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Facebook stock: 6 intriguing investors
Facebook stock will make many people suddenly wealthy when it begins trading this Friday. The company is expected to be valued somewhere around $100 billion, with stock expected to sell anywhere between $34 and $38 per share. Here are six of the more unexpected people set to make a killing with initial public offering of Facebook stock, including a rock star, a graffiti artist, and pair of Mark Zuckerberg’s enemies.
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Five things Millennials never want to hear
The workplace has a recurring habit of throwing generations together and forcing them to cooperate. As Millennials (age 18-30), one of the largest cohorts in modern America, join the labor force, GenXers, boomers, and seniors are having to learn how to get along with their new employees. It isn't always easy. Millennials usually have broader experience with technology than their older colleagues do and are widely regarded as competitive, collaborative, and passionate, but also persistent and self-possessed to the point of feeling entitled to promotions they haven't earned. So here are five things not to say to these young and talented workers along with suggestions on how to improve the communication:
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Tech stocks: How seven recent IPOs have fared
Tech stocks like Facebook can create plenty of buzz on Wall Street when they file for an initial public offering, or IPO, of stock. Below is a look at how tech stocks and other Internet-related stocks of some companies fared after going through a recent IPO. Some have done well. Others haven't.
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Graduated? Seven job tips for college graduates.
The job data might seem rosier, but finding a job is harder than ever – especially for the nearly 2 million college students who will have graduated this year. Newly minted college graduates are up against experienced mid-career professionals who are also out there searching. Use these seven career tips to change your job search into a job offer.
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Job market's still tough. Seven ways to reenergize your job search.
For America's jobless, the labor market is sending conflicting signals. On one hand, unemployment in December dropped to 9.4 percent, its lowest rate in 19 months, the US Department of Labor reported Friday. On the other hand, a separate Labor survey showed that the economy added only 103,000 jobs, when economists were expecting about 150,000 new nonfarm jobs. What to make of it all? In fits and starts, the economy is staging a very modest recovery, but it may take years before the nation regains the jobs it lost during the Great Recession. To find a job, many unemployed Americans may need to reenergize their own job search. Here are seven ways to do it:
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Horizons
Facebook $1 fee? New scheme aims to make money, cut spam.New from Facebook: $1 fee to send priority messages to people outside of your social contacts. This Facebook $1 fee feature isn't available outside of the US yet, but the social network could expand it if it proves popular.
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Gmail down: The 10 funniest tweets
Gmail crashed briefly on Monday, but Twitter was going strong with wry humor about the outage.
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Why is Newark Mayor Cory Booker living on food stamps?
Mayor Cory Booker says access to food is becoming a 'social-justice issue,' and he wants to raise awareness about how hard it is to live off food stamps – about $30 a week.
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Change Agent
Volunteer Square matches willing helpers with charitable tasksA Connecticut website provides a place where people find volunteer opportunities, and nonprofits find new volunteers.
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HMS Bounty casualty claimed tie to mutinous Fletcher Christian
Claudene Christian perished in the tragic sinking Monday of a replica HMS Bounty, after the ship went down in hurricane Sandy-swept seas. She had claimed a a family tie to Fletcher Christian, chief mutineer on the original ship.
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PayPal restructuring means lost jobs
PayPal is cutting about 325 jobs as part of a major reorganization by its new president in an effort to head off competition. Though revered on Wall Street, Paypal has a reputation as slow and bureaucratic on Silicon Valley, making it hard to attract top-level talent.
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Modern Parenthood
Social media kids: 'Perfect profile' may help with collegeSocial media requires profile management and editing a kids online persona is necessary, if they don't want their profiles affecting college admissions or job opportunities. Online spin control may be more important than we all thought.
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LinkedIn 'influencers': Obama, Romney offer insight in new feature
LinkedIn is launching 'influencers,' a feature that will encourage users of the professional networking site to sign up to follow the musings and advice of a panel of luminaries including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and Richard Branson. LinkedIn hopes the feature will help it extend its clout beyond the help-wanted market.
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Apple's iPhone 5 is great, but maps, iOS 6? Frustrating for some.
Apple's new maps application, intended to rival Google Maps, is buggy, disappointing, and sometimes just plain wrong. New iOS is worth downloading but older Apple products can't access all the features.
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New generation of vets find camaraderie, services online
Web-savvy veterans are using the internet more frequently to connect with one another, and traditional veterans programs are following suit. The Department of Veterans Affairs and the VFW are reaching out to vets in unconventional ways.
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Change Agent
How the Web's business giants promote good worksAll of corporate America can take a lesson from high-tech leaders such as LinkedIn, eBay, Salesforce.com, and Facebook, who encourage their employees and customers to work for social causes.
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Mitt Romney has 100,000 new Twitter followers. Or does he?
Mitt Romney's 100,000 new Twitter followers are fake, says Barracuda Labs. Do social media followers matter to the campaign?
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New Microsoft Office designed for fingers, styluses, keyboards, and mice
Microsoft preps for "the most ambitious release of Office we’ve ever done," says CEO. But will it be a jack-of-all-trades, master of none?
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LinkedIn, Last.fm, now Yahoo? Don't ignore news of a password breach.
A Yahoo hack stole passwords from 400,000 user accounts. Add those to the millions snatched last month and it's easy to feel numb toward these breaches. Resist that urge. Friends and associates may pay for your inaction.
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Stocks slide ahead of corporate earnings season
Stocks closed lower on The Street ahead of US corporate earnings reports and the continued instability of markets across the pond. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 36 points to close at 12,736, the index's third straight day of losses.
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Change Agent
Loosecubes supports mobile workers of the futureLoosecubes office-sharing site aims to go beyond listing places freelancers and other mobile workers can set up shop to connecting them with people who have shared interests.
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Job interviewer asks for Facebook password. Should you give it?
Some companies now ask for Facebook and social media passwords so they can check out job applicants. One state is banning the practice, and at least 10 others are weighing similar bans.
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LinkedIn, eHarmony: Data thieves leak passwords
LinkedIn, eHarmony say users' passwords were stolen and leaked onto the Internet. LinkedIn, eHarmony didn't reveal extent of breach, but reports say more than 6 million passwords have been distributed online.
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LinkedIn investigation possible theft of six million passwords
Although LinkedIn did not confirm if any user data had been hacked or leaked, researchers at UK Web security company Sophos say they have confirmed that a file posted online does contain, in part, LinkedIn passwords 'hashes' - a way of encrypting or storing passwords.
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Unemployed veterans skilled in doing jobs, not in finding them
A Monster.com survey finds employers and veterans agree: Departing military personnel have civilian job skills. Language, however, is a problem. One hurdle is translating military jargon.
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Consumer Energy Report
Oil subsidies: Surprise! Liberals are fans, too.When asked if the federal government should eliminate subsidies for oil companies, most would respond with a resounding 'yes.' But such a policy would have unwelcome unintended consequences, and not just for billionaire oil tycoons.
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The Reformed Broker
Welcome to Twitter, Goldman Sachs!Goldman Sachs sent its very first tweet Thursday. Six Twitter tips for the company.
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Facebook stock falls 11 percent in second trading day
Facebook shares close down $4.20 in Monday trading. Facebook stock dropped so much Monday morning that 'circuit breakers' kicked in to restrict sell orders.
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Facebook to debut at $104 billion
The IPO will be one of the largest in history.
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Facebook shareholders selling more shares
Facebook stockholder and hedge fund Tiger Global has decided to sell more than 23 million shares, up from 3.4 million a day earlier. Other big sellers of Facebook shares include Goldman Sachs, a Russian billionaire, and two Facebook insiders.







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