This morning at the Paley Center for Media, David Kirkpatrick, senior editor for Internet and technology at Fortune, and veteran venture capitalist Alan Patricof, dissected the Facebook IPO, and what an interesting dissection it was. To Kirkpatrick, the stock’s plummet (at least by IPO standards) was the result of at least two factors: Nasdaq mishandling and the …
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Jun 11
This Week on FORA.tv: Where Does Facebook Go From Here?
Find out what’s ahead this week on FORA.tv. Facebook’s highly anticipated IPO opened last month with a fizzle rather bang, and has limped along ever since with several large investors considering options on how to recoup their losses. On another front, Facebook has had to defend the effectiveness of its advertising model, after several reports …
May 03
Facebook Valued at $86 Billion
The bankers have set Facebook’s initial stock price at $28 to $35 a share, which values the company at somewhere around $86 billion, making it one of the most value corporations in the world. According to an article in the New York Times, Facebook should start trading on Nasdaq May 17 or May 18. At …