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2012
year mood +0.18 · +0.00 to +0.20 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1 +1 bullish
-0.25 -0.12 0 +0.12 +0.25 Jan +0.20 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
month values ▾
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
+0.20+0.20+0.20+0.20+0.00+0.20+0.20+0.20+0.20+0.10+0.20+0.20

Social and mobile advertising took off, marked by Facebook's IPO, and central-bank backstops lifted risk appetite. Steady positive.

How this mood is scored ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why? The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked. This year is read live from the news the pipeline actually collected (hover a bar for its story count). · last computed Jul 11, 2026
Top communication stories of 2012
May
Facebook goes public at $38 a share in $104 billion IPO marred by Nasdaq glitches csmonitor.com →

Facebook priced its IPO at $38 per share, valuing the social network at about $104 billion and raising roughly $16 billion, the largest US tech IPO to that date. Trading on May 18, 2012 was delayed by Nasdaq technical failures and the stock closed at $38.23, then fell sharply over the following weeks.

Oct
SoftBank agrees to buy 70% of Sprint for $20.1 billion washingtontimes.com →

Japan's SoftBank agreed to acquire about 70% of Sprint Nextel for $20.1 billion, paying $12.1 billion to shareholders and injecting $8 billion of new capital. The deal, the largest overseas acquisition by a Japanese company at the time, aimed to strengthen the No. 3 US wireless carrier against larger rivals.