Monthly Archives: February 2012

There’s been a lot of activity on the Web and in our industry in the last week and I thought it might be fun to try and tie at least some of it together.  Much of it in one way or another involves Facebook—or FB as the proposed ticker symbol suggests.  Read more

There’s been a lot of activity on the Web and in our industry in the last week, and I thought it might be fun to try and tie at least some of it together. Much of it in one way or another involves Facebook — or “FB,” as the proposed ticker symbol suggests.  Read more

Facebook is still learning how to make money off of all it knows about you. And it will probably be learning for years, just as Google has evolved over time.  Read more

Facebook officially filed for their IPO last week with an expected offering to take place in May. At that time, Facebook will be valued somewhere between $75 billion to $100 billion. Also announced were the company’s 2011 financials, showing $3.7 billion in revenue. As strong as this figure looks at first, investors should look further […]

With a projected valuation of as much as $100 billion, Facebook’s imminent IPO may portend great things for social media. But many planners feel less bullish about its prospects for delivering investment returns.  Read more

Congress is considering making an important change to a law that hasn’t been touched since the heyday of VHS tapes. It’s all about privacy. You can share most anything on Facebook, but not your Netflix queue. “They want to have the ability to make that rental history more public, have it become something that is […]