Jim Urquhart / ReutersFacebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 12, 2012.
The fallout over Facebook’s controversial initial public offering has turned into a full-blown blame-fest. In the three months since the social network’s mammoth IPO, the company’s stock has fallen by a stomach-churning 50%, wiping out some $50 billion in shareholder value. The offering was supposed to be a triumphant moment for Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Read More...
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Often lauded as the mother of Regency romance, Georgette Heyer is widely considered a pioneer of the booming historical romance subgenre. From 1935 to 1974, Heyer published more than two dozen meticulously researched Regency-era novels that popularized key elements of the genre that still endure today, including tropes like enemies to lovers and conventions like referring to early 19th-century Britain’s upper crust as “the ton. Read More...
After weeks of storms and floods, Memphians awoke Tuesday morning to the highest river they’d seen in 74 years. The Mississippi had risen to 48 ft. (15 m); 120 million cu. ft. (3.4 million cu m) of water rushed by every minute — enough to fill a football field 44 ft. (13 m) deep every second. By May 10, the river had swelled to six times its normal girth, more than 3 miles (5 km) across at Memphis. Read More...
