FB - Facebook, Inc.
| Previous Close | 177.47 |
| Open | 180.51 |
| Bid | 182.69 x 1400 |
| Ask | 182.90 x 1200 |
| Day's Range | 180.00 - 181.83 |
| 52 Week Range | 123.02 - 218.62 |
| Volume | 16,773,691 |
| Avg. Volume | 17,075,519 |
| Market Cap | 517.605B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.33 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 26.91 |
| EPS (TTM) | 6.74 |
| Earnings Date | Jul 23, 2019 - Jul 29, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | N/A |
| 1y Target Est | 222.30 |
- Yahoo Finance•49 minutes ago
Tim Cook on tech industry: 'If you've built a chaos factory, you can't dodge responsibility for the chaos'
Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage at the 2019 Stanford University commencement ceremony to deliver an address that hammered the tech industry over privacy practices and a failure to account for leaks and hacks.
- Yahoo Finance•7 hours ago
Chernobyl becomes unlikely tourist hotspot after acclaimed HBO series
Chernobyl, one of the world's most hazardous places, is seeing a spike in tour popularity -- and becoming a grim hotspot for Instagrammers -- after HBO's hit miniseries on the 1986 nuclear disaster.
- CBS MoneyWatch•14 hours ago
Bitcoin billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss
Famously portrayed in "The Social Network" as the pair of Harvard athletes who believed Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook, they're now famously successful cryptocurrency entrepreneurs with the bitcoin exchange Gemini
- MarketWatch•yesterday
Facebook’s cryptocurrency foray leads bitcoin to its best trading stretch in 3 weeks
Reports that Facebook Inc. is about to roll out a cryptocurrency as soon as next week have helped bitcoin to notch its best weekly trading period in about three weeks.
- Motley Fool•yesterday
Facebook Still Isn't Giving Up on the Smart Speaker Market
But Amazon and Google probably aren’t too worried.
- MarketWatch•yesterday
Silicon Valley congressman: ‘It is embarrassing how technologically illiterate most members of Congress are’
As federal regulators sharpen their focus on big tech, expect to see and hear more from Rep. Ro Khanna, a Silicon Valley congressman who is shaping legislation with a Republican counterpart that is tantamount to an internet Bill of Rights.
- MarketWatch•yesterday
Four reasons why antitrust actions will likely fail to break up Big Tech
If federal regulators are serious about prosecuting Big Tech icons for antitrust practices, they’ll probably have to redefine what constitutes a monopoly in the industry.
- MarketWatch•yesterday
History shows that Big Tech antitrust suits would be a sell signal, Goldman economists warn
Investors might want to think twice before dismissing potential antitrust probes of Big Tech as a temporary concern.
- Investopedia•yesterday
Facebook, Crypto, British Pound Captivate Wall Street
Facebook is riding the cryptocurrency wave as the S&P 500 continues its consolidation and the British pound slides on renewed Brexit fears.
- Coin Rivet•yesterday
Will GlobalCoin make us trust Facebook again?
It recently emerged that Facebook was planning to launch a cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin, designed to propel it into the payments sector via its Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook messaging platforms. The initiative is alleged to launch in a dozen countries by Q1 2020 and is, quite frankly, very ambitious for the conglomerate considering both their and the cryptocurrency sector’s questionable reputations. Facebook’s trust conundrum Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that cryptocurrencies had a tough year and a half with a slew of scandals and continued poor market performance. And if you’re six feet under that rock, you probably also missed that Facebook has been suffering crisis after crisis since a whistleblower revealed that the social media giant The post Will GlobalCoin make us trust Facebook again? appeared first on Coin Rivet.
- Investopedia•yesterday
Facebook Gathers Companies to Back Libra coin Launch
Facebook's Libra coin will serve users on the social media platform as well as across the internet.
- Investopedia•yesterday
How Bitcoin's Shaky Reputation Is Limiting The Spread of Blockchain
Blockchain has been hailed as a game-changing technology which will transform virtually every industry. So why hasn't it seen mass adoption yet?
- Zacks•2 days ago
Facebook Watch Gaining Steam, New Features to Aid User Growth
Facebook (FB) Watch has now more than 720-million monthly and 140-million daily users, who spend at least one minute on Watch.
- TheStreet.com•2 days ago
Why Facebook's Digital Payments Project Could Succeed Where Others Have Failed
, to invest around $10 million apiece to help fund its cryptocurrency. Markets like what they see: Facebook's stock is up 2.2% near the close on Friday, in spite of 0.4% drop for the Nasdaq. In line with prior reports, the WSJ says Facebook's coin will be "pegged to a basket of government-issued currencies to avoid the wild swings that have dogged other cryptocurrencies." It also says neither Facebook nor any other member of the consortium being formed to govern the coin -- it will be known as the Libra Association -- have direct control over the currency.
- Yahoo Finance•2 days ago
Facebook said to lavish more dollars on ads in image rehab: WSJ
Facebook looks to improve trust among consumers through increasing its advertising, according to a WSJ report.
- Barrons.com•2 days ago
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Could Be Good News for Bitcoin — Even if It Fails
Facebook’s cryptocurrency is the innovation that no one is asking for. But it might just be the jolt that Bitcoin and other digital assets need.
- American City Business Journals•2 days ago
The Funded: VMware buys Avi Networks; 12 Bay Area startups raise over $500M
Five acquisitions and a dozen funding deals that raised over $500 million top the Bay Area's venture news at the end of the week.
- Motley Fool•2 days ago
Facebook Really Wants You to Know How Sorry It Is
And is willing to put its money where its mouth is.
- TheStreet.com•2 days ago
Facebook Gains as Payment, Tech Firms Reportedly Back Upcoming Cryptocurrency
was the lone FAANG stock in positive territory at the start of trading Friday following a report that more than a dozen companies were ready to back its upcoming digital currency. , were supporting the social media group's cryptocurrency, which is plans to unveil next week. Dubbed GlobalCoin and expected to launch next year, the drive would give users the ability to concert their local currency into a Facebook-useable digital coin that could be used for payments or transfers.
- Yahoo Finance•2 days ago
Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are 'sith lords who started benign': Galloway
Why everybody wins if the U.S. government succeeds in breaking up the big four tech companies — Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook.
- MarketWatch•2 days ago
Google CEO Sundar Pichai worries tech regulation could have ‘unintended consequences’
Google Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai is concerned overzealous antitrust probes of Big Tech, including his own, could have far-flung, damaging consequences for the U.S. economy and national security.
Engadget•2 days agoFacebook researchers are building virtual spaces to improve AI and AR
Will virtual assistants be able to tell the difference between your living room and your kitchen? Or even help you find a missing book or set of keys? With embodied AI -- which relies on data from physical surroundings -- they soon might. Facebook has unveiled an open-source simulation and dataset it hopes will help researchers create more realistic AR and VR, and eventually virtual assistants that can learn about your physical surroundings.
- InvestorPlace•2 days ago
Google Faces Antitrust Regulations — And for Good Reason
There's an old saying that if you don't control your medium someone else will, and they won't have your interests at heart. That's no more true than in the case of Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, which has taken the media's business model for the Internet and now faces blowback.Source: Shutterstock That blowback includes calls to break the company up. Google's response is to reorganize its Washington lobbying shop, one of the largest in town, under new head of public policy Karan Bhatia, a former Bush Administration official.But Bhatia will have to look hard to find friends in the media industry. Most of that industry lies in pieces at Google's feet.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Links as TheftThe low monetary value of Internet media properties is underscored by news that TheStreet.Com, one of the early financial news sites, brought just $33 million in a sale to Maven (NASDAQ:MVEN), a small digital publishing company. Even that price represented more than twice Maven's market cap. (Full disclosure. I worked for TheStreet for a few years earlier in this decade.)The control of digital advertising by Google -- and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter (NASDAQ:TWTR) -- has Reuters asking if news has any economic value.Maybe not, but it does have political value.Consider a recent New York Times piece on the subject. It's based on a "study" from the New Media Alliance (formerly the Newspaper Association of America). The study claims Google made $4.7 billion last year from news content that it did not produce. The U.S. news industry as a whole brought in just $5.8 billion from digital ads on content it did produce.It's worth noting that the $4.7 billion figure is based on extrapolating from a 2008 since exact figures are not available.Politically, the study seems aimed at bringing the European concept of a "link tax" to the U.S. It's aimed at making Internet platforms pay for links to news content. Google argues such a tax would cut traffic to news sites, because their response would be to stop linking or shut down Google News in Europe altogether. Show Me the MoneyAbsent ad revenue, most newspapers have put up paywalls, allowing only subscribers to see their product.The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) has tripled its stock value in five years, it says, because of its paywall. But only a few national newspapers, including The Washington Post (owned by Amazon's (NADSAQ:AMZN) Jeff Bezos) and The Wall Street Journal, have made money on paywalls, which cut market reach substantially. Many smaller market papers now run with a skeleton staff.The result, for Google, is that its News product has become less useful even as it has been expanded. Its links lead regular readers to paywalls.More important, the enmity of major journalism organizations, both TV and print, plays into the hands of the Department of Justice -- at least in this area. The DOJ is busy creating new interpretations of antitrust law to apply to the digital age. The Bottom LineSince the antitrust issue began blowing up a few months ago Facebook stock is down 10% and Alphabet is down 17%, trading early on June 12 at $1,076 per share.There are analysts claiming Google would, like Standard Oil over a century ago, benefit from a breakup. But I find that claim is dubious.However, Google's refusal to play ball -- or in the case of a link tax, refusal to give the ball players a cut of the tickets they sold to their game -- doesn't bode well for future regulation. * 10 Stocks to Buy That Wall Street Expects to Soar for the Rest of 2019 Someone will pay the price of this. Whether it will be Google or the news media and the people who depend on it for information remains to be seen. In a time when the president routinely refers to the press as "the enemy of the people," the effects of the fight could be even worse than lost shareholder value.Dana Blankenhorn is a financial and technology journalist. He is the author of a new mystery thriller, The Reluctant Detective Finds Her Family, available now at the Amazon Kindle store. Write him at danablankenhorn@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter at @danablankenhorn. As of this writing he owned no shares in companies mentioned in this article. More From InvestorPlace * 4 Top American Penny Pot Stocks (Buy Before June 21) * 10 Stocks to Buy That Wall Street Expects to Soar for the Rest of 2019 * 7 Value Stocks That Are Flying Under the Radar * 6 Mouth-Watering Fast Food Stocks for Growth Investors Compare Brokers The post Google Faces Antitrust Regulations -- And for Good Reason appeared first on InvestorPlace.
Bloomberg•2 days agoFacebook Gains on Crypto Pact, Hire Reports Ahead of Rollout
The Wall Street Journal reported it had signed up a number of major companies -- including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber -- to back the project. Bowles's new title at Facebook will be public policy director for Northern Europe, according to a person familiar with the situation. The cryptocurrency plan ``may prove to be one of the most important initiatives in the history of the company to unlock new engagement and revenue streams,'' RBC analyst Mark Mahaney wrote in a June 13 note.
- Yahoo Finance Video•2 days ago
Facebook set to introduce Libra cryptocurrency
Facebook's debut into the world of cryptocurrency could be just days away. TechCrunch is reporting that the social media giant is expected to unveil Libra on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal says that the cryptocurrency has the financial backing of some big names. Yahoo Finance's JP Mangalindan joins Julie Hyman and Adam Shapiro to break down Facebook's latest venture.
