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Facebook to Set Final IPO Price Later Today (CNN Money)
Facebook’s long road to an initial public offering is coming to an end. Late Thursday, it will fill in one last piece of the puzzle: Its final IPO price. Mashable On Wednesday, Facebook announced that an extra 84 million shares will be added to its stock pool for sale. The extra shares will come entirely from insiders and early investors, according to the AP. Reuters But investors who want Facebook shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week may have lost the opportunity. TD Ameritrade and Fidelity’s brokerage arm both stopped accepting orders of Facebook shares as of Tuesday evening, according to representatives for each of the companies. CNET Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is simultaneously becoming one of the richer and more reviled people around, wants to set the record straight. Saverin, who is now a citizen of Singapore after renouncing his U.S. citizenship, said his decision has nothing to do with taxes. Forbes All eyes are on Facebook this week in the lead-up to the social network’s initial public offering, but Google did all it could to steal back a little bit of glory on Wednesday. One of the biggest pieces of news was the search company’s addition of “Knowledge Graph” to its core product, a way to find answers without ever clicking a link and leaving the search results page. Read more

Roundtable: The Future of the App Economy

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NEW YORK – Sustainable revenue was on everyone’s mind at the APPNATION NYC Mobile + TV 3.0 Summit in SoHo this morning. In a keynote roundtable moderated by APPNATION president and event chairman Drew Ianni, leading executives discussed the future of the mobile app economy.

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How imgur Reached 2 Billion Page Views [Infographic]

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Have you ever used Reddit? If so — and I hope you have — you’ve probably clicked on an image here or there. A few years ago, those image links would have pointed to all sorts of different hosting services like imageshack and tinyimage, but those sites didn’t seem to do the trick for Reddit users. Some weren’t fast enough, some had too many ads. Whatever the reason, a Redditor named Alan Schaaf decided to put together a site to service Reddit better.

That site was imgur, and it now serves over 2 Billion monthly page views. Check out the infographic to see imgur’s path from 2009 to today.

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Is Google+ Suffering from Weak Engagement?

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When talking about Google+, the number to quote is usually 100 million users.  That’s what was announced as part of Google’s latest announcement and also seems to check out with web pundits based on the fact that Gmail has an estimated 60 million users and many of those are grandfathered in to the Google+ social network.  However, a recent analysis by RJMetrics is looking at just how active the users of Google+ are, and whether the social network is the equivalent of a special matinee showing for The Artist on Mother’s Day.

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Kred’s New PeopleBrowsr API Analyzes 1,200 Days of Social Media Posts

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PeopleBrowsr, the social analytics service that created Kred, has mined the Twitter hose for data on the Internet’s most viral people and subjects since 2008. Today, the company released an API that enriches Kred’s social influence scoring system with in-depth reports. With PeopleBrowser, users can search key words and phrases, hashtags, names, bio data such as gender, interactions between users, location, or communities to pull up information on any topic.

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