Just after the markets closed on its first day of public trading, Facebook amended its S-1 with a complete prospectus detailing how much stock each underwriter got to sell. Morgan Stanley, the lead-left bank, received 162.1 million shares ($6.15...Facebook Reveals How Much Stock Each Bank Got, Morgan Stanley Nabbed $6 Billion Worth
Just after the markets closed on its first day of public trading, Facebook amended its S-1 with a complete prospectus detailing how much stock each underwriter got to sell. Morgan Stanley, the lead-left bank, received 162.1 million shares ($6.15...GameStop To Sell SIM Cards
GameStop is hurting. Same store sales fell 5%-11% and revenue was down 17% to $2 billion. Profit fell to $72.5 million. Arguably, those are still huge numbers and presumably a new console refresh should push the...Facebook IPO Day: The Scene At NASDAQ’s NYC Times Square HQ [TCTV]
In case there was any confusion after Facebook's eight years in business and its recent geographic expansions, it was cleared up today: Facebook's home and heart lies in Silicon Valley.
TechCrunch TV saw that first-hand this morning...The President’s Tech Gurus Want A Few Good Men And Women At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Next Week
The President's technology gurus, US CTO Todd Park and CIO Steven VanRoekel, will be looking for savvy innovators to work with at next week's TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York (tickets here). Park and VanRoekel will be announcing some...Zuckerberg Says “Our Mission Isn’t To Be A Public Company” In Pre-IPO Opening Remarks
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg received a hoodie from the NASDAQ CEO and thanked his site's users in opening remarks recorded before he rang the NASDAQ opening bell this morning.
In his short speech that just aired on Bloomberg TV Zuckerberg...Need A Little Context On Facebook’s IPO? The Social Network Made More Money Than…
Today's Facebook IPO is a momentous, historical occasion. It's set to be the biggest tech IPO ever, and the third largest IPO in U.S. history, second only to Visa and General Motors. The company that was...European Activists Could Force Facebook’s New Privacy Changes To A Worldwide Vote
The European activists “europe-v-facebook.org”, led by a group of Austrian students, say that they have reached the 7,000-comment threshold on a Facebook privacy proposal, first raised last week, which would force the company to take the revisions to a worldwide vote....Want Facebook Shares? HK’s 8 Securities Offers $200 Of Them If You Join Its Trading Platform
With Facebook announcing its ballsy stock price of $38 yesterday and all eyes now on what will happen with the social network when it finally goes public today, a new trading platform in Hong Kong, 8 Securities,...Backed By Mark Cuban, WhiteyBoard Launches v2 Of Its Paint That Turns Walls Into Whiteboards
Two years ago, WhiteyBoard founders Saachi Cywinski, Sherwin Kim and Jason Wilk set out to re-think those clunky, inflexible whiteboards found in classrooms and offices around the country. They developed a portable, flexible alternative: An inexpensive, "instant" plastic...And The First Facebook IPO Hackathon Photos Roll In
Hundreds of Facebook employees congregated at 'Hacker Square' at the company's Menlo Park headquarters this evening ahead of the company's insanely-hyped initial public offering. Now, some of the first photos are starting to trickle in. There was a standing ovation for chief...Facebook Keeps Shipping. Now You Can Silence Spammy Apps And More With New Notification Controls
If there's something on Facebook that won't stop pinging you with Notifications, tell it to shut up instantly with Facebook's new granular, in-line notification controls. Hover over an alert in the Facebook.com homepage's globe icon drop-down and click the 'x'...Facebook’s $38 Share Price Makes Instagram Deal Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion
Facebook's $38 share price would make its deal to buy Instagram worth nearly $1.2 billion, up from the roughly $1 billion price the company announced in April.
That's a nice little bump but the deal hasn't gone through given regulatory reviews....