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We all have seen Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) miraculously fall from grace and go from media darling to media devil in about as much time as it takes for high-frequency traders to make millions of trades, i.e. about a second. So, with all of the wealth (well, paper wealth for some) that has been...

The fifth iPhone is only a few months away from release. But it seems as if Facebook is attempting to one-up Apple with an iPhone-like device of its own. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) had hired more than six "former Apple software and hardware engineers...

Opera may be a good browser, but there's one analyst who thinks the idea of a Facebook acquisition would be downright stupid. "Opera is a good browser, and most of its traction comes from feature phones," said Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research. "...

This weekend in Barron's online: the top 50 annuities, Intel finally goes mobile, what tech companies should do with all that cash, and the prospects for Snap-on. Cover Story "The Top 50 Annuities" by Karen Hube. A year ago, guaranteed payouts and benefits on all kinds of annuities were far more...

Several thousand people are willing to give Apple thousands of dollars for a new, highly configurable and upgradeable Mac Pro. But for the past few years, the company has left these power users without hope for the future. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has updated its MacBook Pro line of computers on a...

A Silicon Valley based investment firm, GSV Capital (NASDAQ: GSVC), which is well known for holding Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) pre-IPO shares is down significantly since the social media giant went public last Friday. Traders were using GSV Capital's shares as a way to invest in Facebook before its...

Investors are quickly losing interest in the world's most popular social network, which went public last Friday. While many expected Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) shares to fly high -- maybe not on the level of LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD), but certainly on par with other major IPOs -- the company ended its...

This weekend in Barron's online: Hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio's thoughts on the troubles in Europe, the effect of comments made by David Einhorn, and the consequences of the Facebook IPO flop. Cover Story "Ray Dalio's World" by Sandra Ward. Ray Dalio, fabled hedge-fund manager, is the head of...

Now that the long-awaited IPO is finally here, investor attention is turning toward the stock's rise or fall today and the record-breaking growth that may be in its future. Will Facebook soar to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) level? Or is the company more of a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) type of entity, one...

It seems that all the hype in the world can't save Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) today. I wrote about this and other concerns just hours ago, noting that hype can backfire or have no affect at all on an IPO. That seems to be the case for Facebook, which was priced at $38 last night, opened today at $42.05...