- The Moral of Facebook's IPO
After four whole trading sessions, the Facebook post mortems are in full swing—yet all I’ve seen have missed the key point. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Countdown Begins: Sheryl Sandberg Will Likely Be A Billionaire Before Year End
Amid the feeding frenzy of its initial public offering, Facebook will likely be creating its first female billionaire: Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- No Longer The Envy Of Wall Street: Morgan Stanley's Facebook Problem
An IPO that should have made Morgan Stanley the envy of all its Wall Street competitors is turning into a bit of a mess. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Taking stock after the Facebook IPO | Mike Daisey
As Facebook's public offering fizzled, so did the media's 'finance porn' hype. And perhaps a sense of just proportion was restoredOn Friday morning, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, CEO, and majority shareholder, rang the Nasdaq opening bell and made history with one of the largest IPOs in years. It was exactly the kind of mania that made the dotcom era a profoundly silly time – irrational exuberance all the way to the bank in an era that became known more for the greed, ridiculousness, and excess than it did from the occasionally groundbreaking work that was changing how people did business at the dawn of the modern internet era.Except, on Friday, the mania didn't show up on schedule.After weeks of breathless anticipation, the Facebook IPO fizzled, with institutions having to step in and buy shares to keep the stock from slipping below the strike price of $38. This shocking and heartbreaking development will now be accompanied by the sound of a thousand fingers clattering over keys, as pundits and analysts everywhere tweet and blog and chatter over what went wrong.But this supposes something has actually gone wrong. Let us remember, first, that Facebook the company had this IPO in order to go public with its stock, and raised more than $16bn for its troubles. So, they aren't unhappy: that's what they were expecting, and that's what they got. Before IPOs became carnivals of capitalism, that was actually the point.Zuckerberg and the other Facebook pre-IPO shareholders aren't unhappy this weekend – they're rich. Yes, some of them could be wishing that they were almost incalculably rich instead of merely being the more prosaic filthy rich, but if you catch one of them at a fake German beerhall in Palo Alto bitching about this, you should punch them immediately – the wa null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship?
A Facebook billionaire has sparked interest in 'expatriating' to skirt big tax bills. Here's what you need to know. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Day after IPO, Facebook's Zuckerberg weds
A day after the historic Facebook stock offering, Mark Zuckerberg wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nearly a decade. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- What Was The Biggest News You Missed While Watching The Facebook IPO?
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- Does GM Have a Point About Facebook? Yes, Rivals Concede
Executives with other automotive brands say they wouldn't have completely departed Facebook advertising as General Motors did this week. But some also concede that GM had a point in its decision to stop buying ads on the ubiquitous social-networking site, for a variety of reasons. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook's Busted IPO Sends a Message to Wall Street
Facebeook (FB) went public today and despite the most torrid hype in IPO history failed to rise above its offering price. Is that a sign that the IPO was priced just right or that without panic buying from its underwriters, it would have ended the day below its offering price? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Mobile key for Zuckerberg ahead of Facebook IPO
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, whose limited role in promoting the No 1 social network's market debut has drawn criticism, emerged from the wings on Friday to lay out the firm's growth strategy.
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- Facebook's Eduardo Saverin To Host America's Next Top Tax Lawyer
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's wealth and expatriation make him an ideal candidate to host a new reality show: America’s Next Top Tax Lawyer. Sure, there are lawyer shows, but not about tax lawyers. They tried a show about Mitch McDeere of John Grisham's The Firm--remember Tom Cruise in the movie? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- How Low Can Facebook Stock Go? And What Route Will It Take to Get There?
Facebook ended Tuesday, its third day of trading at $31 per share -- $7 less than where it launched on Friday. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook IPO: the data behind our animation
Facebook is about to hit the stock exchange - valued today at anywhere between $93 and $104bn. But just how big is it and how has it grown so massive? This video by our animator Mariana Santos, shows you exactly how the Facebook became the world's biggest social network. This is the script and data behind that animation• Animation• Get the data• Data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianFacebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected Mark Zuckerberg, SEC filingGot a spare $96 billion? Facebook is about to hit the stock exchange.That $96bn is almost three times the GDP of Kenya. Facebook is huge. It had 901 million monthly active users at the end of March 2012. That's nearly three times the population of the United States.At the end of 2004, Facebook had a million users, all in US colleges. That audience has grown 900-fold and the site is now available to anyone over 12, in almost every country, in 70 languages.Over half of the US population is on Facebook. One in three of the two billion people online in the world are on Facebook. And those users are pretty active: they account for 1 in every 7 minutes spent online around the world.Facebook's users spent an average of 8.3 hours on the network per month, per person. Or 23 minutes per day.There are on average 3.74 degrees of separation, or steps, between any one Facebook user and another - down from 4.28 in 2008. Which - translated - means we're making more connections there.So, how much data is that? Facebook stores more than 100 petabytes of your photos and videos. That's 100,000 times the size of the Library of CongressOr the equivalent memory of 1.6 million top-of-the-range iPads. Stack those up and they would r null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook falls flat in market debut
Facebook shares stumbled yesterday, managing a gain of less than one percent in the first day. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Mark Zuckerberg: The Power of the Hoodie
Facebook?s Mark Zuckerberg got a lot of flack from investors because he wore a hoodie on the roadshow. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- For GM, Chrysler Set The Super Bowl Bar Too High
First, General Motors decided to pull $10 million in Facebook ads. Now, GM has decided not to advertise on the 2013 Super Bowl telecast. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Ford Thinks It Has Better Idea About How to Handle Facebook
Ford executives noted the abrupt abandonment of Facebook advertising by their cross-town rivals at General Motors and reiterated that they're approaching social-media marketing differently. They also offered very thinly veiled criticism of GM's move. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- A Primer on How to Create A Sound Social Media Policy
For all the cynicism about Facebook and Twitter in the workplace, social media can be vital to conducting business. For example, take insurance companies. Insurance agents are distributed across geographic areas and create networks to which to market company products. Social media sites can enhance how agents build their networks and grow sales – there is tangible business value there. At the same time, the insurance industry is highly regulated. It is critical they be very careful of how employees communicate in the social realm and how such communications are monitored, managed, and archived. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- How Wall Street Is Profiting From The Facebook IPO
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- Gaming: A Boon or Bane for Facebook?
Gaming is a huge revenue generator for Facebook. However, what investors would do well to ponder is how big a profit generator it has been, and, more importantly, will this profit stream continue to flow in the future? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Why GM May Regret Dumping Facebook Ads
General Motors clearly had its reasons for dropping its Facebook ads. Chief among them is the assumption that they don't work--and clearly for GM, they didn't. But a number of observers now are wondering if the automaker was short-sighted, was negotiating in public to get better terms from Facebook or even to boost the CMO's influence within GM, or simply didn't conduct its Facebook ad campaigns very well. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook IPO Gets Chilly Greeting on a Cool Morning
Inside the Facebook campus, employees gathered in Hacker Square after spending the night coding as part of an all-night Hackathon — dubbed Hackathon 31 — that started at 7 p.m. yesterday. Outside, a few dozen reporters, some of whom began arriving at 4 a.m. California time, camped out in the parking lot surrounding Facebook's 1-million-square-foot, 11 building campus in Menlo Park, California. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook IPO Investors Can Blame The Government For Missing Out On Big Gains
Investor protection sounds good. But the government's effort to protect individual investors has resulted in an uneven playing field. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Flop Continues, What Comes Next? (VIDEO)
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- Facebook: Going From Fees To Headaches And Potential Liabilities
Is it possible that instead of making tens of millions in fees from the Facebook IPO, that banks face billions in liabilities from the deal? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook: Facing the Facts
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- Zynga's Facebook Games Continue to Shed Players by the Millions
It's been a rough week for both Zynga and Facebook in the stock market, as both have seen significant drops since the latter's IPO, but perhaps investors are taking a look at some disheartening numbers pertaining to the pair's games. If they're not, they should be. It's no secret that many null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Best China Play: Apple, Google Or Facebook?
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- It's Official! Facebook Raises $16 Billion in Historic IPO
It may be no surprise, but Facebook just announced it will indeed go public at $38 a share, raising $16 billion in an initial public offering that values the No. 1 social network at $104 billion. That's the highest ever for a U.S. company, at least at the time of its offering, and easily the highest for a technology company. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Failure of Facebook's IPO
It might sound a little strange claiming that a company which has just launched a huge IPO has in some way failed. Yet looking around at the the weekend's details of Facebook's float on Friday it's difficult not to come away with the feeling that something has gone wrong. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- You're A Zucker If You Bought Facebook
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- Facebook Shares Finally Climbing After Two-Day Free Fall
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- How I (Almost) Won The Office Facebook Betting Pool
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- Who Got Rich This Week: A New Facebook Friend, Another Tech Founder From Cambridge And More
Jeff Rothschild landed at Facebook via venture capital firm Accel Partners.Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. With the S&P 500 down more than 4% week over week and U.S. equities poised for their worst five day performance of 2012, finding winners amongst the wreckage unrelated to the Facebook IPO was particularly challenging this go around. But even as this dismal spring wears on, a few fortunate insiders managed to post gains. Here, some of the week’s big gainers: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Justin Bieber On Becoming A Venture Capitalist And Giving Back
Justin Bieber boasts 21 million Twitter followers, 43 million Facebook fans and a whopping 2.4 billion impressions on his VEVO channel--assuming three minutes per song, that's about enough to provide one minute of video to every person on the planet. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- GM Drops Another Advertising Bombshell -- On the Super Bowl
Just a few days after General Motors upset the Facebook IPO apple cart, the world's largest automaker dropped another bombshell on the sensibilities of the marketing world: CMO Joel Ewanick revealed that he's planning to take GM advertisements out of the Super Bowl and won't advertise in the next one, on CBS on February 3. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook's Flawed IPO Strategy
Last Thursday, Facebook executed the world largest IPO in history based on value. Valued at over $100B, the investment bankers like Morgan Stanley and Facebook should be congratulated and giving each other high-fives, right? It really depends on how you look at it. Many people are getting rich, but given most of the people who matter going forward view it as a total failure, this could be one of the biggest tech IPO strategy blunders ever. Facebook's IPO strategy was inherently flawed as it didn't incorporate the long-term impact of a fizzle with important, future constituents on opening day. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Facebook IPO - Seven Reasons Why It's More Important Than All Other Tech IPOs ... Ever
Let's get this straight: I don't care what Mark Zuckerberg's paper wealth will be when Facebook goes public later this week. I don't care all that much about the inside baseball Wall Street wrangling over the banking fees. And I certainly don't care about the hoodie. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Billionaire Zuckerberg's Bride Wore A $4,700 Wedding Gown
Mark Zuckerberg's bride Priscilla Chan could have easily chosen to wear a wedding gown in the tens of thousands of dollars. Instead, she opted for a modest number from a relatively unknown designer named Claire Pettibone. With a $4700 price tag, it's loose change for the Facebook founder. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- What A Whale I've Been, I Should Fire Myself And Invest In Facebook And Jamie D.
My retirement portfolio is down 2.85% from its recent high. The allocation of 55% domestic stocks (10% Fidelity Contrafund, 7% T Rowe Price Equity Income, 7% Fidelity Extended Market Index and a handful of Fidelity Select Funds), 7% foreign stocks, 6% bonds and 30% Fidelity Cash Reserves is down less than the 4.65% decline in the S&P 500 index since its high on April 2. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook vs. LinkedIn - What's the Difference?
Now that Facebook is a public company, it?s very natural to compare Facebook to other social networking companies like LinkedIn. While they both appear tobe similar businesses, in reality they are very different. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Friday's Most Suprising Stock? Not Facebook, But The Brown Shoe Co.
One stock yesterday refused to be trodden down by investors running pell-mell from Wall Street. While most of the market slumped, the Brown Shoe Co. (BWS, $10.99) soared. It climbed 25% on surprising quarterly sales and upbeat guidance. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Why Facebook's Co-Founder Just Defriended America
One word: Taxes. More? Rates, complexity, worldwide reporting, and comprehensive--some say downright intrusive--disclosure. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Faceplants?
On Facebook?s third whole day as a publicly traded stock, those not rushing to coin the best zinger (?FADEBOOK? screamed Drudge on Monday) have myriad questions, like: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- THE BEAR'S LAIR : The looting of savers
Savers, for too long robbed by governments, should be allowed a risk-free interest rate above the rate of inflation and offered a real return without investing in the likes of Facebook. Such a change in monetary policy by debt-burdened authorities probably won't happen until inflation gets seriously out of hand. - Martin Hutchinson null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- As Facebook Debuts, Yahoo May Finally Have A Deal
Stop me if you think that you've heard this before. No, not Facebook's IPO (did you hear about that?). Yahoo is about to unveil a deal to unwind its stake in China's Alibaba. Yes, amid all the management churn and shareholding grumbles, Yahoo may have finally unlocked the value of its most valuable asset. Reports of such a deal have percolated for the past two years, with a flurry back in February when Alibaba Group opted to take private its Hong Kong-listed unit. At that time, speculation focused on a $17 billion, tax-friendly transaction in China and Japan. Now AllThingsD reports that the talk is of a two-stage sale of Yahoo's 40% stake in Alibaba, which runs China's largest online marketplace. The deal would leave for another time the disposal of Yahoo's Japanese unit, which is run by Softbank. Here's the scoop:
Yahoo will sell half of its roughly 40 percent stake in Alibaba in a taxable deal. The transaction is likely to value that portion of Yahoo’s holdings at about $7 billion — or 20 percent of Alibaba’s $35 billion enterprise valuation. Alibaba is in the midst of raising capital to fund the sale. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Taiwan president fined for Facebook campaigning
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou has been fined Tw$500,000 ($17,000) by electoral authorities for urging his Facebook followers on polling day to vote for him. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Justin Bieber's Manager: The Facebook Billionaire That Almost Was
Take a look at what Scooter Braun has accomplished in the past few years, and you’d think it would be just about impossible for the 30-year-old to have any major regrets in his young business career. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Sex Fiend Sentenced In Teenage Boys Friending Plot Also Tried To Kill His Wife
Terri Smith was an 18-year-old blonde female. To the apparent delight of a number of teenage boys on Facebook, Terri sent them sexually explicit photos of herself in exchange for pictures of the boys’ genitalia. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Former Greek PM Rattles Market, Facebook Falls Again And Moody's Raises Ford Rating
There was not a lot to be thrilled about Tuesday. Market gains evaporated in afternoon trading, after Greece's former prime minister told Dow Jones that the country's exit from the eurozone is not off the table and that it would have more severe affects than expected. _NULL_
- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg rings Nasdaq bell – video
The CEO and founder of Facebook rings the bell at the Nasdaq stock market on Friday, as shares in the social media giant go on sale
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- Facebook IPO Flop Or Not: Did You Close Your Facebook Account?
The Facebook IPO jury is still out and will be for a long time. Some are calling it the Facebook Flop. Others are saying it will take a while to climb, which is healthier for the company. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook and the Google IPO
The Google IPO. Remember? It was Hot, it was New, it was a Technology Disruptive to how people behave. The stock priced at $85, opened at $100, closed at $100.34, in August 2004. Google earned $2.07 in FY04 and $5.31 for FY05, such that the stock traded at 19x forward earnings, although the estimates were surely lower than that, on growth of over 100%. Google closed at $194 at year-end 2004 reaping the IPO investors a healthy gain. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The World's Two Youngest Billionaires Lose Combined $2.6 Billion In One Day
The Nasdaq was up more than 2% on Monday but Facebook, the high profile social networking site that began trading on its exchange on Friday, crashed and burned on its second trading day as a public company. That is not exactly news. Forbes has been covering the drop, and the reasons behind it, throughout the day. (See stories at left). null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Video: Facebook IPO underwhelms
The hype that led up to the Facebook IPO fizzled as the stock ended the trading day relatively flat. Elaine Quijano reports.
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- Sell Apple To Buy Facebook? Smart Idea
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- Weekly Market Wrap: 5/18/2012
This twentieth trading week of 2012 comes to a close with investors assessing the deteriorating situation in Greece and closely monitoring the IPO of Facebook (FB). _NULL_
- Entrepreneurs Are Drawn By Vision; Managers Are Driven By Process; Transforming Healthcare Will Require Both
This week?s much-anticipated Facebook IPO has stimulated a healthy national discussion about the nature of innovation and the role of entrepreneurship. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Spotting the Next Facebook: Why Emotions are Big Business
Today Facebook will sell shares in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up the stock to get a piece of the global phenomenon famously started in Mark Zuckerberg?s dorm room in 2004. But while owning the stock will have quantifiable value when it trades on the open market, few buyers will be able to say truthfully that they understood the value of the company just a few years ago. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- A Plaintiffs' Bar Welcome for Facebook to the Public Company Market
Welcome to the complicated world of public stock trading; now give us our clients $15 billion. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook-style volatility ho-hum to Nobel laureate
What are ordinary investors to make of the swings in Facebook's first-day share price on Friday? Or of the fact that this company, all of eight years old, is now valued at more than US$104 billion on the stock market? Some perspective can be provided by Harry Markowitz, who may have had a greater influence on current theories of finance and investing than any other living person.
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- Facebook's Crucial Challenge: Closing the Back Door
When Facebook goes public tomorrow at the highest value ever given to an American IPO, it will catapult the social media juggernaut into the ranks of the most highly capitalized digital companies. But if Facebook - the most important social venture in the marketplace today - wants to build permanence in the cultural firmament, it needs to follow the lead of its older brethren, like Apple, Google and Amazon. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Truth About What Facebook Is Really Worth
When the fiasco over Facebook’s bungled public offering finally subsides, one very hard question will remain: What are the shares of this company actually worth? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook's Ad Agency, The New Mad Men
Who bought those $3.2 billion worth of ads on Facebook in 2011? One of Facebook’s advertising agencies identified hundreds of companies. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- From Sizzle to Fizzle: Facebook Disappoints New Owners
Who is celebrating the Facebook IPO? All those who were sellers! null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Warning: Stay Away from the Facebook IPO
Without a doubt, Facebook's IPO is going to be a smash hit. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Best Cities For Tech Jobs
With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without question, the west side of San Francisco Bay is by far the most prodigious creator of hot companies and has the highest proportion of tech jobs of any region in the country -- more than four times the national average. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Forget Facebook Here Are 7 Tech Stocks Value Investors Should Love
Facebook's initial public offering is clear evidence that investors still have a respect for fundamental valuations. The stock was priced at 100 times trailing earnings, the kind of multiple that we make even momentum fans choke. Today, if anyone is choking on Facebook stock it is Morgan Stanley as it was forced to buy up shares at the offering to prop up Facebook's stock. Expect there to be downward pressure on FB. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook IPO Fails To Boost Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley was the coveted lead underwriter on the highly anticipated FacebookIPO but that didn't have much of an impact on its shares today. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook shares see modest debut
Facebook shares end their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Cramer's Ridiculous Comments About Facebook
A mere two trading days after Facebook shares went IPO, they had fallen from the $38 offer price to below $31 intraday. When this happened, market mad man Jim Cramer ridiculously commented on CNBC that the underwriting brokers should have known that the shares weren?t worth $38. What were they thinking? These comments are in direct contrast to comments prior to the IPO that Facebook shares were something that everyone needed to have. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Would you buy shares in Facebook? | Poll
Facebook raised the target price of its IPO on Friday to $34-38 a share – up from $28-35 – in response to strong demand, and in spite of some public scepticism, with 62% of active investors polled saying the stock is overvalued. Would you invest in Facebook?Ruth Spencer
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- How will Facebook Measure Up?
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- Facebook warnings fail to dissuade investors
Facebook is on track for technology's biggest flotation this Friday, despite two huge setbacks for the social network. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- IT WORLD : Facebook floats
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now officially worth close to US$20 billion after successfully bringing off the initial public offering for his young social network site. Fans keen to grab a piece of the company may have to pay 50% more than the initial price when the shares start trading Friday. Martin J Young surveys the week's developments in computing, science, gaming and gizmos. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook founder Zuckerberg updates status to 'married'
Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to “married”.Related StoriesPossible engine problem delays US rocket launchSpaceX private rocket launch aborted in last half-secondSiren sisters: The fishy tale of America's strangest theme parkFamily feuds as Mary Richardson Kennedy is buriedBlind Chinese legal activist arrives in the US null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Explaining Facebook's IPO: The Greenshoe
If you're interested in the gory details of how the Facebook IPO was actually done there's a pair of posts that explain it all in great detail. It amuses me that one way you can look at this is that there's been a massive amount of naked shorting going on. Another way is that it's simply the normal stabilization methods used in every IPO. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Who Wants to Meet a Facebook Millionaire?
To say it has been a wild day might be putting it mildly. Regardless of whether or not you think the Facebook IPO was dramatic failure or huge success, one thing is certain. There are now a lot of newly minted millionaires in the Silicon Valley thanks to today's IPO action. Rumor has it that the Facebook IPO will create about a thousand millionaires. Sure, I could talk about the metrics of who made what. But what's a few billion dollars between friends? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Saverin's Citizenship Renunciation Before Facebook IPO Will Increase, Not Reduce, His Tax Bill
Eduardo Saverin, one of the founders and major shareholders in Facebook, has renounced his US citizenship just before the company's IPO. However, contrary to many media reports this is not going to reduce his current tax bill: far from it it will increase his current tax bill. It will obviously reduce his future bills, but he has to pay tax as if he liquidates his entire portfolio on the day of his renunciation.
Saverin won’t escape all U.S. taxes. Americans who give up their citizenship owe what is effectively an exit tax on the capital gains from their stock holdings, even if they don’t sell the shares, said Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, director of the international tax program at the University of Michigan’s law school. For tax purposes, the IRS treats the stock as if it has been sold.
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- Massive Comeback For US Stocks On Hopes Merkel Will Play Ball
Stocks mounted an impressive comeback during the last hour of trade on Wednesday, reportedly on rumors coming out of an important Eurozone summit. Facebook also made headlines again, its shares rallying for the first time since going public despite a series of lawsuits against CEO Mark Zuckerberg, underwriter Morgan Stanley, and Nasdaq. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook shares: are you buying? | Poll
Facebook shares are being offered to the public at $38 (£24) each, valuing the company at more than $100bn before its flotation on the stock market. Are you planning to buy any?
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- Facebook IPO: Where Will The Shares Close Today?
All eyes are on the Facebook IPO today. The opening price has been set at $38, but where will it end up by 4pm when the markets close? Coder James Proud created this new site using Twitter to gather predictions on the closing price. The general sentiment there, based on close to 2,000 guesses, says $54, valuing the social network at $135 billion. Less bullish is Midas Lister VC Chris Sacca, whose tweet inspired the idea for the site. He thinks Facebook will close at $44. His fellow Midas Lister Josh Kopelman goes way higher at $57. NYT writer Nick Bilton putts in the middle: $48. Wine merchant and social maniac Gary Vaynerchuk sees Bilton and raises him a dollar at $49. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Ads, Google Ads, GM And Advertising That Doesn't Work
Facebook Ads are not working for GM (General Motors). So what. Those advertisements must be working for someone, somewhere or the internet juggernaut would not be on track for the much talked about Facebook IPO. Here?s the reality: Internet advertising, or any advertising, is a numbers game just like playing in a casino. If you play long enough, or at certain games, you?ll get a return on investment that keeps you coming back. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook IPO: Buy Early And Buy As Much As You Can
The Facebook IPO promises to be insane. People will buy. Employees will go beyond paper wealth. Small, tiny public shareholders and investors will get rich. It is the American way. Pundits, critics, and analysts far smarter than me have claimed it’s a fad. Facebook is a fad. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- H-P, Corning And Google Far Better Than Facebook
On today's Market Blaster video, Taesik Yoon, editor of the Forbes Investor newsletter, goes over several technology stocks he'd rather buy before Facebook, including Corning, KLA Tencor, Netease and Hewlett-Packard. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- GM Kiss-off Screams Need For Facebook Ads That Follow Users Around The Web
After spending nothing but time on Facebook, I've attracted over 100K followers. After spending $40 million per year on its Facebook presence, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, General Motors has attracted just 378K fans to its primary page. While it does have dozens of other car-related Facebook pages which have also attracted 'likes,' that's fairly depressing and is perhaps part of the reason that the company wants to cut back on its Facebook spending. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Where Facebook Ranks Among Our Global 2000 Companies
Last month, we published our annual ranking of the World?s Biggest Public Companies based on a composite score across four metrics; sales, profits, assets and market value. We use an equal weighting of each metric to rank companies according to size. In order to be listed among these behemoths, most companies need to improve their financials enough to climb the ranks. Some companies that can instantly become Global 2000 members are sizable firms that are taken public via an IPO or spun off by another company. Some additions to this year's group include Swiss trading firm Glencore International (No. 99), owned by FORBES billionaire Ivan Glasenberg, which went public in $10.3 billion IPO in May of 2011. U.S.-based Groupon (No. 1948), which raised $700 million in its November 2011 IPO. At the time of the offering, it was the largest IPO by a U.S. Internet company since Google in 2004. A month later, Zynga's $1 billion IPO surpassed Groupon's deal. A third company that made its debut in 2012 was U.S.-based Marathon Petroleum (No. 305), which was spun off by Marathon Oil (No. 316) in June of 2011. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Pakistan blocks Twitter for offending tweets
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.The tweets were promoting a competition on Facebook... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears
Already expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Richest Trade Is Not Betting Against The JPMorgan Whale, It's Selling The Facebook IPO
Boaz Weinstein is the hedge fund manager who outsmarted the JPMorgan Chase whale by betting against the bank?s large positions in the Investment Grade Series 9 10-Year Index CDS. The trade has resulted in some profits for the 38-year-old Weinstein?s Saba Capital Management and some other hedge funds who piled in against JPMorgan Chase. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook To Debut As Apple Drags Markets Lower
Stocks sold-off on an action packed Thursday. Facebook stole the headlines, pricing its IPO as markets closed. Also grabbing headlines was JPMorgan Chase, which continues to suffer from those huge trading losses, as CEO Jamie Dimon was called by a Senate Committee to testify. Gold rallied as Treasury yields fell to record lows, while over in Europe the prospects of a bank run in Spain spooked investors. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- What is Good for Facebook is Good for America
The Facebook IPO is going to be a watershed event in the history of technology. Even though there have been other major tech IPOs in the post-2000-bust era, such as LinkedIn, Demand Media, Groupon and Splunk, this is different and everybody knows it. Sheer scale matters, but it is about null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Amazon's Valuation Looks Crazy, Until You Look At Amazon's Potential
Shareholders at Amazon.com's annual meeting in Seattle today will have to make their way past protesters complaining about the online retailer's heavy use of electricity in server farms, failure to pay state sales taxes, and probably Chairman Jeff Bezos' membership in the top 1% of the top 1%. But they'll be considerably happier than the disgruntled investors who bought Facebook last week. Amazon shares are up 34% this year and the online retailer appears to have accelerated its growth rate from 30% a year to 40%, as it grabs market share from bricks-and-mortar competitors like Best Buy and Wal-Mart. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Building the Next Facebook a Tough Task in Europe
Unlike in the United States, where promising Internet startups can expect venture capitalists to come calling early, entrepreneurs in Europe face a shortage of financing. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Google Enemy #1
Google’s enemy is not Facebook or Microsoft or Apple. Enemy number one for Google is the black hat spammers. The guys are like the guys from ‘Fight Club’ and wear no gloves when they fight. The search giant probably spends more money battling the spammers than any other thing. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Is sin more fun than virtue? | Poll
A vicar is in trouble after joking on Facebook that 'sin is such fun', swearing and complaining about having to go to church. But is he right that sin is more pleasurable or are the rewards of virtue still higher?
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- Facebook Foibles: How to Avoid Getting Fried
Getting twitchy? Still thinking about pulling the trigger on buying into the Facebook IPO? Here are some tips to avoid getting fried: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook founder drops US citizenship to escape taxes
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renouced his U.S. citizenship, allegedly in order to steer clear of what are soon to be heavy taxes. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Relinquishing U.S. Citizenship
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin caused a stir recently by moving to Singapore and renouncing his U.S. citizenship. In so doing he halved the income tax rate on his future income, from 39.6% in the U.S. to 20% in Singapore. He eliminated tax on his future capital gains ─the U.S. taxes capital gains at 15%, but Singapore dropped its capital gains tax effective February 15, 2008. He also will avoid estate tax at his death. The top rate of U.S. estate tax—which would apply to a large estate such as Saverin’s—increases to 55% on January 1, 2013. Singapore has no estate tax. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries
Facebook's billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg has capped a busy week by marrying his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan in California. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook and the China Problem
Facebook has been in a nonstop spotlight for weeks, months even, and that light has not shown more brightly than today, as the company begins trading on the NASDAQ. But what of the issues and strategies Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook will have to face after all of the fireworks have faded? Namely China? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- MARKETS: Facebook raises $16 billion in IPO
Facebook raised $16 billion in its initial public offering (IPO), with shares priced at $38 as the company begins trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday, putting the social networking website’s value at $104 billion. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- 10 Reflections On Facebook's IPO
With Facebook all grown up, it's hard not to reflect on the last eight tempestuous years: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Why Stocks Could Rally But Not For Long
In last Mondays video I said stocks and bonds could rally starting Friday after the Facebook deal prices Thursday night. While I expect gold to keep rallying, U.S. stocks are unlikely to. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook fails to shine on market debut
Facebook hit the street yesterday in the richest-ever share offering for a technology firm, raking in billions of US dollars and giving 28-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, who started the social network in his Harvard dorm room, a net worth of nearly US$20 billion.
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- Facebook Fallout: Knight Capital Estimates $30-$35 Million Loss On IPO, Blames Nasdaq
Several class action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of Facebook investors just a few days after the company went public, and after the closing bell Wednesday the story took another turn when trading firm Knight Capital Group disclosed a loss related to the botched debut of the company's shares. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Mark Zuckerberg Ties the Knot, But It Isn't All Love And Roses
Mark Zuckerberg married longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, a day after taking Facebook public. The wedding was reportedly a surprise to most of the 100 guests, who were told they were going to a surprise graduation party for Chan; she graduated from University of California, San Francisco last week. The couple, have been dating for nine years, met while attending Harvard. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook: How (NOT) to Price and Trade an IPO. Thoughts from a Capital Markets Veteran
Granted, it was 20 years ago, but I ran a Syndicate group at an emerging growth investment-banking boutique and had previously worked in a Capital Markets group at a large investment bank. Syndicate/Capital Markets is responsible for managing an IPO. Many wonder why, after all the hype, Facebook really did nothing in trading on Friday. Perhaps my antidotes will shed some light… null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook IPO With ~10 Billion War Chest Could Just Buy Apple And Grow
The Facebook IPO will deposit somewhere between six and 20 billion dollars into cash. Facebook could ignore all the naysayers (about how this IPO is the most foolish in the history of IPOs) and just buy a huge position in Apple and see its stock appreciate. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- You Know Nothing, Dr. Snow: Why Medicine Can't Be More Like Facebook
Medicine can never be like Facebook, despite what Matt Herper argues over at Forbes. Perhaps he was just trolling for hits on a day when everyone is thinking about the Facebook IPO, but Herper proposed, with apparently seriousness, that medicine needs to model itself on the tech world in order to match the kind of progress-- and profits-- of a Facebook. But the medical news this week provided ample evidence why this will never happen. Biology is much more complex and resistant than the digital world. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Tepid Honeymoon of Facebook and NASDAQ Does Not Deliver The Big Bang
They promised us the Big Bang. The Facebook initial public offering was the beginning of a new Wall Street universe. The end of the doldrums. Instead, we got tepid. If that. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Statistical Proof The Facebook IPO Will Be As Euphoric As Predicted
Tomorrow's Facebook initial public offering will prove one of those once-in-a-decade market events (Netscape IPO, anyone?), as the world’s most slavishly followed private company becomes one of the world’s three most slavishly followed public companies (move over, Apple and Google). null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Trouble For Skype: ooVoo Unveils Free HD Video-Chatting Facebook App
Imagine that you created an application that managed to keep its users hooked from the moment they got home until they fell asleep, with 47 million users spending an average 200 minutes a month on it. Now imagine that your application is a video chat app that is riding the Facebook wave, leveraging their social APIs, and has been fully backed financially by just one man. That company exists, and it?s called ooVoo, and has essentially flown under the radar until now. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- How to Resolve a Facebook Fight Without Calling the Constable
I'm embarrassed to report that I awoke this morning remembering the conflict carnage on my Facebook page from the night before - a thread of 75 entries posted over a four hour period, more than half of which were hostile. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- You Know What's Not Cool? No Big Pop for Facebook's IPO
After a long wait for Facebook shares to start trading today, ticker symbol FB easily leaped past the $38 a share the company set last night for its initial public offering. Shares opened shortly after 11:30 a.m. Eastern at $42 a share, up about 10%. That made Facebook worth $118 billion, making it worth more than any other newly public company. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- How Much Facebook's Billionaires Are Worth Now That IPO Has Priced
With Facebook pricing its initial public offering at $38 a share this afternoon, doing the math on the company has become much clearer. No more need to guess where in the range Facebook would sell for. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Watch Mark Zuckerberg Ring In Facebook's IPO
Just a few times a year, the NASDAQ exchange allows VIPs to virtually ring the opening bell to open the market. Today, that VIP will be Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder and CEO of Facebook, which goes public today in the most anticipated IPO in almost a decade. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Forbes Markets Rewind: Facebook's IPO, J.C. Penney's Drop And Jamie Dimon's Nightmare
With another frenzied week in the rearview mirror here’s a roundup of what you may have missed this week from the Forbes Markets Desk. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Asian start-ups gain as Facebook's Saverin looks East
Far from the Wall Street limelight, Facebook's co-founder Eduardo Saverin is keeping a low profile in Singapore, investing his wealth in tech start-ups while enjoying a life of luxury.The Brazilian, who set up Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and two other friends at Harvard in 2004, has given up his dual US citizenship and plans to settle in Singapore, where he drives a Bentley and frequents exclusive clubs. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Billionaires Take To Twitter To Talk Up Facebook
On the day when the world's biggest social media company was officially unveiled as a public entity, the world's billionaires took to another form of social media to discuss the implications. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- For Facebook Insiders, An Excruciating Wait Has Begun
You know what’s not cool? Suffering more than $300 million in paper losses since Facebook’s IPO last week. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Annual Family Healthcare Costs Surge Past $20,000
Earlier this week and somewhere between the non-stop coverage of Facebook's pending IPO, Milliman Inc. released their annual Medical Index - simply called the Milliman Medical Index (MMI). My first reaction when I saw it was yikes! Just like Steve Martin in the movie Roxanne - I wanted to put another quarter into the vending machine - to return the newspaper. Here's the MMI chart: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Boy Who's Going to Kill Facebook Is Playing Videogames in His Mom's Basement As I Write This
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- The Last Hurrah for IPOs
Just In case you hadn't heard, Facebook is planning an IPO. Not just an ordinary launch, but an offering to beat all offerings. The social network giant hopes (and probably will) to raise $10.6 billion. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook man drops US status
EDUARDO SAVERIN, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook, renounced his US citizenship before a sharemarket float that values the social network at as much as $US96 billion. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Google And Bing Search Engines Get Smarter, More Social
As Google and Microsoft plan to make the search experience better for consumers, small business will benefit. Some call it a search engine war. It is more like a search engine extravaganza. Read on. Google calls its new work the “Knowledge Graph” perhaps similar to Facebook’s Social Graph, but Google wants to inventory the 3.5 billion connections between the millions of “things” on the web and in the real world. Microsoft’s Bing rolled out its Social Search on May 15. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- With Facebook done, focus is on Europe and housing
MoneyWatch Week Ahead: The Facebook IPO is over, putting the spotlight back on more important issues, like Europe and the U.S. housing market
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- Aunt Jill on the 404: Should you buy Facebook?
We field questions about Facebook, refinancing and the value of a masters degree
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- Video: Facebook IPO is only 1%
Even though the Facebook IPO underwehelmed Wall Street, there's still plenty of potential for the company and its stock. Jeff Glor and Rebecca Jarvis speak with tech journalist David Kirkpatrick about Facebook's prospects.
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- Facebook boss in surprise wedding
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ends a hectic week by getting married to long -time girlfriend Priscilla Chan in a surprise ceremony at his home. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Is Making A Terrible Mistake
If somebody offered you $67 million to never touch a decent hamburger again, would you take the money? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- General Motors Follows Facebook Evacuation By Dropping Super Bowl Ads
The Super Bowl just got a little less exciting for the millions of fans who tune in for the between-the-action entertainment. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- BUSINESS: Regulators investigate bank’s role in Facebook IPO
US financial regulators have begun investigating whether Morgan Stanley, the bank that handled Facebook’s much-publicised IPO last week, selectively divulged negative forecasts about the company before the stock started trading. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Your Name Here: Top Analyst Explains Why Facebook Isn't Going To Fade Like MySpace
Last week, all-star Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster sat down with Steve Forbes to talk about what the future holds for the titans of tech: Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and more. In the clip below, he shares his thoughts on how Facebook slow-played its way to the top of social networking. It's not about what's happening in 2012 and 2013, he says -- Facebook is looking to the future, and it's here to stay. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Billionaire Gives Up Citizenship to Escape Bad American Tax Policy
It is very sad that America's tax system is so onerous that some rich people feel they have no choice but to give up U.S. citizenship in order to protect their family finances. I've written about this issue before, particularly in the context of Obama's class-warfare policies leading to an increase null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook lacks the OMG factor
After its historic sharemarket float, Facebook is valued at about one-third of Greece's gross domestic product. It is a figure that says much for the eight-year-old internet company, less so for the Mediterranean economy. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Five Calls To Make Now That You Own Facebook Shares
Don’t worry about buying into the Facebook IPO disaster. The stock market is a university where you pay by the trade to learn how to build your wealth investing. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook Face Plant And Apple 'Hopium'
It certainly looks like Apple traders switched out of the stock and had a punt at the Facebook IPO. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook IPO: This is Where Facebook's Revenue Growth is Going to Come From
Whether the Facebook IPO goes big or bust (hint, it’s going to go big, for better or for worse), things are going to change for the social giant. Zuckerberg maintains a controlling share, but little by little, the be- null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- After flat debut Facebook awaits market verdict
Facebook stumbled on its first trading day as shares ended barely above the starting price, raising questions about what will happen to the share price when the Nasdaq reopens on Monday.The stock, priced at $38 on Thursday in the largest ever initial public offering (IPO) for a technology firm, eked out a gain of just 0.61 percent to end at $38.23, amid record volume of more than 575 million shares traded. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- As Facebook's Social Ads Take Off, Maybe That $100 Billion IPO Isn't So Crazy
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg embarks on his company's initial public offering roadshow today, he's facing a new round of skeptics, especially advertisers, who wonder whether the social network can fulfill the sky-high expectations that come with its $100 billion IPO. It hasn't helped that in the first quarter, Facebook's revenues actually fell vs. the fourth quarter, suggesting a loss of momentum at a critical time. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Palestine's exiles find family bonds through Facebook
As Jewish forces advanced on their village during the war that surrounded Israel's creation in 1948, the Palestinian Faour family piled children and belongings into donkey carts and fled, hoping to return home when the fighting stopped.Only... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- FOREX, Pre-IPO Facebook Scams Keep Watchdogs Busy
As part of Money Smart Week, I had a chance to sit down with some federal and state regulators to see what's on their radar screens. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook's Not Censoring Scoble, So Why Does This Matter?
A few days back Robert Scoble was doing something he often does. He was posting a comment online. In this case, it was on Facebook, his favorite social network. Something odd happened. He received an automated response from the social network: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Sorry, Facebook and YouTube--You're Not Getting Ad $ From TV Anytime Soon
A whole lot of very big and small online companies, from Facebook and Google to a gazillion ad tech startups, are betting on capturing some portion of advertising dollars currently spent on television. By contrast, Simulmedia is betting the flow of dollars will actually go in the opposite direction. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Consumer Report reveals privacy concerns on Facebook
Consumer Reports has revealed concerns about privacy practices of Facebook, in which 2,002 online households including 1,340 Facebook users were surveyed. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Sporting Goods Company Asks on Facebook: I Can Haz Hockey Stick?
Easton-Bell Sports is trying to latch onto a social media trend that made the LOLcats famous so it can get noticed by parents of youth baseball and softball players, parents of youth hockey players, and George Takei. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Are Those Little Sharing Buttons the Future of Online Advertising?
Facebook has shown how much we love to share things online. It has also shown how valuable that sharing is to Facebook. The data collected from close to a billion people sharing random thoughts, photos, videos, brand affinity, and product recommendations on the social network is, more than anything, the reason why it looks like investors will give Facebook a stunning $100 billion valuation when it goes public around May 18. Advertisers are eager to target likely customer prospects based on their social connections and interests with a precision they haven't had before. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The IPO Class Of 2012
Facebook is the 800-pound gorilla, but there are plenty of other potential public companies in the pipeline. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook gets first buy rating at US$44
Facebook received a buy recommendation from Wedbush Securities and a target price of US$44, its first rating since announcing plans to sell shares in a range of US$28 to US$35 in an initial public offering.
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- What is Facebook?
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- The Facebook Fix: Are you an addict?
It gets into your blood, consuming your thoughts and inducing panic attacks if the next fix is not in sight.On a good day, it might offer a harmless escape from the troubles of the world.But on a bad, it can turn into a monstrous... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Does Zuckerberg's Hoodie Matter?
I am no fan of Mark Zuckerberg and I think Facebook's IPO prospectus has some very goofy numbers in it. Personally, I think Facebook stock is a great short-term bet, but I do worry about it as a long-term investment. Zuckerberg and the imminent IPO are in the crosshairs of some of the null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook To Go Public May 18, Report Says
Looks like the market's most anticipated IPO is just a couple of weeks away. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook's Hedge Fund Friend
Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds on Wall Street and as Facebook goes public he will increasingly be confronted with the fast-money hedge funds he appears to have tried to avoid. Hedge funds will play a big role in Facebook?s stock after its initial public offering, but only one hedge fund investor has seriously benefited from the monster valuation increase of Facebook?s privately-held stock. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Protest Outside Facebook HQ Challenges Pale, Male And Stale Board
Some of the biggest tech companies have women on their board of directors - Google currently has three women appointed and Apple has one. The question is - will Facebook follow suit? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The School of data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival: the first session, on Storify
The International Journalism Festival's School of Data Journalism kicked off today with its first session: From CAR to data journalism. See what happenedThe School of Data Journalism in Perugia is in session, with the first panel discussing how we got to today's data journalism. Speakers include Aron Pilhofer at the New York Times, Pullitzer Prize winners Steve Doig and Sarah Cohen, Italian data journalist Elisabetta Tola and me too. Here's what happened.More dataData journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianWorld government data• Search the world's government data with our gatewayDevelopment and aid data• Search the world's global development data with our gatewayCan you do something with this data?• Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group• Contact us at data@guardian.co.uk• Get the A-Z of data• More at the Datastore directory• Follow us on Twitter• Like us on FacebookInternetData journalismItalyMapping technologiesSimon Rogersguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- China praises Facebook's prospectus as model
The central government's internet censors have a dim view of Facebook, but that has not stopped it from being a model of sorts for the mainland's securities regulator,
IFR has reported.
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- Lots Of Facebook Users Are Idiots, Says Consumer Reports
The folks at Consumer Reports called up over 1,300 households using Facebook and have produced a doozy of a report on how Americans are using the world's favorite social network. Applying the survey findings for the 1,300 folks they called to Facebook's 150+ million American users, Consumer Reports paternalistically says: null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Why You Should Sign Out Of Facebook Before Handing Your Phone Over To Best Buy
Word to the wise: unless you're on excellent terms with them, don't prank your customers. Colorado man Richard Dewberry was having problems with his iPhone last month so he took it to a Best Buy in Aurora. He left the phone with employees, and one of them decided to take advantage of the fact that Dewberry had left himself signed into Facebook. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Science Weekly podcast: Are you getting enough sleep?
On this week's show, Alok Jha discusses the science of sleep with Professor Russell Foster. What is sleep, why is it so important and how much do we need? How can you tell if you're not getting enough? Prof Foster is chairing this year's Cheltenham Science Festival, which will feature a study comparing the sleep patterns of Germans and Britons. If you want to tale part in this quick online survey, click here.Also in the show, the Guardian's environment correspondent John Vidal interviews Nobel prizewinning biologist Sir John Sulston. Sulston chaired the working group that prepared the Royal Society's recent report on global population levels People and the Planet. He discusses the impact on the planet of unchecked population growth and the importance of rebalancing consumption levels between rich and poor nations. Alok is joined by Observer science and technology editor Robin McKie and Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample to look at this week's science news, including Harvard University Library's letter to academics asking them to withdraw support from costly journals and make their research open access, and the UK's 50 years in space science.Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science.Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com.Guardian Science is now on Facebook. You can also join our Science Weekly Facebook group.We're always here when you need us. Listen back through our archive.John VidalAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieJason PhippsRussell Foster
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- Facebook sets IPO price range at 28 to 35 dollars
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Social networking giant Facebook on Thursday said it plans to price its initial public offering (IPO) at 28 to 35 U.S. dollars a share, putting it on track to become the largest IPO for any Internet company.
Facebook announced the preliminary price range in its latest filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company also said that it is offering 337.4 million shares to sell, with more than half from selling stockholders.
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- Facebook plans initial stock market price between $28 and $35 a share
Price would value company at upwards of $96bn, just shy of original estimates but still the largest for any internet companyFacebook has indicated it will price itself at between $28 and $35 a share, paving the way for the world's largest social networking site to reach a giddying valuation of almost $100bn when launches its stock market sale in two weeks.The price range for Facebook's initial public offering of stock (IPO), which was released in a regulatory filing, would value the company at up to $96bn, according to the Wall Street Journal. It would also provide up to $12bn in cash for existing investors and the site's core team.Mark Zuckerberg, who invented Facebook while studying at Harvard as immortalised in the Hollywood film The Social Network, stands to make up to $19bn personally.The price range is slightly lower than anticipated, though there is still time for it to slide upwards ahead of a likely start to trading on the Nasdaq which the New York Times says will take place on 17 or 18 May. A ballpark valuation of $100bn had been widely speculated.Whatever the final figure, the IPO is likely to be the largest for an internet company, dwarfing even the $23bn debut of Google in 2004.Such staggering sums are a reflection of how ubiquitous the social networking site has become. It crossed the watershed of 500 million users in July 2010 but is fast approaching the day when it will double that number.The company now has 901 million monthly active users and on current trends is on track to hit the billion mark by the end of the year.With such reach, comes desirability. The site is gearing up to be a major force in this year's presidential election, with both the Obama re-election campaign and the Mitt Romney campaign putting Facebook at the centre of their strategi null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Here's Why Google and Facebook Will Not Disappear in Five Years Time
Eric Jackson, last week, drew attention to a truism of modern business - most companies still don't get mobile or how it affects the way we work. And he stirred the pot with the claim that Google and Facebook will disappear in five years time, a theme he returns to today, because they lack new generation know-how. So, link bait aside, how do we sort out truth from imagination in this debate? Will they, won't they, might they? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Can Facebook Tap $11 Billion Mobile Ad Market To Justify P/E of 206?
Facebook's growth is slowing down and its profit shrank in the last quarter. If it goes public May 18th at $35 a share -- a $96 billion valuation -- and then pops to $75 on the first day, that will put the social network's market capitalization at $206 billion. And unless it can accelerate growth -- possibly by grabbing a share of the mobile advertising market -- that 206 Price/Earnings ratio is sending a powerful message: Do Not Buy This Stock! null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Protest outside Facebook's New York Office
Protesters descend on Facebook?s New York City headquarters to demand the company appoint women to it?s all male board before it goes public. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- NetShelter Takes Social Ads Beyond Facebook to the Web
Facebook is turning people's impromptu opinions on products and brands into ads it calls Sponsored Stories--and apparently doing very well with it. Now, tech blog network NetShelter is taking the basic idea, adding a new twist, and spreading it well beyond Facebook's walled garden to the wider Web--or at least the 4,500 blogs on which it places ads. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Turn Your Photos Into 3D Models With Autodesk 123D Catch For Apple iPad
Convert the physical to digital with your mobile device. 123D Catch is now available for iPad in the iTunes App Store. This free app from Autodesk lets users take images from their iPad camera and upload them to the Autodesk cloud service that transforms the images into a 3D model. Imagine taking all your Instagram photos (from Facebook) of a particular object or person and turning them into a 3-dimensional representation. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Norway trial: Thousands rally in defiance
They gathered by the tens of thousands in the drenching rain to face down terrorism with song.Drawn by a Facebook-organised protest, Norwegians flocked to public squares across the country and rallied against far-right fanatic Anders... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook's Smart Phone, Microsoft and Books, Google and Social, Amazon and Cloud: What Gives?
So why are the giants of American software, social networking, online retailing, mobile devices and computing determined to square up to each other? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- We Really Do Need A Federal Ban On Employers Logging Into Applicants' Facebook Accounts
Last week, Maryland became the first state to pass a bill banning employers from asking for applicants' Facebook passwords or otherwise asking for access to the private parts of their accounts. Those of us not living in Maryland are still out of luck. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Here's How Facebook Could Jack Up Revenues Fast
Just days ahead of Facebook's expected $100 million initial public stock offering on May 18, the skeptics are massing. Not only are advertisers uncertain about the value of Facebook ads, the biggest marketers are downright annoyed that Facebook won't let them do more of what they want to reach the company's 900 million users worldwide. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Facebook to Sell Stock to the Public This Month
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- Facebook's Seasonal Slowdown: Explanation or Excuse?
Should Facebook investors (and would-be investors) be nervous that the social networking behemoth just posted its first quarter-to-quarter revenue decline in at least two years, just weeks in advance of its expected $100 billion IPO? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
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