In an interview, a former credit card thief talks about some of the scams he used to run on unwary consumers. It's got some good takeaways for protecting yourself, like the one where you make up fake answers to security questions. With all the info that can be found online now some of these security questions aren't that hard to figure out. So instead of putting down the real answer to "What's your mother's maiden name?" put down "unicorn princess."
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Facebook finally put out a press release on PR Newswire officially setting the record straight on $1.5 billion in funding. The overseas clientele of Goldman Sachs bought $1 billion, and the bank plus Digital Sky Technologies together invested another $500 million.
The blogosphere will doubtlessly explode with posts about why and how the numbers seem to have changed from what was originally reported by The New York Times on January 2. I don’t think the size of the deal selling to Goldman’s clientele shrank from $1.5 billion to $1 billion because of U.S. investors got shut out of the deal, although that’s a clever idea.
I think the discrepancy more likely has to do with the nature of off-the-record scoops, like the one that started the media frenzy in the first place. Rarely do the early leaks of secrets ever turn out to be accurate. Don’t mistake this as dissing any of the previous coverage of $500 million in direct investment and $1.5 billion from Goldman clientele. Like the release says, Facebook chose to limit the overseas offering to $1 billion, after the bank offered the choice of a range from $375 million to $1.5 billion.
The release consists of one straightforward factual paragraph, a quote from Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman and then a set of four questions and answers about the deal — all of it appears below, except for the boilerplate at the tail end. The fact that this official statement came out today indicates that the deal has closed. Read on for the release:
Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion
Facebook Receives $1 Billion from Goldman Sachs Overseas Offering; Digital Sky Technologies and Goldman Sachs Also Recently Made $500 Million Direct Investment
Investment Values Facebook at $50 Billion
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook today announced it has raised U.S.$1.5 billion at a valuation of approximately $50 billion.
The transaction consisted of two parts. Today, Goldman Sachs completed an oversubscribed offering to its non-U.S. clients in a fund that invested $1 billion in Facebook Class A common stock. In December, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and funds managed by Goldman Sachs invested $500 million in Facebook Class A common stock at the same valuation.
“Our business continues to perform well, and we are pleased to be able to bolster our cash position with this new financing,” said David Ebersman, Facebook’s chief financial officer. “With this investment completed, we now have greater financial flexibility to explore whatever opportunities lie ahead.”
The investment generated a significant number of questions from interested parties and Facebook has addressed the most common ones below.
Why did Facebook raise this money?
DST and Goldman Sachs approached Facebook to express their interest in making an investment, and Facebook decided it was an attractive opportunity to bolster its cash reserves and increase its financial flexibility with limited dilution to existing shareholders.
Why did Facebook choose to raise $1 billion in the overseas offering?
Under the transaction’s terms, Facebook had the option to accept between $375 million and $1.5 billion from the Goldman Sachs overseas offering, at the discretion of Facebook. While the offering was oversubscribed, Facebook made a business decision to limit the offering to $1 billion.
What are Facebook’s plans for the proceeds of this transaction?
There are no immediate plans for these funds. Facebook will continue investing to build and expand its operations.
Does this investment mean that Facebook will have more than 500 shareholders?
Even before the investment from Goldman Sachs, Facebook had expected to pass 500 shareholders at some point in 2011, and therefore expects to start filing public financial reports no later than April 30, 2012.
It’s great to see that the social network will indeed begin making financial disclosures to the public by the end of April; and the release doesn’t say anything about whether or when an initial public offering might happen.
Why do you think the total size of the transaction changed from the originally reported $1.5 billion coming from overseas clients of Goldman Sachs to the currently announced $1 billion?
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
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In an interview, a former credit card thief talks about some of the scams he used to run on unwary consumers. It's got some good takeaways for protecting yourself, like the one where you make up fake answers to security questions. With all the info that can be found online now some of these security questions aren't that hard to figure out. So instead of putting down the real answer to "What's your mother's maiden name?" put down "unicorn princess."
Secrets of a Former Credit Card Thief [Yahoo] (Thanks to Newdreams!)
Facebook finally put out a press release on PR Newswire officially setting the record straight on $1.5 billion in funding. The overseas clientele of Goldman Sachs bought $1 billion, and the bank plus Digital Sky Technologies together invested another $500 million.
The blogosphere will doubtlessly explode with posts about why and how the numbers seem to have changed from what was originally reported by The New York Times on January 2. I don’t think the size of the deal selling to Goldman’s clientele shrank from $1.5 billion to $1 billion because of U.S. investors got shut out of the deal, although that’s a clever idea.
I think the discrepancy more likely has to do with the nature of off-the-record scoops, like the one that started the media frenzy in the first place. Rarely do the early leaks of secrets ever turn out to be accurate. Don’t mistake this as dissing any of the previous coverage of $500 million in direct investment and $1.5 billion from Goldman clientele. Like the release says, Facebook chose to limit the overseas offering to $1 billion, after the bank offered the choice of a range from $375 million to $1.5 billion.
The release consists of one straightforward factual paragraph, a quote from Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman and then a set of four questions and answers about the deal — all of it appears below, except for the boilerplate at the tail end. The fact that this official statement came out today indicates that the deal has closed. Read on for the release:
Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion
Facebook Receives $1 Billion from Goldman Sachs Overseas Offering; Digital Sky Technologies and Goldman Sachs Also Recently Made $500 Million Direct Investment
Investment Values Facebook at $50 Billion
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook today announced it has raised U.S.$1.5 billion at a valuation of approximately $50 billion.
The transaction consisted of two parts. Today, Goldman Sachs completed an oversubscribed offering to its non-U.S. clients in a fund that invested $1 billion in Facebook Class A common stock. In December, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and funds managed by Goldman Sachs invested $500 million in Facebook Class A common stock at the same valuation.
“Our business continues to perform well, and we are pleased to be able to bolster our cash position with this new financing,” said David Ebersman, Facebook’s chief financial officer. “With this investment completed, we now have greater financial flexibility to explore whatever opportunities lie ahead.”
The investment generated a significant number of questions from interested parties and Facebook has addressed the most common ones below.
Why did Facebook raise this money?
DST and Goldman Sachs approached Facebook to express their interest in making an investment, and Facebook decided it was an attractive opportunity to bolster its cash reserves and increase its financial flexibility with limited dilution to existing shareholders.
Why did Facebook choose to raise $1 billion in the overseas offering?
Under the transaction’s terms, Facebook had the option to accept between $375 million and $1.5 billion from the Goldman Sachs overseas offering, at the discretion of Facebook. While the offering was oversubscribed, Facebook made a business decision to limit the offering to $1 billion.
What are Facebook’s plans for the proceeds of this transaction?
There are no immediate plans for these funds. Facebook will continue investing to build and expand its operations.
Does this investment mean that Facebook will have more than 500 shareholders?
Even before the investment from Goldman Sachs, Facebook had expected to pass 500 shareholders at some point in 2011, and therefore expects to start filing public financial reports no later than April 30, 2012.
It’s great to see that the social network will indeed begin making financial disclosures to the public by the end of April; and the release doesn’t say anything about whether or when an initial public offering might happen.
Why do you think the total size of the transaction changed from the originally reported $1.5 billion coming from overseas clients of Goldman Sachs to the currently announced $1 billion?
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya; front page photo by Leigh Ann Hines LCD Soundsystem have announced that they will play their ...
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In an interview, a former credit card thief talks about some of the scams he used to run on unwary consumers. It's got some good takeaways for protecting yourself, like the one where you make up fake answers to security questions. With all the info that can be found online now some of these security questions aren't that hard to figure out. So instead of putting down the real answer to "What's your mother's maiden name?" put down "unicorn princess."
Secrets of a Former Credit Card Thief [Yahoo] (Thanks to Newdreams!)
Facebook finally put out a press release on PR Newswire officially setting the record straight on $1.5 billion in funding. The overseas clientele of Goldman Sachs bought $1 billion, and the bank plus Digital Sky Technologies together invested another $500 million.
The blogosphere will doubtlessly explode with posts about why and how the numbers seem to have changed from what was originally reported by The New York Times on January 2. I don’t think the size of the deal selling to Goldman’s clientele shrank from $1.5 billion to $1 billion because of U.S. investors got shut out of the deal, although that’s a clever idea.
I think the discrepancy more likely has to do with the nature of off-the-record scoops, like the one that started the media frenzy in the first place. Rarely do the early leaks of secrets ever turn out to be accurate. Don’t mistake this as dissing any of the previous coverage of $500 million in direct investment and $1.5 billion from Goldman clientele. Like the release says, Facebook chose to limit the overseas offering to $1 billion, after the bank offered the choice of a range from $375 million to $1.5 billion.
The release consists of one straightforward factual paragraph, a quote from Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman and then a set of four questions and answers about the deal — all of it appears below, except for the boilerplate at the tail end. The fact that this official statement came out today indicates that the deal has closed. Read on for the release:
Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion
Facebook Receives $1 Billion from Goldman Sachs Overseas Offering; Digital Sky Technologies and Goldman Sachs Also Recently Made $500 Million Direct Investment
Investment Values Facebook at $50 Billion
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook today announced it has raised U.S.$1.5 billion at a valuation of approximately $50 billion.
The transaction consisted of two parts. Today, Goldman Sachs completed an oversubscribed offering to its non-U.S. clients in a fund that invested $1 billion in Facebook Class A common stock. In December, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and funds managed by Goldman Sachs invested $500 million in Facebook Class A common stock at the same valuation.
“Our business continues to perform well, and we are pleased to be able to bolster our cash position with this new financing,” said David Ebersman, Facebook’s chief financial officer. “With this investment completed, we now have greater financial flexibility to explore whatever opportunities lie ahead.”
The investment generated a significant number of questions from interested parties and Facebook has addressed the most common ones below.
Why did Facebook raise this money?
DST and Goldman Sachs approached Facebook to express their interest in making an investment, and Facebook decided it was an attractive opportunity to bolster its cash reserves and increase its financial flexibility with limited dilution to existing shareholders.
Why did Facebook choose to raise $1 billion in the overseas offering?
Under the transaction’s terms, Facebook had the option to accept between $375 million and $1.5 billion from the Goldman Sachs overseas offering, at the discretion of Facebook. While the offering was oversubscribed, Facebook made a business decision to limit the offering to $1 billion.
What are Facebook’s plans for the proceeds of this transaction?
There are no immediate plans for these funds. Facebook will continue investing to build and expand its operations.
Does this investment mean that Facebook will have more than 500 shareholders?
Even before the investment from Goldman Sachs, Facebook had expected to pass 500 shareholders at some point in 2011, and therefore expects to start filing public financial reports no later than April 30, 2012.
It’s great to see that the social network will indeed begin making financial disclosures to the public by the end of April; and the release doesn’t say anything about whether or when an initial public offering might happen.
Why do you think the total size of the transaction changed from the originally reported $1.5 billion coming from overseas clients of Goldman Sachs to the currently announced $1 billion?
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya; front page photo by Leigh Ann Hines LCD Soundsystem have announced that they will play their ...
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya; front page photo by Leigh Ann Hines LCD Soundsystem have announced that they will play their ...
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
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I have made money by posting my art on article cites such as Associated Content and Bukisa. I recommend that you seek out every article on how to make money, sell items, SEO, setting up internet stores, and getting more hits on eHow, hubpages, and Squidoo. Since I have never bought the books that some of the "get your money making opportunities here" types sell, I can not recommend them. Hey, maybe they work but since I don't know that from my own experience I can not say. What you are looking for is the same thing I ran across. Different places to post your content.
As other revealers of inner, hidden secrets have related, one of the tips that can make you money is cross posting. If you post an article here on eHow, you can also post it on Bukisa and if you are careful about the copyrighting settings: Associated Content. Associated Content is not rocket science, just be careful to admit that you have posted the content first elsewhere. Your mileage may vary but I prefer to post my original content first on a site like eHow and then cross post it on Bukisa and Associated Content. Let the lawyers haggle over the truth of the matter but the way I read what you sign up for when you post something on Associated Content is that if your post it exclusively and say that you a have not posted it elsewhere then you are legally bound not to post it elsewhere. I believe that the legal recourse that Associated Content uses is to ban you for life. Given that you can be honest and tell them that you posted it elsewhere first, why not go that way? The exception for me to this rule are when I take an assignment from Associated content or submit something for up front payment from Associated Content. Then they get the first and only dibs on the content. These remarks refer to written works only. I have not had anyone say that I was restricted in where and when I can post my art so I do what I like with it.
But I digress, we were discussing how to make money from artwork. Okay, on both Bukisa and Associated Content you can make slide shows of your artistic content. I make jpegs of my abstract art and I combine them together to make little movies or slide shows. I make jpegs by using C# and VB.Net directly in Visual Studio 2008 but if you are not a programmer then I would suggest you stick with things like Adobe, Microsoft, Flash and the like to make your movies. I will put links to my work in the resources so you can get a look at what the finished product looks like.
Squidoo is a different breed of cat. You need to begin with written comment and then use your art to illustrate the words. Hubpages has a similar outlook on life but I am not aware of how to make money just from clicks on Hubpages so I am not recommending Hubpages as a way to directly make money from clicks.
They tell me you can make money from putting affliate links on your pages but I haven't had much luck there either. In so far as I can tell, it doesn't hurt to affiliate, maybe you will have some luck with it.
Yes there are art sites that you can use to display your wares and online shops that will help you show case and sell what you have wrought. But I have never made any money in those places. Nevertheless, for the sake of completeness check out DeviantArt, LuLu, RedBubble,ebsqart,Zazzle, and CafePress. Don't forget to blog about your art and to create web pages based on it. You can have the most freedom on your own web page of course. But how do you get anyone to look at it? If you go with the right blogger you can have some control and can keep the graffiti types from selling too much porn and viagra on your site. Hey some junk is going to leak through to your blog comment pages--if you don't think so you haven't taken the porn and viagra industries seriously. Like they say in horror movies, those dudes are relentless and they never sleep...
Tips & Warnings
- Always use the links and resources in eHow and Associated Content.
- On sites like Squidoo and hubpages, don't forget to provide links to your books or content. If you have something on Amazon or Ebay, they have ready made ways for you to offer up your wares
- Be careful when cross posting. If you claim that are only posting written content on the one site, remember that they may search the web and find you out.
- Content is king. First have something interesting to show, display or say. Only after you entertain the masses is it time to sell them something.
- If your are boring, they will never click on you again.
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya; front page photo by Leigh Ann Hines LCD Soundsystem have announced that they will play their ...
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Verizon asks employees to delay iPhone purchases | Apple - CNET <b>News</b>
Wireless carrier cites 'unprecedented' demand for the device in asking employees to postpone purchase plans, according to a memo obtained by AppleInsider. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Apple.
The First Look at <b>News</b> Corp.'s 'The Daily' - NYTimes.com
'The Daily,' unveiled on Wednesday, combines print, video and graphics.
Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
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