FASTCOMPANY Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:52:05 EST
Facebook makes money by placing ads next to your status updates and photos. How hard could their business be? As its S-1 filing reflects, that answer is more challenging than you think.
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It's not a simple proposition. Which is partly why, as the S-1 reports, that the company has tacked up signs on the walls of its new Menlo Park campus that say "this journey is 1% finished."
The basics of Facebook's business remain the same: Social networkers create content (in the form of updates, photos, links, Likes, and Comments), and Facebook sells ads targeted to either the.......
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GOOGLE Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:05:00 GMT
Friday, much like Thursday, is jobs day in the U.S., and markets will be closely following the unemployment announcement out of the Department of Labor. Major reports out of China, Europe, and Canada are also on the calendar.
Here's what you need to know.
China starts the day off with HSBC's reading of Services PMI just before midnight EST. The figure last read 52.5, indicating expansion in the sector.
Turkish producer and consumer price indexes will be announced at 3:00 a.m. EST. Economists polled by Bloomberg see consumer prices increasing at a slower pace than in the past, at 0.37 percent in January.
Between 3:15 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. EST, Markit Economics will release Services PMI data for half a dozen E.U. Sovereigns. First up are Spain and Italy. Italian PMI is seen increasing to 45.4, which would nonetheless indicate contraction.
PMI in France, Germany and the United Kingdom are all expected to remain above 50. However, the U.K. number is seen declining 70 basis.......
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GOOGLE Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:41:26 PST
A lot of active Facebook accounts are fake, created to spread spam or for malicious purposes. (Credit: Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET)
Hello, Facebook friends, I am male, straight, often ridiculously good-looking, and this is a real message: She's not that into you.
And by she, I mean one of those hot girls on Facebook that always seem too desperate and overzealous in trying to connect to you and everyone on your friend list.
Apparently, of some 850 million active Facebook users, a lot are fake profiles created to spread spam and viruses. These are often categorized as spammers or attackers. Security firm Barracuda Networks released today the findings from its most recent study that helps distinguish attackers from real users. Here are the study's four key findings.
Most fake Facebook accounts claim to belong to users who are female and bisexual. (Credit: Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET)
Some 60 percent of fake accounts purport to belong to bisexuals, about 10 times more....
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