Monthly Archives: May 2012
Facebook for All: IPO Day Opens New Doors for Social Media Giant
Today’s NASDAQ opening brought a new type of investor as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell at the company headquarters. On Thursday, May 17, shares opened to investors at $38 each. For those of you counting, that’s over $16 billion for the over 420 million shares. In less than 12 hours, this number grew to $42/share. That boosts the total value to $116.6 billion. WOW. Ranking third in the history of IPOs next to …
READ MORERevamped Social Media Marketing Features In Foursquare
In the last year and a half Foursquare has added five million registered users, bringing the geo-social application’s total user base to 20 million as of April 2012. According to online sources only about 5% of adults use location-based check-in apps. Per Foursquare’s blog, users have checked in 2 billion times in the last two years, suggesting that members check in about 100 times each annually. Foursquare is a location-based social network popular with smartphone …
READ MORESTL CELEBRITY VOICES SHINES AT THE SHELDON
America SCORES St. Louis, the Nine Network, and ex’treme Institute by Nelly hosted the 1st Annual STL Celebrity Voices on Saturday, April 28th. It was a magical evening of poetry, music, and celebrity voices at the Sheldon Concert Hall—Celebrities collaborated on poetry with youth in the spotlight and all proceeds benefitted America SCORES St. Louis as part of the national public media initiative American Graduate.
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