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2013/2/12
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks put in a mixed trading performance in early action Tuesday.
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2013/4/9
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Facebook FB is leading other mobile publishers, including Twitter and Pandora P in dominating the mobile display advertising market in the U.S., outpacing rivals such as Google GOOG , Millennial Media MM and Apple AAPL , according to an IDC report to be released Tuesday.
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2013/1/30
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. said its mobile daily active users exceeded its desktop daily active users for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2012, highlighting its momentum in that arena.
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2013/5/1
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc.'s FB total monthly active users rose to 1.11 billion as of March 31, 2013, up 23% from the year-earlier period.
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2013/3/15
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB on Friday said it has named Mike Schroepfer as the social media company's chief technology officer.
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2013/3/6
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Facebook Inc. FB on Wednesday named Susan Desmond-Hellmann to the company's board of directors.
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2013/2/25
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB is offering free or discounted messaging access to its members through these users' mobile operators in more than a dozen countries, the company said late Sunday.
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2013/1/30
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB on Wednesday reported a fourth-quarter profit of 64 million, 3 cents share, compared with a profit of $205 million, or 14 cents a share, for the year-earlier period.
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2013/4/26
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB was upgraded Friday to strong buy from outperform by Raymond James, which cited the social network's strong revenue growth potential.
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2013/5/1
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB on Wednesday reported a first-quarter profit of $219 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with a profit of 205 million, or 9 cents a share, for the year-earlier period.
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2013/5/10
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB on Friday said the company's general counsel Ted Ullyot is leaving the social network.
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2013/2/15
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB on Friday said the social networking site was hit by "a sophisticated attack" last month, although the company has "found no evidence that Facebook user data was compromised." In a post by Facebook's security team, the company said the attack happened after some employees went to a mobile developer's website, which turned out to be compromised.
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2013/1/30
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Facebook Inc. FB were up 1.6% at $31.27 on Wednesday ahead of the social networking company's fourth-quarter results.
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2013/4/23
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook FB on Tuesday said it will build a fourth data center in Altoona, Iowa, highlighting the region's "abundance of wind-generated power" as the company promised to build one of the most advanced and energy efficient facilities of its kind.” The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company said that with more than a billion users, Facebook needs "to make sure that our technical infrastructure also continues to scale." Facebook operates three other data centers in Pineville, Oregon; Forest City, North Carolina and Lulea, Sweden.
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2013/4/4
MENLO PARK (MarketWatch) -- Facebook Inc. FB unveiled a new mobile software product called Facebook Home for mobile devices on Thursday.
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2013/3/14
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. FB is planning to incorporate the hashtag, the symbol of rival Twitter, into the social networking site's service, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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2013/4/16
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks were mostly higher on Tuesday, propelled by broad sector gains as shares of Facebook Inc. FB , Hewlett-Packard HPQ and Apple Inc. AAPL advanced.
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2013/1/31
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks mostly fell in early trades on Thursday, with Facebook Inc. and the company now known as BlackBerry leading the declines.
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2013/5/2
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks mostly rose in early trading Thursday in a session highlighted by Intel Corp.
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2013/5/1
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Tech stocks slipped modestly in early trades on Wednesday, as Facebook FB and Yelp YELP shares declined ahead of their first-quarter reports, due after the closing bell.
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2013/2/26
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Instagram, Facebook Inc.'s FB popular photo-sharing service, now has 100 million users, the company said Tuesday.
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2013/4/3
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Jimmy Fallon will take over as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" next spring, NBC said in a statement on Wednesday.
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2013/4/10
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO said Wednesday fiscal second-quarter net income rose to $140.1 million, or $1.21 a share, from $136.4 million, or $1.15 a share, a year ago.
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2013/4/11
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Analysts at Goldman Sachs on Thursday cut Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO to neutral from buy and removed the discount chain from its Americas buy list, after second-quarter results came in below expectations the prior day.
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2013/4/2
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federally-backed mortgage buyer Fannie Mae reported record profits Tuesday morning, recording its first annual net income since 2006, led by better credit results and revenue.
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2013/3/14
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A bill aiming to spur substantive reform of the government's role in housing finance was introduced Thursday by a bipartisan group of senators.
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2013/2/5
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2013/3/15
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The Food and Drug Administration has opened a safety review of diabetes drugs from Merck & Co.
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2013/2/25
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The CBOE Volatility Index jumped Monday as U.S. stocks sold off broadly and concerns rose about political stability in Europe.
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2013/2/21
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The CBOE Volatility Index is on track to log its largest weekly jump in 17 months following Wednesday's Federal Reserve meeting minutes and Thursday's weak economic data.
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