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

Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg sold 283,334 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $71.69, for a total transaction of $20,312,214.46. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock performance was 1.11% in last session and finished the day at $70.88. Traded volume was 46,303,440 million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 64.96 million shares. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) insider ownership is 0.60%.

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has hired former YouTube executive Baljeet Singh as a product director in its revenue organization, with one of his roles including helping the company push new video ads, according to The Verge. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) rose 0.89 percent to $54.50 yesterday on volume of 5.84 million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $53.88 to $55.30. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has a market capitalization of $32.07 million.

Yelp Inc. (NYSE:YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced the availability of Yelp Mexico (http://www.yelp.com.mx). Beginning today, people throughout Mexico are able to create accounts on Yelp.com.mx to share their opinions about great local businesses. Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP)’s stock on Mar 12, 2014 reported a increase of 3.10% to the closing price of $92.79. Its fifty two weeks range is $22.48 -$101.75. The total market capitalization recorded $ 6.58 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 3,066,273 million shares. In its share capital, Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP) has 65.53 million outstanding shares.

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Renren Inc (NYSE:RENN) as a “dead cat bounce” (down big yesterday but up big today) candidate. On Wednesday, shares of Renren Inc (NYSE:RENN) advanced 5.77% to close the day at $4.03. Company return on investment (ROI) is -8.40% and its monthly performance is recorded as 18.53%. Renren Inc (NYSE:RENN) quarterly revenue growth is 40.42%.