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Life360 Locks Down $750k in Latest Funding Round [Press Release]
Business Wire | 16 hours 26 minutes ago
Life360, the online service for managing family safety and security, has raised $750,000 in their most recent round of funding. Investors include Founders Fund, early Mint.com investor Mark Goines, LaunchCapital and the Seraph Group.
CORRECTING and REPLACING eBay Serves Up Bargains to Consumers Around the Clock with New Deals Application for iPhone and iPod Touch [Press Release]
Business Wire | 17 hours 38 minutes ago
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Roku Launches Open Platform for Delivery of Content to the TV; Announces First 10 New Channels [Press Release]
Business Wire | 1 day 22 hours 5 minutes ago
Roku, Inc., maker of the popular and award-winning family of Roku players, announced today the Roku Channel Store and the first 10 free channels for Roku customers to enjoy on their TVs. From internet radio to video podcasts, professional web content to photo sharing and personal videos, the Roku Channel Store provides an open platform for delivering quality content to the TV. New channels now available for customers to add today to their Roku experience via the Roku Channel Store include: Pa...
Visceral Games Ignites Social Gaming with Three Little Words: Go to Hell [Press Release]
Business Wire | 1 day 19 hours 35 minutes ago
Visceral Games, an Electronic Arts studio (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced ‘Go to Hell’, an all-new social application inspired by the upcoming game, Dante’s Inferno™. This application takes the poem’s canonized nine circles of hell, and brings them into everyday life. With the click of a button, anyone can send a friend foe, place, product or brand to one of the nine circles of hell. Angry at your mom for grounding you? Send her to ‘Treachery’. Mad at your ex- for cheating? Send them to ‘Lust’....
Microsoft wins search deals with Twitter, Facebook - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 34 days 16 hours 5 minutes ago
Microsoft's senior vice president for online audience business, Yusuf Mehdi, said that, under the agreements, the company will include content from the privately-held Internet microblogging service Twitter and social networking service Facebook Inc. in its online search results.
Facebook backer closes $575 million fund - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 22 days 15 hours 13 minutes ago
Greylock, which has backed Internet firms including Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Inc., also said it has named Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's co-founder and executive chairman, as a new investing partner.
Microsoft to fit Facebook, Twitter feeds to Bing - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 34 days 16 hours 41 minutes ago
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Chase and Facebook Launch Innovative Giving Program for Small and Local Charities [Press Release]
Business Wire | 8 days 17 hours 49 minutes ago
For the first time ever, Facebook® users will be able to choose from more than 500,000 small and local charities to decide which community organizations they want to receive donations totaling millions of dollars from a corporate philanthropy fund. Chase and Facebook today announced the launch of Chase Community Giving: You Decide What Matters, a grassroots campaign to inspire a new way of corporate philanthropy.
Facebook creates dual-class structure, but no IPO
Yahoo! | 2 hours 10 minutes ago
Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.
Facebook creates dual-class stock structure, says no plans to go public at this time
Chicago Tribune | 2 hours 4 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.
Sigma-Aldrich Launches 'What's Your Favorite Gene?' Application On Facebook(R) Platform [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 6 days 16 hours 35 minutes ago
...What's Your Favorite Gene?' Application On Facebook(R) Platform First Biotechnology Application...Biotechnology L.P. and Sigma-Aldrich Co. Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. PubMed is a registered trademark of the National...
Spore Franchise Launches First Game on Facebook Platform [Press Release]
Business Wire | 19 days 22 hours 35 minutes ago
Maxis™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today announced they have taken their renowned integration of social connectivity to the next level with a fun and original game application built on Facebook® Platform, Spore™ Islands. Now available, Spore Islands invites Facebook users to experience the Spore universe in a new way by competing against each other in the ultimate survival of the fittest game.
Lottay Cautions 'Gift Cards Are the New Fruitcake' [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 15 hours 20 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ --
T-Mobile USA Launches Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR in Stores Beginning Today [Press Release]
Business Wire | 22 days 18 hours 34 minutes ago
T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the national availability of the Motorola CLIQ™ with MOTOBLUR™, the first Android™-powered device from Motorola and the only device to feature MOTOBLUR this holiday season. Beginning today, customers can now purchase the CLIQ in T-Mobile retail stores, partner locations and online at www.T-Mobile.com/CLIQ. To celebrate the CLIQ’s arrival in retail, T-Mobile also launched the T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ Challenge today, a nationwide contest to build the largest co...
Challenge Games GridIron LiveTM Kicks off Next Generation Games with a Fast-Paced, Social Football Experience On Facebook Platform [Press Release]
Business Wire | 40 days 15 hours 1 minute ago
GridIron LiveTM is giving football fans a whole new way to play football, compete against friends and share their love of the game on Facebook® Platform. The innovative new online football game combines the casual, quick play of social gaming with a high level of live action game play and graphics using Facebook Platform. GridIron Live is played on Facebook Platform at http://apps.facebook.com/gridironlive.
Company Overview
| Company: | Facebook, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Internet Content Providers |
| Website: | http://www.facebook.com |
When it comes to social networking, it's wise to put your best face forward. Online directory Facebook began by connecting students through social networks at schools, but has since opened its service to the general public. Users post photos and information about themselves through online profiles. The site was launched in 2004 by undergraduates at Harvard, led by Mark Zuckerberg, as an online version of the Harvard Facebook. (The name comes from books of freshmen's faces, majors, and hometowns that are distributed to incoming students.) Microsoft has a deal to be the exclusive provider of advertising to Facebook. Investors include Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel and Accel Partners.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 0.8 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 0.0 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 0 () |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 () |
| Number of Employees | 9 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |
