Archive | May 17th, 2012

Facebook Credits About to Grow Up…. Fast

Posted on 17 May 2012

Editor’s note:  Peter Vogel is co-founder of Plink , a Facebook Credits-based loyalty program that rewards Facebook members for dining and making purchases at their favorite restaurants and stores. Reach him via email at peter@plink.com or follow him on Twitter @pvogel

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Facebook career postings: policy, data center, recruiting, more

Posted on 17 May 2012

Facebook posted new jobs for head of policy in Japan and Korea this week. There was also a data center position, marketing and recruiting jobs posted on Facebook’s Careers  page

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Facebook hires: engineering, public policy, engineering, more

Posted on 17 May 2012

Facebook hired engineers and marketers this week, according to its  LinkedIn  feed and Careers  page. The company also appeared to hire a manager of State and Local Public Policy – California and legal counsel in its India office. As we covered Tuesday, the company also hired the team behind Android photo sharing app Lightbox

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FastCustomer Unleashes Telephone Call Concierge Service

Posted on 17 May 2012

“People are sick of shitty customer service,” said FastCustomer co-founder, Stephanie Hay. And she and her team aim to do something about it

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How High Will Facebook Stock Go Tomorrow? Place Your Bet At FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com

Posted on 17 May 2012

There are a few lessons you could take away from the fact that FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com exists right now:  Ask and ye shall receive, especially if you’re Chris Sacca.

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Twitter Wants An Interest Graph: Now Tracking Your Browsing To Make Follow Suggestions

Posted on 17 May 2012

Twitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn’t solved the problem of turning its noise into signal. After joining Twitter, it can take a lot of following and unfollowing scores of accounts before you’ve curated a stream that makes sense for you

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Verizon: If You Want To Keep Your Unlimited Data, Pay Full Price For Your Next Smartphone

Posted on 17 May 2012

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo ruffled a few feathers yesterday when he mentioned at an investor conference that every one of their customers would be on one of the carrier’s new data share plans . In an effort to clarify his meaning, Verizon sent a statement to a handful of news outlets today that shines a bit more light on how they plan to make this situation work

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Salesforce.com: Q1 Net Loss Of $19.5M On Sales Of $695M. Benioff Says It’ll Have Its First $3B Year FY2013

Posted on 17 May 2012

The ongoing interest and use of cloud-based services has brought a generally good set of results to one of the leaders in the enterprise software-as-a-service business.  Salesforce.com released Q1 earnings just now and in a quarter that is traditionally slower for the company, it swung to a net loss of $19.5 million, compared to a net profit of $530 million a year ago. Nevertheless, total revenues for the quarter were $695 million and earnings per share of $0.37 — beating estimates from analysts as polled by First Call, who expected adjusted EPS of $0.34 and $678.21 million for revenue. The figures were also better than Saleforce’s own guidance of $0.33-$0.34 for the EPS and revenue of $673 million – $678 million.

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Vizibility Launches Its NFC-Enabled Business Cards

Posted on 17 May 2012

Love’em or hate’em, despite the best efforts of Bump and others, traditional business cards aren’t going away anytime soon. At least, though, some companies are trying to bridge the gap between paper cards and efforts like Bump. New York-based Vizibility first announced its NFC-enabled businesses cards during SXSW earlier this year

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Facebook prices shares on the high end of its range at $38

Posted on 17 May 2012

Facebook priced its initial public offering at $38 per share, which is at the high end of the range it proposed on Tuesday. The price will raise $16 billion for the company and the social network a valuation over $100 billion. The company plans to list 421.

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