'Casablanca' On Facebook: When Classic Films Meet Social Networking Sites
"Casablanca" and Facebook: the beginning of a beautiful friendship? (Couldn't help it.)
To celebrate the 70th anniversary year of "Casablanca" -- and the recent release of a special edition "Casablanca" Blu-ray set -- Warner Bros. Digital Distribution will "screen" the classic Hollywood drama ...
2012-05-15 20:32:18 +0000
Poll: Half of Americans call Facebook a fad
Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected asking price is too high.
The company Mark Zuck...
2012-05-15 20:03:03 +0000
Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears
NEW YORK (AP) — Already expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making its IPO even bigger.
The world's largest online social network on Tuesday increased the planned price range for its stock to $34 to $38 per share in a filing with the Sec...
2012-05-15 19:59:49 +0000
Facebook gives more details on mobile usage
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says the number of people logging in is continuing to grow more quickly than the number of ads delivered.
This is in part because more people are using Facebook on mobile devices, where it shows a very small number of ads, Facebook said Wednesday. The finding implies t...
2012-05-10 04:11:41 +0000
100,000 Facebook users use new organ donor option
ATLANTA (AP) — An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors.
The new option was announced Tuesday by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to boost the number of potential organ donors. It allows Facebook users to add organ d...
2012-05-02 17:56:47 +0000
Yahoo escalates patent battle with Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is bringing out more artillery in its patent battle with Facebook.
It is adding new allegations of intellectual property theft to its six-week-old lawsuit against Facebook. In court papers filed Friday, Yahoo Inc. now says Facebook's online social network infringes o...
2012-04-28 04:49:32 +0000
Microsoft sells AOL patents on to Facebook
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft, which just bought patents from AOL for $1 billion, is now turning around and selling most of them to Facebook for $550 million.
Facebook is buying about 650 of the 925 AOL patents and patent applications that Microsoft bought, Microsoft and Facebook said Monday.
F...
2012-04-23 20:01:47 +0000
Facebook reports lower 1Q net income
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is reporting, ahead of its initial public offering, expected in May, that its first-quarter net income fell as its revenue rose by comparison with a year earlier.
Facebook Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Monday that its net income fell 12 percent to $233 million fr...
2012-04-23 19:56:18 +0000
'Marley' to stream on Facebook while in theaters
NEW YORK (AP) — The Bob Marley documentary "Marley" will stream on Facebook simultaneously during its theatrical opening, a signal that social media may also play a role in shifting movie release windows.
Such day-and-date releases have become increasingly common in recent years for smaller in...
2012-04-12 13:06:22 +0000
Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing application developer, in its largest-ever acquisition just months before the No. 1 social media website is expected to go public.
The price was stunning for an apps-maker without...
2012-04-10 04:56:18 +0000
Eden posted a message of her Facebook page, honoring Hagman's incredible career:
As I received the news this evening and as you read this I still cannot completely express the shock and impact from the news that Larry Hagman has passed. I can still remember, that first day on Zuma Beach with him, in the frigid cold. From that day for five more years, Larry was the center of s...
2013-03-12 22:40:39 +0000