Facebook IPO

Facebook's IPO is considered a failure in that the share price was too high to attract retail investors.There's more bad news. More than 1.7-billion shares owned by insiders, such as employees, etc, will be "unlocked' over the next six months and will be eligible for trading. That's a huge overhang ...

So it turns out people care a lot more about the fact that Mark Zuckerberg got married this weekend than they do about the fact that his company raised billion of dollars in its IPO.Want proof? Just look at the number of likes each event has on the hoodied ...

So it’s official. The starting figure for Facebook shares today is… US$38. It’s higher than expected (although not by much) and if many have their way it’s just the beginning.Not unsurprisingly there have been naysayers as you’d expect (perhaps more that you’d expect) but when you ...

Ah man, anyone who thought Facebook was just a fad must be eating their words right now. Facebook’s IPO, however flat its opening may have turned out to be, is something that’s turning the world on its head.One of the biggest impacts of Facebook going public is that ...

Facebook is not interested in reforming Wall Street with its IPO, as Google tried to do with its Dutch auction process and snubbing the big investment firms. So it shouldn't be surprising that Facebook isn't interested in adopting a more open company governance structure either.In fact, Facebook [$FB] has ...

Eight years ago, Facebook was started in a dorm room at Harvard University. Now it's about to become a public company, valued at US$100-billion. Those must have been the craziest eight years of Mark Zuckerberg's life.As the social network's initial public offering (IPO) is scheduled for tomorrow, it seems like ...

"This time it's different".It's always different. When Cisco hit US$80 a share in 2000, making it the most valuable company in the world (worth US$555bn), it was different. It was also different when Goldman traded at US$235 in 2007 (and when AIG hit over US$2000 in 2000 and around US$1500 ...

The high valuation of Facebook on secondary share markets might be out of line with its revenues but it does show one thing: A large investor appetite for investing in leading Silicon Valley companies.The fact that the investors are making large bets without having access to the underlying financial information ...

Social-networking behemoth Facebook could now be worth more than US aerospace giant Boeing and media company Time Warner. This new valuation is as a result of raising $500-million dollars from Goldman Sachs and a Russian firm in a deal valuing the site at $50-billion dollarsWith the fresh investment, Facebook has ...