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Can Facebook stay cool now that it’s an enormous…Editor's Pick “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars,” Sean Parker says in the famous line from “The Social Network.” Trite … |
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Who’s buying Facebook stock? Experts put their money where…
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We’ve spent hours talking to and corresponding with analysts and VCs about the Facebook IPO over the past few days, and we couldn’t resist …
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Status update: Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ
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What were you doing at 9:30 a.m. Eastern? You certainly weren’t ringing the NASDAQ’s opening bell as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was doing. But …
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Why Facebook’s GM ad drama won’t impact this IPO
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The timing couldn’t have been worse. On the week of its IPO, Facebook saw one of its largest advertisers, General Motors, get up and …
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Confirmed: Facebook sets $38 share price for largest tech…
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Status update: Facebook has priced its shares at $38 apiece and will raise $16 billion (up to $18.4 billion with its over-allotment option) tomorrow …
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Today, Google web search is getting a new, bigger,…
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Finally, Google’s search algorithm is getting a huge boost from a source we can actually trust.
No, it’s not your dimwit friends and their …
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Fab.com relaunches, and it buries other social shopping experiences
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Today, Fab.com is launching its third and most ambitious version of the site, and CEO Jason Goldberg said it’s going to remind you of …
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Nvidia poised to change gaming with cloud graphics chips
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Nvidia announced today that it has created unique features in its Kepler-based graphics chips that could make cloud-based gaming much more practical. The company …
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Startup Clinic: Don’t write too much code before you…
Guest Post This is the first in a series of VentureBeat columns by award-winning author and serial entrepreneur Penelope Trunk. She's going to be our startup critic: She'll review new companies, point out what they're doing right, and give them advice (which she's never shy about anyway) for how they can improve. Her first company is Browsemob.
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World exclusive Diablo III review!!!!
Editor's Pick Almost immediately, it's obvious that Blizzard has put a ton of detail into Diablo III. I don't want to be one of those overly positive game journalists who blurts out "game of the year" at the drop of a hat but...game of the year!
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Google’s acquisition of Motorola gets the go-ahead from Chinese government
Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have approved Google’s deal to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The merger, which was announced nine months ago in August 2011, will likely close next week.
China …
Pets.com and Midwestern moms: Another look at what happened to Facebook
Hoo boy, anything tech-related that happened over this past week was dwarfed into oblivion by Facebook’s IPO.
Many of us were expecting a glorious event with massive profits for early shareholders, but the day’s events ended in disappointment.
The stock …
Silicon Valley needs humanities students
Quit your technology job. Get a Ph.D in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector. That, at least, is what philosopher Damon Horowitz told a crowd of attendees at the BiblioTech Conference at Stanford University …
No liftoff for SpaceX: Launch aborted early Saturday
The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket came to an abrupt halt early Saturday. The rocket’s computer detected too-high levels of pressure in engine number five, causing the launch to stop a half-second before liftoff.
The Falcon 9 rocket …
How were these Silicon Valley VCs so wrong about Facebook’s IPO?
Before Friday, almost every Silicon Valley insider was saying Facebook stock would finish its first day between $50 and $60 per share.
In reality, the share price at the closing bell was a pathetic $38.37.
How were these masters of …
2-D books are over: Augmented reality breathes new life into the classics
Augmented reality, which bridges the divide between virtual and physical worlds, has crossed into a new frontier: print media.
Penguin Books recently unveiled a surprising partnership with Zappar App, an augmented reality entertainment channel, to bring four novels from the …
Do not despair: Facebook revenue — and its share price — are just at the beginning
So, Facebook is now public, and it got off to the most unimaginable and inauspicious start, losing $4 between the NASDAQ’s opening and closing bells.
But don’t go jumping out any windows just yet.
There’s no question that the IPO …
For Facebook, life ain’t nothin’ but glitches and IPOs
In addition to being one of the largest initial public offerings ever, Facebook’s IPO drew so much interest that the system couldn’t keep up with demand.
Facebook expected to make its public debut at 8 a.m. PT this morning, but …
And now, here’s Zuckerberg riding the Wall Street bull, impaling investors
Leave it up to Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese firm known for its wacky news videos, to create the only Facebook IPO wrap-up that’s actually worth watching.
Sure, this Facebook wrap-up features a dead-eyed Zuckerberg riding the Wall Street bull …
Facebook amends S-1 with share allotments for IPO underwriters
Facebook released the amount of shares allocated to each of its underwriters today, following its less-than-stellar IPO day.
The company went public on the Nasdaq to an EKG-like performance, ending in a .38 cent gain today. The update came in …
Can you buy good Karma? Facebook just did
Buying its way into social commerce, Facebook has acquired mobile gifting app Karma for an undisclosed sum.
“We’re thrilled to announce that Karma has been acquired by Facebook. The service that Karma provides will continue to operate in full force,” …
Facebook disappoints on its opening day, closing down $4 from where it opened
At the end of Facebook’s first day of public trading, its shares were selling for around 9.5 percent less than their opening price.
By the time the closing bell rang, the stock ticker symbol FB sat at $38.37, according to …
Amazeballs: This anti-gravity ball can remember your touch
Is it just me, or does it feel like the “future” we all see in TV shows and movies is getting closer and closer to reality? A team of researchers at MIT have created a small atmosphere, the ZeroN, where …
The road to IPO: Here’s how Facebook grew from $3.50 to $38 a share
It’s official: Facebook is a public company.
With all the hype around Facebook’s big day and the obsession with who’s-getting-rich numbers, its easy to forget to that we’ve had a front row view of Facebook’s ascendance to $38 a share, …
Facebook alumni startup funding up 137 percent over last year
Mark Zuckerberg and his current employees aren’t the only ones making it big in Silicon Valley today. Former Facebook employees who have struck out on their own and started companies — referred to as the Facebook Mafia — have collectively …
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Can Facebook stay cool now that it’s an enormous public corporation?
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“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars,” Sean Parker says in the famous line from “The Social Network.”
Trite though the line may be, Facebook, valued at $104 billion, is in the process of minting …
Evernote hopes to be “IPO-ready” by end of 2013 (but would rather stay private)
While seemingly every other popular tech startup is aching to go public, Evernote is playing it slow and steady.
Evernote CEO Phil Libin said he hoped to make the company “IPO-ready” by the end of 2013 while speaking to a …
The Facebook IPO: What it looked like inside the company’s headquarters
Facebook began trading on the public markets for the first time today, and at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., excitement levels were high. Here's a look inside.
For Facebook IPO day, Visual.ly lets you track how much Zuckerberg is worth in real-time
While most of the tech industry is watching Facebook’s historic IPO day unfold, data startup Visual.ly is taking advantage of the situation by showing off the capabilities of its infographics service.
Today Visual.ly launched a new interactive infographic that uses …
