FB - Facebook, Inc.
178.28 0.00 (0.00%)
After hours: 5:06PM EDT
| Previous Close | 178.78 |
| Open | 178.80 |
| Bid | 178.29 x 800 |
| Ask | 178.41 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 177.34 - 178.88 |
| 52 Week Range | 123.02 - 218.62 |
| Volume | 10,510,331 |
| Avg. Volume | 18,420,941 |
| Market Cap | 509.098B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.20 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 23.55 |
| EPS (TTM) | 7.57 |
| Earnings Date | Apr 24, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | N/A |
| 1y Target Est | 197.14 |
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What to Watch in the Markets: Friday, April 19
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Millions of facebook users' contact info uploaded without consent
Facebook is under fire for gathering emails from 1.5 million unaware users without their consent. The social media giant told Business Insider that the user contact information was "unintentionally uploaded" and would soon be deleted. Yahoo Finance's Adam Shapiro and Julie Hyman discuss with the panel.
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- Engadget•15 hours ago
Facebook is working on a voice AI rival to Siri and Alexa
Facebook might introduce its own voice assistant à la Siri and Alexa in the future. Based on what a spokesperson told Reuters, though, Facebook is mainly developing the assistant for its Oculus headsets, its Portal smart display and future AR/VR devices. Facebook has previous experience developing AI assistants, but none that could rival Alexa or Siri.
- Engadget•18 hours ago
Facebook 'unintentionally' saved contacts of 1.5 million new users
Remember the weird revelation that Facebook was asking some new users for the password to their email account? Tonight Business Insider reports that since May 2016, if users entered their email password then Facebook used it to access their contact list and upload the contents to its servers without asking for permission. "...we found that in some cases people's email contacts were also unintentionally uploaded to Facebook when they created their account.
Associated Press•16 minutes agoNew Mexico panel surprises Facebook with $39M utility bill
A powerful New Mexico regulatory authority is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new transmission line construction for its data center — a move the social media giant says it was not expecting. The Public Regulation Commission's on Tuesday ordered the Public Service Company of New Mexico to charge Facebook for nearly half the cost of the $85 million transmission project for its New Mexico data center that opened this year, the Albuquerque Journal reports .
- Associated Press•1 hour ago
Facebook says more Instagram passwords exposed than thought
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook acknowledged nearly four weeks ago.
- The Telegraph•1 hour ago
Millions of Instagram users' passwords exposed to staff, Facebook admits
Facebook has revealed that millions of Instagram users' passwords were stored in plain text on the company's servers, making them potentially accessible to employees.
- MarketWatch•2 hours ago
StockTwits to launch commission-free stock trading platform to rival Robinhood, others
StockTwits — a social-media platform founded in 2008 as a venue for day traders to exchange ideas and musings — is set to kick off a free online brokerage unit, aimed at appealing to its current roster of approximately two million members, as well as luring millennials.
- Bloomberg•2 hours ago
Pinterest Soars in Debut in 2019's Second-Biggest U.S. IPO
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- CNBC•3 hours ago
Facebook says its employees had access to millions of Instagram passwords
Facebook says millions of Instagram passwords were exposed in an internal database that was searchable by employees. The exposure is part of the same one that affected up to 600 million Facebook user passwords. Facebook originally said the exposure affected thousands of Instagram passwords.
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- Barrons.com•5 hours ago
Facebook Stock Will Get a Boost From Investments in Platform and Security, Analyst Says
Facebook has repeatedly vowed to shore up its platform, and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg in February said the price tag will exceed $3.7 billion on safety and security measures this year.
- Associated Press•5 hours ago
Facebook bans several UK far-right groups and individuals
LONDON (AP) — Facebook says it has banned several British far-right groups and their leaders for spreading hatred.
- Zacks•6 hours ago
Facebook (FB) Q1 Earnings to Gain on Ad & Stories Momentum
Facebook's (FB) first-quarter 2019 results are likely to gain on continued subscriber growth, driven by rapid adoption of Instagram and WhatsApp Stories.
- The Telegraph•6 hours ago
Facebook uploaded 1.5 million people’s email contacts without their consent
Facebook has admitted that it "unintentionally" uploaded email contacts of as many as 1.5 million users without their permission, in the social network's latest privacy blunder.
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White Oak Select Growth Mutual Fund Outperforms By Thinking Outside The Box
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- American City Business Journals•7 hours ago
Facebook confirms it’s developing Alexa-like voice AI assistant
A skunkworks engineering team at Facebook Inc. has spent the past year building out a voice assistant similar to Amazon.com's Alexa, Apple Inc'’s Siri and Alphabet Inc.'s Google Assistant, the company said Wednesday. “We are working to develop voice and AI assistant technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus and future products,” Facebook said in a statement to reporters. Facebook's announcement came after CNBC reported the company was in talks with several smart speaker manufacturers about a possible new product.
- TheStreet.com•7 hours ago
Facebook Slips After Admitting Email Contact Upload in Latest Privacy Glitch
shares traded lower Thursday after the world's biggest social media group admitted to yet another potential data breach involving the "unintentional" uploading of millions of email contacts. Facebook said as many as 1.5 million new users had their email contacts uploaded since May 2016, but noted error in which they were collected had been repaired and the information will be deleted. The potential breach, however, comes as the company attempts to fend off a move by the Electronic Privacy Information Center to have the U.S. Federal Trade Commission release privacy reports filed by Facebook since its 2011 settlement linked to allegations it deceived consumers by allowing private information to be shared and made public.
