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		<title>Facebook stock at half-off, drops below $20 a share</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Om Malik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to life as a public company: Facebook stock has dropped to around $20 a share, almost half its IPO price. It's a rough time out there for social-networking stocks, including game maker Zynga, but Facebook's slide is eye-popping. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=14960843&#038;post=549492&#038;subd=gigaom2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Facebook stock has dropped to around $20 a share, almost half its IPO price. The social networking company has seen its valuation tumble to around $38 billion (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FB">according to Yahoo Finance</a>). The stock market has soured on social networking stocks including Zynga which now trades for $2.71 a share and has a market capitalization of $2.08 billion. </p>
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