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Bank Regulators Still Learning To 'Like' Social Media

2012-05-30T04:04:00Z

By Jason Wallace and Suzanne Barlyn (Reuters) - As the securities industry finally warms up to using social media sites such as Faceboo...

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John Friedman: You Don't -- and Can't -- 'Control' Your Brand

2012-05-29T16:45:46Z

Face it: If you're worried what your employees are saying about you on Twitter, your problem is not Twitter. And the same applies to your customers, suppliers, and communities in which you operate.

Read more: Social Media, US Airways, United Airlines, Public Relations, Reputation Management, Marketing, Branding, Exxon Valdez, Social Networking, Small Business News

'Facebook Phone' Not Looking Good

2012-05-28T09:02:27Z

Here we go again: Facebook is apparently trying for the third time to get its phone project off the ground — snatching up iOS design and engineering...

Read more: Facebook, Facebook Cellphone, Mobile Technology, Social Networking, Facebook Phone, Technology News

Kevin Bermeister: Is Content King?

2012-05-25T16:50:57Z

The days of unrestrained Internet downloads and open access content are approaching the end. People are the Internet's biggest content owners and they want their share of value.

Read more: Google, Digital Media, Search Engines, Content, Copyright, Advertising, Social Networking, Pinterest, Digital, Cisco, Youtube, Facebook, Technology, Technology News

Kids Say The Darnedest Things -- And Parents Put Them On Twitter

2012-05-25T12:01:00Z

Moms and dads have known it for centuries: kids say the darnedest things. But before Twitter was invented, parents didn't have the privilege of sharin...

Read more: Moms and Dads, Best Tweets About Parenting, Twitter, Kid Sayings, Social Networks, Children, Funny Things Kids Say, Motherhood, Best Parenting Tweets, Fatherhood, Slideexpand, Parents News

Vicki Larson: How Facebook Makes Cheating Easier

2012-05-24T03:00:17Z

Given Facebook's recent IPO, declining stock value and founder Mark Zuckerberg's surprise wedding -- all of which happened within days of each other -- it's easy to say of Facebook's status: "It's complicated."

Read more: Internet Infidelity, Mark Zuckerberg, Cheating, Facebook, Jealousy, Porn, Therapy, Social Networking, Affairs, Divorce News

Fundacion MEPI: The Youth Vote -- Mexican Politicians Fail to Inspire in 2012

2012-05-23T15:39:07Z

Smart Mexican politicians should probably be talking to Humberto Fuentes, a young voter who will be at the polls July 1. "I like politics, but I haven't joined the ranks of any party," he said. "Politicians do not understand our language."

Read more: Josefina Vazquez Mota, Felipe Calderon, Social Networks, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Enrique Pena Nieto, Social Networking, Mexico, National Action Party, Mexico Elections, College News

The Best Way To Tell If People Are Smack Talking Your Company Online

2012-05-23T10:42:57Z

In general, a healthy percentage of the billion or so messages posted to the service each week contain feedback about companies and their services. An...

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David Briggs: Is Facebook Faith For Everyone?

2012-05-23T08:40:35Z

Will sharing my religious life make me more or less likely to get a date? Make new friends? Expand professional networks?

Read more: Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Religion, Millennials, Tim Tebow, Online Dating, Facebook, Myspace, Religion News

Meredith Chin: 5 Best Features of Facebook Groups

2012-05-22T14:12:55Z

Facebook Groups are useful for any time you want to share something with just a small group of people (your best friends, family, teammates, etc.) instead of all of your Facebook friends. Here are five tips to get the most out of them.

Read more: Facebook Privacy, New Facebook Features, Facebook, Social Networking, Facebook Groups, Technology News

Facebook Value Down About $15 Billion In Three Days

2012-05-22T13:49:22Z

Facebook shares are melting down again on Tuesday, and though the rest of the stock market doesn't seem to care, it should: This episode will likely f...

Read more: Ipos, Social Media, Video, Facebook Stock Collapse, Social Networks, Wall Street, Facebook IPO, Tech IPOs, Facebook Stock Price, Facebook, Technology, Facebook Stock, Business News

James Berman: The Antisocial Valuation: Facebook vs. Greece

2012-05-22T12:34:54Z

A Greek company in the deep end of the contrarian pool is my preferred choice. Not because it has better growth prospects. It doesn't. But it has one thing FB lacks: It's priced right for the risk.

Read more: Coca-Cola, Ipo, Social Networking, Facebook, Greece, Greek Economy, Eurozone, Greece Economy, Business News

Beverly Macy: Facebook IPO: Sizzle vs. Fizzle

2012-05-22T09:49:37Z

I'm not a huge fan of Facebook (I'm a Twitter gal). But even I can acknowledge that something seismic has shifted in how we communicate and connect and Facebook epitomizes that -- at least right now.

Read more: Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter, Business, Facebook IPO, Hiphop, Social Media, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook, Social Networking, Facebook, Myspace, Technology News

Facebook Plunges Again

2012-05-22T10:09:00Z

By Suzanne Barlyn and Ryan Vlastelica (Reuters) - Two top U.S. financial regulators said the issues around the initial public offering ...

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Facebook Stock Crash: 8 Winners And Losers

2012-05-21T15:46:17Z

Looks like the Facebook IPO has fizzled out like that North Korean rocket launch.

The stock barely managed to hold above its initial public offeri...

Read more: Social Media, Video, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook, Social Networks, Wall Street, Stocks, Facebook IPO, Facebook Ipo Fail, Facebook Stock Price, Mark Zuckerberg, Tech Bubble Death Watch, Technology, Facebook, Facebook Stock, Business News

Mark Hyman, MD: Can Social Networks Cure Disease?

2012-05-20T11:31:45Z

After Haiti I realized that the answer had to be somewhere else. If social networks can promote unhealthy lifestyles, maybe we can use social networks to create health.

Read more: Food as Medicine, Nutrition, Social Networks Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Social Networks, Pre-Diabetes, Diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes, Social Networks Diabetes, Healthy Living News

Ed Felker: Dogged: How Perseverance (and Facebook) Saved 11 Puppies

2012-05-18T18:11:39Z

"Network" is such an overused word that it feels like it's lost some of its meaning. But on the third night of the puppies' saga, a network of supporters came together to collect a dog and transport her hundreds of miles to her hungry charges.

Read more: Vizsla, Facebook, Dogs, Addaci, Puppies, Social Networking, Culture News

Natalie Thomas: Why I Took a Facebook Hiatus

2012-05-18T18:07:53Z

Facebook is addictive. You feel inclined to read, stalk and share. Only in this forum would stalking be the more acceptable practice of the three. In this case, it's the sharing that's the problem.

Read more: Easter, Sharing, Mother's Day, Status Update, Social Networking, Digital Age, Spring Break, Online, Oversharing, Facebook Status, Facebook Friends, Facebook, Costco, Comedy News

Death Watch: Billion-Dollar Startups

2012-05-18T12:53:11Z

So, the Facebook IPO did not exactly take off like a rocket. That's a blow to those, like us, who see a tech bubble forming around every corner. B...

Read more: Internet, Social Media, Small Business, Video, Social Networks, Technology Bubble, Pinterest, Startups, Tech Bubble Death Watch, Venture Capital, Technology, Tech Bubble, Business News

Facebook Ads vs. Google Ads (Infographic)

2012-05-17T09:01:44Z

Comparing the advertising power of Facebook, the world's biggest social network, to Google, the world's biggest search engine, strikes us as a little ...

Read more: Google, Google Advertising, Social Media, Social Networks, Social Networking, Facebook IPO, Facebook Advertising, Infographics, Facebook, Facebook vs. Google, Social Media Marketing, Infographic, Business News

Here's Who Desperately Needs Facebook Cash

2012-05-17T16:49:38Z

This Facebook IPO had better go well -- there's an awful lot riding on it.

Forget all of the people, including Mark Zuckerberg annd early investors...

Read more: Ipos, Video, Tech, Social Networks, Social Networking, Facebook Ipo Cash, Facebook IPO, Tech IPOs, Technology, Facebook, Business News

Should Facebook Advertising Be 'Less Creepy'?

2012-05-17T14:22:45Z

From GM's condemnation of Facebook to Facebook's own admission that it hasn't figured out mobile advertising, debate has swirled around Facebook's pot...

Read more: Social Media, Video, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook, Social Networks, Social Networking, Online Advertising, Advertising, Internet Advertising, Facebook IPO, Marketing, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Social Media Marketing, Business News

Tech Bubble Death Watch: The Facebook IPO

2012-05-17T10:05:44Z

Financial bubbles are like bad relationships. You often can't tell for sure that you're in one until it's over.

But it's usually pretty easy to s...

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Brian Ross: Facebook: The Social Emperor's $100B Invisible Suit Could Become Real, One Day

2012-05-17T10:32:07Z

Rewarding Facebook for yet another amorphous gathering of Internet humanity that avoids ads like the plague and travels digitally out of the Facebook neighborhood like a shut-in, will not make the shareholders money.

Read more: Internet Advertising, Content, Social Networking, Internet, Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Business, Internet Business, Business News

Study Claims Google+ May Be Withering On The Vine

2012-05-15T15:31:11Z

Larry Page recently called Google+ the company's "social spine." If that's the case, then Google's backbone might be much weaker than Page has been le...

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