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  • Monday Grok: No class, just all class action around the Facebook IPO

    Numbers are lazy. Bigger numbers are even lazier. Or perhaps it’s just that people like me who quote them all the time are lazy about how we use them. That’s probably because after a while you pass so many noughts before you trip over a decimal point that their impact is lost in the interference.

  • Facebook may be eyeing Opera web browser, reports say

    Facebook's advertising appetite could be in for a nice snack if the company gobbles up the Opera web browser as some technology observers have speculated it may, and investors who have been edgy since the social network's recent IPO could also get some relief.

  • Refund for some Facebook investors

    Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpaid when they bought Facebook's stock in Friday's IPO, according to a source familiar with the matter.

  • Facebook used as terrorist tool: Expert

    Terrorist groups are using Facebook to recruit loners from Western countries like Australia to their cause and authorities are struggling to stop it, a leading counter-terrorism expert says.

  • Phones are distractions during catch-ups

    Sick of your friends tweeting during dinner or constantly texting on nights out?

  • Facebook shares sink below IPO price

    Facebook shares plunged nearly 11 per cent on Monday during the stock's first full day of trade as the enthusiasm from a massive public offering for the social network giant turned to scepticism.

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    Facebook vs. Google: Who will win?

    Facebook is now officially a public company, scads of new millionaires are on a Silicon Valley spending spree, and media outlets near and far have yet to pipe down about the IPO, likely one of the most anticipated in history.

  • Unhappy diners are getting into a twitter

    In the age of social media, restaurants are learning that only a twit ignores an unhappy customer.

  • No agreement on Internet content: Lawyer

    The rapid growth of the internet and social media are causing major legal headaches globally, with no clear-cut agreement on how to control content, a law lecturer says.

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    Monday Grok: Facebook IPO — not everyone’s as greedy as a Wall Street underwriter

    In the last 72 hours Mark Zuckerberg made a hero of his bank manager and an honest woman of his wife. That’s a hell of a weekend.

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