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Today over 1.5 million people on average log onto Facebook daily. This is a 13% increase of active users from the previous year before. 68% of users of Facebook are daily user’s vs going on monthly. What does this tell you? Well, there is a ton of public activity on

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published May 17th 2017, 10:31 am, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) —With graduation gifts, it’s the thought that counts. The cash is nice, too. Spending on graduation gifts in the U.S. is expected to reach $5.6 billion this year, according to a new survey from the National Retail Federation. That tops last

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published May 4th 2017, 8:31 am (Bloomberg View) — Morgan Stanley vs. Vanguard. Morgan Stanley runs investing stores across the country, and if you walk into their investing stores you will see investments on the shelves. You’ll browse around, pick out some investments that you like, maybe ask a sales associate

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published Apr 25th 2017, 9:00 am, by Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) —Google isn’t planning to rid fake news from its search results — but it’s trying to purge it from the top. The Alphabet Inc. company is making a rare, sweeping change to the algorithm behind its powerful search engine to

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published Feb 8th 2017, 10:30 am, by Rebecca Greenfield (Bloomberg) —Companies like Facebook have spent the last few years beefing up their parental-leave policies to attract and retain the most sought-after workers. Now they’re looking at new ways to help them balance work and life. Up next in the benefits arms race: helping workers

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published Nov 2nd 2016, 5:16 pm, by Natalie Jarvey (Hollywood Reporter) – Facebook shares dropped as much as 7 percent after-hours on Wednesday after executives warned that revenue growth would slow next year as its ad load growth tapers off. The comments were made during the company’s third quarter earnings

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published Jun 14th 2016, 5:43 pm, by Alison Vekshin (Bloomberg) — California has overtaken France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, fueled by strong growth and the U.S. dollar’s gains against foreign currencies, state data released Tuesday show. The most-populous U.S. state, with a gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion, has

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published May 18th 2016, 7:28 pm, by Sarah Frier (Bloomberg) —Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg met with political conservatives to explain how the social network comes up with its trending news topics, seeking to quell concerns that liberal-leaning news and sources were favored by the company’s editors. “I

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©2016 Bloomberg News O32V6A6JIJV0 (Bloomberg) — Islamic State has released a new video that targets the chief executive officers of Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. The 25-minute clip shows the faces of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey riddled with mock bullet holes, according to the Guardian newspaper and

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©2016 Bloomberg View O2DYV96KLVRL (Bloomberg View) — People are worried about everything. It would not be difficult for this newsletter to have a recurring daily section titled, like, “people are worried about the global economy.” Someone is always worried about the global economy; worries about the global economy are —

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