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By: Tara Lynn Wagner
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With 901 million users, anyone [...]

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Facebook’s initial public offering — scheduled to price Thursday evening and trade Friday morning — is undoubtedly the deal of the year. Maybe even the deal of the decade.
But it’s not going to make investors forget the dark cloud hanging over Europe’s economy.
“There’s no question it’s the star event of the year, certainly in the [...]

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The gossip spotlight is on Facebook this week as Founder Mark Zuckerburg recently announced his plan to set the IPO near $100 billion. while similar social sites including Linkedin or Groupon have recently ventured into the public realm, nothing of this magnitude has excited investors in years… if ever. why is Zuck cashing in now? [...]

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Welcome to our Tuesday Giveaway series, where every week we’ll be featuring a different good or service that we absolutely love and want to share with the world! Entries will be counted until midnight PST and announced on Wednesdays. Read below to see how to enter, and ‘Share’ our Facebook post for a double entry!
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You have probably noticed that it’s been exceptionally quite here. Or maybe you didn’t. I’m still posting, just not here. Being one to always experiment, I’m off experimenting.
This isn’t the end of this blog (at least not yet). but after five plus years I’m questioning if this is the right approach for me. So for [...]

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LinkedIn IPO demand could be very strong tomorrow, but a possible irrational valuation of $45 per share could stall things a little. this would value the social networking company at $4 billion, that’s an increase of $10 a share. However, the early signs show that investors will pay that price.
WSJ say that this is one [...]

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Rihanna who? Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran shared a passionate, sunset embrace on Monday … and she made sure everyone saw it on Twitter, too.
The singer and aspiring model, who have been together about five months, appear to be going strong. “Head over heels,” she wrote beneath the pic.
In this intimate, romantic shot, Karrueche Tran [...]

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On Thursday, you might have seen me tweet out something about a possible new viral website for JJ Abrams‘ upcoming movie Super 8. Unlike those fake fan-created dark Knight Rises viral videos floating around, this website has been confirmed as legit from the official Super8Movie twitter account. This new website, Super8Secret.com, only contains the question [...]

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Facebook made an average $1.21 per user between Jan.1 and March 31 — a 6 percent increase from the first quarter of 2011– according to an updated filing with the Securities and Exchange commission.
The social network today reported revenues of $1.058 billion for the first quarter of the calendar year. That’s a 45 percent increase [...]

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By Paul Bond, the Hollywood Reporter
Citing inflammatory language while expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama, the military has uninvited rock star and conservative political activist Ted Nugent from performing at Fort Knox in Kentucky, according to the U.S. Army post’s Facebook page.
“after learning of opening act Ted Nugent’s recent public comments about [...]

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