Mark Zuckerberg by Brian Solis Mark Zuckerberg and 900 million of his friends hit Wallstreet with America’s largest IPO and has once again made history. Facebook’s first trade was $ 42.05 giving the social network a valuation of ~$ 115 billion. In the process, Zuckerberg became the 29th-richest man in the world with another half [...]
In the hours before Facebook’s stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company’s 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initial public offering. Social Media News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Marketers have a bad wrap and it’s understandable. For years, college professors have been teaching old school marketing theories such as the 4 P’s of marketing with the 4th P being Promotion (or marketing). This is still the truth in the majority of today’s college curriculum (with some exceptions of course). And even today, many [...]
Facebook on Friday makes the richest-ever share offering for a technology firm, raking in billions of dollars it could wield to dethrone Google as king of the Internet. Social Media News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Twitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn’t solved the problem of turning its noise into signal. After joining Twitter, it can take a lot of following and unfollowing scores of accounts before you’ve curated a stream that makes sense for you. With its platform growing fast, Twitter is looking to make [...]
Even at 250 million Tweets per day in addition to the updates across Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, and every other feed that we willfully subscribe to, information overload is in of itself a fallacy. But the feeling the overload of information is very real and a reflection of our inability to pull the levers necessary to [...]
With investors hungry for Facebook shares ahead of a hotly anticipated offering, the social network unveiled a 25 percent increase Wednesday in the number of shares to be sold at the market debut. Social Media News Headlines – Yahoo! News
MORE TO OFFER: Facebook is responding to extraordinary demand and says more stock will be offered in the company’s initial public offering. Social Media News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Startup Prismatic claims to show you news related to “what you’re actually interested in.” Starting today, users can to reveal those interests to others with newly launched profiles. When I first heard about Prismatic, my kneejerk reaction was, “Oh God, another Flipboard competitor.” Making matters worse, the company is building a website first and doesn’t [...]
General Motors has confirmed that it is pulling its advertising from Facebook after determining that paid ads had little impact on consumers. Social Media News Headlines – Yahoo! News
