| How Facebook Has Changed Since Going Public 1 Year Ago | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:50 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| "Facebook was not originally created to be a company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012.
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| Giant Stop Sign Is Laser-Projected Onto a Sheet of Water | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:37 PM | Charlie White |
| Imagine you're a truck driver. You're coming up to a tunnel that might be too low for your truck to fit under, but you're not sure. Suddenly, a gigantic red stop sign appears to obstruct the road in front of the tunnel entrance, giving you no doubt. Stop! You're not going to overlook that explicit warning.
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| Top 10 Tech This Week | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:27 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| It was a big week in tech, the week of Google I/O. But apart from the annual Google geekfest that its developers conference is, there was much more. We were in San Francisco to cover Google I/O, but we also kept an eye on the rest of the world of tech for Top 10 Tech This Week. The biggest story of the week — which in turn contained countless big stories — was Google I/O, the company's developers conference.
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| AOL, Yahoo Were Better Investments This Year Than Facebook Stock | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:07 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Ah, the benefit of hindsight. Those who rushed to buy Facebook stock at its initial public offering price of $38 per share on May 18, 2012, are likely a little disappointed with their investment one year later. Though the stock has recovered from its $17.55 September 4 low, the price of the stock today, at a little more than $26 per share, is still closer to its all-time low than its opening price.
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| 6 Apps You Don't Want To Miss | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:51 PM | Emily Price |
| It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week Google launched its own streaming music service, and another music service got a new mode designed specifically to be used while driving.
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| Controversial Video Campaign Sparks Conversation and Other Top Comments | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:30 PM | Jessica Fee |
| There are two sides to every story, even a viral video. In the top comments above, we've highlighted our readers' reactions to the contentious campaign against Abercrombie and Fitch. After the company's CEO Mike Jeffries publicly stated that he "doesn't want larger people shopping in his store," Greg Karber created a video in which he gives the company's branded clothing to homeless people for free.
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| 'Anchorman 2' Trailer Assembles the News Team Once Again | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:05 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| The obscure members of the Channel 4 News Team have assembled in the first trailer for Anchorman 2, the sequel to 2004's popular comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Dubbed Anchorman: The Legend Continues, the flick hits theaters Dec. 20.
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| 8 Freaky Animals With Human Parts | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 3:42 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Many animals are so in tune with the human species, that it might freak you out. Dogs can sense danger or sadness. Monkeys can use iPads. Honey badgers are all, "IDGAF," and eating pistachios. SEE ALSO: 20 Animals So Ugly They're Cute If you think that's crazy, you haven't seen the worst of it. We took these animals to a whole new level of anthropomorphism, thanks to the power of Photoshop.
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| Indiana Jones' Final Test for the Holy Grail | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 3:32 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| In the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the title hero sets out to find the Holy Grail with only a diary and a map without any labels — and he has to find the grail before anyone else does. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Josh Mecouch of Formal Sweatpants shows us that there was an even more difficult final task than the one we saw in the film — and it's one that we non-adventurers often fail.
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| Watch the 6-Second 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Homemade Vine Trailer | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 3:04 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Low-budget recreations of movie trailers are nothing new. We've seen plenty on YouTube, but one Star Trek Into Darkness fan this week leveraged Twitter's six-second video service, Vine, in a crafty way to imitate the new film's trailer. Frank Danna of Texas spent three hours storyboarding scenes, cutting craft paper and filming his stop-motion Vine trailer, he told Mashable.
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| Going Public Made Facebook a Much Better Company | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 2:40 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| It's easy to forget how sky-high expectations were for the Facebook IPO. The day before the company went public, some investors reasonably assumed that by the close of the market, Facebook would be worth $140 billion since the average first-day pop for tech companies was 32%.
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| How Klingon Became a Universal Language | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 2:03 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| When Marc Okrand graduated with a degree in linguistics decades ago, he never suspected he would create a language of his own: Klingon.
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| Is DirecTV Buying Hulu Soon? | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 1:48 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Satellite TV provider DirecTV reportedly is considering buying streaming video service Hulu, which would strip away some or all ownership from Comcast Corporation, News Corporation and Walt Disney Company. A similar scenario took place two years ago when DirecTV initially wanted to own Hulu. Mashable has reached out to DirecTV. Hulu declined to comment.
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| Stop-Motion Video Takes You on a Stunning 360-Degree Tour | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 1:27 PM | Charlie White |
| Sit back for a couple of minutes and take an exhilarating journey through Peru and Bolivia in this beautiful stop-motion video by Polish artist Piotr Wancerz of Timelapse Media. It's an elaborate composite of 12,000 photos and video frames, shot over a three-week period during Piotr's first trip to South America.
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| 5 Things We'd Change About Facebook Mobile | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:09 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| At the beginning of this year, Facebook overtook Google Maps as the most-used mobile app in the U.S. The social network giant also recently introduced a controversial new mobile interface, Facebook Home. Earlier this week, Home hit 1 million downloads. Love it or hate it (or both), Facebook is a cornerstone of the mobile experience. But being in the spotlight means taking your share of criticism.
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| Kanye West Debuts 'New Slaves' in Videos Projected on 66 Buildings | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:10 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Rapper Kanye West is always eager to grab attention in the most elaborate way possible. Now he's debuting a new song in the form of videos simultaneously displayed on the exterior walls of more than five dozen buildings — just in time for his May 18 performance gig on Saturday Night Live.
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| Growth Hacker: A Buzzword Surrounded by Buzzwords | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:59 AM | Lauren Hockenson |
| College grads and career-changers, be warned. When you search around for a job at your favorite startup (perhaps even on Mashable’s job board?), you’ll start seeing the buzziest of job descriptions: “Growth Hacker.” The name sounds simple enough, but it’s easy to be confused about what a growth hacker is meant to do around the office, and how it differs from other, more traditional positions.
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| 15 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:32 AM | Elisha Hartwig |
| It has been another busy week as summer approaches, and everyone gets restless for the warm weather. If you've been too preoccupied soaking up some rays to check out the news, don't worry — we've got you covered. We at Mashable have rounded up the most important updates in tech and social media to keep you informed.
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| Why Can't Millennials Find Jobs? | | Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:11 AM | Dani Fankhauser |
| Your inability to land a job might be blamed on the economy, your chosen college major or just the fact that you're not a code-happy engineer. For many, it's less about finding a job and more about finding a good job. Those are the underemployed in the Millennial generation who don't show up in unemployment reports.
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