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"Hiring a new employee can be challenging in and of itself. Finding the right candidates and learning about what makes them tick without violating their privacy can be a great balancing act, especially for small business owners with limited time and resources. Throw social media in to the mix, and you can expose your business to potential risk -- and even lawsuits.David Wilkins, vice president of Taleo Research, a talent management consulting group, said it's important for businesses to incorporate social media recruiting into their hiring processes. Although job boards and company recruiting sites are still where the majority of hires originate, social recruiting is and will likely continue to gain traction.However, sites like LinkedIn and Facebook might not necessarily be representative of the overall available candidate pool, Wilkins said. For example, Taleo Research found only 5% of African Americans are using LinkedIn...Facebook's $104 billion initial public offering on Friday transformed thousands of young people into instant millionaires – as well as a few billionaires – and alrea...
While Mark Zuckerberg understandably gets most of the credit for Facebook's (NASDAQ:FB) storybook success, Sheryl Sandberg deserves a huge assist for helping the soc...
Sterne Agee Managing Director Arvind Bhatia on Facebook’s opening and the outlook for the social networking company.
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THE EVENT: Facebook Inc. (FB) set its final price at $38 a share, as the social network gets ready for its historic initial public offering Friday.The social network...
Facebook priced its shares at $38 on Thursday at the high end of its proposed price range, hardly a surprise given the all the attention showered on one of the most ...
Bill Gates had better watch his back.With Facebook's frenzied IPO headed toward a huge first-day pop, Mark Zuckerberg, already the world's youngest paper billionaire...
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Facebook's (NYSE:FB) highly anticipated public debut failed to stimulate the market as shares slid well below their offering price in the first days of trading. Prob...
Loyal3 CEO Barry Schneider weighs in on how to buy stocks directly from companies.
These stocks are down on high volume today:Trading at a volume of 8.3 million, or 1.5 its average daily volume, Linkedin Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) was down on high vol...
Facebook Inc.'s (FB) shares fell as much as 13.7% Monday and went below the initial public offering price of $38 on just its second day of trading, a black eye for a...
Shares of other firms in the social networking space fell Monday morning, as Facebook continued to weaken following its lackluster IPO on Friday. Zynga shed more 7% ...
Janney Chief Investment Strategist Mark Luschini on his reaction to Facebook’s first day of trading.
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