Facebook stock finishes flat in debut
Boston.com
By Bebeto Matthews, AP Passers-by reflected Friday in the window of the Nasdaq media center as they view reports of trading activity on Facebook's stock. By Bebeto Matthews, AP Passers-by reflected Friday in the window of the Nasdaq media center as NEW YORK—In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market [...]
Read MoreFacebook IPO huge but no pop
San Jose Mer
“Facebook's IPO is symbolic of America's ability to re- ignite itself,” said Lawrence Creatura, who helps oversee $363.6 billion as a Rochester, New York-based fund manager at Federated Investors Inc. “It's bigger than just a financial event. Some investors had speculated Facebook's would rise much higher, after other social networking companies showed double-digit percentage gains [...]
Read MoreFacebook IPO huge but no pop
San Jose Mer
We'll take another lukewarm IPO and the jokes about Faceplant, Saveface and the like. We'll take it because the Facebook IPO, whatever the stock's closing price, was a doozy. Early in the day, the man of the hour (and one-time Time man of the year) We'll take another lukewarm IPO and the jokes about Faceplant, [...]
Read MoreFacebook IPO: More whimper than bang
CBS News
What does Facebook going public mean for brands? Here's the answer. The time for talking has passed, and the time for buying has begun. We're tracking what could be one of the biggest IPOs in American history–and what will almost certainly be the biggest tech IPO ever–in this post. CBSMoneyWatch's complete coverage of the Facebook [...]
Read MoreTwitter users, others weigh in: Facebook stock priced too high
Los Angeles
Facebook, the social network that began eight years ago in a Harvard dorm room, will debut Friday on the stock markets having raised $16 billion, making it the third largest initial public offering in US history. With massive press coverage and Facebook, the social network that began eight years ago in a Harvard dorm room, [...]
Read MoreFacebook IPO: the art of pricing the right pop
CNN
There are lots of reasons that average Facebook users should be paying attention to Facebook's IPO and what it means both now and in the future. 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 [...]
Read MoreSmall investors shut out of Facebook IPO, and that's a good thing
Los Angeles
While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 — the company that Facebook is most often compared against. When Google IPO'd in 2004, the SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is increasing the size of its IPO by 85 million shares [...]
Read MoreFacebook IPO set to rake in more than $100 billion
New York Dai
What you need to know about Facebook's initial public offering: Q. Can the guy on the street get in on the IPO, before it starts trading? A. Not likely. Shares are going to the biggest and best clients of the investment firms underwriting the IPO. Here's what you can expect from one of the largest [...]
Read MoreFacebook IPO set to rake in more than $100 billion
New York Dai
Amid growing investor excitement about Facebook's IPO, the company raised the price range it will offer when its stock is priced on Thursday. By Seattle Times news services No comments have been posted to this article. The world's largest online social Amid growing investor excitement about Facebook's IPO, the company raised the price range it [...]
Read MoreFacebook IPO Won't Solve Europe's Problems
Fox Business
With the Facebook $FB IPO there will be less secrets in social. There will be more hype about 'data'. There will be way more pressure on companies to explain their mobile monetization strategies. Like good and bad 'naked' The drum beating over Facebook's upcoming IPO has created a supercharged atmosphere where investors are clamoring for [...]
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