Mark Zuckerberg surprised the world – and less than 100 of his friends – on Saturday when he married long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan at his Palo Alto, California residence. The guests, including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, were stunned to discover that the graduation party invite turned out to be a wedding date. The previous week [...]
It’s not a beautiful day for Facebook. And not a bad day. Facebook IPO Price was $38. Facebook public opening price at 11:31 am was $42.05. At the close it was $38.23, falling back to IPO Price… “Facebook Inc. shares lost steam at the end of their first public trading session on Friday following a [...]
Facebook Debuts on Nasdaq this morning at a $38 IPO Price in a initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares. Official first Public Price at 11:31 was $42.05. 4:00 pm. Close at $38.23 (+0.6%). 3:14 pm : $38.73 2:19 pm : $40.08 1:36 pm : $41.18 12:18 pm : $39.88 11:49 am : $38.03. Zynga stock [...]
A high demand for Facebook shares have prompted the company to raise its prices, which now stand between $34 and $38, reports BBC. Previous prices have been pegged at $28 to $35, but the social networking giant has decided to capitalize on the growing number of interested investors to hike up share prices. In a [...]
A new paid feature that Facebook has been fiddling with for the past days or so has sparked a flurry of mixed reactions from users. In what was first assumed to be a scam, the feature charges Facebook members $2 to underscore important posts, making them more prominent and consequently more visible on the social [...]
Facebook is set to launch the App Center in the coming weeks, where people can view and review social apps in one central location before installing them. The App Center also serves a venue for developers to improve their apps and allows them to produce more relevant, useful, entertaining apps. Facebook advises developers to begin [...]
Facebook now makes it easier for millions of Americans to sign up as organ donors, as it launches a new feature that makes organ donation registration fast and simple. This move was reportedly spearheaded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself, who believes that his social networking site can potentially accelerate the number of willing organ [...]
Recent reports have it that interns over at Facebook enjoy a generous monthly offering of $5,000 plus additional $1,000 as housing and living allowance – an impressive and munificent amount - given that these interns, mostly undergraduates anywhere in their freshman to senior year, have very minimal real-world programming experience. The responses over at Quora [...]
Facebook just amended its S-1 filing (SEC), unveiling some interesting figures : -901 million users as of 31 March 2012, an 33% increase compared to March 31, 2011 -488 million mobile users as of March 31 2012 and 500 million mobile users as of April 20, 2012 (remember that Facebook doesn’t yet monetize its spaces on mobile devices) -526 [...]
Facebook IPO will be either May 17 or May 24 according to Techcrunch. Facebook valuation is $100 billion and deal size will be between 5 to 10 billion. See our infographic for all details on Top 10 Internet IPO of all time. “According to multiple sources close to the company, Facebook is eying IPO on [...]
Mark Zuckerberg just wrote on Facebook that the Social Network is buying mobile photo application Instagram for one billion dollars in cash and stock. Instagram is a mobile application with photo editing effects (filters) and sharing capabilities on social networks, available on iOS and Android (Google Play) since April 3. Instagram had 30 million users in late March while the application was only available through the Apple Store. The first day the Android app was available, it has been downloaded 1 million [...]
What… If Facebook was invented in the nineties ? “VHS tape with the popular science show ‘Wonders of the World Wide Web’ about Facebook.”
Here’s a little comparison between two of the biggest Social Networks: Google + (created in June 2011) and Facebook, the giant (created in 2004). Some notable statistics : -100 million users for G + members and 845 million members for Facebook. -Google is a social network with more men (71%) than Facebook (43% male). -G+ is much frequented by young people : 78% are under 34 years while on Facebook this proportion is only 32% (surprising?) -Time spent on site : [...]
Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits, after all it is considered the most powerful social media platform. In a bold move, Yahoo! – now under the direction of a new CEO – has filed a 19 page lawsuit claiming that Facebook is violating not one, but 10 patents, effectively abusing the intellectual property of Yahoo!. [...]
You might have heard about Facebook’s new messenger, for some it is old news. In December, a tester of the Facebook messenger leaked a link to download the app. Facebook responded, in turn, by making the client available to the public. For those of you who did not know about the app, you should see [...]
Here are the World Top 10 largest IPOs of Internet companies in the last 10 years. Yelp (IPO was March 2) does not make this Top10 List because Deal Size was only 107 million (no10 Linkedin was 353 million). The information on Facebook is not yet unveiled, so we put only known data (An update [...]
Zynga will launch new Zynga.com platform in a public beta this month. The social network game developer has a valuation of 10 billion dollars and 240 million players each month. Today Mark Pincus announced that his startup is offering a new destination off Facebook. The initial beta release of Zynga.com features: “-zFriends – Connect and [...]
We all remember the revamp of Facebook that led to the implementation of the timeline for Facebook users. Now, the social media giant has revamped its site again, this time aiming to make the entire platform more uniform in nature. This week Facebook launched Timeline for business, organization and brand pages. At the moment, businesses [...]
