Facebook IPO shares tough task for small investors

Hoping to get in on Facebook's hotly anticipated public stock offering? You'll need Facebook friends at very high levels — or a lot of money.

Samsung Electronics stock recovers losses, trading flat on day

SEOUL (Reuters) - Shares in South Korea's Samsung Electronics recovered from a more than two percent loss on Thursday morning and were trading flat at on the day by 00:26 a.m. EDT. The world's largest electronics company by revenue had been hit by a newspaper report that Apple Inc had given a large chip order to a rival, losing 6.2 percent on Wednesday. (Reporting by David Chance; Editing by Joseph Radford)

Soon you can make calls on your phone aboard a Virgin Atlantic plane
If you're flying to London from New York or vice versa, you now have the option to ride on the first plane ever to allow in-flight calls. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic airline recently announced that you can now make calls … Continue reading →

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Meet the New Facebook Millionaires
Facebook, in one of the world's most widely anticipated initial public offerings of stock, has announced that it will add 84 million shares, worth up to $3.2 billion, to the IPO, which is expected to raise as much as $16 billion for the company, valued at roughly $100 billion.

Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders

Yahoo's dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet company's ousting of CEO Scott Thompson just four months after his arrival.