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托福阅读时事：Facebook艰难中前进 小马过河为大家准备了“托福阅读时事：Facebook艰难中前进”， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 　　Business. 　　商业。 　　Facebook 　　Facebook 　　Work in progress 　　逆流中前行 　　The stockmarket has lost no time in unfriending the social network 　　证券市场正加紧同社交网络解除好友关系 　　IT IS still gaining members-there were 955m by the end of June-but Facebook has been losing friends ever since it became a public company on May 18th. Delays in trading on the frenzied opening day were scarcely the social-networking companys fault. But not since that first day has the share price closed above its bloated debut mark of $38; and recently it has lurched lower. It dropped by 8% after hours on July 25th when Zynga, a games company that uses Facebook as a base, reported poor quarterly results, and by another 10% after Facebooks own figures came out the next day. It has fallen further since. On August 1st Facebooks shares closed at $20.88, the lowest yet (see chart). 　　虽然新用户仍在不断增加——到六月底这个数字已经达到9.55亿之多——但自从5月18日上市以来，Facebook的支持者却在流失。疯狂的上市首日发生的交易延迟的确不应归咎于这家社交网络公司。但是自从发行价虚开38美元之后，它的股价就再没有高过这个数字;最近更是屡创新低。7月25日开盘数小时之后，基于Facebook平台的游戏公司Zynga公布了其糟糕的季度业绩，Facebook的股价下跌8%。而第二天，Facebook自己的数据公开之后，股价更是再跌10%。从此就一蹶不振了。8月1日，Facebook的股价收盘于20.88美元，上市以来的新低(见表)。 　　New shareholders are not the only ones feeling fed up. On July 30th Limited Run, a New York platform for the online shops of record labels, artists and designers, said it would delete its Facebook page. It estimated that 80% of clicks came from bots-computers rather than people, but triggering payments to Facebook all the same. Limited Run added that after it changed its name (from Limited Pressing) Facebook asked it to spend $2,000 a month on advertising to change the name of its page on the network to match. Calling Facebook scumbags, it invited its human visitors to follow it on Twitter instead. Facebook says it is investigating, and that there seems to be some sort of miscommunication about the change of page name, for which it does not charge. 　　并不是只有新股东