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English Premier League: The Social Media Season
Friday, May 18, 2012 9:40 PM
The English Premier League is arguably the world's most popular sports organization, and this season saw explosive growth off the pitch in the realm of social media. Manchester City snagged its first English title in 44 years last weekend to cap...



Facebook's IPO: Who Got Rich
Friday, May 18, 2012 9:06 PM
OK, so Facebook's IPO may have seemed like a lot of sound and fury for 23 cents, but there will still doubtlessly be some celebrating in Menlo Park Friday night. That's because a lot of Facebookers got fabulously rich on Friday. True, it probably...



Top 10 GIFs of the Week
Friday, May 18, 2012 8:35 PM
This week awarded us a colorful new collection of GIFs. Here's a look at Mashable's picks for the top GIFs of the week, everything from the Facebook crew to a Donna Summer tribute to a dog/bunny combo. SEE ALSO: Top GIFs of the Week -- May 10...



Facebook Is Worth More Than McDonald's and 4 Other Giant Brands
Friday, May 18, 2012 8:11 PM
Facebook closed its first day of public trading valued at $105.19 billion, making it worth almost exactly as much as PepsiCo, which is valued at $106.5 billion. At more than $100 billion, Facebook doesn't quite make it into the leagues of...



Google Further Integrates Google+ Profiles Into Gmail [VIDEO]
Friday, May 18, 2012 6:51 PM
Your Google email account is changing -- it's getting even more social. A new Google update will make "people front and center in Gmail" -- or rather the people you know who signed up for Google+. These updates will further integrate Google+ --...



Former Yahoo COO Who Almost Bought Facebook Shows Up on IPO Day
Friday, May 18, 2012 6:26 PM
Back in 2006, Facebook was only a shadow of the company it would become, tech giant Yahoo was attempting to buy the social network for $1 billion -- and Dan Rosenweig was the man who got Zuckerberg's handshake on that offer. Rosenweig the Chief...



Facebook HQ on IPO Day, As Seen on Instagram [PICS]
Friday, May 18, 2012 6:01 PM
While the rest of the world was relegated to watching Mark Zuckerberg ring the NASDAQ opening bell online, Facebook staffers turned the late night and early morning event into an all-out party at their headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Mimosas...



Facebook IPO: No Sizzle, No Fizzle
Friday, May 18, 2012 5:36 PM
On its first day as a public company, Facebook's stock closed at $38.23 a share. That's up .23 a share from its IPO price but down from the stock's opening trading price of $42. The stock, which trades on NASDAQ using the symbol "FB," was...



Facebook Acquires Gift-Giving App Karma
Friday, May 18, 2012 5:22 PM
Fresh off its first day on the Nasdaq, Facebook has acquired another company: Karma. An app for "in-the-moment gifting," Karma lets you send everything from a bottle of wine to a fuzzy teddy bear to friends via SMS, email, and Facebook. The way...



6 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO Fell Flat
Friday, May 18, 2012 4:25 PM
Well, that was anticlimactic. After all the hullabaloo about Facebook's IPO, this is how it ends, with a mere .23 jump in share price? That kind of movement is what happens after Procter & Gamble announces a more absorbent type of Pampers. Yet...



What Kind of 'Mansome' Mustache Are You?
Friday, May 18, 2012 4:10 PM
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Facebook-IPO programming to ask a very special question: What kind of mustache are you? Fortunately, the folks behind the new documentary Mansome have created a Facebook app that answers that exact question....



Facebook Losing Its Monopoly on Users [REPORT]
Friday, May 18, 2012 1:46 PM
As Facebook becomes a public company Friday, trading at $42 per share and valued at $116.6 billion, new data suggests the company's social media dominance may be in decline. Twice as many Facebook members use at least one additional social...



Reddit, Tumblr Founders Slam and Cheer Facebook IPO
Friday, May 18, 2012 1:17 PM
Facebook's IPO is on everyone's minds, lips and tweets today. The concept of building a $100 billion+ business on the web in eight years is a staggering thought, and must loom large over other successful online entrepreneurs. Reddit co-founder...



Which of These 13 Companies Will Be the Next Big Tech IPO?
Friday, May 18, 2012 1:02 PM
Yes, the Facebook IPO is all the rage. Yes, it's monopolizing the news cycle. But we're here to give some love to the next big tech IPOs on the horizon. Some of these companies have already filed for IPO; others are only rumored to be thinking...



Where and When to See the May 20 Solar Eclipse
Friday, May 18, 2012 12:49 PM
On May 20, our moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, creating a brilliant annular solar eclipse for some viewers and an equally amazing partial solar eclipse for many others. An annular solar eclipse happens when the moon is at a certain...



 
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