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Facebook's Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers
— $FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it's made important progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights.
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Apple removes Bang With Friends from App Store
— The eyebrow-raising app won't be initiating Facebook-friend hookups for iPhone owners for the time being. — No more knocking boots with your Facebook friends, iPhone users. Apple has removed the salaciously titled Bang With Friends iPhone application from its App Store.
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Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling
— The Tumblr sweepstakes have begun. — According to multiple reports (the first coming from All Things D), the social blogging site is in serious talks with Yahoo , which is looking to secure a strategic investment …
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Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78%
— One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.
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Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. Will Facebook swoop in at the last minute?
— Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer thinks that what Blogger did for Google, Tumblr could do for her aging Internet company — make it relevant and a major player on the modern web. And for that she is willing …
| Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Tells Court ‘Like’ Feature Vital to Free Speech
— Facebook's “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MessageMe Raises A $10M Series A Led By Greylock As It Gears Up For Money And Premium Services In Its Rich Messaging App
— MessageMe — a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in — has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today.
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Pace Picks Up on Tech IPOs
— Large Group of Maturing Silicon Valley Startups Will Test Post-Facebook Waters — A year after Facebook Inc.'s botched initial public offering, Silicon Valley's IPO pipeline is starting to fill up again. — Following a slowdown in technology IPOs …
| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
The Facebook IPO, One Year Later
— The Company Is Getting Serious About Making Money; But the Stock Is Stuck — Two weeks ago, new posters began appearing at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. The posters proclaimed: “Advertisers are users too*.” At the bottom of the page, in smaller font …
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After inking a deal to power Facebook Card, Marqeta lands $14m to expand its prepaid payments platform
— Marqeta, a payments platform that rewards users with additional in-store credit for prepaying online, announced today that it has raised a $14 million Series B round of funding.
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).