Facebook may be looking at a $100m floatation, but it apparently only spent a few cents on photocopying the image gallery UI from Google+ and using it itself. The new Facebook layout floats a comments/Likes box over the right hand side of a black lightbox, Faceblog spotted, with the tweaked interface being rolled out to certain users already; Julien Girard snapped a shot of Mark Zuckerberg's desk, shown below, for instance. It's a layout that's mighty similar to what Google+ already offers, and the latest example of the two social sites seemingly "borrowing" design cues from each other.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 1, 2012
Welcome to February! We're hitting the ground running as we steam ahead into the shortest month of the year, and there's no bigger news today than the launch of Facebook's IPO, which makes Mark Zuckerberg a filthy rich man. Not that he wasn't already. For something a bit more relatable, Max OS X 10.7.3 has just been released so get your Mac computers up-to-date whenever you get the chance.
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Facebook depends on Zynga for 12% of revenue
Facebook officially filed its IPO today and the documents reveal that the social network's $3.71 billion revenue in 2011 has been dependent largely on its successful partnership with Zynga. Although Facebook generates a majority of its revenue from advertising, Zynga is responsible for almost all of the network's "Payments" revenue, worth 12% of total revenue.
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Facebook IPO launched officially
The social network known as Facebook has officially signed its Initial Public Offering, authorized by Ernst & Young LLP as having shares of its common stock available to the world today. Facebook seeks to raise $5 billion USD, just about half of what analysts were expecting on the whole. In the filing, its apparent that Facebook’s current cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totals in at $3,908,000,000 – that’s a lot of bank. Similar numbers can be seen in working capital at $3,705,000,000 and total stockholders’ equity at 4,899,000,000 – that being over 5 billion USD in pro form. Total assets, the biggest of the sets, sits at over 6 billion USD.
Facebook IPO timing and filing with Morgan Stanley named
The market is preparing itself for one of the largest IPO openings in recent memory with the launch of Facebook, the group today being said to be choosing Morgan Stanley to take the lead at the start. This Initial Public Offering is said to be setting Facebook up for 10 billion in raised funds. Four sources with knowledge of the matter speaking anonymously with Bloomberg have let them know that Facebook is likely to choose FB as their stock symbol with an opening after the close of U.S. markets today.
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Facebook IPO could see Zuckerberg reward 800m users
Facebook's much-rumored IPO isn't enough for the tech industry; they want social network founder Mark Zuckerberg to throw in some of that old razzle dazzle with a tidbit to loyal users. Widely expected to be announced later today, the IPO will supposedly see Facebook attempt to raise as much as $10bn, with big investors tipped to flock to the coveted stock. Unfortunately, your average IPO doesn't hold much room for small investors to get a foot in the door.
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Facebook tipped for IPO by June
Facebook has been around since 2004, and has had investors since the beginning. The rumors keep swirling that Facebook is set to make an IPO, and according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, that IPO could come within the next five months. Sources have tipped that Facebook is targeting sometime between April and June for its IPO. According to rumors, Facebook could raise as much as $10 billion.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 31, 2012
Not only are we wrapping up the news of the day today, we're wrapping up the first month of the year. As we steam ahead into 2012, here's what made news today - for starters, Acer has plans to bring $699 Ultrabooks to the market later this year. What else can you expect as we move forward in 2012? If you're a Nokia and/or Windows Phone fan, expect NFC and wireless charging in the coming months.
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PSA: Facebook Timeline absolutely cannot be undone, don’t be fooled
The scammers are coming out on Facebook in force this month, right from the start, to get you Timeline haters in their web and snare not just your Facebook account, but your computer’s contents as well. This is a public service announcement for you dreamers hoping to de-authorize Timeline from your Facebook account: you can’t, no matter what you see in an offer for a plug-in, a simple “like to fix,” or anything of that nature. Do not fall for these scams, ladies and gentlemen, there is no way out.
Facebook says over 5 billion songs shared and talks frictionless sharing
I would wager many of us have friends on Facebook listen to a lot of music, and the links to that music are shared on the social network for you and others to listen along. It hasn't even been six months yet since Facebook launched music sharing, and already a huge number of tracks have been shared on the social network. Facebook music sharing was introduced last September at the F8 conference and since then there have been 5 billion songs shared.
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Facebook Timeline Movie Maker makes a movie out of your content
I think most of us would agree that the new Facebook Timeline isn't something we want on our profiles. I don't like the way timeline profiles look, and I'm sure I am not alone. Facebook has now launched a new app that will take all the content you put on your Timeline profile, and turn that content into a little movie. That sounds interesting, and some people will probably appreciate the new app.
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Harmonix game in the works for Xbox Live, PSN, and Facebook?
The guys at Harmonix are fairly occupied working on continuous downloadable content for Dance Central, but apparently there is something else in the works for the music game moguls. Brian Chan, who was the senior designer for Rock Band 3, has mentioned on his own public resume that he has begun working on a new Harmonix project, but nothing matching his description has yet been announced by the video game company.
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