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5 Books That Inspired Steve Jobs, Bill Gates And Other Billionaires
Saturday, February 5, 2022 - 12:08pm | 951Most readers can name books that have inspired them and had a significant impact on their life. The five billionaires below named one particular book that both inspired and aided in shaping their careers, according to Think Business. Warren Buffett Timothy F. Geithner’s “Stress Test...
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New Book About Facebook Reveals How Company Navigated Difficult Decisions
Friday, July 16, 2021 - 1:13pm | 482Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is in the news again. A new book — "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination" (HarperCollins) — covers the years of Facebook’s development, taking care to highlight its most contentious moments including the Cambridge...
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Facebook, Google Committed To 'Assist' Each Other If Ad Tie-Up Ever Faced Scrutiny, Draft Lawsuit Says: WSJ
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 5:49am | 449Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Google-parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) formed an agreement to work together in preparation for any potential probe that looked into their advertising deal, several U.S. states have reportedly alleged in a lawsuit. What Happened: An unredacted draft...
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Mark Zuckerberg Says WhatsApp Now Sees 100B Messages Exchanged A Day
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 10:24pm | 472Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday at the company's quarterly earnings call that private messaging continues to be the fastest-growing form of communication — with WhatsApp alone seeing the exchange of 100 billion messages each day. What Happened: The social media...
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Facebook To Increase Minority Representation In Leadership, Pledges $200M To African American Businesses
Friday, June 19, 2020 - 7:51am | 354Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has pledged to raise the representation of minorities in leadership roles and will support minority-owned businesses to the extent of $200 million. What Happened In a Facebook post on Thursday, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of the company, explained how the killing of George Floyd...
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Sheryl Sandberg Announces $20M Facebook Donation for Women, Minority And Veteran-Owned Businesses
Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 1:47am | 329Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) COO, Sheryl Sandberg, announced Facebook’s grant of $20 million to small businesses owned by women, minorities, and veterans in the United States. What Happened Appearing on CNBC’s “Mad Money” on Wednesday, Sandberg said the $20 million would...
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Google Announces Further Hiring And Marketing Budget Cuts
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 10:21am | 360Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google announced Thursday plans to halt hiring and cut down marketing budgets in non-essential businesses in the second half of 2020. What Happened "As we outlined last week, we are re-evaluating the pace of our investment plans for the remainder of 2020 and...
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Facebook Plans To Hire 10,000 Employees By The End Of The Year
Friday, April 3, 2020 - 5:02am | 432Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg said that the social media giant would hire 10,000 additional workers for its product and engineering teams by the end of 2020. What Happened Talking with CNBC’s Scott Wapner on Thursday, she was asked if she would pledge to...
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Facebook Sued For Discriminatory Financial Services Ads
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 2:11am | 431Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was sued in a potential class action in San Francisco court for age and gender discrimination on Oct. 31. What Happened The lawsuit claims Facebook continues to allow financial services advertisers to “target” potential customers by age and gender, despite...
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What's Next For Facebook And Zuckerberg?
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 11:37am | 566Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares continue to trade within striking distance of their 52-week low of $149.02 after a new data breach involving 50 million users was disclosed. This has some investors questioning what's next for the stock — and even the future of CEO Mark...
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Tech Stocks Fall Amid Twitter, Facebook Senate Testimonies
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 3:20pm | 588Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednedsay testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. A representative from Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)’s Google failed to attend, which Sen. Mark Warner warned will hurt the...
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Why Sheryl Sandberg Won't Leave Facebook For Uber
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 11:27am | 490Sheryl Sandberg left her job as vice president of global sales and operations at Google (parent company, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)) to join Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and serve as its chief operating officer in 2008. But perhaps more important, her job at Facebook provided the...
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Jim Cramer: It's A Mistake To Describe Facebook As A One-Trick Pony
Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 12:16pm | 332Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) hit a new all-time high of $135.49 on Thursday after the company impressed investors once again with its quarterly results. Revenue for the quarter soared to $8.81 billion and came in $118 million ahead of Wall Street's expectations. However, mobile...
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Instagram Stories Is Already Almost As Popular As Snapchat
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 9:35am | 332Stories get engrossing. That was what Facebook suggested Wednesday in its earnings call. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) said in the call that its Instagram Stories is outperforming its main flagship Facebook social networking platform, helping it to report forecast-beating earnings for the third...
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Facebook's Sandberg: Consumers Are Spending Time On Mobile, Advertisers 'Need To Be There'
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 3:23pm | 369Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Alley" on Tuesday to talk about the company's advertising initiatives. Sandberg said that video advertisements on the social media platform is "exploding." This is evident based on the fact that there...