Tag: "IPO"
Twitter IPO Sees Stock Price up 72%
Twitter made a grand entrance on their Wall Street debut with shares from the initial public offering (IPO) price of $26 USD shooting up to over $50 USD at one stage in late trading. At the end of the day, the stock closed with a one-day gain of 73 percent at $44.90USD. Twitter offered 70 […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Tweets Intent to File For IPO
After much speculation from the technology and media community (over many years), Twitter has acknowledged that they are filing for their Initial Public Offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Facebook is now valued at over $100 Billion USD thanks to strong financial performance over the past year. It will be interesting to […]
Read More | ShareShould you buy Facebook Stock?
On 18th May 2012, Facebook users realised just how much their shares and likes were worth in the stock market as Facebook was traded for the first time on Wall Street. Some fans were excited to buy a share of the 104 billion dollar company. To most, it felt great to own something in Facebook […]
Read More | ShareFacebook IPO – First Day Trading, $104 Billion USD Value
Early this morning Australian time – Facebook shares started trading on the NASDAQ and the company raised more than $16 Billion USD. At the end of trading on Day1 Facebook is valued at $104 Billion USD. Mark Zuckerberg still holds 55.8% of the voting power of Facebook shares and also owns over 18% of the […]
Read More | ShareZynga takes on the ‘real world’
I have a confession to make. I used to be addicted to FarmVille. I would spend hours every day planting and harvesting my crops, making my little avatar walk all around my plot. I would buy cottages, keep animals, and I had an orchard running the edge of my land. It was wonderful. And I […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Mobile Ads
There is speculation that Facebook may be looking to introduce some form of ads into the mobile version of their site early next year. Currently Google and Apple lead the way in mobile display advertising, with smaller stakes to Millennial Media, Yahoo and Microsoft. With Facebook’s huge reach and high mobile usage (around 350 million […]
Read More | ShareYelp to file for IPO
Local Recommendations website Yelp is looking to file for Initial Public Offering (IPO) so it can raise $100 million USD. No price per share has been determined yet, but the company is expected to have a valuation of around $1-$2 billion USD. Google offered Yelp $500 million for the site last year, which Yelp declined. […]
Read More | ShareZynga IPO – November
Zygna, the Social Gaming company is reported to be filing for IPO next month in mid-November. Zygna has become a successful company by their numerous gaming applications on Facebook, such as: FarmVille, MafiaWars, Zygna Poker, City Ville, Empires & Allies being their most popular games. Zygna has now also started building games on Google Plus. […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn IPO, What Happened?!
LinkedIn yesterday had their initial public offering with shares initially being sold by LinkedIn shareholders to the open market for around $45 USD each. Morgan Stanley and Bank of America were LinkedIn’s underwriters whom managed the deal. It seems they have underpriced the stock considerably as LinkedIn shares are now trading above $80 USD a […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn to go Public, IPO soon
LinkedIn has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to publicly sell its shares on the open market. LinkedIn generated $120 million USD revenue in 2009 and from private trading the company has a valuation of around $3 billion USD. The site currently has 90 million members, with a reported 1 new member […]
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