FB - Facebook, Inc.
| Previous Close | 154.92 |
| Open | 155.86 |
| Bid | 153.78 x 1000 |
| Ask | 153.89 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 153.56 - 157.35 |
| 52 Week Range | 149.02 - 218.62 |
| Volume | 19,761,347 |
| Avg. Volume | 28,963,193 |
| Market Cap | 444.776B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 0.70 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 23.84 |
| EPS (TTM) | 6.46 |
| Earnings Date | Oct 30, 2018 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | N/A |
| 1y Target Est | 207.89 |
Yahoo Finance•8 hours ago‘Tech addiction’ solutions are a billion-dollar market opportunity
Expect more services and devices from third parties in the next few years that help people manage their relationships with technology.
- Reuters•17 minutes ago
Japan to tell Facebook to improve data protection - Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government is set to tell Facebook Inc to better protect its users' personal data after a leak involving British firm Cambridge Analytica that affected 87 million users globally, ...
- Quartz•9 days ago
How to find out if yours was one of the unlucky hacked Facebook accounts
Facebook announced Friday (Oct. 12) that the breach it uncovered more than two weeks ago resulted in nearly 30 million people having various information accessed and scraped by hackers. It’s fewer people than the platform initially announced. However, some of the information the hackers accessed is deeply personal, including phone numbers and locations a user…
- Reuters•36 minutes ago
Japan to tell Facebook to improve data protection: Kyodo
The Japanese government is set to tell Facebook Inc to better protect its users' personal data after a leak involving British firm Cambridge Analytica that affected 87 million users globally, Kyodo News ...
- TheStreet.com•12 hours ago
The Stakes Are High for FAANG Stocks This Time Around
Investors expect volatility to increase into earnings reports, a fact that is readily observable by looking at implied volatilities on front-month call and put options for companies that are due to report earnings. and Netflix have already peaked for this economic cycle. Maybe Amazon really was peaking when it closed above $2,000 per share for a few days in early September and we just didn't realize it at the time.
Bloomberg•19 hours agoFacebook’s Biggest Boondoggle Is Hyping Video
The important question isn’t whether the social-media company didn’t tell advertisers as soon as it knew it had inflated the numbers (it says it did) but whether the video-content boom, which the social network has actively fueled since 2014, reflects any consumer demand. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that for the previous two years, Facebook overestimated the attention videos got on its platform by using a metric that exaggerated the average amount of time users spent looking at a video. The higher number led advertisers to believe that users had a higher engagement with their content than Facebook actually achieved.
- Reuters•22 hours ago
Explainer: Facebook's WhatsApp flooded with fake news in Brazil election
Facebook Inc's popular messaging service WhatsApp has become a political battleground in Brazil's most polarized election in decades, raising concerns that it is distorting debate beyond the public eye. Facebook has touted efforts to crack down on misinformation on its main platform ahead of the Oct. 28 presidential run-off between right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and leftist Fernando Haddad. Haddad now alleges that businessmen supporting Bolsonaro have been paying to bombard voters with misleading propaganda in violation of electoral law, which his rival denies.
- The Telegraph•yesterday
Sir Nick Clegg faces pressure to attend Commons’ probe into Facebook’s practices and data breaches
Sir Nick Clegg is under pressure to face questions from MPs over Parliament’s inquiry into Facebook’s data breaches and activity around fake news, following revelations the former Deputy Prime Minister will become an executive at the US technology company.
- Reuters•yesterday
Facebook's WhatsApp flooded with fake news in Brazil election
Facebook Inc's popular messaging service WhatsApp has become a political battleground in Brazil's most polarized election in decades, raising concerns that it is distorting debate beyond the public eye. Facebook has touted efforts to crack down on misinformation on its main platform ahead of the Oct. 28 presidential run-off between right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and leftist Fernando Haddad. Haddad now alleges that businessmen supporting Bolsonaro have been paying to bombard voters with misleading propaganda in violation of electoral law, which his rival denies.
- Bloomberg•yesterday
WhatsApp Bans More Than 100,000 Accounts in Brazil Election
Facebook set up a "war room" to stem the tide of hate speech, false information and other damaging content during Brazil’s election this month, marking a test for the social network ahead of the November midterm elections in the U.S. While the company said it was able to thwart false information on its main social network, it’s had more trouble controlling misbehavior on WhatsApp, which is encrypted and virtually impossible to monitor. “We have cutting-edge technology to detect spam that identifies accounts with abnormal behavior so that they can’t be used to spread spam or misinformation," a WhatsApp spokesperson wrote in an email.
- Quartz•2 days ago
Dark money is getting around Facebook’s election defenses
Facebook says it’s heavily investing in protecting elections around the globe from misinformation, scams, and sketchy actors trying to influence the results. But the efforts, as this week’s news from the United States and Brazil has shown, are proving to have significant shortcomings. One of Facebook’s widely publicized election integrity projects was the political ad…
Reuters•2 days agoWith market on edge, investors look to tech trio
The pressure is on for Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft as they prepare to report quarterly results at a time when confidence in those market leaders looks increasingly fragile and in danger of derailing Wall Street's rally. After worries about higher interest rates sparked a steep sell-off in early October and again on Thursday, the S&P 500 remains down 5 percent from its Sept. 20 record high close, with top-shelf stocks including Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) showing little of their vitality from recent years. A quarterly report from Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Wednesday after the bell, followed by Alphabet and Amazon late on Thursday, will influence sentiment across Wall Street.
- Reuters•2 days ago
Brazil election battle rages over Facebook's WhatsApp
Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messaging service became the frontline in Brazil's bitter presidential campaign on Friday, as front-runner Jair Bolsonaro angrily denied accusations he had encouraged widespread misinformation campaigns on the platform. On Thursday, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo had reported that supporters of the far-right candidate had funded mass messaging attacks against leftist rival Fernando Haddad. Bolsonaro said in an online video that he had no knowledge of such activity and called on any supporters doing so to stop.
- Reuters•2 days ago
Brazil court opens probe over bulk electoral messages on WhatsApp
BRASÍLIA (Reuters) - Brazilian top electoral court TSE approved on Friday opening a probe over actions to distribute bulk electoral messages against leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad over ...
- The Wall Street Journal•2 days ago
[$$] Facebook Turns to U.K. Politician to Help Repair Its Image
LONDON—Facebook Inc. has hired one of Britain’s best-known politicians as its top policy and communications executive, giving a Silicon Valley outsider the task of mending the social network’s image as it deals with increased political scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad. Facebook said Friday that Nick Clegg, who as deputy prime minister was Britain’s No. 2 leader from 2010 to 2015, would replace Elliot Schrage, who said in June that he was stepping down. Mr. Clegg starts his new job Monday and will move to California in January.
TechCrunch•2 days agoNew 'Dark Ads' pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers
A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up U.K. 'Leave' voters, and distributed via Facebook, may have reached over 10 million people in the U.K., according to new research. The source of the campaign is so far unknown, and will be embarrassing to Facebook, which only this week claimed it was clamping down on "dark" political advertising on its platform. Researchers for the U.K.-based digital agency 89up allege that Mainstream Network — which looks and reads like a "mainstream" news site but which has no contact details or reporter bylines — is serving hyper-targeted Facebook advertisements aimed at exhorting people in Leave-voting U.K. constituencies to tell their MP to “chuck Chequers.” Chequers is the name given to the U.K. Prime Ministers’s proposed deal with the EU regarding the U.K.’s departure from the EU next year.
- The Telegraph•2 days ago
Anonymous Facebook ad campaign to 'chuck Chequers' ran for months despite fake news ban
An anonymous Facebook advertising campaign that sought to “chuck Chequers” ran for 10 months and reached millions of people despite the company’s war on fake news.
- Bloomberg•2 days ago
Facebook Hires Ex-Deputy Premier Clegg to Lead Lobbying Push
As leader of the Liberal Democrats, Clegg was at the heart of the British government from 2010 to 2015. Clegg’s hire comes as Facebook is under fire from regulators, politicians and authorities around the world on issues ranging from user privacy breaches, to the proliferation of fake news and hate speech on its platforms. In an example of the kind of scrutiny Facebook is now coming under, the U.K. Parliament’s Culture Committee on Saturday released details of what it said was an anonymous political campaign to reject Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan.
- Barrons.com•2 days ago
A New Way to Rank the Risks of the Big Tech Stocks
The biggest technology stocks are driving the market higher, but investors ignore the risk at their own peril. Here’s how Barron’s is assessing the FAANGs now.
- Wired•2 days ago
Inside Facebook’s Stormy Debate Over 'Political Diversity'
Former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige accused the company of a “political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views," but he says Republicans have received his message all wrong.
- IPO Edge•17 days ago
Skeptical of ICOs? Vox Token Supports Existing Business, Setting it Apart from the Crypto-Pack
Vox Utility Token Offering of $35 Million to Expand Internet Phone App in Emerging Markets By John Jannarone At last, a cryptocurrency offering that looks more a business than a gimmick. Swiss technology company Horizon Globex is currently offering up to $35 million in security tokens to fund the international rollout of an existing Internet […]
- IPO-Edge.com•17 days ago
Skeptical of ICOs? Vox Token Supports Existing Business, Setting it Apart from the Crypto-Pack
Vox Utility Token Offering of $35 Million to Expand Internet Phone App in Emerging Markets By John Jannarone At last, a cryptocurrency offering that looks more a business than a gimmick. Swiss technology company Horizon Globex is currently offering up to $35 million in security tokens to fund the international rollout of an existing Internet […]
- Engadget•2 days ago
Fake news is down on Facebook in the US and France, say three studies
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have not had a great year. From being called in front of Congress to getting lashed by the media for its appalling handling of user data, the pressure has been on the social media site to get things right.
