Dollars Gather At Social Networking      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Three years ago, some dismissed social networking Web sites as a fad, a place where the geek-minded could fluff their personality on a Web page.
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People who sign in to the newest social network won't be looking for dates or posting a list of their favorite movies. They will be searching for companies to invest in and listing their interests in areas like clean energy or enterprise software.
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Investor's Business Daily - Could Russia's hypergrowth in cellular subscribers start slowing?
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors slowed their investing into stock mutual funds in December. But a fourth-quarter market surge sent total fund assets to a record &#36;8.1 trillion in December.
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Investor's Business Daily - At a time when rapid growth in hedge funds might suggest that their mutual fund counterparts -- long-short funds -- would also prove popular, few investors seem to have much appetite for mutual funds they can sell short.
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Investor's Business Daily - There might come a day when U.S. investors don't have a hopeless crush on Chinese stocks, but that day won't come soon.
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Investor's Business Daily - The best friend for mutual fund investors might very well be father time.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has approached FacebookÂ in recent weeks proposing an investment that would give Microsoft a stake of up to 5 percent in the popular social-networking company, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. With Microsoft willing to invest between $300 million and $500 million, the deal would value Facebook at $10 billion or more, the Journal reported, quoting anonymous sources. Google has also expressed an interest in acquiring a Facebook stake recently, according to the Journal. Thus, Microsoft could find itself competing for Facebook's attention with Google. However, Facebook's discussions with Google and Microsoft are in the early stages and could end up with no agreement with either suitor, according to the Journal. IDG News Service's requests for comment from Facebook, Microsoft, and Google weren't immediately answered. Founded in February 2004, Facebook is one of the world's most popular social-networking sites with about 42 million active users. Facebook has been growing strongly in the past 12 months. In December, it had about 12 million active users. The site initially only admitted students, but last September it lifted that restriction. In May of this year, itÂ opened up to third-party developersÂ to create applications for the site, which has also added to its popularity with users. Along the way, it has caught the attention of big Internet playersÂ such asÂ Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. The latter reportedly tried to buy Facebook last year for $1 billion. Facebook's attractiveness is that it builds very strong and deep relationships with its users.Â More thanÂ half of its active members return to the site daily, and Facebook knows a lot about them, thanks to all the personal information people disclose on their site profiles and interactions with other members. This, in turn, offers a desirable audience to advertisers and to ad sellers and distributorsÂ such asÂ Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. A little more than a year ago,Â Facebook chose Microsoft to display banner adsÂ on the site. Facebook would be interested in using the cash raised from selling a stake for buying other companies, increasing its staff of about 300, and beefing up its technical infrastructure, the Journal reported. Facebook is also weighing the option of raising funds from financial investors, the Journal said.
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Social network will allow individual creators to put a price on their content.
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MySpace, the social networking  Web site, could be worth around $15 billion within three years,  measured in terms of the value created for shareholders of  parent company News Corp. (NWSa.N), a Wall Street media analyst  forecast on Wednesday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Despite a year of negative headlines, the investing public doesn't understand the mutual fund scandal, couldn't care less and hasn't lost much confidence in the fund families where they invest, says a new study released this week.
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Social networks have made fortunes setting up Web sites that allow people to post profiles and trade messages. Now, the rank and file are getting the chance to make some cash from their contacts.
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MySpace, the social networking   Web site, could be worth around $15 billion within three years,   measured in terms of the value created for shareholders of   parent company News Corp. NWSa.N, a Wall Street media analyst   forecast on Wednesday.
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Three Fools chime in on the social-networking site's valuation.
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Investor's Business Daily - The maker of routers and other networking gear is betting that more small businesses and even homeowners want higher-end storage systems once reserved for larger corporations.
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MySpace has an impressive lead today, but things can change quickly in the fluid world of mass-market social networking sites. Just ask Friendster.