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Friday, August 31, 2012
Facebook Stock Dips To Below Half Of IPO Value
Just when it seemed as if news could not get any worse for Facebook's Wall Street standing, the value of the company's shares dipped Friday to less than half of its $38 opening price. The company's stock opened at a slipped-down price today from pre-market trading and has continued its downward slopeto a share price of just over $18. Morningstar, which gives Facebook a four-star rating,listed yesterday's last share price as $18.25.... read more>>
Social Media Jobs: High 5 Games, Ubisoft
This week, High 5 Games is hiring a senior graphic designer, a digital illustrator, a graphic designer and a project manager. Meanwhile, Ubisoft needs a new active game manager. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro. Senior Graphic Designer High 5 Games (Mahwah, NJ) Digital Illustrator High 5 Games (Mahwah, NJ) Graphic Designer High 5 Games (New York, NY) Project Manager High 5 Games (New York, NY) Active... read more>>
Clint Eastwood Steals The Show On Facebook At Final Night Of RNC
The Republican National Convention audience wasn't shy about turning to Facebook to share their views during Gov. Mitt Romney's acceptance speech, but it was posts about Clint Eastwood's curious address that quickly overwhelmed the site long after the last balloon dropped on the convention floor. Public Facebook posts were appearing at a rapid-fire pace - about 25 posts every second in my feed - during the former Massachusetts governor's speech. Though Romney... read more>>
Facebook Highlights GOP-Flavored Apps Over Drinks At Republican Convention
The six hottest political apps for Facebook were the talk of Tampa, Fla. today during the social network's cocktail reception they're calling "Apps and Drinks." Facebook held its first Apps and Drinks event at the Republican National Convention today with a similar event planned next week in Charlotte, N.C., when the Democrats have their turn in the spotlight. Apps are the craze this election cycle. Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign drew attention -... read more>>
Facebook Contest May Have Taylor Swift Sing At School For The Deaf
Facebook pranksters have struck again. Earlier this year, users played with a Facebook contest to send rapper Pitbull to the most remote Walmart possible - Kodiak, Alaska. Now a contest sponsored by Chegg and Papa John to send singer Taylor Swift to perform at a high school or college has been taken over. There's a campaign to send Swift to Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Allston, Mass. The contest -... read more>>
Facebook Updates Graph API To Make Data More Accessible To Developers
Developers were pleased with Thursday's improvements to Facebook's Graph API, which allows them to access data in the social graph quicker and easier. Facebook updated field expansion and made a tweak to pagination. Facebook software engineer Harshdeep Singh announced the changes in the site's developers blog: Field expansion significantly improves performance for API calls and reduces your coding effort for retrieving data from the social graph. You can now make advanced Graph API... read more>>
Use Bing To Search Friends' Facebook Photos
The Bing-Facebook integration continues to deepen. The Microsoft search engine announced Thursday that you can now use the site to search friends' photos. No, this doesn't mean those embarrassing photos from spring break are open for the general public to see on Bing. When you visit the site, you can only search for your friends' photos that have been made viewable. Bing explains that now users don't have to mine through profiles... read more>>
Facebook Respects Users' Rights More Than You Might Think
It seems like on a weekly basis, Facebook rolls out a new feature that promptsusers to accuse the site of playing a 21st-century Big Brother. However, an attorney-turned-tech entrepreneur feels that Facebook is actually one of the better social media sites, in terms of respecting users' rights.Andrew Nicol recently launched Clickwrapped, a comparison of the terms of service and privacy policies on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia and Twitter. Of... read more>>
Built-in Post Targeting Rolled Out To Facebook Pages With More Than 5,000 Likes
Facebook has been testing more advanced methods of post targeting, allowing select pages to target posts based on gender, age, language or location. Now sister site Inside Facebook reports that all pages with more than 5,000 likes have this ability. If your page has more than 5,000 likes, here's what the new feature looks like: Page administrators can choose to target news feeds of specific types of user, based on categories such as... read more>>
Another Update For Apple Devices: Facebook Page Manager
Facebook is putting some serious work into its Apple iOS devices. After giving Facebook and Messenger applications an upgrade, the site turned its attention to Page Manager. Facebook announced recently an update for those who manage their pages using their Apple devices. The Page Manager update includes the ability to display the page cover photo, swipe to view photos in the album and gives admins the power to change the profile photo,... read more>>
Could Facebook Make Waves With Waze?
Facebook has made quite the flurry of acquisitions lately. Last week, the social network acquired Threadsy. The word on Wednesday is that Facebook could consider purchasingWaze, developer of a well-liked, free, community-based traffic-nav app. Waze has nearly 6,200 users talking about it and the app has garnered 126,000 likes. The rumors of the possible acquisition were first reported by Israeli financial daily newspaperGlobes,then followed byForbesandBGR.Reports claim that there was a recent tête-Ã-têtebetween... read more>>
California Gives Thumbs-Up To Facebook/Instagram Deal
The long-awaited acquisition of Instagram by Facebook cleared another major hurdle on Wednesday. The California Department of Corporations approved the social network's request to issue stock following the purchase of the popular photo-sharing application. While the deal has yet to officially close, it is almost a done deal. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the deal was approved by the California Department of Corporations, who declared that the deal was fair. Last... read more>>
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