By Brandon Bailey and Peter Delevett Public trading of Facebook stock is set to begin around 8 am Pacific Time Friday on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol "FB." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) After months of anticipation, Facebook on Thursday set ...

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By TANZINA VEGA, EVELYN M. RUSLI and PETER EAVIS Mark Lennihan/Associated PressAt a marketing event in early 2012, Facebook demonstrated new advertising opportunities. With Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has created a seemingly perfect home on the Web, ...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/ahead-of-facebook-i-p-o-a-skeptical-madison-ave/

By Olivia Oran and Alexei Oreskovic | NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will increase the size of its initial public offering by 25 percent to raise about $15 billion, a source familiar with the matter said, as strong investor demand for ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-facebook-shares-idUSBRE84F02320120516

By SHAYNDI RAICE And JOE LIGHT Facebook's coming initial public offering has set off a frenzy of anticipation among Main Street and Wall Street investors desperate to get their hands on the stock. Shayndi Raice has details on The News Hub.

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Facebook's chief executive turned 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network's biggest week ever. The company is expected to start selling stock to the public for the first time and begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday.

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By David Murphy Big news for Facebook this week – and no, not just because the company is testing new ways for its users to annoy each other in the form of paid-for "highlighted" posts. Actually, it's Facebook IPO week! The significance of this fact ...

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By Peter Delevett Larry Yu, a spokesman for Facebook, addresses to the media about the Facebook's IPO roadshow at Crowne Plaza hotel in Palo Alto on May 11, 2012. (Dai Sugano/Staff) For an event designed to entice investors to pony up big money for a ...

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Of all the things discussed and analyzed surrounding Facebook's upcoming initial public offering, perhaps the most surprising -- or just plain funniest -- is co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie. Facebook launched a pre-IPO roadshow this week, ...

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255371/facebook_ipo_is_zuckerbergs_hoodie_a_sign_of_immaturity.html

by Paul Sloan | 10 May 2012 9:26am SGT Facebook put an important marker down today by announcing that it intends to offer what it calls an "App Center" in coming weeks. "For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the ...

http://asia.cnet.com/facebook-announces-app-center-62215065.htm

The excitement surrounding Facebook Inc.'s forthcoming Wall Street debut arrived in Boston Tuesday as the company's top executives pitched the massive social media company to hundreds of potential investors, and Mark Zuckerberg, its 27-year-old ...

http://www.boston.com/business/markets/articles/2012/05/09/facebook_pitches_boston_investors_on_coming_ipo/

By RYAN DEZEMBER, DAVID BENOIT and SHAYNDI RAICE Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg, clad in a black hoodie and sneakers, met with buttoned-up Wall Street types Monday in an event that brought a flavor of Silicon Valley's latest technology frenzy to a New ...

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And so it will likely be with Facebook when the social network stages its IPO next week. Retail investors' first crack at Facebook stock will come after it starts trading, perhaps at a market capitalization north of $100 billion if underwriters ...

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(AP) — The “like” button on Facebook seems a relatively clear way to express your support for something, but a federal judge says that does not mean clicking it is constitutionally protected speech. Exactly what a “like” means — if anything — played ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/us/clicking-like-on-facebook-is-not-protected-speech-judge-rules.html

We refer, of course, to the Facebook Roadshow Movie. Unlike The Avengers, which critics seem to love, Facebook's half-hour pitch for potential investors hasn't gotten great reviews. Is it so bad? Feel free to watch it yourself. If you don't have time, ...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-04/we-review-the-facebook-roadshow-movie

By Matt Krantz, USA TODAY Investors hungry for details on Facebook's hotly anticipated IPO got a tasty morsel Thursday when the company set the price for what will be one of the largest US deals ever. By Timur Emek, AP Facebook's stock is expected to ...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/stocks/story/2012-05-03/facebook-ipo-pricing/54737512/1

Facebook is reportedly gearing up for an IPO road show that is supposed to start next week, but numerous details remain unknown - especially the range where the Menlo Park company expects to price its stock. Published reports in the Wall Street Journal ...

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By Michelle Healy and Brett Molina, USA TODAY The organ donation community is applauding Facebook's announcement Tuesday that it will allow its 900 million members to share their donor status with friends and family, and to link to state databases ...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-05-01/Facebook-organ-donation-feature/54671522/1

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking to the network news Tuesday to announce a new tool that is supposed to have the power to save lives. ABC News announced Monday that reporter Robin Roberts will ...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226713/Facebook_gears_up_to_announce_life_saving_tool

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Dustin Moskovitz is by many accounts the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But the 27-year-old isn't sipping champagne in the Caribbean. Instead he's thrown himself back ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/facebook-billionaire-moskovitz-shuns-life-of-luxury-for-san-franciscos-startup-mix/2012/04/29/gIQA5G2tpT_story.html

By April Dembosky and Telis Demos, FT.com Facebook files for its first initial public offering today seeking to raise at least $5 billion. (Financial Times) -- As Wall Street makes final preparations for the largest technology debut by value in history ...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/29/business/tech-bank-power-shift/

INTERNET Facebook's patent strategy irks Yahoo Yahoo accused Facebook of retaliating against a patent-infringement lawsuit by buying patents that the social-networking site used as the basis for its countersuit against the Web portal company.

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Facebook is on a mission to arm itself with a powerful arsenal of patents, and it's surprising where the next set of patents may come from. by Paul Sloan April 26, 2012 3:20 PM PDT Follow @paulsloan When Yahoo filed its sweeping patent lawsuit against ...

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Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ)'s waiting period for entry into one of its best-known stock indexes was a negotiating point with Facebook Inc. (FB) as the company weighed where to list its shares, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-26/facebook-early-entry-to-index-said-negotiating-point-with-nasdaq.html

By Alistair Barr and Gerry Shih | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A recent acquisition spurt by Facebook Inc may add about a week to the social network's journey to public markets, a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-facebook-ipo-idUSBRE83N18H20120425

Facebook generated $1.06 billion in sales in the first three months of 2012, the second quarter in a row sales topped $1 billion. That represented a 45% jump from a year earlier but a 6% decline compared with the fourth quarter.

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