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Tag Archives: Facebook
Atherton Gets Cash From Facebook
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By Matt Drange, The Bay Citizen Facebook’s move to Menlo Park late last year has created a small windfall for one of the richest communities on the Peninsula. The town of Atherton, a wealthy enclave near the new Facebook campus, … Continue reading
Big Facebook Bear Still Not Impressed
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Facebook has gotten some good news lately, but not enough to shake the convictions of one guy we've been talking to about the stock throughout the long post-IPO deal. As CEO of the stock analysis company PrivCo, Sam Hamadeh has … Continue reading
Facebook Posts 3Q Loss, Revenue Jumps
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NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is reporting a loss for its third quarter, though revenue rose by nearly a third. The results exceeded Wall Street's expectations. The world's biggest social media company posted a loss of $59 million, or 2 … Continue reading
A.M. Splash: Google Engineers Start at $128,336; SF Gets Earthquake Czar; San Mateo's Lehman Lawsuit Proceeds; Yelp Stings Review Buyers
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Google, Facebook, Apple top list of highest-paid software engineers (Los Angeles Times) It pays to work for Google. The tech firm topped a list of the highest-paid software engineers, with an average base salary of $128,336. Facebook was second with … Continue reading
Plugins to Kill Facebook Timeline Come With Their Own Headaches
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by G.W. Schulz, The Bay Citizen Not all of Facebook’s 900 million global users are pleased with the mega-site’s slow lurch toward what it calls Timeline, a new profile format that displays photos, updates, wall messages and more based on … Continue reading
Video: Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Facebook Woes in First Interview Post-IPO
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP and KQED) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, acknowledging concerns about his company's stock performance, said Tuesday that Facebook has survived troubles before. He spoke to a standing-room-only audience at a tech conference in San Francisco in his first … Continue reading
Watch Live: TechCrunch Disrupt SF Conference
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Update 2:50 p.m. Here are some tweeted headlines from Mark Zuckerberg's TechCrunch interview, during which he answered interviewer Michael Arrington's questions on the performance of the stock, the company's much-lamented mobile strategy, employee morale, the Instagram purchase, and more. The … Continue reading
A.M. Splash: Oracle's Spithill Wins America's Cup Prelim; Lawmakers Debate Pension Reform; Frank Gehry to Design Facebook Building
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Spithill rallies to win America’s Cup prelim (SF Chronicle) In a wild finish to the America’s Cup World Series, the winner of the final fleet nearly capsized at the finish. The bigger issue was the action that followed immediately thereafter. … Continue reading
A.M. Splash: South Bay Has Best U.S. Job Growth; UC Davis Report Excused Pepper Sprayer; SF Gangs Spill Blood
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South Bay is the nation's strongest job market (SJ Mercury News) Santa Clara County is the nation's strongest job market, measured by the region's employment gains over the most recent 12 months, federal officials reported Wednesday… During the year that … Continue reading
Facebook Earnings Meet Estimates, Shares Fall to New Low
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In the first official update of its status as a publicly traded company, Facebook reassured investors that it is, in fact, making money. It even beat analysts' expectations on revenue by a hair. You can listen to a recoding of … Continue reading
