Zuckerberg appearance helps propel stock above $20 for first time in 4 weeks

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Sep 132012
 

Zuckerberg has avoided public appearances and interviews over the past year, and his silence likely contributed to some of the uneasiness investors felt about the company. The stock, which was priced at $38 at the time of Facebook’s initial public offering in May, fell as low as $17.67 last month following the end of the first lock-up period. Even with today’s rise, shares are trading below 40 percent of their offering price. However, Facebook has recently been active in expanding its mobile monetization efforts and testing a new search-based advertising option. Zuckerberg said in his interview Tuesday that the company has many more products and feature to launch later this year.

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Sunday Still Drives Weekly Product Cycle – Even Online

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Oct 102011
 

The Sunday circulars and coupons are a main reason why it is the most popular day of the week for newspapers. Consumers, it appears, have been trained to behave similarly on that day online as well, a blog post from Compete notes. Despite the steady drop in newspaper readers, consumers still flock to retailers’ sites such as Target or Best Buy to check for coupons on Sunday, Compete found.

“Based on the huge spikes in traffic on Sundays, it appears that consumer awareness of Sunday as the start of a new week of sales still appears to be strong. Sunday is one of the busiest days for consumers to visit both sites.”

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Could Google Fast Flip Have Survived on Tablets?

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

Fast Flip is one of nine in a batch of products to be discontinued from Google Labs. The company announced it would shutter Labs experiments shortly after releasing its second-quarter earnings results in mid-July.

Other Labs products Google will shut down:

Aardvark: Social search product that helps people answer each others’ questions.

Desktop: Gives instant access to data while online or offline.

Fast Flip: Provides a faster, richer news content browsing and reading experience.

Google Maps API for Flash: Allows ActionScript developers to integrate Google Maps into their applications.

Google Pack: Makes it easy to download and install a package of Google and third-party applications.

Google Web Security: Protects against web malware attacks.

Image Labeler: Helps people explore and label images on the web.

Notebook: Helps people combine clipped URLs from the web and free-form notes into documents they can share and publish.

Sidewiki: A browser sidebar that lets people contribute and read information alongside any web page.

Subscribed Links: Enables developers to create specialized search results that were added to the normal Google search results on relevant queries for subscribed users.

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