IPO

Chances are, anyone in your office even remotely interested in tech or business is going to be talking about Facebook's IPO today. If you're feeling a little out in the cold, don't worry. We've got your back. Here's everything you need to know about the Facebook IPO in a nutshell.The ...

It’s finally here. Today is Facebook IPO day. You might think that Mark Zuckerberg would be kicking back in his hoodie and slippers. You’d be wrong.Instead, the Facebook CEO was on hand to launch the company’s 31st hackathon -- aimed at building brand new Facebook products.When Zuckerberg arrived ...

Facebook has added 25 banks to its IPO offering -- a massive expansion from the original six banks named. It allows the banks offer Facebook stock to their clients in special deals and spreads a lot of favors among the Wall Street investment community.In The Wall Street Journal David Benolt ...

Yahoo! claims that Facebook is infringing on between 10 and 20 of its patents -- and if the social networking site doesn’t pay licensing fees, it will pursue legal action.According to a report by the New York Times, Yahoo! accused Facebook of using its patented technology without paying license fees ...

Facebook's long-awaited initial public offer (IPO) may come as early as this week, if media reports are to be believed.Reports that the world’s largest social network was readying itself to go public first surfaced in the Wall Street Journal.The offering is widely anticipated to raise around $10-billion for ...

Facebook has reportedly halted trading in secondary markets, possibly indicating that the world’s largest social network may finally be ready for its long-awaited IPO.According to Bloomberg, representatives from Facebook’s law firm, Fenwick & West, sent a letter to one of the markets explaining the decision.The decision to halt ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that he is in no rush to take his company public, or to brave the murky waters of the online Chinese market.Zuckerberg, questioned during an interview on the US PBS network, said that China posed, "issues" and "hard questions" for Facebook. "But since, for right ...

US online deals giant Groupon is reportedly re-evaluating its plans to go public. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has become hesitant because of volatility in the stock market.Citing a "person familiar with the matter", the newspaper said that Groupon would not be cancelling its initial public ...

"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 ...

Twitter is looking to raise another round of private financing, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the matter". This time the value is US$7billion, almost double of what it was valued at the end of 2010.Clearly there’s still a hunger for tech stocks in the ...