SEC questioned Facebook about Instagram, mobile devices before IPO

Marissa Mayer is buying companies like it’s 1999. The Yahoo! Inc. chief executive officer yesterday announced the company will acquire blogging network Tumblr Inc., part of a plan to restore the Web portal to its heyday as an Internet darling. With US$13-million in sales last year, Tumblr’s US$1.1-billion price tag represents the richest valuation for a dot-com company since 2000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg on deals for which revenue figures are available.

Yesterday, the world learned that Facebook is close to buying user-generated mapping company Waze for about $1 billion. This news has many people scratching their heads, wondering what Facebook is thinking.

Lately, Facebook has been making a lot of defensive moves. The social network which once wowed us with product launches like Timeline and News Feed now seems to be scared of fast-growing startups, and it's losing focus.

By Young Research:Has he gone mad? Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's (FB) CEO announced this week that his social networking company is buying Instagram. Facebook is paying $1 billion-a 100% premium to the company's valuation only one week ago. Instagram is the creator of the identically named photo sharing / editing app for Apple and Android mobile devices.

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Facebook outdid Wall Street pessimists with better-than-expected fourth -quarter earnings of $64 million on revenues of $1.6 billion, as the social network’s mobile revenues doubled and the number of mobile users exceeded PC-based ones.