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Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s $100B IPOBy now, you’ve probably seen the latest status update on Facebook’s IPO, and it’s a doosey: When the company goes public it will raise $10 billion, bringing its valuation to $100 billion While the value of raising $10 billion is self-evident, Facebook has been a private company... Watch the ‘What’s New With Spotify?’ Event With Mashable [LIVE]Spotify is kicking off its first-ever U.S. press conference in New York City on Wednesday, promising a big announcement about a “new direction” for the company. Although the company declined to comment on what to expect at the “What’s next for Spotify?” event, a PR r... What the Facebook FTC Settlement Means for Social MediaOn Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission officially rapped Facebook’s knuckles in a broad-reaching settlement on privacy, alleging the social network misled its users on what they were sharing and with whom. The settlement, which lays out a number of specific rules the service must now abide by,... Legendary Dystopian Novel ‘Fahrenheit 451′ Finally Released in Ebook FormatRay Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 has been released by Simon & Schuster in ebook format for the first time for $9.99. In the famous novel, originally published in paperback in 1953, reading is outlawed and books are burned (Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper starts burn... The Case for Dropping ‘Social’Has someone on your holiday list dropped the hint for a social pet? Or maybe a new social refrigerator? Don’t be surprised if it happens, which brings us to the question: Is it time to drop “social”? Ironic as it may seem – especially given the title of this column –... Printer Creates iPhone-Sized Newspapers From Your Social Feeds [VIDEO]Berg, a design studio based in London, has unveiled a small printer that lets you create a personalized, paper-and-ink newspaper from your social feeds. The cube-shaped Little Printer is designed to be cute: It has a stenciled, child-like face, red feet and is small enough to fit in the ... 4 Pillars of Digital Marketing for Luxury BrandsDuke Greenhill is the founder and CEO of Greenhill+Partners, the premiere agency for bespoke luxury brand marketing. Duke is also available as an independent consultant and speaker at Duke@Greenhill-Partners.com. We all know the four P’s of traditional marketing: product, price, promotion and p... It Happened in Australia: Could Your iPhone Self-Combust?Among techies and fans of weird Internet news, it’s become a relatively familiar story: An Australian domestic flight lands in Sydney on Friday. Then a passenger’s iPhone 4 goes wild. There’s “a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow” from the p... Did the FTC Just Ruin Facebook?Now that the dust has settled and Facebook’s agreement with the Federal Trade Commission is clear, it’s time to assess the damage. What’s that you say? You don’t think there’ll be damage from an agreement that ostensibly promises two-decades’-worth of governmental privacy policy ... Hearst Launches First ‘Blog Council’ for Redbook MagazineRedbook magazine is adding a “blog council” of five mom bloggers to its site Wednesday, the first of several blogger collectives parent company Hearst Corporation is bringing to the websites of its magazines. The Motherboard blog council, which has its own designated area on redbookma... |