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Facebook Reports Lower Quarterly Revenues, Income

Posted: April 23, 2012 at 4:29 pm

The object of what is touted as the largest IPO of the year, Facebook Inc. (FB) filed an amended Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission today, incorporating ...
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Facebook Opts For NASDAQ IPO & Listing Over NYSE (FB, NDAQ, NYX)

Posted: April 5, 2012 at 2:09 pm

CNBC has reported that Facebook is choosing to list on the NASDAQ rather than on the NYSE.  The move seems a better fit considering the history of technology and internet ...
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Slot-Machine Maker Buys Facebook Casino Gamemaker (IGT, ZNGA)

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 1:53 pm

With the Facebook IPO bus scheduled to leave the station sometime this year, there is very likely to be rush to get onboard. Slot machine maker International Gaming Technology (NYSE: ...
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200 Billion Videos Watched, and Not a Dime in Sight

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 6:36 am

In October, 200 billion videos were watched online worldwide. The number is immensely impressive until the question is asked whether the online video business makes any money. Research firm comScore released ...
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Bain, Other Consultants, Top Best Places To Work List

Posted: December 14, 2011 at 3:24 am

Bain & Company topped the 2012 version of the "Glassdoor Top 50 Places To Work." McKinsey, MITRE, and Shalom Consulting were all among the top 10. Tech leaders were also ...
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The Slowdown Of Tech: MBAs Seized By A Desire To Join The Industry

Posted: July 18, 2011 at 6:32 am

New research shows that graduates from American business schools have a growing desire to join tech firms over investment banks and management consultancies. It is an almost certain sign that ...
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Investing in Facebook Via the Back Door, GSV Capital (GSVC, MSFT)

Posted: June 27, 2011 at 8:22 am

Everyone wants to get a piece of Facebook.  Shares have been sold by the company and shares have been sold by employees and insiders on private market exchanges.  Now a ...
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Zynga IPO Ambitions Could Matter For Many Private & Public Companies (LNKD, ATVI, ERTS, GME, COOL)

Posted: May 25, 2011 at 2:19 pm

LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) came public and shares opened at a high enough premium that Jim Cramer called it a sham.  There was one obvious issue that came up from ...
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Six Huge American Companies With Total Revenue Over $250 Billion That Will Never Have An IPO

Posted: May 19, 2011 at 6:51 am

With all the hubbub surrounding the IPO of professional social networking site LinkedIn, along with rumored deals involving Facebook and Twitter, it's worth remembering that there are some companies that ...
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Private Company Markets, Many Opportunities With Many Caveats

Posted: May 17, 2011 at 5:29 pm

When you hear about shares of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, Pandora, Yelp, and others selling on so-called "private company markets," the frenzy of getting to invest into high-growth private ...
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Media Digest (5/10/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 10, 2011 at 4:00 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is close to a purchase of Skype for $7 billion (WSJ) Microsoft is close to an $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype (Reuters) PIMCO increased its short ...
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The Ten Nations Where Facebook Rules The Internet

Posted: May 9, 2011 at 5:20 am

In 10 countries, more than 86% of users are on Facebook. That kind of dominance is rare for any company. Facebook has 600 million members worldwide and continues to grow. ...
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Facebook Lurks Behind Yahoo! Earnings, As Portal Needs To Bet The Farm

Posted: April 20, 2011 at 5:25 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs fell 6% in the first quarter to $1.13 billion. Net earnings dropped 28% to $223 million. Both numbers cheered Wall St. because ...
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Media Digest (3/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 29, 2011 at 4:05 am

Off-exchange traded fund BATS will go public to challenge NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ). (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has take a sex bias case against it to ...
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Facebook’s Valuation Warning: When Yahoo! Was Worth More Than Intel, Verizon, And Pepsi

Posted: March 22, 2011 at 5:02 am

Are investors forgetting the lessons of the dot-com bust of the 1990s?It would seem to be the case. Just like in the Clinton administration, companies with uncertain prospects are attracting ...
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