Tagged: IPO & News
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg dodges IPO questions at Harvard News
24.05.2012 Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg had plenty to say about gender roles in the workplace but remained fairly tight-lipped about the social network's recent IPO...Categories: Social Media, Leadership & Management, Financial, Education, Careers and Employment, Career Advice -
Lawyers descend to pick over carcass of Facebook's troubled IPO News
23.05.2012 Little did we think a week ago that Facebook’s IPO would be seen as a tawdry mess. Indeed we all thought the golden boy of social media sites would be a roaring success.Categories: Social Media, Legal, Investments, Internet, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Meet the world’s youngest billionaire (and it’s not Zuckerberg) News
18.05.2012 He’s a Harvard dropout, Facebook co-founder and he’s the world’s youngest billionaire by just eight days. Meet Dustin Moskovitz.Categories: Software, Social Media, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, DevelopmentTags: Silicon Valley, Social Media, Investment, IPO, Development, Software, Engineering, Spotify, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, -
Meet the Irish Facebook engineer who was part of clever NASDAQ bell hack News
19.05.2012 Irish Facebook engineer Colm Doyle was one of the team of Facebook engineers who devised the clever hack that saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline automatically update... -
Facebook shares drop to US$34.03 – price of hype or voice of reason? News
22.05.2012 Facebook shares closed last night at US$34.03, more than 25pc from its high on Friday. With Morgan Stanley coming to the rescue with US$2.4bn worth of underwriting action, is it...Categories: Social Media, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Weekend news roundup: Facebook smartphone and the end of Silicon Valley's Golden Age News
21.05.2012 The weekend newspapers' tech coverage was full of interesting insights into the Facebook IPO but what's coming next is what most folks would really need to know. One Silicon... -
Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan News
20.05.2012 In the same weekend that his eight year old company IPO’d on Nasdaq Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan.Categories: Social Media, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Software & Web Development -
Facebook IPO closes at US$38.23 after first day’s trading News
18.05.2012 One of the most eagerly awaited IPOs in tech industry history ended not far from where it started – Facebook opened at US$38 and while share soared to US$45 at one point by the... -
Facebook shares leap to US$43, then drop in IPO's first day News
18.05.2012 Social networking giant Facebook's IPO got off to a rocketing start, with shares leaping an initial 13pc to US$43 as the stock opened for trading for the first time today. -
How much is Zuckerberg worth? (infographic) News
18.05.2012 The team at Visual.ly has come up with a live infographic to keep us all up-to-date with the answer to the question on everyone’s minds today. -
Facebook's IPO broadcasting live from NASDAQ News
18.05.2012 Watch Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ring the bell from the company's HQ in Menlo Park, California, to start the day's trading on Wall Street.Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial Results, Financial, Digital Media -
Facebook staff gears up for IPO with an all-night hackathon News
18.05.2012 With Facebook’s IPO tantalisingly close, employees at the social networking site’s Menlo Park campus are in the midst of an all-night hackathon to code new programs. -
The social network vs the advertising network (infographic) News
18.05.2012 Just in time for Facebook's IPO today, a new infographic compares global ad networks such as WPP and Publicis Groupe with the social network across a few different metrics. -
Facebook on film and TV (videos) News
18.05.2012 Today is the day Facebook IPOs, in what could well be the largest stock market flotation by an internet company to date. -
Facebook sets final price for IPO at US$38 a share News
17.05.2012 Facebook has set the final price for its IPO Friday at US$38 a share in a flotation that will reap the network between US$16bn and US$18bn. This is likely to value the social...Categories: Social Media, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Facebook to increase size of IPO by 25pc, plans to raise US$15bn News
16.05.2012 Facebook is increasing the size of its IPO on Friday by 25pc and plans to raise US$15bn. Investor demand for shares has spurred the company into making the decision and shares... -
GM pulls advertising from Facebook days ahead of IPO News
16.05.2012 GM, one of the largest advertisers in the US, has decided to stop paying for display ads on Facebook, further highlighting weaknesses in the social network’s advertising revenue... -
The Facebook IPO: What could you buy? (infographic) News
15.05.2012 The IPO of social networking giant Facebook this week is expected to pad the wallets of quite a few people, from U2 frontman Bono to the company's own employees. -
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin gives up US citizenship News
14.05.2012 Brazilian-born Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship in an effort to avoid paying US$600m in taxes.