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Can Snap's Top-Line Follow In Facebook's Footsteps?
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 11:07am | 296Read More...Snap, Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, is in the very final stages of gearing up for its initial public offering. Snap has a lot riding on its shoulders as its IPO will likely be compared to some of its social media peers. Moreover, the IPO comes at a time when Facebook Inc's (NASDAQ: FB)...
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Instagram's User Base Grew 10 Times Faster Than Twitter
Saturday, February 11, 2017 - 1:35pm | 339Read More...Investors continued selling Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) Friday as shares were lower by more than 5 percent just one day after plunging more than 10 percent. Investors were clearly displeased with Twitter's fourth quarter report and alarming guidance, which calls into question if the social media...
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Facebook's Oculus Rift Is Dead-On-Departure, According To Trip Chowdhry
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 3:16pm | 271Read More...Investors that assume virtual reality will dominate our lives in the coming years may need to re-examine that thesis. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), a leading pioneer in virtual reality technology through its Oculus Rift segment, is closing 200 of its approximate 500 demo stations inside Best Buy Co...
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Snap Is Getting Ahead Of Other Social Platforms In At Least One Way
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - 12:34pm | 825Read More...The social media landscape has certainly shifted over the years for the better, but it seems there are more and more scandals occurring these days. For instance, Benzinga's senior editor Rebecca Sheppard was among one of the hundreds of thousands of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) users whose account...
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What We Know About 'The Facebook Journalism Project'
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 2:51pm | 275Read More...The social media giant Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) sees itself playing a big role in journalism. Facebook announced Wednesday the creation of "The Facebook Journalism Project," a new program that will create stronger links between the social media platform and the news industry. Facebook Director of...
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Here's What Your Facebook Page Looked Like On New Year's Eve 2006
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 - 2:35pm | 392Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) was a social media startup that many believed didn't' have a chance of dethroning the leader at the time, Myspace. Needless to say, the social media platform has come a long way over the past 10 years when it boasted a mere 12 million total active users. Here...
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Yet Another Facebook Metric Mishap
Friday, December 16, 2016 - 10:45am | 299Read More...Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) disclosed yet another metric mishap. The company said Friday it undercounted traffic from certain publishers who uploaded content to the social media's Instant Articles platform. Facebook's Instant Articles platform allows content publishers to...
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What The Heck Is Going On Behind The Scenes At Facebook's HQ?
Friday, December 9, 2016 - 2:33pm | 289Read More...There is a lot going on behind the scenes at Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s headquarters, from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinting at running for public office to a shareholder class action suit. Joan Solsman, a senior writer with CNET was a guest on CNBC to help explain what is going on. Shareholder...
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Facebook's Oculus Touch Debuts With Mostly Positive Reviews
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - 1:52pm | 289Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) announced on Tuesday that its Oculus Touch product is now available for purchase. Facebook's $199 Oculus Touch package includes two controllers and a tracking camera is intended to complement the $599 virtual reality platform Oculus Rift. As noted by The Verge,...
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Peak Facebook: Here's Why One Analyst Thinks This Is As Good As It Gets
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 7:29am | 341Read More...Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research has some harsh words to say following Facebook Inc's (NASDAQ: FB) third quarter earnings report and conference call, which resulted in the stock losing nearly 6 percent by Thursday morning. Chowdhry highlighted a specific comment made during the...
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Facebook's Q3 Report Could Show Top-Line Growth For The 14th Quarter In A Row
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 12:46pm | 419Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is scheduled to report its third quarter results after Wednesday's close. Stifel's Scott Devitt is expecting the report to show top-line growth for the 14th consecutive quarter after beating earnings and sales expectations in its second quarter print in late July...
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Very Different Earnings Expectations For Facebook And Alibaba
Sunday, October 30, 2016 - 11:52am | 523Read More...One FANG stock and another internet giant are on deck to report quarterly results this week. Wall Street expectations are very different for these two companies. However, both handily beat earnings expectations in the previous quarter. Though most of the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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Facebook 'Recommendations' Feature Rolling Out Today
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:52am | 332Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is more than just connecting with friends, families and co-workers -- it's now a platform discover new things in the world around you. Facebook announced in a blog post Wednesday a new feature called "Recommendations," which offers users a new forum to...
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Facebook's Inflated Metrics: Why It Matters And What Could Happen Next
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 11:00am | 344Read More...Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) were trading lower by nearly 2 percent Friday following a Wall Street Journal report that the social media company overestimated the average viewing time for video ads on its platform. Advertisers and marketers that rely on Facebook to deliver their message...
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Did You Know Facebook Has A Top-Secret Hardware Lab?
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 2:44pm | 276Read More...Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s top secret research lab Google X is known to investors, but Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s own top secret lab isn't as talked about. According to Recode, Facebook just acquired Nascent Objects, a small startup that offers a "modular electronics...















