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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -05/21/12)- Facebook's IPO has brought a lot of attention to social media stocks in recent weeks. With Facebook's IPO being reported as oversubscribed some investors have been hoping to profit from other already-public social media stocks. "I do sense some 'temporary' momentum for these related social media stocks," stated Arvind Bhatia, financial analyst covering Facebook for Sterne Agee. Five Star Equities examines the outlook for companies in the Social Media Sector and provides equity research on Linkedin Corporation (LNKD) and Pandora Media Inc. (P). Access to the full company reports can be found at:

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Social media stocks, which had benefited recently from the interest in Facebook's IPO, suffered on Friday as the Facebook IPO had a rockier start than expected. Investors who are interested in a piece of Facebook may also take a hard look at companies who have the potential to be acquired by the social media giant. "LinkedIn, Zynga, Pandora, Yelp ... these are all potential acquisition bait for Facebook," Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson said. "If Facebook is going to trade at a premium -- like $150 billion to $200 billion, why not buy the fish and the bait, too?"

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LinkedIn is a professional network on the Internet with more than 90 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The company reported revenue of $188.5 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012, an increase of 101% compared to the first quarter of 2011, and the 7th straight quarter of greater than 100% year-over-year growth.

Pandora Media is an Internet radio in the United States. As of January 31, 2012, it had over 125 million registered users. The Music Genome Project and its playlist generating algorithms predict listener music preferences, play music content suited to the tastes of each individual listener and introduce listeners to music they will love

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A plunge in Facebook's stock didn't faze the broader U.S. market Monday. U.S. stocks bounced back from their worst week of the year on renewed optimism that European leaders would find a way out of the sovereign debt crisis.

The Dow posted its biggest gain in over a month, while the S&P 500 delivered its best performance in over two months. The tech-heavy Nasdaq enjoyed its best gains of the year.

"I think it's just more of a relief rally after being down so many sessions in a row," said Dave Rovelli, managing director at Canaccord Adams. "People are looking for stocks that have sold off a bit."

Over the weekend, the Group of Eight nations met and reaffirmed their commitment to keeping Greece in the eurozone. And two opinion polls released in Greece reportedly put the pro-bailout New Democracy party ahead of the anti-austerity Syriza party.

The combination of the G8 and the poll results was enough to boost sentiment across world markets, with European and Asian stocks eking out gains and the euro holding steady at around $1.28 against the U.S. dollar.

Paul Zemsky, head of asset strategies for ING Investment Management, said the rally was the result of "a smidgen of good news in an oversold market."

"You had a tremendous amount of pessimism, but nothing bad came out of Greece this weekend," he said. "There's some optimism that perhaps the Greek people are realizing how damaging it would be for them to leave [the eurozone]."

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) rose 135 points, or 1.1%. Blue chips, including Caterpillar (CAT, Fortune 500), Boeing (BA, Fortune 500) and IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) led the gains.

The S&P 500 (SPX) gained 21 points, or 1.6%, and the Nasdaq (COMP) rose 68 points, or 2.5%.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The American special effects company that brought the "Transformers" movies to life and recently wowed concertgoers with a performing hologram of late rapper Tupac Shakur is setting up a studio in oil-rich Abu Dhabi.

The deal signed Monday between Digital Domain Media Group and Abu Dhabi's government-backed twofour54 deepens the Emirati capital's ties to Hollywood as it accelerates its efforts to become a media hub.

Port St. Lucie, Fla.-based Digital Domain plans to establish an animation, visual effects and motion-capture studio and a media school in Abu Dhabi as part of the deal. The wealthy emirate is providing $100 million in grants for the project.

Although several movies have been filmed in the Middle East including last year's "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol," set partly in Dubai it is the first time an international studio is laying down such deep roots in the region, said Wayne Borg, twofour54's deputy CEO and chief operating officer.

"I think it's a real game changer for the region in terms of giving us a seat at the table," he said by phone from the Cannes Film Festival, where the deal was signed. "Historically we've never had the access and exposure to a company like that in the region."

Digital Domain expects to begin hiring immediately and start work at the studio by early next year. The aim is to produce animated feature films, visual effects and other content both for the region and for international productions.

Over time, it plans to employ about 500 people in Abu Dhabi. A 150,000 square foot (14,000 square meter) production center is slated to open in twofour54's main media campus by the end of 2015.

Borg doubts Abu Dhabi's conservative Islamic culture will influence Digital Domain's work in the region, saying the U.S. company will be producing "mainstream content ... for the international market."

Neither company disclosed how much Digital Domain is kicking in. But Digital Domain Chairman and CEO John Textor said in an interview his company would make "a material capital expenditure" to the project.

"Travelling around the world and collecting grants is not a business model," he said. "We're not going to Abu Dhabi just to say we've got our toe in the water," he added, saying the planned Gulf center could end up employing roughly as many people as its Florida headquarters.

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Digital Domain, the award-winning visual effects company behind the blockbuster Transformers films and Tron: Legacy, is expanding into the Middle East with plans to open a 150,000-square-foot production studio in Abu Dhabi in 2015.

Parent company Digital Domain Media Group, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., said Sunday night that it was partnering with Abu Dhabi government-backed media and entertainment company twofour54 to build a studio that would create English- and Arabic-language animated movies targeted at Middle Eastern audiences, as well as produce visual and 3-D effects. The project also would include a media school run by Digital Domain, similar to one it operates in West Palm Beach, Fla.

The studio will employ more than 500 people and cost more than $50 million to build. The government of Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, will partly subsidize the project. The investment is part of an effort by Abu Dhabi to further bolster its goal of becoming the entertainment hub of the Middle East. Game publisher Ubisoft, Fox International Channels and the Cartoon Network already have offices in Abu Dhabi.

Using money from the oil boom, Abu Dhabi and its smaller neighbor Dubai have in recent years made deals with such Hollywood studios as DreamWorks Animation, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to build theaters, theme parks and other facilities as well as to finance movies.

The latest deal comes as California visual effects companies have been expanding abroad to tap low-cost labor and attractive film tax credits to produce effects more cheaply. Abu Dhabi announced over the weekend that it would begin offering a 30% rebate toward qualified production costs. Since its founding in Venice in 1993 by director James Cameron and other partners, Digital Domain has opened offices in Florida; London; Vancouver, Canada; and Mumbai, India. The effects company also is teaming up with Chinese production outfit Beijing Galloping Horse Film Co. to form a 3-D production studio in China.

There is tremendous opportunity to produce original entertainment content for Middle Eastern audiences worldwide, and to bring the Hollywood work and our own original productions here as well, said Digital Domain Chief Executive John Textor. Pairing the school and the studio enables us to help the Emirate to build a sustainable creative industries base.

Wayne Borg, chief operating officer of twofour54, called the project a significant event in the evolution of the media industry in the Middle East, noting it will enable young Arabs to develop skills and careers in an area of the media industry that has simply never existed in the region before.

Digital Domain also is producing its own movies, including next years live-action release Enders Game, a sci-fi feature starring Harrison Ford, and an animated movie called The Legend of Tembo.

But the company, in which Cameron no longer holds a stake, has struggled financially. It posted a loss of $14.8 million in the first quarter, compared with a loss of $39.1 million a year earlier, while revenue in the quarter dropped 19% to $31 million. Executives cited higher costs from opening a new animation facility in Florida this year and having fewer major film projects.

Textor recently created a stir over remarks he made about the companys new animation and digital arts institute, an unusual public-private partnership with Florida State University. The project has caused an uproar among visual effects artists in Hollywood, who fear it will encourage students to work for free at Digital Domain's planned visual effects studio in West Palm Beach.

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