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Facebook, Inc. News Facebook, Inc. (Facebook) is engaged in building products to create utility for users, developers, and advertisers. People use Facebook to stay connected with their friends and family, to discover what is going on in the world around them, and to share and express what matters to them to the people they care about. Developers can use the Facebook Platform to build applications and Websites that integrate with Facebook to reach its global network of users and to build personalized and social products.

Facebook Timeline Provides 46% Lift in Brand Page Engagement [STUDY] If you're a marketer wondering if migrating your brand to Facebook Timeline was worth the effort, here's some encouraging data: A researcher reports that brands are getting an average 46% more engagement with Timeline. The researcher, Simply Measured, drew its results from an admittedly small sample: just 15 Facebook brand pages. Doing so may have created a false sense of lift, especially since the greatest beneficiaries, Livestrong and Toyota, saw their engagement rates jump 161% and 156%, respectively. (The full list of brands appears below.) Adam Schoenfeld, CEO of Simply Measured, says the average, however, is weighted so that the engagement per post is taken into account. A deeper dive into the data reveals that responses to status updates actually fell with Timeline, but engagement with videos and photos were up a composite 65%.

Facebook changes: Mark Zuckerberg unveils 'timeline' profiles at F8 conference Networking site pushes forward with major overhaul despite protestsProfile pages redesigned as 'timelines' that include years from before FacebookMusic and movie sites integrated into new profile pagesZuckerberg announces half a billion people used Facebook in just one day last week for the first timeFacebook blog already inundated with protests from thousands of users at changes to news feeds unveiled at start of week By John Stevens and Rob Waugh Updated: 06:55 GMT, 23 September 2011 Mark Zuckerberg defiantly pushed forward with the overhaul of Facebook this afternoon as he announced more radical changes to the site with completely new profile pages covering years before the site even existed. The site founder unveiled some of the biggest changes in the site's history with the introduction of the new 'timeline' profile pages at the company's f8 conference in San Francisco. Scroll down for video 'It's fun and easy to fill out your timeline,' said Zuckerberg. 'News Feed is awful.

The carbon tax explained What is a Carbon Tax? « No Carbon Tax Website Tax Policy to Combat Global Warming: On Designing a Carbon Tax NBER Working Paper No. 3649 (Also Reprint No. r1678)Issued in December 1991NBER Program(s): PE This paper develops several points concerning the design and implementation of a carbon tax. First, if implemented without any offsetting changes in transfer programs, the carbon tax would be regressive. This paper is available as PDF (1223 K) or DjVu (242 K) (Download viewer) or via email. Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Published: Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses, edited by Rudiger Dornbusch and James M. Users who downloaded this paper also downloaded these:

Television - Article - Hallyu, the Korean Wave Dividing Japan On 21st August 2011, the normally quiet streets of the artificial island Odaiba rang out with protests and Japanese national hymns. The event was aired live on Ustream, showing a long procession of 6,000 people headed in orderly manner towards the prestigious headquarters of Fuji TV, the country’s leading private television channel. On that Sunday afternoon, the company’s programming policy was under attack, accused of focusing too much on South Korean programmes during prime time. Protest banners were mixed in among the Japanese flags, and the event clearly took the form of a demonstration: “Fuji TV shouldn’t force Hallyu on us, we don’t want to watch Korean dramas”. This Hallyu (韓流), or “Korean wave”, refers to the massive export and consumption of South Korean cultural products that has emerged since the late 1990s in Southeast Asia, and around the world since the 2000s. The Japanese demonstrations against Fuji TV / PressTV Translated from the French by Christopher Edwards.

The effect of the Hallyu in the Korean entertainment industry « Hollywood and Wall By Somi Park On June 10, more than 7,000 fans of Korean pop culture surprised people in Korea as well as in France. Did Korean fans fly over to France to meet the K-pop idol stars? No. While this Hallyu wave continues to spread worldwide, the companies in the entertainment and broadcasting industry don’t seem to be affected much by this global phenomenon. How do you explain their poor performances with the fervent heat from the Hallyu wave? As a result, their operating incomes are low compared to the revenues, resulting in low EBIT and EBITDA as well. Overall, Korean entertainment companies seem to be overvalued at a huge amount. Tags: hallyu, k-pop, sm entertainment

K-pop: Girls' Generation, others enter American pop consciousness The nine young women of Girls' Generation sauntered onto the performance stage of "Late Show With David Letterman." Flanked by a DJ and live drummer, the South Korean pop group wore lacy black mini-dresses and thigh-high leather boots, as if they were hosting a goth cocktail party. It was a rare American network television performance from a South Korean music group. The song they performed on the January show, a slinky bit of minor-key dance-pop called "The Boys," owed an obvious debt to Kelis' catcalling hit "Milkshake." "As soon as I heard that we'd be performing there, I ran screaming and crying up and down our house," said Girls' Generation's Diamond Bar-raised, Korean American singer Tiffany. Girls' Generation is arguably the biggest name in an effervescent, operatic Korean pop music culture that quietly has won a fervent fan base of young Korean Americans, and plenty of non-Koreans as well. "It's just really good pop music. Catching on in U.S.

Showbiz - South Korea’s K-pop spreads to Latin America @ Mon Jun 25 2012 South Korea’s popular boyband JYJ performing in Lima, Peru on March 11, 2012. – AFP/C-JeS EntertainmentSEOUL, June 25 – News of the arrival of South Korean boyband JYJ prompted hundreds of fans to camp out on the streets recently to get closer to the trio. But this wasn’t in Seoul or even Tokyo: it was in Lima. Having taken Asia by storm over the past decade with bubblegum hooks and dance moves infused with military precision, South Korea’s K-pop phenomenon continues to defy language barriers and find fans around the world. As South Korea continues to export its culture, K-pop’s polished fusion of influences ranging from hip-hop to dubstep is winning a growing number of passionate followers in Latin America. JYJ has held sellout concerts there and a Colombian TV station is airing a K-pop talent show. Promoters are using the power of the Internet to lure distant fans and organise concerts in Europe and North and South America. Savvy marketing and production tie-ups have also helped.

Move Over Bieber — Korean Pop Music Goes Global — Asia Business News Seoul based Sean Yang, CEO of music service provider Soribada which started distributing K-pop to iTunes and Amazon three years ago, says demand for the music really started picking up last year. “If you look at the past six months, K-pop sales in iTunes have tripled,” Yang said. “We’re seeing very rapid growth recently.” K-pop’s similarities to American pop, hip hop, R&B and European electronic music genres makes it more appealing to Western audiences as the bands start to target global audiences, according to NUS’s Jung. “It actually is rooted in the Western pop genre, but at the same time the Korean pop industry brought that Western pop element into Korea and localized and made it something unique by mixing it with other elements,” she said. The executive manager of one of South Korea’s biggest K-pop production companies, who wished to remain anonymous, says producers try to recruit international artists to broaden their fan base. By CNBC's Rajeshni Naidu-Ghelani

South Korea's K-pop spreads to Latin America News of the arrival of South Korean boyband JYJ prompted hundreds of fans to camp out on the streets recently to get closer to the trio. But this wasn't in Seoul or even Tokyo: it was in Lima. Having taken Asia by storm over the past decade with bubblegum hooks and dance moves infused with military precision, South Korea's K-pop phenomenon continues to defy language barriers and find fans around the world. As South Korea continues to export its culture, K-pop's polished fusion of influences ranging from hip-hop to dubstep is winning a growing number of passionate followers in Latin America. JYJ has held sellout concerts there and a Colombian TV station is airing a K-pop talent show. Latin American fans have posted hundreds of videos on YouTube showing flash mobs emulating K-pop dance moves and urging their favourite stars to visit the continent, despite many not having officially released songs outside Asia. Savvy marketing and production tie-ups have also helped.

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