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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

Justin Timberlake is set to take on the social networking responsibilities for real. In the coming year, he plans to turn his creative abilities toward reviving MySpace.

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If the movie The Social Network didn’t fill your need of Facebook tales and folklore, then I recommend that you visit Who Owns Facebook?

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Ben Mezrich, author of the “Accidental Billionaires”, spoke publicly about “Sex on the Moon”, his next book, for the first time at DOMAINfest. Ben’s “Accidental Billionaires” book is the basis of the movie “The Social Network”, a movie about Facebook which is up for 8 Oscars this year. “Sex on the Moon” is about another genius college student who stole the most valuable object in the world from NASA, a story which NASA kept under wraps.

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Frat dudes everywhere, rejoice in the latest Social Network spoof–The Brocial Network!

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We all know that Facebook has become a social phenomenon, changing both how we interact and do business. The movie ‘The Social Network’ has introduced us to founder Mark Zuckerberg – the antithesis of a rockstar, billionaire though he might be. There’s may still a star in the equation though – Facebook itself.

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For the second week in a row The Social Network has topped the box office, officially surpassing $45 million in revenue since it was released a little over one week ago. With nearly unanimous approval from the critics, there’s a good chance that this movie is going to continue to have great performance at the box office.

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The Social Network will make its broadcast-television premiere on FX in early 2013, Multichannel News reported.

The film, which explores the founding of social-networking site Facebook, earned $23 million at the box office during its debut weekend, according to Box Office Mojo numbers cited by Multichannel News.

FX also announced that it acquired the broadcast-premiere rights to Wall Street sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, according to Multichannel News.

Variety and social-media-research outfit Fizziology will team up to create a weekly chart of feature films generating the most buzz via social media, and The Weekly Fizz10 will appear on Variety.com every Wednesday.

The Weekly Fizz10 will track movies starting four weeks before their box-office debuts through three weeks after their premieres, ranking them by eff score, which combines volume, sentiment, and placement. The rankings are determined by actual people, and not via keyword searches or other automated processes.

It almost seems appropriate that the film atop the initial Weekly Fizz10 is The Social Network.

Variety president Neil Stiles said:

Variety‘s No. 1 priority is to provide our subscribers with the news and information that’s essential for them to do their jobs. Fizziology is an ideal partner because it enables us to expand our available array of must-have data and information, and helps our readers understand how to best utilize social media as a promotional platform.

Fizziology president and co-creator Ben Carlson added:

The industry has been using social media to promote, but a lot can be learned from listening. These millions of online conversations are impacting entertainment. We help marketers, content creators, and other entertainment decision-makers understand what people are talking about — spotting challenges and opportunities.

Variety is the gold standard in business entertainment reporting and coverage. We launched a year ago with the goal of being the gold standard in social-media research for the entertainment industry. This partnership is exciting and humbling.

When the full trailer for ‘The Social Network’ was released last month it was only a matter of time before the parodies came rolling in and today a brilliant YouTube spoof of the trailer is circulating the web. If you haven’t seen the trailer for ‘The Video Website’ yet, stop what you are doing right now and check out this hilarious Social Network parody after the jump.
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