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Facebook privacy concerns may dampen IPO

A new poll says that only 13 percent of Facebook users trust the service, while GM has announced they are pulling ads from the website.
Instagram: Zero sales. $1 billion price tag. Worth it?

Facebook plans to spend $1 billion for the photo-sharing company that is wildly popular but has no way of making revenue off of them. Here's why Facebook thinks Instagram is worth it.
Facebook reveals plans for mobile ads

Watch out – your phone may no longer be safe from Facebook advertisers.
Facebook IPO likely to rank company among world's largest

Facebook IPO expected to be as high as $100 billion and will rank Facebook among the largest public companies in the world.
QR codes 101: What those squiggles do

Quick Response (QR) codes link consumers to websites fast. Here's how to use them, and why you'd want to.
Facebook news: master plan to 'socialize everything we do online' revealed

Watching movies? Listening to music? Facebook wants you to do it all through Facebook. And in a Facebook news conference, it unveiled its plan for achieving this online hegemony Thursday.
MySpace finally sold for some $35 million

MySpace, a struggling competitor to Facebook, is bought by ad network Specific Media. The $30 million to $40 million price for MySpace is less than what News Corp. had hoped to sell it for.
Social networks for niches

Focused niche social networks give rise to defined online communities. Even giant Facebook is taking notice.
Hulu launches $10 video subscription service but keeps ads

Hulu launched a $10 video subscription service on Tuesday but astonishingly paying subscribers to Hulu will get the same number of ads as users of the free Hulu website.
FTC clears Google purchase of mobile ad service AdMob

Google's $750 million purchase of Admob strengthens the firm's dominance of web advertising.
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Cyber Monday online deals are buzzing. Will consumers respond?

While Cyber Monday online deals are heating up keyboards nationwide, will Cyber Monday be good for retailers in an increasingly drawn-out sales season?
Marketing company sells clients Facebook friends

The service from uSocial is mostly meant for businesses, celebrities and other individuals looking to expand on the social network, and Facebook isn’t happy about it.
Many new ‘friends’ to be made online, but what about dollars?

Social network websites are booming. If only they could turn a profit.