Does former MySpace CEO think Facebook’s stock value will last? – Venturebeat.com

No one knows how hard the mighty can fall quite like Mike Jones. Jones was MySpace’s most recent CEO; his job was to assess a faltering social app and see if it was saveable. Since Jones saw a once-powerful network through a period of layoffs …

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Facebook IPO Overshadows MySpace Filing – Riverfront Times (blog)

​Sure, Facebook filed its S-1 with the SEC yesterday, presaging one of the most talked-about IPOs in tech history — and for college students, FarmVille users, amateur stalkers, and anybody who likes to talk to people they know, Facebook’s performance on …

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Facebook Files For IPO: How The Company Evolved From Straus Hall To Wall Street – Huffington Post

Yet Facebook’s prospects looked far less certain when it launched in 2004, one of numerous social networking sites seeking to emulate the success of services such as Friendster and Myspace. In 2006, while Facebook was still open only to students …

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Facebook’s IPO Shares May Be Five Times as Expensive as Google – Businessweek

Inc. in 2011, taking a 16.3 percent share, according to researcher EMarketer Inc. Sales at Facebook, which became the dominant social- networking site in 2008 by leapfrogging pioneer MySpace Inc., surged 88 percent to $3.71 billion in 2011.

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Editorial: Is Facebook becoming Myspace? – U-Wire.com

Sometimes, it can feel like Facebook owns us –– we constantly refresh the page, hoping to see if that newly-”friended” hottie commented “cute ;) ” on our profile picture. It can be demoralizing. But today, the tables may start to turn.

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