The image of a Facebook stock certificate was included in the amended S-1 Facebook filed today with the SEC. It’s sure to become a collectors item for people who collect historic stock certificates. Checkout other popular stock certificates from Google, Apple, and Yahoo below.
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The “Digital Death” video explains possible outcomes, and interestingly predicts that, using personality predictors linking to all your online information, a digital self may be created that can interact with your future family.
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Facebook announced on Wednesday via its filing for an initial public offering (IPO) how the company fared in 2011, and not surprisingly, its employees racked up (and spent) big GWOP money last year.
The Facebook IPO provided details about the base salary of the team, including founder Mark Zuckerberg pulling in a salary of $483,333, plus a $220,500 bonus and “other compensation” worth $783,529.
The filing noted that he spent nearly $700,000 for costs related to private plane use “chartered in connection with his comprehensive security program and on which family and friends flew during 2011.” That includes passenger fees, fuel, crew and catering costs. Another $90,850 of that amount was for “costs related to estate and financial planning.”
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In February of 2004, a nerdy jewish kid from Harvard had an idea that would ultimately change the world. Mark Zuckerberg was an undergraduate at Harvard University when he created TheFacebook, now known worldwide as Facebook.com.
In 2012, you can’t go shopping, on vacation or even out to eat with out seeing a Facebook advertisement. Your mom, dad, sister, cousin, uncle, aunt and family dog all have a Facebook account. Some babies are even posted on the popular website before the baby father is revealed or even before the kid has a name. With all this attention the popular social networking site, Facebook is going public valuing the website at $100 Billion Dollars! Wowzers! Thats enough GWOP money to bake biscuits for the whole projects!!!!!
Checkout the Facebook timeline to IPO after the jump.
In 2011, tech company’s such as LinkedIn, Pandora, Groupon, and Zynga had their Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the stock market. Most of them didn’t do well for public investors after intial pop. In 2012 Facebook is rumored to be the biggest public offering of the decade with a valuation of $100 Billion. Checkout list of companies set to go public for 2012 below.
Experian Hitwise, which has analyzed the top 1,000 search terms for 2011, is reporting that Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the U.S. for the third year in a row. Four variations of the term “facebook” were among the top 10 terms and accounted for 4.4 percent of searches overall, a 24 percent increase from 2010.
Searches for “youtube” actually moved up from the third spot in 2010 to the second spot in 2011. “Facebook login” was the third most-searched term in 2011, followed by “craigslist” and “facebook.com.” Facebook.com moved up one spot in 2011 to be among the top five search terms. When combined, common search terms for Facebook, such as facebook and facebook.com, accounted for 3.5 percent of all searches in the United States among the top 50 terms, up 33 percent compared with 2010. Read More
Sources close to Facebook have revealed a sneak peak at the company’s finances.
The social network’s profits have doubled in one year, and are now likely to be a full billion dollars this year.
That figure is double the reported figure for last year.
The company reportedly made $714 million profit in the first three quarters of this year, on revenue of $2.5 billion.
It is expected to clear the billion mark in the last quarter.
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly owns 24 per cent of the shares in the company, according to the figures obtained by Gawker.
The Wall Street Journal recently valued the company at $100 billion – putting Zuckerberg’s personal stake at $24 billion.
Earlier this year (in January 2011) Michael Taylor was disciplined on YouTube by his uncle for posting false gang member statuses on Facebook and other social networks (video below).
According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said Michael Taylor, 16, was found shot to death shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7 when deputies responded to a report of gunshots in the area.
Taylor had been shot multiple times.
Sgt. Larry Dyess, JPSO spokesman, told the Times-Picayune that authorities had no suspect or motive in the incident.
Taylor’s mother, Kimberly Ward, told the newspaper that she kept strict tabs on her son, even making him stay on the sidewalk in eyesight of their home when he went outside. The night of the shooting, she said, Taylor received a text message from a friend at about 8 p.m. and went outside to chat.
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Glassdoor, a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and CEOs, has just released its fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, listing the top 50 “Best Places to Work,” based on surveys collected from U.S. employees in 2011. The top five Best Places to Work, according to employees, are: Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Facebook, MITRE, and Google.
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Facebook released a wealth of data about 2011′s most shared content, both globally and for specific countries. Across the world, Osama Bin Laden’s death was the most popular status update topic, followed by the Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl win and the Casey Anthony trial.
When compared with the top spiking tweets of the year, differences between Twitter and Facebook become clear. Twitter’s real-time focus led entertainment awards shows, natural disasters, and sports to dominate, while Facebook’s discussion capabilities led world news and celebrity deaths to trend there.
The official Facebook Page currently features a Memology 2011 app that displays popular cultural phenomena from several different countries. In the US and Canada, the acronym “lms” (like my status) became a prevalent way to request a visibility increase for one’s content. This indicates that users at least vaguely understand how the EdgeRank news feed sorting algorithm works. Meanwhile, “tbh” (to be honest) gained popularity as a method of expressing that one was speaking sincerely — context that can be difficult to determine purely from text.
The top 6 fastest growing news outlets were: 1. CNN, 2. Fox News, 3. NPR, 4. The Onion, 5. The New York Times, and 6. Al Jezeera, showing the diversity of opinions and interests of Facebook’s user base. Rihanna’s “We Found Love” was the most listened to song. Facebook’s inclusion of song listening data underscores how its new Open Graph listening applications could become a way to accurately track song popularity beyond sales.
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Checkout this article on “5 Secrets the Music Industry doesn’t want you to know for aspiring artists”
Q-Tip said it back in 1991, “Industry Rule # 4080/ record company people are shady!” – A Tribe Called Quest, Check The Rhime (Throwback Video below)
Starting in the early days of the music business with Blues and Rock & Roll, payola was once the most popular underhand practice. Record companies and managers would bribe radio DJ’s to give their artists radio play. Although illegal, this practice has never stopped and continues to be used in 2011, albeit in more subtle forms. With the rise in new technology and the dominance of the internet threatening the music industry’s outdated business model, new “questionable” tactics have been developed to help labels stay afloat. Here are 5 secrets the music industry doesn’t want you to know! Check the full list after the jump.
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