Published on May,24 2012 - by Forbes
Yesterday, Mark Cuban wrote a really interesting post giving his post-mortem on the Facebook IPO. He made several points. I thought the most interesting was this one: Mobile is going to crush Facebook. The logic for F ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Forbes
In 2007, before Nicholas Carr and Jaron Lanier, Andrew Keen published a prescient critique of Web 2.0 culture titled The Cult of the Amateur, a book that anticipated many of the problems of the web today. It was ...
Published on May,22 2012 - by Forbes
I recently caught up with Andrew Keen about his new book, Digital Vertigo: How Today?s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us. You might know Andrew from his popular TechCrunch TV show ...
Published on May,21 2012 - by Forbes
Facebook shares are tanking in early trading Monday in what is almost certainly going to be viewed as a black-eye for everyone involved ? for the company, for Morgan Stanley and the other bankers on last Friday?s IPO and ...
Published on May,20 2012 - by Forbes
They promised us the Big Bang. The Facebook initial public offering was the beginning of a new Wall Street universe. The end of the doldrums. Instead, we got tepid. If that. Spin it however you prefer but, for me, the Fa ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Forbes
In some ways, the Facebook IPO feels like the crowning moment of the Web 2.0 era, following previous public debuts by LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, Pandora and Yelp, among others. But it turns out there are a lot more – a L ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Forbes
Mr. Market moves in mysterious ways. But maybe we all should have seen this coming. In what has to be one of the most highly anticipated over-hyped initial public offerings of all time, Facebook came public today at $38 ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Forbes
On the day when the world?s biggest social media company was officially unveiled as a public entity, the world?s billionaires took to another form of social media to discuss the implications. A number of billionaires ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Forbes
A small army of Facebook employees and early investors will wake up Friday morning with increased clarity about the magnitude of their substantially higher net worth. With this wealth comes tremendous opportunity. And ...
Published on May,17 2012 - by Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The historic initial public offering of Facebook Inc did not go as planned on Friday, as the social networking company's sky-high valuation combined with trading glitches left the stock ...