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May 31, 2012
10:50 • 11 months ago
Tags: facebook facebook ipo ipo initial public offering social media journalism breaking news
Twitter is where news breaks; Facebook is where news goes. This is something that members of the media, who live on Twitter and regard Facebook with removed interest, take for granted. The coverage of and discussion about Facebook’s IPO may have been the clearest demonstration yet of one of the few things the service can’t seem to do: Lead the conversation.
BuzzFeed’s John Herrman • Making a wise point about how the Facebook IPO was really a much bigger story on Twitter than Facebook. Part of that, to us, is due to the way the networks work. “The site, as is, is great at building after-the-fact, heavily filtered digests,” Hermann explains, “While Tweets are like free-roaming units of information, Facebook posts live in the context of each users’ friend bubble.” We noticed the same trend when the IPO broke. And it is very telling — a level of engagement FB could never hope to have, even if it’s with a smaller audience.
May 21, 2012
10:55 • 1 year ago

Facebook and NASDAQ collectively not looking great right now

Tags: facebook facebook ipo initial public offering ipo Mark Zuckerberg nasdaq public trading social media social networking stock stocks underwriters

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March 8, 2012
12:05 • 1 year ago
Tags: Electric Guitars fender Guitars initial public offering ipo Music Musical Instruments News stratocaster
Fender: Legendary guitar builders enter the IPO battlefield For those about to rock: Fender, the manufacturers of the legendary Stratocaster electric guitar, are preparing to offer an IPO soon. The company announced plans to sell $200 million in stock currently held by Fender and the guitar maker’s owners. The company, which currently sells its guitars in 85 countries around the world, hopes that the offering will give Fender the ability to “extend our reach to a broader global consumer base.” (photo by Gilga Mesh) source Follow ShortFormBlog

Fender: Legendary guitar builders enter the IPO battlefield

For those about to rock: Fender, the manufacturers of the legendary Stratocaster electric guitar, are preparing to offer an IPO soon. The company announced plans to sell $200 million in stock currently held by Fender and the guitar maker’s owners. The company, which currently sells its guitars in 85 countries around the world, hopes that the offering will give Fender the ability to “extend our reach to a broader global consumer base.” (photo by Gilga Mesh) source

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January 31, 2012
16:43 • 1 year ago
Tags: facebook facebook ipo initial public offering stock market breaking

BREAKING: Reuters reports that Facebook's planning on filing for a $5 billion IPO on Wednesday.

Your child’s college education could be in Mark Zuckerberg’s hands.

November 29, 2011
00:37 • 1 year ago

Aw, Zucks. We’re hoping this won’t “poke” our portfolios too badly.

Tags: facebook facebook ipo groupon initial public offering ipo Mark Zuckerberg private company public trading social media social networking stock stocks

Want to own a piece of Facebook? You might be able to in the spring of 2012. It looks like, despite founder Mark Zuckerberg’s well-known resistance to the idea over the years, the company is on its way to its “initial public offering” — the sale of stock that a private company makes available to the public. (Groupon just had an IPO, and it hasn’t been going quite so well for them.) The social media trailblazers could raise as much as $10 billion from first-day stock sales; that would put the company’s total value at $100 billion. Not bad for a guy who screwed over most of his friends from Harvard (and a couple of Winklevi) to get there. source

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May 19, 2011
10:29 • 2 years ago

LinkedIn’s massive IPO: One of the largest tech IPOs since Google’s

Tags: facebook ipo initial public offering ipo linkedin linkedin ipo social media social media ipo

  • $45 LinkedIn’s price per share when it launched its IPO this morning
  • $83 the company’s price per share now — that’s right, it nearly doubled in price
  • $352M the amount the company has earned from its IPO today source

» A really impressive start for social media: LinkedIn, the first social media company on the stock market, sets the stage for what could be an impressive transition from startup to stock for many social sites. Facebook’s far larger than LinkedIn, meaning that this may be the floor level for what the ubiquitous social site could expect when Mark Zuckerberg finally decides to go IPO.

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May 9, 2011
10:27 • 2 years ago

LinkedIn IPO could prove social media’s heft on the stock market

Tags: facebook ipo initial public offering ipo linkedin linkedin ipo social media social media ipo

  • 7.84M number of shares of stock LinkedIn plans to sell during its IPO
  • $35 the high-end price the company’s shares could go for on the market
  • $3Bthe potential value of the company’s IPO — which is kind of a lot source

» Getting in early: LinkedIn is one of the first examples of a social media company taking its chances on the stock market, which suggests that Facebook — which is far more widely-used than LinkedIn is — could totally do well in the case of an IPO. The company, which announced its IPO intentions in January,  has filed to go on the New York Stock Exchange under ”LKND.”

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November 18, 2010
10:15 • 2 years ago
Tags: auto bailout bailout Dan Akerson general motors gm initial public offering ipo stock market
I don’t know where the market is going to be a year or two down the road, so I can’t make such a bold statement. Sure, I’m hopeful, and I’m not saying it can’t happen. I think the company is well positioned … so things look good for General Motors.
GM CEO Dan Akerson • Not committing to a full repayment of the taxpayers’ money from the bailout. It sounds like a hedging of the bets, honestly. If he says it now and the stock goes south, he’s on the record offering a promise he can’t keep. For what it’s worth, though, GM’s stock is doing boffo so far in its first day of trading, already up six percent in early-morning trading. source (via • follow)
November 17, 2010
22:45 • 2 years ago

GM’s initial public offering does exactly what everyone expects

Tags: auto bailout auto industry bailout cars general motors gm initial public offering ipo

  • $20.1
    billion     the amount raised by GM’s IPO earlier today (which is amazing, and the biggest ever)
  • $4.35
    billion     the amount in preferred shares the company sold, far above the $4 billion anticipated
  • 33%
    stake     the amount of GM the government will still own after the IPO, down from 61 percent source

 

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