Books
Facebook ads less than lucrative for many businesses
As the public joined the frenzy around Facebook Inc.'s Wall Street debut, well-connected institutional investors were hearing a more sobering message: The social network's main business, advertising, was sputtering.
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Facebook's lucky friends?
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, May 24:
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BUSINESS
Facebook could face huge damage claims from IPO
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Facebook Inc. could be on the hook for $1 billion or more in damages if plaintiffs' lawyers can prove allegations that the company and its bankers misled investors in its initial public offering.
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BUSINESS
Facebook introduces Instagram-like photo-sharing app
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Less than two months after agreeing to pay about $1 billion for photo-sharing application Instagram, Facebook Inc. introduced a similar app Thursday.
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BUSINESS
Facebook introduces Instagram-like photo-sharing app
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Less than two months after agreeing to pay about $1 billion for photo-sharing application Instagram, Facebook Inc. introduced a similar app Thursday.
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BUSINESS
Facebook silver lining on another rough day: stock stops sinking
Congress is getting involved and investors have become angry, but despite another rough day for Facebook at least its stock price finally closed with a daily gain.
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BUSINESS
Facebook to open office in Dubai
Facebook Inc. is set to open an office in Dubai next week, its first location in the Middle East.
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BUSINESS
Congressional committees looking into Facebook IPO problems
Two congressional committees are looking into the troubled initial public offering of Facebook Inc., aides said Wednesday.
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BOOKS
The Romance Reader: 'Karma'
"Karma" by Carly Phillips; Berkley (2012), 384 pages, $7.99 (paperback)
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Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012: A voice of Mexico past, present and future
What will become of Mexico? How can a country so powerful, so concerted, so modern, be so impotent, so chaotic, so backward? And how can Mexico, and all Latin America, take ownership of their futures?
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A 'Gossip Girl' in Henry VIII's court
-"Gilt, by Katherine Longshore; Penguin (416 pages, $17.99, ages 12 and up)








