What has this world come to when Facebook can’t even enjoy its initial public offering? On the eve of the long-awaited IPO, the social network was the target of a $15 billion class-action suit that consolidated 21 claims of invasion of privacy by tracking Internet usage.
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Filed under: Class Action, Lawsuits, News, Privacy, Stewarts Law, Tracking by David Cohen
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This week, Wooga has several openings available. The Berlin-based company is hiring a localization QA analyst, a marketing manager, a game improvement specialist, a player experience manager, and a product manager for Bubble Island. Get all the details below and find more just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.
Localization QA Analyst Wooga (Berlin, Germany)
Marketing Manager Wooga (Berlin, Germany)
Game Improvement Specialist Wooga (Berlin, Germany)
Player Experience Manager Wooga (Berlin, Germany)
Product Manger – Bubble Island Wooga (Berlin, Germany)
For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.
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Filed under: Jobs by Nadine Cheung
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Recently, by way of sponsored stories in Facebook users’ newsfeeds, the social network has begun dipping advertising toes into its mobile endeavors. Smart move: According to new research released by NPD Group — which tracks consumer usage across broadband access, content, and devices — over the past six months, Facebook has firmly held onto its spot as the top-performing social-network on Google’s Android platform, MediaPost reported.
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Filed under: Advertising, Android, Google Plus, Marketing, Mobile, NPD Group, News, Sponsored Stories by Julie Andrews
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Private trading platform SecondMarket had been one of the primary sources for trading stock in Facebook prior to the social network’s initial public offering, and it created a farewell message in the form of an interactive timeline depicting the history of the stock.
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Filed under: IPO, Initial Public Offering, News, SecondMarket by David Cohen
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With a soldering iron; a couple of capacitors, resistors, and relays from RadioShack; and quite a bit of dissembling and tinkering, a handful of Facebook software engineers (and friends) hacked the Nasdaq bell (see video below), earning themselves a full-fledged badge of geekiness.
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Filed under: Action Verbs, David Garcia, Hackathon, IPO, Initial Public Offering, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, Nasdaq, News, Open Graph, RadioShack, Timeline by Julie Andrews
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Now that trading of Facebook stock is under way, CNBC launched a real-time tool that updates the worth of major stake-holders in the social network, based on its stock price.
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Filed under: Accel Partners, CNBC, Cameron Winklevoss, DST Global, David Choe, David Ebersman, Digital Sky Technologies, Donald Graham, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Elevation Partners, Erskine Bowles, Goldman Sachs, Greylock Partners, IPO, Initial Public Offering, Instagram, James Breyer, Mail.ru Group, Marc Andreessen, Mark Pincus, Mark Zuckerberg, Meritech Capital Partners, Microsoft, Mike Schroepfer, News, Peter Thiel, Reed Hastings, Reid Hoffman, Sean Parker, Sheryl Sandberg, T. Rowe Price, Theodore Ullyot, Tiger Global Management, Tyler Winklevoss, Valiant Capital Opportunities, Winklevii, Winklevoss Twins by David Cohen
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Since upgrading for timeline and launching with open graph in April, Tumblr has seen its referral traffic from Facebook rise by more than 2.5 times.
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Filed under: Action Verbs, Blogging, News, Open Graph, Timeline, Tumblr by David Cohen
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Some Facebook users are seeing a test of a new design for Facebook’s timeline profiles, in which the profile picture moves slightly to the left, and information that usually appears below the cover image is superimposed over the cover image in white type.
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Filed under: Cover Images, News, Profiles, Timeline by David Cohen
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We were so proud of ourselves yesterday for posting a poll on what Facebook’s closing price would be Friday following the launch of its initial public offering Friday morning. And then programmer James Proud had to upstage us with a website dedicated to the subject.
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Filed under: Chris Sacca, FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com, IPO, Initial Public Offering, James Proud, News, Twitter by David Cohen
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A new trading platform in Hong Kong is dangling $200 worth of Facebook stock, or a little more than five shares at the initial public offering price of $38 apiece, as incentive to trade via its platform.
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Filed under: 8 Securities, Hong Kong, IPO, Initial Public Offering, News by David Cohen
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