Social Stocks In News: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA)

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance practices on Thursday, saying he’d personally called President Barack Obama to voice his displeasure. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock performance was -2.89% in last session and finished the day at $68.83. Traded volume was 56,886,692 million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 64.19 million shares. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) insider ownership is 0.60%.

Earlier this week Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) hired former YouTube executive Baljeet Singh as a product director of its revenue organization. One of his roles, unsurprisingly, is to help push new video ads, according to The Verge. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) dropped -1.71 percent to $53.57 yesterday on volume of 7.67 million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $53.20 to $55.45. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has a market capitalization of $ 31.52 billion.

Yahoo! Inc. (NYSE:YELP) has announced its partnership with Yelp, Inc to enhance its local search results and attract more users. Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP)’s stock on Mar 13, 2014 reported a decrease of -5.84% to the closing price of $87.37. Its fifty two weeks range is $22.48 -$101.75. The total market capitalization recorded $6.19 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 5,385,150 million shares. In its share capital, Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP) has 65.53 million outstanding shares.

Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) is one of the many companies struggling in its attempt to make its games popular on phones as they are online, according to Reuters. On Thursday, shares of Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) dropped -4.66% to close the day at $5.52. Company return on investment (ROI) is -2.00% and its monthly performance is recorded as 19.22%. Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) quarterly revenue growth is 33.66%.