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Are Facebook Investors Playing Russian Roulette?

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For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. While there’s some hope in mobile advertising (Facebook has so far not monetized mobile), that too doesn’t justify a $100 billion valuation. It’s not.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

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How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. But places like Brazil and India are estimated at 20-30% and Japan and South Korea at <15%.

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How To Take Back Control Of Technology

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But basically we have to stay on line for as long as possible so they can collect more data on us and then so they can target more advertising in us. They're, for the last year, there have been multiple parents actually youth class actions suing social networks for addicting kids and affecting their mental health.