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 (.15 billion worth) followed by J.P. Morgan with 84.8 million (.22 billion), and Goldman Sachs pulled down [...]
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Facebook Reveals How Much Stock Each Bank Got, Morgan Stanley Nabbed $6 Billion Worth
May 20th, 2012 
FB Study: Twitter Sentiment Mirrored Facebook’s Stock Price Today
May 19th, 2012 FB Facebook’s IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some interesting conclusions. Turns out, the ups and downs of how Twitter’s users felt about the stock [...]
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No Comments »Schumer And Casey’s Ex-PATRIOT Act: Details Of How They Plan To Get Saverin’s $67M And More
May 17th, 2012 FB Charles Schumer and Bob Casey, the two U.S. Senators behind the Ex-PATRIOT act — a proposal to go after early Facebook backer Eduardo Saverin and others like him that have renounced U.S. citizenship and are getting out of paying capital gains tax on stock windfalls — have now revealed the details of their plan. We [...]
Facebook adds app ratings and negative feedback metrics to insights tool
May 16th, 2012 FB Facebook introduced app ratings and negative feedback metrics to the app insights tool today as a way to help developers gain a better understanding of how users respond to their apps. Detailed on developer blog post, these new metrics allow developers to go beyond monitoring growth trends and gain. Facebook has used this data to [...]
Zuckerberg Will Ring In Facebook IPO From Menlo Park HQ On Friday
May 15th, 2012 FB He’s not taking off the hoodie, and he’s not going to NYC. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Facebook will IPO on Friday with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the NASDAQ bell remotely from his company’s new Menlo Park headquarters. This follows the trend of companies like Zynga who also rung the IPO bell from home [...]
Facebook Adds “Good Enough” File Sharing To All Groups. Dropbox Should Worry About Growth
May 13th, 2012 FB Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it’s got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term growth potential of cloud storage / file sharing services like Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive. Music and any copyright files aren’t allowed and file size is capped at 25mb, as Mashable [...]
Here’s What The Facebook App Center Is Really About
May 12th, 2012 FB Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Chester Ng, co-founder and CMO of SweetLabs, makers of Pokki, an HTML5 app platform for the PC. The tectonic plates in the app world have been shifting quite a bit lately, in ways that will significantly impact developers and users. One major upcoming shift is coming from our friends [...]
FTC: It’s Up To Facebook To Decide Whether An Instagram Investigation Will Impact The IPO
May 11th, 2012 FB Some slightly conflicting stories zipping across the ether today involving Facebook, its billion acquisition of Instagram and a rumored Federal Trade Commission investigation into the deal: The FT is reporting that this could delay the acquisition. Betabeat is reporting that this could actually delay Facebook’s IPO. Could it be both? Either? Neither? We reached out [...]
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May 9th, 2012 FB Facebook’s role as a social network for close to one billion people can be a weighty responsibility, and today the company took one more step in the kind of social outreach activities that befit a company with that kind of audience. It has formed a new partnership with Blue Star Families and the Department of [...]
Facebook to Marketers, It’s Time for a Click to Action
May 8th, 2012 FB Editor’s note: Brian Solis is principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm, and the author of “The End of Business As Usual.” You can follow him on Twitter @briansolis. You Like me…you really Like me. Wait. Maybe you don’t really Like me after all. According to our Facebook engagement metrics, only 1% of you actually [...]
