Facebook IPO and Two Other Stories You Need to Know

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Friday, May 18, 2012
TRENDING STORIES IN BUSINESS & MARKETING 5 Ways Facebook's IPO Affects Brands Eduardo Saverin Congratulates Mark Zuckerberg ... on Facebook Nasdaq Delayed Facebook IPO for 30 Minutes ALL STORIES IN BUSINESS & MARKETING Facebook IPO and Two Other Stories You Need to Know 7:43:46 AM Stan Schroeder Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Facebook IPO Stock Price and Predictions... Facebook IPO: Did Twitter Crowdsourcing Just Give Us the Closing Price? 1:11:52 AM Chris Taylor When you get a lot of smart and interested people together to make a prediction in aggregate, it can be scary accurate. Anyone who has read the James Surowiecki business science classic The Wisdom of Crowds, and a host of corroborating authors... 4 Steps to Cultivating Online Trust Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:30 PM Wendy Lea You've likely heard that the secret to building relationships with your customers is to "be everywhere your customers are." As a result, you've probably signed up for a dozen social networks hoping that just showing up will turn out to be enough.... Facebook IPO: Here's Why You Shouldn't Buy Yet Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:30 PM Joann Pan Everyone's talking about the Facebook IPO -- and for good reason. Facebook is currently valued at around $100 billion, though it made less than $4 billion in revenue last year. Still, if the social network with more than 901 million users plays... 5 Reasons QR Code Marketing Is Broken (and How to Fix It) Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:27 PM Dan Wilkerson For years now, marketers, businesses and, well, everybody have touted QR codes as the next big thing. That's largely because QR codes offered a glimmer of the future, a way to bring physical interactions into the much more malleable (and... Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:01 PM Zoe Fox Teaching isn't known to be a lucrative profession, but online marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is changing that for some educators. Deanna Jump, a kindergarten teacher from Georgia, has made $700,000 selling her lesson plans on Teachers Pay... Death by Desk Job: How to Fight It [INFOGRAPHIC] Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:16 PM Sam Laird Your desk job can kill you. At the very least, it will likely make you fatter, sicker and more stressed out than a job that doesn't require sitting down and hunching over a keyboard for a third of the day. Studies have shown that the amount of... The Top 10 U.S. Cities With Social-Savvy Small Businesses Thursday, May 17, 2012 5:20 PM Samantha Murphy Small businesses on the West Coast of the U.S. are far more social-media savvy than those on the East Coast -- with companies in San Francisco and Los Angeles leading the pack, according to a new study. Small business analytics accompany has... 7 Companies That Could Have Been Facebook Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:45 PM Christine Erickson It's been a long road for Facebook. What began as an intimate platform has turned into a social networking giant serving more than 900 million users. Facebook may be cashing in on its intial public offering this week, but it wasn't the first to... Facebook Timeline: 9 Best Practices for Brands Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:49 PM Lauren Drell The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. IDC Infographic: Big Data Market to Grow 40% Per Year. Technology vendors of all sizes across hardware, software, and services stand to gain in the explosion of big data spending over the next...		TOP STORIES TODAY Facebook Opens at $42, Valued at $116.6 Billion Sick of PowerPoint? Prezi Puts Your Presentation on One Page Which of These 13 Companies Will Be the Next Big Tech IPO? Zynga, LinkedIn, Yelp All Down After Facebook IPO Debut Mark Zuckerberg Worth $21 Billion on Facebook IPO Debut TOP TOPICS Trending 6,180 followers Business 35,668 followers Social Media 69,505 followers Twitter 55,492 followers Mobile 4,799 followers Video 3,810 followers Startups 9,394 followers Entertainment 3,340 followers Apps And Software 966 followers Marketing 9,070 followers
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