Specific Purpose: To inform my audience why twitter decided to go public Central Idea: Twitter started its IPO process for three rational reasons: board of directors‚ acquisition purpose and investors’ confidence Introduction: Twitter‚ created in 2006‚ has turned into a new form of communication used by presidents‚ corporate chieftains and smartphone-wielding kids alike. Recently‚ the company has announced that it had filed early paperwork with regulators to conduct an initial public offering
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THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK ON TEENAGERS Advances in technology enhance our lives in healthy‚ positive ways. These days‚ shopping‚ education‚ communication and entertainment are only a few clicks away. Social networking‚ especially Facebook- the most popular social network site currently‚ enriches our lives by helping us to connect and share with colleagues‚ clients‚ family and friends in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. Spending too much time on this site‚ however‚ can have negative
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Facebook and Loneliness With over 955 million active Facebook users worldwide‚ Facebook has definitely taken over the internet‚ and many people’s lives. With a simple click of a button many people can communicate with each other in the blink of an eye. Being able to add however many friends one may want‚ or talk to how ever many people one may want would make someone assume many people are less lonely today than they were 100 years ago. However‚ that is not the case. In recent years‚ the number
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com/3025738/ibms-next-big-thing-psychic-twitter-bots IBM’s Next Big Thing: Psychic Twitter Bots Using the power of the Watson supercomputer‚ your bank could soon be stalking you on Twitter. And that might not be a bad thing. • 2 Notes • 5 Pin • 81 Plus • 948 Tweet • 739 Like • 348 Share Using some of the same technologies that allowed the Watson natural language supercomputer to conquer Jeopardy‚ IBM’s next step: Psychic artificial intelligences that read your Twitter feed and can tell when you’re
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Patrick Weaver Mrs. Bey 12/05/09 English 101 Facebook In an age dominated by the technologically advanced and savvy‚ the Internet thrives as the leading way to socialize with friends and family. Since its development‚ the Internet has been used as a tool for communication. This online communication is a form of social networking. Social networking is an online community of people who share common interests and activities. Whether through instant messaging or email‚ the World
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Is Facebook boosting or hindering communication? Facebook is the most famous commonly used social media. It has become the preferred method for keeping in touch with people. Almost every young person has at least one Facebook account. However useful it might be in social life and education‚ Facebook brought about a set of new barriers and threats in these areas. There is an irony in the sense that social media‚ like Facebook‚ has the ability to make us less social. Doubtless it may be stimulating
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In Daniel Lyons The High Price of Facebook‚ he states the issue of privacy. Facebook makes their money through selling personal information to advertisers Lyons argues that Facebook is not a free service and states "The fear is that people are being lured into Facebook with the promise of a fun‚ free service‚ and don’t realize they’re paying for it by giving up loads of personal information." (par. 2). Senior Vice President of communications‚ Elliot Scharge disagrees saying that their privacy changes
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newly issued shares in Facebook Inc (FB.O) may have a hard time in the coming week if lead underwriter Morgan Stanley stops supporting the stock and managers lower down in the IPO book who were hoping for an early surge decide to get out before going underwater. Facebook on Friday sold 421 million shares of stock in a deal that valued the company at more than $100 billion. But investors‚ expecting a first-day pop in price‚ instead saw it close just 0.6 percent above the IPO
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RUNNING A BUSINESS PAGE ON FACEBOOK P1: If you want to run a business page on facebook‚ the first thing you need to do is that create an accout by click link facebook.com and fill in the infomation to register P2: Click on “Create a Page” on bottom left-hand side of the Facebook homepage (Note: it’s important to start this process LOGGED OUT of Facebook if you do have a personal facebook page). Choose from“local business"‚ "brand/product/organization"‚ or "artist/band/public figure” under “create
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swiping away on their phones or mindlessly lending over towards their computers. However‚ you can’t help but ask what are they doing? More than likely everyone was on one of the many social media platforms. In the article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” the author argues that Facebook‚ one of the most popular forms of social media ever‚ is the reason why much of society is the way it is. For example‚ there used to be a point in time‚ where friends and families remembered each other’s birthdays and would
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