Facebook : Burning Question
A ticker in Times Square spreads news of Facebook's decline: The social network's stock value dropped 10 percent in its second day of trading.

Facebook's underwhelming IPO: Proof the stock was overhyped?

The company made a big splash in the stock market last week, raising a whopping $16 billion. This week, its share price is already plunging

 
Facebook : Opinion Brief
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, just one day after shares of his company began trading for $38 each.

Mark Zuckerberg's surprise wedding: Why now?

The Facebook founder made billions on Friday, then tied the knot on Saturday. Why wait until his company went public to make the big change in his private life?

 
Facebook : By the numbers
Mark Zuckerberg applauds after ringing the Nasdaq's opening bell on Friday: In the first 30 seconds of trading, 80 million Facebook shares changed hands.

Facebook's historic IPO: By the numbers

It's official: Hundreds of millions of Facebook shares have hit the market, making some lucky people very, very rich

 
Facebook : Analysis
Mark Zuckerberg in New York earlier this month: Facebook is expected to be valued above Disney and McDonald's, but investors might be getting the short end of the stick.

6 signs investors are paying too much for Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg's ubiquitous social network will likely be valued at more than $100 billion when it launches its IPO on Friday. Is the company massively overhyped?

 
Facebook : Opinion Brief
A flag announcing the IPO of Facebook flies outside the JPMorgan office in New York City: GM dropped its paid advertisements from the social media site this week.

GM yanks its Facebook ads: Will it hurt the social network's IPO?

The auto giant's move raises doubts about Facebook's business model — just days before it begins selling shares to the public

 
Facebook : Fact Sheet
Mark Zuckerberg in 2007: The newly minted 28-year-old and soon-to-be head of a publicly traded company regularly turns to Bill Gates for advice.

The New York Times' Mark Zuckerberg profile: 4 intriguing revelations

As the young CEO hammered out a deal to buy Instagram over steak and ice cream, his lawyers sat on the couch watching the HBO series Game of Thrones

 
Facebook : Opinion Brief
"Mark and his signature hoodie: He's actually showing investors he doesn't care that much; he's going to be him," analyst Michael Pachter tells Bloomberg. "I think that's a mark of immaturity."

Should Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg lose the hoodie?

As he woos suit-and-tie investors on Wall Street, the 27-year-old CEO's sartorial choices are becoming a source of controversy

 
Facebook : Instant Guide
What happens to your Facebook account when you die? What about all those weird photos on Instagram? These are questions the government wants you to think about before it's too late.

Should you draft a 'social media will'?

Uncle Sam wants you to plan out exactly what should be done with your online identity after you die

 
Facebook : The Bullpen
Bill Frist

Bill Frist: How Facebook is reinventing organ donation

Thousands of Americans die each year waiting for heart, lung, and kidney transplants that never materialize. Mark Zuckerberg is intent on changing that

 
Facebook : The List
Kai Christensen and his buddy Benjamin Rutkowski set up deadly traps on a Utah trail and then bragged about their handiwork on Facebook.

7 suspected criminals who got themselves caught via Facebook

Sometimes oversharing on Facebook does more than just annoy your friends. It can even land you in jail

 
Facebook : Burning Question
Facebook Vice President of Product Chris Cox: The popular social networking site makes only $5 a year off of each of its 900 million users.

Is Facebook stock a bad investment?

The social networking behemoth is preparing to launch the largest internet IPO in history — but some investors are starting to doubt the hype

 
Facebook : Analysis
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may be putting his company on the defensive by buying hundreds of Microsoft patents.

Facebook's massive patent purchase from Microsoft: 4 theories

In another blockbuster deal, the social network has agreed to pay Microsoft $550 million for hundreds of licenses once owned by AOL. Here, clues as to why

 
Facebook : By the numbers
As parents grow increasingly concerned with what their kids are doing online, more teens are ensuring that (most of) their Facebook accounts stay hidden from prying parental eyes.

Parental paranoia in the social media era: By the numbers

Sixty percent of American parents admit to having logged onto their teenager's Facebook account without permission — and other revelations

 
Facebook : Opinion Brief
California high school student, Ellie Ritter, talks to her friends through Facebook: A growing body of research suggests that a connection is not the same thing as a bond/confidant.

Is Facebook really making people more lonely?

Americans are lonelier than ever before, according to a growing body of research. All those "friends" we have on the giant social network may be part of the problem

 
Facebook : Controversy
A model for sportswear brand Stussy wears an absurd amount of the fashion line's clothing, which she peels off layer-by-layer with every Facebook "Like."

'Strip for Likes': Has Facebook advertising gone too far?

A racy online campaign for sportswear brand Stussy promises that a model will peel off more and more clothing as she receives Facebook "Likes"

 
Facebook : Opinion Brief
Facebook is hoping its pricey purchase of Instagram will seem as wise in hindsight as Google's 2006 purchase of YouTube, a similarly profit-less sharing site.

Is Instagram really worth $1 billion?

The photo-sharing app has zero revenue and a grand total of 13 employees. Did its new owner, Facebook, just flush a ton of cash down the toilet?

 

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