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One Year After IPO, Facebook’s Biggest Bets Could Take a Long Time to Pay Off
The products that could do well for Facebook’s bottom line still have a long way to go. Will Wall Street stay patient?
Time Machine! Tumblr’s David Karp in 2007, Age 21.
Back when he was 21, had 75,000 users and was raising $750,000.
Syrian Electronic Army Leaves Its Mark on the Financial Times
Another western media organization is attacked by the pro-Assad group of digital pranksters.
How to Sell a Yahoo-Tumblr Deal: Point to Facebook-Instagram
Want an argument for dropping $1 billion on a company with almost no revenue? Here you go.
QOTD: And the Buyer’s Remorse Lingers On
Look out Facebook! Hours spent participating per member dropping seriously. First really bad sign as seen by crappy MySpace years ago.
– Rupert Murdoch, still steamed about that whole MySpace thing, tweets a warning to Facebook
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Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA
Effective spycraft has long called for cover — a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies’ use of social media.Kids These Days
I came to realize that there was a real need to present business wisdom in a format that is more accessible to the younger generation. It was with this in mind that I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin’, a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce.
– Andrew Mason, in a personal blog post about what he’s been up to
Will Yahoo Try to Get Its “Cool Again” by Doing a Deal for Tumblr?
Could an investment in or purchase of the hipster blogging service take years off the Silicon Valley Internet giant?
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The Facebook IPO, One Year Later
Two weeks ago, new posters began appearing at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. The posters proclaimed: “Advertisers are users too*.” At the bottom of the page, in smaller font, was the phrase “*no srsly,” Internet shorthand for “no seriously.”News Byte
