Nasdaq responds to upset Facebook investors with a chunk of cash

One day after admitting it screwed up, Nasdaq is planning to make things right with investors who lost money over trading glitches during the Facebook IPO. Nasdaq is planning to spend $13 million to make amends for bad trades that …

Facebook shares fall to $33 on second day of trading

Facebook’s shares tumbled this morning to a low of $33.01, well below the company’s initial price of $38 on Friday.

Pre-market trading of Facebook’s stock was already below $38, reports USA Today, but it quickly sank to $33 within the …

Nasdaq admits screwing up early Facebook IPO trading

Nasdaq chief exec Robert Greifeld admitted Sunday that the exchange was at fault for some glitches in early trading of Facebook’s IPO but said it had nothing to do with the stock’s uninspired performance.

Social networking service Facebook went public …

Ever-busy Zuckerberg marries sweetheart the day after Facebook IPO

As if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t busy enough readying his company to go public this past week, he also somehow found time to marry long-time sweetheart Priscilla Chan yesterday.

Social networking titan Facebook went public Friday in the largest …

Would Facebook’s IPO have been bigger if it went with New York Stock Exchange?

The all-computer run NASDAQ could be to blame for a lack of a Facebook stock pop Friday, when the social network started its first day of trading. Orders flooded in for the stock, but overwhelmed computers and glitches slowed trading …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Can Facebook stay cool now that it’s an enormous public corporation?

“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 …

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 …

Facebook hit with $15B class-action suit over user privacy

Just hours before Facebook opened on the public market today, a group of Facebook users sued the company in a $15 billion class-action lawsuit over privacy, according to Bloomberg.

Facebook has attracted scrutiny for quite some time when it comes …

Facebook’s opening price values Instagram at $1.27B and Kevin Systrom at $506M

Facebook is looking mighty fine today — especially if you’re Instagram, the photo-sharing company that sold its hit mobile application to the social network one month ago for a cool $1 billion in cash and stock.

But wait. Did we …

Amid unexpected Facebook slump, other tech stocks sink

You know what they say about a rising tide lifting all the boats. Well, the same goes for a waning tide, apparently.

As Facebook stock dips lower and lower in early trading, at times as low as its $38 initial …