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A Review of Google Social Media Tools

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Google has often been blasted for failing to understand social media and capitalize on the rise of this communication channel. Still, those same critics cannot blame the Mountain View-based search giant for not trying and, actually, may be shortchanging the company’s actual efforts.

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Facebook’s $5 billion IPO: By the numbers

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Initial funding sought by Facebook, in one of the largest IPOs ever filed by a technology company. $75 Estimated overall value of the social network — which may command “a valuation more than five times higher than Google Inc.,” Initial investment by billionaire Peter Thiel in 2004 in exchange for 44.7 $5 billion.

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