Morgan Stanley cut Facebook estimates just before IPO
By Alistair Barr
(Reuters) - In the run-up to Facebook's $16 billion IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, unexpectedly delivered some ...
Mon, May 21, 2012
Silicon Valley takes Facebook fizzle in stride
By Sarah McBride and Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook's lackluster initial public offering performance is a black eye for many on Wall ...
Mon, May 21, 2012
Nasdaq seen struggling with aftermath of Facebook IPO
By John McCrank
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX faces short-term costs from its botched handling of Facebook shares on their first day of trading ...
Mon, May 21, 2012
Early Facebook mutual fund buyers still in money
By Ross Kerber
(Reuters) - Fidelity Investments and other big mutual fund families that were early backers of Facebook Inc are likely still winners despite ...
Mon, May 21, 2012
Some investors still await confirmation on Facebook orders
By Jessica Toonkel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some customers of Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab are still waiting to see if their trades ...
Mon, May 21, 2012
Nasdaq alters IPO procedures after Facebook glitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc said on Monday it is changing its initial public offering trading procedures following glitches in Facebook Inc ...
Mon, May 21, 2012
Stock futures signal higher Wall Street open
(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher Wall Street open on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones ...
Sun, May 20, 2012
Nasdaq to revamp system after tech problems on Facebook IPO: WSJ
(Reuters) - The Nasdaq is planning to revamp its systems for handling stock offerings after acknowledging that technology problems had affected trading in millions of ...
Sun, May 20, 2012
Facebook shares sink 11 percent as reality overtakes hype
By Chuck Mikolajczak and John McCrank
(Reuters) - Facebook shares sank 11 percent in the first day of trading without the full support of the ...
Sun, May 20, 2012
Facebook shares could fall below IPO price: Barron's
(Reuters) - Shares in social media company Facebook Inc
Sat, May 19, 2012
Status update: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg gets married
By Mary Slosson
(Reuters) - Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update ...
Fri, May 18, 2012
Morgan Stanley made big bet on Facebook
By Nadia Damouni and Olivia Oran
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lead Facebook Inc
Fri, May 18, 2012
Facebook IPO averts "odd lot" question
By Herbert Lash
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's modest debut on Friday may have averted a potential headache for the company and regulators ...
Fri, May 18, 2012
Facebook investors left guessing after Nasdaq glitch
By John McCrank and Jonathan Spicer
(Reuters) - Individual investors were left guessing for more than two hours on Friday about whether their buy and ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
GM ad move followed failed Facebook pitch: sources
By Ben Klayman and Bernie Woodall
DETROIT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Insight: Who got Facebook IPO shares? Fairness may not come into it
By Joseph A. Giannone
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lot of loyal Facebook fans and occasional investors are discovering a hard truth this week: Money ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Morgan Stanley ups Facebook IPO share cap to 5,000
By Jessica Toonkel and Jennifer Hoyt Cummings
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, one of the three lead underwriters on the Facebook Inc ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Merrill, Morgan Stanley doling out Facebook shares
By Jennifer Hoyt Cummings and Ashley Lau
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Santa - or scrooge - has come early for advisers at Bank of America Merrill Lynch ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Historic Facebook debut falls flat
By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The historic initial public offering of Facebook Inc did not go as planned on Friday, as the social ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Facebook's Saverin fires back at tax-dodge critics
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, under fire over the tax consequences of renouncing his U.S. citizenship, said on Thursday ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Analysis: Facebook can't take Asian growth for granted
By Jeremy Wagstaff, Asia Chief Technology Correspondent
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Even as Facebook fever grips investors ahead of the social networking giant's potential $100 ...
Wed, May 16, 2012
Ad execs say jury still out on Facebook as medium
By Nicola Leske and Kate Holton
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - General Motors Inc's decision to stop advertising on Facebook may be a wake-up ...
Wed, May 16, 2012
Several brokerages stop taking Facebook IPO orders
By Jessica Toonkel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors who want Facebook Inc shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week ...
Wed, May 16, 2012
A post-IPO Facebook strategy
By David K. Randall
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Try as they might, many retail investors won't be able to get shares of Facebook in ...
Wed, May 16, 2012
Facebook IPO triggers retail investor craze
By Alistair Barr and Olivia Oran
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If "Facebook For Dummies" helped you find friends and post pictures on the world's ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
Facebook boosts IPO size by 25 percent, could top $16 billion
By Olivia Oran and Alexei Oreskovic
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc increased the size of its initial public offering by almost 25 ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
GM to drop Facebook ads due to low consumer impact
By Ben Klayman and Alexei Oreskovic
DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will stop advertising on Facebook, even as ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
GM plans to stop advertising on Facebook
(Reuters) - General Motors Co will stop advertising on Facebook, a move that comes during the same week the social networking website is due to ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
Facebook IPO promises needed revenue for California
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's initial public offering, in addition to minting a number of billionaires and millionaires, will offer something of a ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
Scared of Facebook shares? Wager on Friday's close
By David Gaffen
(Reuters) - Worried that if you buy Facebook when it starts trading Friday you'll get trampled by big banks and hedge ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
Facebook options seen listed on May 29
By Doris Frankel
(Reuters) - Traders will have their first crack at using options to hedge their bets or speculate on the direction of Facebook ...
Mon, May 14, 2012
Facebook increases IPO range to raise $12.1 billion
By Olivia Oran and Alexei Oreskovic
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc increased the price range on its initial public offering an average ...
Sun, May 13, 2012
Facebook IPO has halo effect for venture capitalists
By Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For the handful of venture capitalists who backed Facebook
Fri, May 11, 2012
Facebook's Zuckerberg says mobile first priority
By Alistair Barr
PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose limited role in promoting the No. 1 social network's market debut ...
Fri, May 11, 2012
Facebook co-founder Saverin renounces citizenship
By Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship, according to an Internal Revenue Service report ...
Fri, May 11, 2012
Analysis: Facebook friends Itaú BBA in nod to Brazil growth
By Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Olivia Oran
SAO PAULO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For most people, Facebook is a way to connect with friends and family ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
Google, Twitter quizzed on Facebook-Instagram: source
By Alexei Oreskovic
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached out to Google Inc and Twitter in an investigation into Facebook Inc ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
Facebook listing could trigger IPO surge: Nasdaq
By John McCrank
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc is looking forward to a spike in the number of companies going public in ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
Microsoft redesigns Bing, plays up Facebook link
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp unveiled a new design on Thursday for its second-ranked Bing search engine, introducing elements from Facebook and other social networks ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
Messy Facebook debut marks weak day on Wall Street
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday after a sloppy debut by Facebook Inc
Wed, May 09, 2012
Facebook to sell apps through new online hub
By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc unveiled a new hub for consumers to find games and other apps on the social network ...
Tue, May 08, 2012
Facebook's IPO already oversubscribed: source
By Alexei Oreskovic and Olivia Oran
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's record initial public offering is already oversubscribed, a source familiar with the ...
Mon, May 07, 2012
Smartphones top computers for U.S. Facebook time
By Sarah McBride
(Reuters) - The average time spent accessing Facebook via smartphone in the United States was 441 minutes in March, compared with 391 ...
Mon, May 07, 2012
Zuckerberg kicks off Facebook's IPO show in New York
By Nadia Damouni and Olivia Oran
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg took questions about the No. 1 social network's slowing ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
Factbox: Facebook's IPO: who gets rich?
By Poornima Gupta and Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The rich are going to get richer when Silicon Valley's biggest IPO starts trading ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
Bill Would Ban Nosy Employers From Demanding Facebook Passwords
UNDATED (KDAL) - U-S Senator Amy Klobuchar is co-sponsoring federal legislation that would prohibit an employer from requiring that current or potential employees turn over ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
Flo Rida Gets Served -- Literally -- on Facebook
When it comes to reneging on business in Australia, Flo Rida is learning you can run but you can't hide online. According to ...
Tue, May 01, 2012
Facebook's IPO show to hit the road on May 7: source
By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The roadshow for Facebook Inc's initial public offering is scheduled to start on Monday ...
Tue, May 01, 2012
Madonna Posts Pictures from Tour Rehearsal on Facebook
Madonna hasn't done a lot of interviews to promote her new album and tour, but she's kept up a steady stream of ...
Tue, May 01, 2012
Facebook plans to raise $10.6 billion in mega IPO
By Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc aims to raise about $10.6 billion in Silicon Valley's largest IPO ...
Sun, April 29, 2012
China tells IPO bankers to "like" Facebook: IFR
By Ken Wang and Timothy Sifert
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's internet censors have a dim view of Facebook, but that has not stopped ...
Wed, April 25, 2012
Marines discharging sergeant who criticized Obama on Facebook
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine sergeant who wrote on Facebook that he would not follow orders from President Barack ...
Tue, April 24, 2012
Facebook deals may add a week to IPO timing: source
By Alistair Barr and Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A recent acquisition spurt by Facebook Inc may add about a week to the social ...
Mon, April 23, 2012
Facebook pays Microsoft $550 million for AOL patents
By Alexei Oreskovic and Diane Bartz
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million for hundreds of patents that originated with ...
Mon, April 23, 2012
Facebook reveals revenue, profit slide ahead of IPO
By Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc reported its first quarter-to-quarter revenue slide in at least two years, a sign ...
Mon, April 23, 2012
Facebook pays Microsoft $550 million for AOL patents
By Alexei Oreskovic and Diane Bartz
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million in cash for hundreds of patents recently sold ...
Mon, April 23, 2012
Facebook pays Microsoft $550 million for AOL patents
By Alexei Oreskovic and Diane Bartz
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million in cash for hundreds of patents recently sold ...
Mon, April 16, 2012
King.com overtakes Electronic Arts on Facebook
By Georgina Prodhan
LONDON (Reuters) - European start-up King.com has overtaken video-games giant Electronic Arts on Facebook, with almost 10 million people every day ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
Facebook advertisers lose bid for class status
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc, which runs the world's largest social networking website, won a court ruling on Friday rejecting a bid ...
Mon, April 09, 2012
Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion
By Alexei Oreskovic and Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing application ...
Fri, April 06, 2012
Marine who criticized Obama on Facebook should be dismissed: panel
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A Marine who posted on Facebook that he would not follow orders from President Barack Obama should be ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
Facebook picks Nasdaq for marquee listing: source
By Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, preparing what would be Silicon Valley's largest IPO, has picked Nasdaq over the New York ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
Facebook e-commerce: the next big thing?
By Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of e-commerce start-ups, backed by some of the tech world's most pedigreed financiers, are betting ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
Analysis: Facebook e-commerce: the next big thing?
By Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of e-commerce start-ups, backed by some of the tech world's most pedigreed financiers, are betting ...
Wed, April 04, 2012
Marine sues to block discipline over Obama Facebook critique
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine facing discipline and possible discharge for using his "Armed Forces Tea Party" Facebook page ...
Tue, April 03, 2012
Facebook launches patent counterattack against Yahoo
By Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook fired back on Tuesday in its legal battle with Yahoo by accusing the Web ...
Mon, April 02, 2012
Web surfers to pay online using Facebook, Twitter
By Ben Deighton
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A one-click online payment system using Facebook and Twitter that could boost Internet sales for newspapers, music vendors and ...
Thu, March 29, 2012
Avaya IPO faces long wait amid Facebook mania
By Nadia Damouni, Nicola Leske and Olivia Oran
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Telecom equipment maker Avaya Corp may have to push out its initial public ...
Thu, March 29, 2012
Star-struck Japan PM befriends Facebook's Zuckerberg
By Chris Gallagher
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck ...
Wed, March 28, 2012
Facebook halts secondary market trading, plans for May IPO
By Alexei Oreskovic and Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next ...
Wed, March 28, 2012
Face time with Facebook CEO stirs concerns on Wall Street
By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg wants at least $5 billion from Wall Street investors, but those investors will ...
Tue, March 27, 2012
Madonna Fans Launch Facebook Campaign to Get Tarantino to Direct Her Video
On Saturday night, Madonna told Jimmy Fallon during a Facebook chat that she wanted Quentin Tarantino to direct the video for "Gang Bang," a ...
Mon, March 26, 2012
Facebook: Evidence shows NY man's lawsuit is fraud
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc urged a federal judge on Monday to throw out a lawsuit by a New York wood pellet salesman who said he ...
Mon, March 26, 2012
Facebook: Evidence shows New York man's lawsuit is fraud
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc urged a federal judge on Monday to throw out a lawsuit by a New York wood pellet salesman who said he ...
Mon, March 26, 2012
Madonna Talks Children, Tour, Tarantino & Her Presidential Platform with Fallon on Facebook
How did you spend your Saturday night? Madonna spent it chatting with Jimmy Fallon live on Facebook, in what she said would be her ...
Fri, March 23, 2012
Facebook, lawmakers warn employers not to demand passwords
By Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and lawmakers have warned employers against requesting Facebook passwords while screening job applicants, a controversial practice that ...
Thu, March 22, 2012
Marine sergeant faces discipline for Facebook critique of Obama
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The Marine Corps has initiated disciplinary action against a Marine sergeant for comments he posted on his "Armed ...
Thu, March 22, 2012
Facebook buys 750 patents from IBM: source
By Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook has acquired hundreds of patents from International Business Machines Corp as the social networking ...
Tue, March 20, 2012
Jimmy Fallon to Interview Madonna Live on Facebook
Madonna will sit down with late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon in a live chat that'll stream on Facebook .
Fallon and Madge ...
Mon, March 19, 2012
Facebook underwriters to get 1.1 percent fee: source
By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will pay a fee of just 1.1 percent to underwriters of its initial ...
Wed, March 14, 2012
SEC charges SharesPost, Felix over pre-IPO trading
By Sarah N. Lynch and Aruna Viswanatha
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators brought charges against an online trading platform and two private funds ...
Tue, March 13, 2012
Watch out Facebook, Twitter. Here comes Pinterest
By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Christina Gomez has carefully displayed her dream cribs, rockers and mobiles on Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin ...
Tue, March 13, 2012
Watch out Facebook, Twitter. Here comes Pinterest
By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Christina Gomez has carefully displayed her dream cribs, rockers and mobiles on Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin ...
Tue, March 13, 2012
Facebook summons Wall Street for pre-IPO briefing
By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is taking the next step on its IPO journey and has summoned research analysts from ...
Mon, March 12, 2012
Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents
By Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising ...
Mon, March 12, 2012
Madonna Posts Photos of Her Rehearsal-Bruised Body on Facebook
Madonna's working super-hard to get her upcoming tour ready for public consumption, and she's got the bruises to show for it. On ...
Sat, March 10, 2012
VIDEO: Kony 2012 sweeping the planet with over 65 million views on Youtube
UNDATED (WKZO) -- It began as a one man revolution to change how the world sees Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. It has become an amazing ...
Fri, March 09, 2012
Facebook co-founder buys New Republic magazine
(Reuters) - Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former online strategist for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, has purchased ...
Thu, March 08, 2012
Facebook alumni flex muscles, dabble in politics
By Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook's original friends are moving into politics.
Small investments in NationBuilder, a political campaign software startup, by ...
Thu, March 08, 2012
Facebook adds women, minority-owned banks for IPO
By Olivia Oran
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc added several women- and minority-owned investment banks to the roster of underwriters for its initial public offering, following ...
Wed, March 07, 2012
Facebook adds 25 more underwriters for IPO
By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc added 25 banks to help underwrite the company's initial public offering, meaning ...
Sun, March 04, 2012
Tornado victims flock to Facebook for helping hand
By Mary Slosson
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Residents of the storm-ravaged communities in the Midwest are reaching out to each other, neighbor to neighbor, through ...
Sat, March 03, 2012
Tajikistan blocks access to Facebook and news sites
By Roman Kozhevnikov
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan blocked local access to Facebook and two Russian-language sites that published an article critical of its long-serving president ...
Fri, March 02, 2012
Facebook adding banks for IPO: sources
By Alistair Barr and Nadia Damouni
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will add banks in coming weeks to help underwrite its initial public offering ...
Fri, March 02, 2012
Analysis: Facebook seeks breakthrough in mobile ad market
By Georgina Prodhan
BARCELONA (Reuters) - For Facebook it must look like a no-brainer -- exploit its huge consumer loyalty and half a billion mobile phone ...
Thu, March 01, 2012
Yelp soars in market debut on Facebook optimism
By Nicola Leske
(Reuters) - Consumer review website Yelp Inc made a sparkling market debut on Friday, buoyed by optimism ahead of Facebook's public ...
Thu, March 01, 2012
Exclusive: Facebook seeking bigger credit line
By Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc plans to increase its $2.5 billion credit line to help cover a major tax hit ...
Thu, March 01, 2012
Zynga seeks own game space away from Facebook
By Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - Zynga Inc is launching a new games service that allows users to play on the company's website instead ...
Wed, February 29, 2012
Facebook Pages to be on smartphones in 2012: executive
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook marketing executive Mike Hoefflinger said on Wednesday that Facebook Pages will be available on smartphones later in 2012.
Hoefflinger also ...
Wed, February 29, 2012
Angry Birds fly to Facebook, Asia and ... Space
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Finnish gaming firm Rovio expects to boost growth for months to come, with expansion in Asia, to Facebook and with the launch ...
Wed, February 29, 2012
Facebook woos Madison Ave in pre-IPO mobile push
By Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook has unveiled new ways for businesses to reach its 845 million users ...
Wed, February 29, 2012
Chinese relish crack in Great Firewall, log on to Facebook
By Melanie Lee
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Some Chinese Internet users have this week been able to access blocked websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter ...
Tue, February 28, 2012
M&A angle seen in Yahoo patent demand on Facebook
By Dan Levine
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo could be trying to boost its acquisition value by demanding licensing fees from Facebook for the use ...
Mon, February 27, 2012
Yahoo threatens Facebook as patent war looms
By Dan Levine
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially ...
Mon, February 27, 2012
Facebook offers olive branch to mobile carriers
By Georgina Prodhan
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Facebook said it could team up with mobile operators on payments, in an offer that would give them back ...
Wed, February 15, 2012
In Brazil, Google paves Facebook's path to the top
By Asher Levine
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Facebook's popularity in Brazil has exploded over the past year, and the company may have its biggest ...
Tue, February 14, 2012
Lucille Ball stars in "I Love Lucy" Facebook game
By John Gaudiosi
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA (Reuters) - Although, technically speaking, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley never left small screens thanks ...
Mon, February 13, 2012
Proxy adviser ISS slams Facebook share structure
(Reuters) - Facebook diminishes shareholder rights with its dual-class share structure and limits the accountability of its board of directors to investors, proxy advisory group ...
Fri, February 10, 2012
Toymakers look to 80s, apps and Facebook for hits
By Dhanya Skariachan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coming off a year in which U.S. toy sales fell 2 percent, toymakers and buyers at the ...
Thu, February 09, 2012
Facebook "defriending" led to double murder, police say
By Tim Ghianni
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - A Tennessee couple who "defriended" a woman on Facebook were murdered in their home by the jilted woman ...
Wed, February 08, 2012
Analysis: Investor activists see little to "like" in Facebook
By Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new crop of companies entering the U.S. public markets, including such high-profile offerings as Facebook, are ...
Wed, February 08, 2012
Facebook afterglow lights up IPO markets
By Ashutosh Pandey
(Reuters) - The excitement generated by Facebook's IPO filing rubbed off on companies listing on U.S. stock exchanges on Wednesday ...
Tue, February 07, 2012
Analysis: More than just Great Firewall awaits Facebook in China
By Melanie Lee
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest Internet population might seem ...
Tue, February 07, 2012
CalSTRS wants Facebook board to expand, add women
(Reuters) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System, the second-largest largest pension fund in the United States, wants Facebook Inc
Tue, February 07, 2012
German police use Facebook pictures to nab crooks
By Alice Baghdjian
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons ...
Tue, February 07, 2012
Facebook will release more user data: lobby group
VIENNA (Reuters) - Social media network Facebook has promised to release more information about the data it collects from millions of users, an Austrian group ...
Mon, February 06, 2012
Facebook governance a concern for California pension fund
By Paritosh Bansal and Soyoung Kim
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking ...
Mon, February 06, 2012
As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue
n">(Reuters) - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating ...
Sun, February 05, 2012
Facebook looks to mobile devices for revenue: report
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public ...
Sun, February 05, 2012
As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue
By Peter Lauria
(Reuters) - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
Facebook's high tax rate likely to drop
By Nanette Byrnes
(Reuters) - Facebook, the social network giant on the verge of a huge initial public stock offering, pays an unusually high tax ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
No "Facebook fatigue" for longtime users: survey
By Ian Simpson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So much for "Facebook fatigue."
A survey released on Friday shows that people who have used the social networking ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
A sobering look at Facebook
By Sarah McBride and Poornima Gupta
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - It's the year's hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
Wisconsin woman accused of selling fake Facebook stock
By Brendan O'Brien
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook's much-anticipated ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
Advice to new Facebook millionaires: take a breath
By Jennifer Hoyt Cummings
(Reuters) - The first thing the 1,000 or so new post-IPO Facebook millionaire employees might need: a reality check.
Financial ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
They're not Facebook, but social media stocks run up anyway
By Angela Moon and Doris Frankel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The hype over Facebook's initial public offering has excited investors revisiting other social media ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
Groupon basks in Facebook light, for now
By Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc shares jumped to their highest level of 2012 Thursday as the daily deal company got a ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
Zynga shares soar on Facebook connection
By Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - Zynga shares jumped as much as 22 percent on Thursday in the first trading session after Facebook revealed it ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
How to play it: Facebook readies its IPO
By David Randall
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Depending on who you ask, Facebook is either the best company to go public since Google or the ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
Analysis: Facebook's daunting Asian challenge
By Jeremy Wagstaff, Asia technology correspondent
(Reuters) - Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of ...
Wed, February 01, 2012
JPMorgan wows Wall Street with Facebook IPO win
By Nadia Damouni
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co surprised Wall Street by winning a leading role in Facebook's much anticipated public offering, besting other banks that have competed for months for the coveted position.
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Group Inc got the lead roles in the IPO, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital and Allen & Co also landed underwriting roles.
The banks were told that they had all made the cut during a commitment meeting on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said. Generally, banks assuming these roles are told months in advance of a company filing for an initial public offering.
Facebook submitted its IPO documents to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The company expects to raise targeted $5 billion.
Two other sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday that JPMorgan's months of schmoozing with Facebook executives paid off in the end. JPMorgan is ranked No. 4 among banks that advised on U.S. technology IPOs in 2011.
JPMorgan's Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, veteran rainmaker Jimmy Lee and other senior executives courted Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman over the last year to help pave the way for the offering. Ebersman is leading the IPO process, one of the sources said.
As recently as December, Dimon visited Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, to establish its position within the team of bookrunners, the sources said.
Lee has had a business relationship with Sandberg for years, which has allowed him to learn about Facebook's culture among senior executives, one of the sources said.
Both Dimon and Lee saw Facebook as one of the next "Blue Chips," and JPMorgan stepped in early to build a commercial relationship, including spending millions of dollars to help Facebook build a data center, the source said.
The hard-won mandate is likely to bode well for JPMorgan's league table rankings.
Currently, JPMorgan is ranked after Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs in the league tables for U.S. listed technology IPOs, according to Thomson Reuters data.
This counts because the banks may be doing the deal more for prestige than money. Facebook's IPO could set a new standard for how much investment banks are willing to lower their advisory fees to win big business [ID:nL2E8CQEDA].
Banks may offer their underwriting services for as little as 1 percent of gross proceeds, sources have said, compared with the 7 percent fee that smaller deals typically fetch, or the 2 or 3 percent that large deals tend to command.
The underwriters established their relationship with the social network company over the last year through investments and loans.
In December 2010 and January 2011, Goldman Sachs purchased 69.5 million shares of Facebook's Class A common stock for $1.45 billion, according to filing. In 2010 and 2011, Morgan Stanley purchased shares of Facebook's Class B common stock.
A year ago, Facebook entered into a credit agreement with five lenders, including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Barclays to borrow up to $1.5 billion in revolving loans, according to the filing.
In September 2011, the credit agreement was amended to increase the borrowing capacity to $2.5 billion, the filing said.
(Reporting By Nadia Damouni; Additional reporting by Alistair Barr and Stephen Lacey; editing by Paritosh Bansal)
Wed, February 01, 2012
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Tue, January 31, 2012
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Fri, January 27, 2012
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Fri, January 27, 2012
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Thu, January 26, 2012
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Tue, January 24, 2012
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Thu, January 19, 2012
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Wed, January 11, 2012
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Fri, December 23, 2011
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Wed, December 21, 2011
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Wed, December 14, 2011
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Thu, December 08, 2011
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Tue, December 06, 2011
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Mon, December 05, 2011
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Fri, December 02, 2011
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Tue, November 29, 2011
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Mon, November 28, 2011
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By Jonathan Stempel
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The takeover prompted an unusual November 21 filing by Merck KGaA with a New York state court.
In it, Merck KGaA sought to force Facebook to explain how it lost the page, http://www.facebook.com/merck, and the ability to administer it to Merck & Co, a separate company.
Facebook plans to make the URL http://www.facebook.com/merck unavailable for use until both Mercks agree which company may use it. The companies may request other URLs and maintain presences on Facebook.
"The transfer of the vanity URL Facebook.com/Merck from Merck KGaA to Merck & Co was due to an administrative error," Facebook said in a statement. "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
Merck & Co spokesman Ronald Rogers said, "We are going to continue to have a Facebook page. It is an active webpage. We are continuing to look into the matter of the vanity URL."
A Merck KGaA spokesman said, "We are happy with Facebook's apology, and we are still looking into the matter."
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Merck KGaA asked a New York judge to force Facebook Inc to turn over information to help determine how the German company lost the page, http://www.facebook.com/merck , and the ability to administer it.
According to a Monday filing with a New York state court in Manhattan, Merck KGaA contracted with Facebook in March 2010 for exclusive use of the page, but discovered last month that the unrelated Merck & Co was using it.
Facebook "has not been cooperative" in restoring the page, and in several alleged communications appeared nonresponsive or evasive in dealing with Merck KGaA, the filing said.
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Fri, September 23, 2011
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Thu, September 22, 2011
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Mon, June 20, 2011
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Fri, June 17, 2011
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