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Sat, 25 May 2013 04:14:00 -0400

Facebook and Google Lead 7th Asian Publishing Convention

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:00 -0400

Can Marissa Mayer leave those crazy kids alone?

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:57:05 -0400

How should Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, a CEO in her late thirties, manage a millennial like Adam Karp, the idealistic founder of Tumblr? Very carefully, writes John Shinal.

Most Active Options: Facebook Inc (FB), Netflix, and Freeport-McMoRan

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:15:00 -0400

Of the 20 equities seeing the heaviest options volume in recent sessions, three names of notable interest this afternoon are Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Netflix, Inc...(Read More)

Facebook (FB) Fades Into Close of Trading

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:10:56 -0400

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Google eyes Waze as Facebook circles hot Web maps property

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:01:06 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks to buy Waze, an Israeli mapping start-up that has held discussions with several large technology companies, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

Oversold Conditions For Facebook, Inc. (FB)

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:19:06 -0400

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100.

Closing Bell for Friday on Wall Street: Markets Open Lower, Fail to Break Out

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:07:00 -0400

DailyFinance.com: U.S. equity markets opened sharply lower again this morning, but this time reacting to yesterday's comments by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that the Fed could slow its bond purchases in the next few months. In the U.S., orders for durable goods made a ... Read more

NASDAQ Most Actives: Intel Corporation, Facebook, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Micron Technology, Inc.

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:18:16 -0400

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Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:00 -0400

Salesforce.com, Google hit tech stocks

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:38:43 -0400

Salesforce.com sparked a slump across the stocks of other corporate software vendors and led the broader tech sector into the red. Pandora jumps.

7 Advisor-Schmoozing Tips Beyond Facebook, Twitter

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:29:05 -0400

Innovating in social media-from creating YouTube content to blogging to hosting online Q&A forums-is helping financial advisors build their brands and reputations, and win client assets.

Fund Managers Court Sillicon Valley of the Dollars

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:10:39 -0400

The technology hotbed is witnessing yet another feeding frenzy as financial advisors attempt to entice the next generation of entrepreneur millionaires with nontraditional networking.

Insider Trading for Active Stocks: Facebook, Cirrus Logic, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, and Cliffs Natural Resources

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:55:00 -0400

Google and Facebook Going to War Over Mapping App

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:43:18 -0400

A bidding war between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) may be about to erupt, according to Bloomberg. The object of the conflict is Waze, a smartphone-mapping app with unique social features.

Waze provides driving directions with a twist. Users submit information about traffic tie-ups,

US STOCKS-Futures slip, Wall Street set for weekly decline

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:45:50 -0400

NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday, setting up Wall Street for its first weekly decline since mid April, amid concern the central bank may scale back its support to the economy.

Report: Google Faces New Antitrust Probe Over Ads

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:10:39 -0400

Google Joins FB in Waze-Buyout Buzz

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:21:39 -0400

Ashton Kutcher: 'Facebook Is the New Religion'

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:26:17 -0400

Actor and angel investor Ashton Kutcher revealed he will only invest in companies that have a mobile component, in an interview I hosted on-stage at the CTIA wireless conference on Thursday.

Media Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:29:00 -0400

DailyFinance.com: Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) fires CEO Bob McDonald and brings back A. G. Lafley. (Reuters) Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may face antitrust investigations by the U.S. government. (Reuters) Carl Icahn may raise $7 billion to support his effort to ... Read more

UPDATE 1-Russia's top social network blacklisted by regulator

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:20:47 -0400

MOSCOW, May 24 (Reuters) - Russia's top online social network was banned on Friday from distributing content across the country, raising concerns of a clampdown on a forum used by President Vladimir Putin's opponents to organise protests.

Tumblr May Be Trouble for Yahoo

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:10 -0400

Market Chatter-Corporate finance press digest

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:32:24 -0400

May 24 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Friday:

UPDATE 1-Google, like Facebook, in talks to buy Waze for $1 bln-report

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:44:01 -0400

* Waze seeks more than $1 bln, multiple parties interested-Bloomberg

Google, like Facebook, in talks to buy Waze for about $1 bln -report

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:05:32 -0400

May 23 (Reuters) - Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

UPDATE 2-Google faces new federal antitrust probe -source

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:53:51 -0400

* Regulators in early stages of probe on how Google handles some ad sales -source

Yahoo's Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:12 -0400

Is Tumblr Going To Be Yahoo!'s YouTube?

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:12 -0400

I got an email on Monday from Larry Kim, the founder and CTO of WordStream in Boston. His company does search marketing and research. It sparked a long exchange between us.

Immigrants Please Apply: Rust Belt Cities Need You

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:27:23 -0400

The loss of manufacturing jobs and declining populations in the Rust Belt cities have intensified efforts in these cities to attract new immigrant entrepreneurs and start-ups to help revitalize ailing economies.

UPDATE 2-ChannelAdvisor soars in debut

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:20:58 -0400

* Investors bet company will benefit from global e-commerce growth

Facebook Inc (FB) Sees an Uptick in Near-Term Call Activity

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:51:00 -0400

Call activity is running hotter than usual on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) today, with around 122,000 contracts crossing the tape so far -- a 31% mark-up from the norm, and almost triple the number of puts exchanged...(Read More)

FB Crosses Below Key Moving Average Level

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:48 -0400

In trading on Thursday, shares of Facebook, Inc. (FB) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $24.91, changing hands as low as $24.77 per share.

Busting the Telecom Monopoly, With a 99-Cent App

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:11:49 -0400

Led by wildly popular apps, disruptors are dialing up the pressure in telecom, overcoming the high barriers to entry in one of the market's most capital-intensive industries.

H-P a big gainer as other techs trim losses

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:39:49 -0400

Computer giant gets a lift on better-than-expected results. Investor sentiment was mixed following economic data from China and comments from Fed chief Ben Bernanke

NASDAQ Active Stock Watch List: Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY), and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Added to Growing Stock Report's NASDAQ Active Stock Watch List.

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:38:36 -0400

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/23/2013 -- Growing Stock Report expands its NASDAQ Active Stock Watch List adding Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY), and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL).

Not One, But Two Perfect Storms Could Be Brewing

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:44 -0400

Have two Pandora's Boxes been opened? Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may have opened the first one. Meanwhile, the scandal engulfing the Internal Revenue Service may be the second.

Trace Earning Forecast for Bank of America, Pfizer, NetApp, Facebook, General Electric, and Cisco

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:00 -0400

Perfect Trade Setups, How to Play SIRI, FB and CLWR

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:00 -0400

Yahoo’s Fire Will Stay Lit: The Ifs, Ands & Buts

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:38:18 -0400

Why It Might Be Time to 'Defriend' Facebook

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:06:10 -0400

Don't hold your breath waiting for Facebook stock to return to its IPO price of $38, Dan Nathan of RiskReversal.com says.

UPDATE 1-Twitter beefs up security after hacking spree on media

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:22 -0400

May 22 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc unveiled technology to boost security for its users, following a spate of attacks on accounts of prominent media outlets including the Associated Press, the Financial Times and The Onion.

Twitter Just Launched Two-Factor Authentication To Foil Hackers. Turn It On.

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:46:15 -0400

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Bernanke Speaks; IRS Zips Lips; Market Revs

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:32:24 -0400

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the latest FOMC minutes sent the markets a mixed message about the end of quantitative easing; the top IRS official for nonprofits refuses to testify; immigration reform inches ahead.

The Dubbler App Is Vine For Your Voice

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:36:00 -0400

Vine For Voice: Why Half A Million Millennials Share Sound On Dubbler

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:36:00 -0400

Founder Matthew Murphy is the brains behind Dubbler (Image credit: Appsurdity) You know where to go to spruce up your phone photos so you can share them with friends--Instagram. And for short edited videos, Twitter's Vine platform can help you channel your inner Jack Dorsey with six-second edited clips. But when you want to impose your voice or a happy birthday song on your friends, social media doesn't have as clear of an answer for where you should go. That’s where audio-sharing app Dubbler thinks it can become the next big media-sharing app—by betting people like the sounds of their own voices even more when they can share them filtered to sound like a robot or a cat.

More Than Sexting: We Should Celebrate Snapchat And Encourage Ephemeral Communication

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:13:56 -0400

You would think that it would be a terrible idea for a company accused of helping teenagers send each other sexually explicit images to feature bikini-clad young girls in their marketing. Most would avoid such direct associations, for good reason - it’s immature, and edgy when it doesn’t need to be. But not the makers of the enormously popular app, Snapchat, which allows people to send images and videos that “self-destruct” after a few seconds. The company claims messages are deleted once they have been opened, but there have been a series of recent scandals showing that this may not be completely accurate. Their product is far from perfect, and there are several ways to compromise the protection they offer. It is never a good idea to send something over the internet that would damage you or your reputation if it became public. While this may be common sense, it has little to do with how we actually act online. The makers of Snapchat are right to reject the “sexting app” label - it’s not clear that this is what it is even being used for, and everyone deserves the option to communicate privately when they want, without automatically being branded as a pervert. Within a few months of launching, the company has made an enormous and lasting impact on the culture of communication on the Internet - and we should all be grateful. They have simplified a security process enough to the point that anybody can use it, while validating the market of the next generation of privacy-preserving ephemeral communication. Most importantly, we may finally get a break from the forced permanence of the Facebook and Google world, where everything you do and share is a data point to be monetized and re-sold to the highest bidder. And Snapchat isn’t even the best product out there - there’s a whole slew of communication tools that are more secure and functional making their way into the public eye. One of those is Wickr, created by RSA veteran Nico Sell, a more serious security-focused app that uses “military-grade” encryption to send text, video, voice, and document files that can self-destruct after a given period of time. Hospitals and law enforcement have expressed interest in a similarly functioning Android app, Gryphn. Although it’s not “self-destructing,” keep an eye on the exciting and powerful suite of communication apps developed by encryption legend Phil Zimmermann’s Silent Circle company - they are not for “average” users, but they could provide enterprise and more serious clients a massive improvement in security. What apps like these do is allow us a little bit more freedom to be ourselves, for better or worse. In the copycat world of Silicon Valley startups and funding, expect to see a lot more “Snapchat for _____” type companies. Finally, the lack of app creativity may work in the favor of consumers. We have accepted the notion that what you do on the internet is permanent - a statement that is partially a truthful observation, and partially a threatening promise from the companies and entrepreneurs who are making it a reality - but it doesn’t have to be that way for everything. Perhaps the greatest impact of this rising industry will be when the giants try to co-opt them - like Facebook attempted with Poke. The issue of trust in these companies aside, it would be a winning situation for everyone for ephemeral features to be built into the services we already use. We need more human-behavior-friendly default settings. Privacy is complicated, and nothing is ever completely secure. Nobody is immune from this, as Nicholas Weaver wrote in Wired, "even the head of the CIA can’t email his mistress without being identified by the FBI.” But in the billions of messages already sent through Snapchat are a few people who didn’t have their lives ruined because of something they shouldn’t have shared. The media can continue to ridicule the “sexting app” that so many young people are using, but they are entirely missing the point. The same generation being blamed for the supposed “death of privacy” has become wiser than those who are criticizing them. In a candid admission at the Milken Conference this year, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, when recalling his college days playing in a band, told the audience, “thank god social media didn't exist then, because if it did, I wouldn't be here.” The Internet wasn’t built with security in mind, and we’re still dealing with the consequences of that. The next generations are going to be the ones who pay the true cost of the design decisions we make today.

Streetinsider.com's Hot Lunchtime Reads 05/22: (MNKD) (SNE) (P) (MSFT) (SPLS)

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:11:46 -0400

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Pandora (P) Gets Even More Social with New Facebook (FB) Timeline App

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:22:12 -0400

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Sex or Smartphone? Women Prefer the Gadget

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:36:57 -0400

Gentlemen, I'm sorry. But given the choice, the majority of the women in the U.S. would rather give up sex than their mobile device for a week.

The Maker of Nutella Makes Biggest PR Goof EVER

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:31:31 -0400