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Written By: Serena Dai on February 2, 2012 No Comment
Zynga’s stock price is up after Facebook IPO but will it stay up?

Zynga’s stock price soared with Facebook’s IPO announcement, but revenue may not be growing fast enough to cover expansion costs.

Written By: Marissa Oberlander on June 6, 2011 No Comment
Social reputation: How Facebook can help or hurt your job search

Almost half of employers are visiting the social network sites of potential hires. What are your profiles saying about you?

Written By: Marissa Oberlander on May 19, 2011 No Comment
LinkedIn IPO: Let the social media frenzy begin

LinkedIn stock soared by as much as 173 percent at one point Thursday morning on the heels of its highly anticipated IPO.

Written By: Moran Zhang on May 11, 2011 No Comment
Renren shares in free fall, more Chinese IPOs in the pipeline

Renren Inc. broke below its initial public offering price of $14 Wednesday, plunging 12 percent to $13.04 in midday trading before closing at $13.49, posting a negative total return of 4 percent. The first week’s dismal performance for Renren following its IPO has aroused concerns about other Chinese IPOs waiting in the pipeline.

Written By: Traci McMillan on August 18, 2010 No Comment
Lessons from a social media conference

Social media marketing types flocked to Alterian’s “Engaging Times Summit” in Chicago to compare notes and learn new ways to reach consumers.

Written By: sidvee on May 1, 2009 No Comment
Social media hit by swine flu

BY SIDDHARTHA VAIDYANATHAN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Few diseases have been so prevalent in the social media world as the ongoing swine flu crisis. Facebook and Twitter are flooded with messages and both sites even offer maps to show the spread of the virus. You can check out the interactive map [...]

Written By: Ming Zhuang on April 23, 2009 No Comment
Social media: The cause and the solution to Domino’s nightmare

(A screenshot of the offensive video)

BY MING ZHUANG – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

It’s a hard lesson, not only for Domino’s Pizza Inc., which has been struggling through a tough crisis this week. The alarm should be going off for all companies.

Everything started on YouTube. When two [...]

Written By: Ming Zhuang on April 15, 2009 2 Comments
Microsoft launches online marketing for IE8

 

A screenshot of IE8 ads on YouTube

 

BY MING ZHUANG/MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

 

According to a recent tracking record from Net Applications, a market search firm, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 “has quietly yet quickly” ascended its usage market share to over 3 percent.

“We say ‘quietly’ because Microsoft curiously [...]

Written By: hollistempleton on March 5, 2009 No Comment
Social media marketing: Business has a new BFF

Photo courtesy of BusinessWeek

BY HOLLIS TEMPLETON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

While everyone—and I mean everyone—is wired to social networking sites, marketers are tapping into mainstream use of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.

It’s called

Written By: CTPou on January 16, 2009 No Comment
Burger King, Facebook Face Off over Whopper Campaign

BY CLAUDIA POU – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

What would you do for a Whopper?  Are you willing to lose ten friends?

Well, that’s exactly what the latest Burger King Brands Inc. [[BKC]] advertising campaign was asking Facebook members to do.  “De-friend” 10 friends and get a free Whopper.

It was called [...]

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