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It's Not Just Facebook: Is Social Media Finance Toast?
Evan Simonoff's FA Blog
Mon, 20 Aug 2012
It's not just that another 1.44 billion shares of Facebook will become available for sale between now and November. Or that Facebook, with its stock down 50 percent, remains one of the better-performing social media stocks. A much bigger problem is
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