We largely steer clear of companies going public here at Engadget, but Facebook and its zillions of users warrants an atypical tip of the hat. The outfit has announced that starting tomorrow, 421,233,615 shares of its common stock will be up for grabs at a price to the public of $38 per share. It’ll trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “FB,” with the outfit offering 180,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and selling stockholders offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock
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Facebook IPO is official: $38 per share, on sale tomorrow under ticker symbol ‘FB’
Facebook’s had some privacy foibles in the not-so-distant past , and has been working to improve its policies to better inform Facebook users how their info is exploited. Last year, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s Office did an audit of Facebook’s data usage approach, and determined that, while Facebook’s doing a decent job, further details should be provided to us all. Well, the social network’s recently responded by creating a Terms and Policies Hub to make its myriad policies easy to find
Microsoft’s determination to ratchet up the search engine wars just got clearer with a major rethink of Bing that includes a few potshots at Google. While the search results themselves are still prominent, there’s now a Snapshot area in the middle that aggregates the common tasks linked to your search, such as booking a hotel room. Bing hasn’t avoided the siren’s call of putting social networking into search results, putting in both search hits as well as the option of asking friends, but has tucked the results into a social sidebar at the far right
I never wanted to join Facebook . I never wanted to join anything online, really. 
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The Facebook app for Windows Phone is certainly serviceable, but it’s never really been anything to get excited about. In fact, it wasn’t really something you looked forward to using and it’s been slow to add the features considered standard on competing mobile platforms. Well, with the soon to land version 2.5, that capability gap will get quite a bit smaller. 
This is the production version of Ford’s Focus Electric for the US market, and we got the chance to take it for a proper test drive last week. Don’t fret, though — Engadget hasn’t suddenly turned into a car site. While we’ll be happy to share our driving impressions, we’re mostly interested in how Ford interfaces the vehicle with our favorite mobile devices and social networks — tech that we’re covered before, known as MyFord Mobile 
When Facebook first announced Offers you we’re probably wondering if there was even room for yet another coupon service. Between Google , Groupon , Yelp, Living Social and countless others we’re not entirely sure there’s a niche left untapped for Facebook, but that isn’t going to stop Zuck and crew from trying. The service is officially rolling out as we speak, and offering its wares to any business with a Facebook page, regardless of size. 
It’s no secret that Facebook encourages users to spend as much time as possible on the site, doing things like sharing photos , playing games , chatting , and of course, sharing status updates . Now, the company is giving students a reason to visit that’s actually related to academics. ‘Groups for schools’ creates a virtual venue for collegiate collaboration, letting students and faculty members share un-copyrighted files within the groups created for their sports teams, clubs and even individual classes
