Chunk of Facebook profit tied to game company Zynga
By ALEX PHAM Los Angeles Times
Facebook Inc., whose initial public offering is slated to be one of the biggest debuts in U.S. stock market history, has disclosed its heavy reliance on a single customer - Zynga Inc.
Facebook files for initial public stock offering
By NATHANIEL POPPER AND JESSICA GUYNN Los Angeles Times
Facebook has filed papers for what's expected to be the largest initial public offering ever to come out of Silicon Valley and one of the largest in U.S. history.
Facebook files for initial public stock offering
By NATHANIEL POPPER AND JESSICA GUYNN Los Angeles Times
Facebook has filed papers for what's expected to be the largest initial public offering ever to come out of Silicon Valley and one of the largest in U.S. history.
Facebook files long-awaited IPO, seeks at least $5 billion
By BRANDON BAILEY AND TROY WOLVERTON San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a milestone for one of Silicon Valley's hottest companies, Facebook on Wednesday filed papers announcing a $5 billion initial public offering of stock in the world's biggest social networking business.
Facebook files for $5 billion IPO
By JESSICA GUYNN Los Angeles Times
Facebook Inc. has filed papers for what's expected to be the largest initial public offering ever to come out of Silicon Valley and one of the largest in U.S. history.
Party books: New additions to your entertaining library
By KIM OSSI McClatchy-Tribune
DIY parties, where guests personalize and assemble their food with various toppings, are a popular get-together idea. And it's pretty easy on the host, too. Sure, to make personalized pizzas, you have to buy all the ingredients, chop veggies, cook meat ahead of time and put it all out in pretty bowls. But imagine how impressed your guests will be when you tell them you made the dough for those personal pizzas they're putting together? Why bother with making the dough yourself? Because surprise! it's one of the easiest parts of the party prep and then you get to control the ingredients for your entire meal.
The Romance Reader: 'The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae'
By LEZLIE PATTERSON McClatchy-Tribune News Service
"The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae" by Stephanie Laurens; Avon ($7.99, paperback)
He went to film school, wound up with book
By CHRIS ERSKINE Los Angeles Times
"Film School" by Steve Boman; BenBella Books ($16.95, paperback)
Friendship between gay and straight in 'Jack Holmes'
By MICHAEL UPCHURCH The Seattle Times
"Jack Holmes & His Friend" by Edmund White; Bloomsbury ($25)
Online magazine embraces snail mail
By CAROLYN KELLOGG Los Angeles Times
Fans of the online literary magazine the Rumpus recently opened their mailboxes to find a missive from its founder, Stephen Elliott.
German author's collection racked with 'Guilt,' keen observation
By JIM HIGGINS Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Guilt: Stories" by Ferdinand von Schirach; Knopf ($24)
'Rough-Hewn Land': Genealogy of the West's landscape
By BETTINA BOXALL Los Angeles Times
"Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey From California to the Rocky Mountains" by Keith Heyer Meldahl; University of California Press ($34.95)
'A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty': Trouble finds the Slocumb women again
By HANNAH SAMPSON McClatchy Newspapers
"A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty" by Joshilyn Jackson; Grand Central ($24.99)
Two approaches to book criticism
By DAVID L. ULIN Los Angeles Times
Partway through "Higher Gossip," the seventh and final collection of reviews and occasional pieces by the late John Updike, I began to understand the problem I've always had with the author's work. It's pleasant enough - congenial, intelligent, fluidly written - but only rarely is it great. As to why this is, "Higher Gossip" offers an unintended answer by revealing not so much the range of Updike's interests as the chatty conventionality of his ideas.
'Chopsticks' is 21st-century novel
By SUSAN CARPENTER Los Angeles Times
"Chopsticks" by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral; Razorbill ($19.99, ages 12 and older)
