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News 7 new results for facebook   Facebook passes $38 initial public offering price Salt Lake Tribune On Wednesday, the share price of the world's most populous social network —and human data repository— briefly crept past $38 for the first time since its rocky public debut last May. In doing so, Facebook cleared a symbolic hurdle that has eluded the  ... See all stories on this topic » Biz Break: Facebook's rebound , Apple goes to China San Jose Mercury News Early investors who bought Facebook shares at its IPO price of $38 got a brief window to break even Wednesday. Shares of Facebook topped its $38 IPO price on Wednesday -- by 31 cents -- then plummeted to a $36.83 closing price. But don't shed too many  ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook posts coming to the wider Web PCWorld Get ready for a whole lot more Facebook content to start appearing around the Web. The social network kicked off a new program Wednesday that lets website...

Blogs 10 new results for facebook   Facebook tests 'On This Day' tab in News Feed - Inside Facebook By Justin Lafferty Facebook is testing a new way to get users to spend more time on News Feed. Inside Facebook ... Facebook confirmed to Inside Facebook that this is something they're testing in select users' News Feeds, but didn't offer any additional details. Inside Facebook Towards a More Public Social Network: Facebook Rolls out ... By Mike Isaac Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will roll out embedded posts, giving users the ability to stick their status updates in pages across the Web, and outside of Facebook . Photos, status updates, posts with hashtags, videos — all are now  ... AllThingsD Today's Scuttlebot: Facebook Is Like Playing the Slots - NYTimes.com By By THE NEW YORK TIMES The New York Times's staff scours the Web for important and peculiar items. Wednesday's selections include an examination of the psychology of g...

News 24 new results for facebook   Facebook Shares Touch a Symbolic Threshold New York Times (blog) The catalyst for the rise was the company's surprisingly strong second-quarter earnings report last Wednesday, which quelled many investors' doubts about Facebook's ability to make money from its legions of mobile users and suggested that the company's  ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook migrates everyone to https connection CNET "We now use https by default for all Facebook users," Facebook infrastructure engineer Scott Renfro wrote in a blog post on the update. "This feature ... means that your browser is told to communicate with Facebook using a secure connection, as ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook rebuffs UN team request on Somali pirates Times of India A report by the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea this month pointed out that while many private companies helped in the group's investiga...

News 16 new results for facebook   Facebook fights for real-time relevance with embedded posts CNET The new feature is intended to let media organizations, and eventually everyone else, embed public Facebook updates such as photos, videos, hashtags, and other posts from people or Pages on their own Web sites. Viewers of the embedded content can  ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook rebuffs UN team request on Somali pirates San Jose Mercury News NAIROBI, Kenya -- United Nations investigators hoped they would get some help from Facebook when they asked to see information on suspected pirates operating in Somalia. But Facebook refused. A report by the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia and  ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook , Google Vets Launch Mobile Word Processor, Quip PC Magazine Word processing has come a long way since Macintosh released MacWrite in 1984. The most recent incarnation comes in the form of iOS app Quip, which allows user...

News 16 new results for facebook   Facebook Launches Mobile Game Publishing Program InformationWeek The new publishing program arrives following the decision by Facebook and social game company Zynga late last year to have a more open marriage: The companies renegotiated their previously close relationship to allow Zynga to distribute its games  ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook Video Ads: What To Expect InformationWeek But one thing is certain: Facebook users hate change, and this new addition to the news feed will likely upset many. But for the social network, which now boasts 1.15 billion users, video ads will be lucrative. Brands can expect to spend between $1 ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook Gets Into Gaming; First Bioshock Infinite DLC; Bradley Manning Verdict PC Magazine Topping tech headlines on Tuesday, Facebook unveiled a mobile games pilot program intended to help up-and-coming game developers gain more exposure on the socia...

News 25 new results for facebook   Facebook launches mobile game platform, edges near IPO price Washington Post (blog) The program, according to a page on the social network's Web site, says that the pilot program is aimed at helping "small and medium-sized developers take their games global." Launching a game on Facebook's mobile platform, the social network noted,  ... See all stories on this topic » Ex- Facebook CTO Bret Taylor launches Quip word processor CNET Bret Taylor, the former CTO at Facebook and an engineer who helped launch Google Maps, has launched a new company called Quip intent on creating a "productivity suite for the mobile era." Along with Kevin Gibbs, the former technical lead on the Google  ... See all stories on this topic » Facebook Draws More Young Prime-Time Viewers Than Major Networks Businessweek Facebook Inc. (FB:US), the largest social-networking company, attracts more 18- to 24-year-old people during prim...