tag: Facebook S-1

Facebook updates investors on Yahoo and Ceglia suits in amended S-1

March 27, 2012 3:58 PM Jennifer Van Grove

Facebook amended its prospectus Tuesday to update would-be IPO investors on the status of two highly publicized legal matters.

The company also added comScore data from January showing a 57 percent increase from 2011 in the aggregate minutes per day …

Facebook’s mobile ad strategy is a risk for Facebook and its advertisers (analysis)

February 29, 2012 3:47 PM Sarah Mitroff

Sarah Mitroff

Facebook’s mobile ads, announced today, are an attempt to patch one of the biggest holes in the company’s revenue model.

Until today, the company didn’t have any way to make money from its mobile apps due to the lack of …

Facebook and the big IPO letdown

February 13, 2012 12:25 PM Vivek Wadhwa, WashingtonPost.com

Facebook’s IPO has raised hopes in Silicon Valley that the tech industry’s days of wine and roses will soon be back with hundreds of startups going public. Even President Obama seems excited. He recently proposed an “IPO on-ramp” to help …

Facebook’s growth by the numbers (infographic)

February 6, 2012 10:24 AM Heather Kelly

Heather Kelly

Buried in Facebook's 21,890 word registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are a ton of new facts and figures about the social media company. Since there's a larger-than-usual amount of buzz surrounding Facebook upcoming initial public offering, one of the best ways to cut through the noise is to look at the numbers.

Two Facebook graphs Wall Street analysts and investors should ignore

February 2, 2012 3:07 PM Rakesh Agrawal

Rakesh Agrawal

Wall Street likes data. Annual reports and quarterly reports move markets. If Wall Street could access daily data on the ins-and-outs of a company, it would. Hedge funds have been known to use analysis of satellite imagery of Wal-Mart parking …

Facebook says “mobile” is big risk — starting with Android and iOS

February 1, 2012 3:47 PM Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall

Facebook said its users are increasingly using mobile devices, and that this is risky because the social network still hasn’t figured out how it can make money from mobile ads.

A majority of Facebook users still access the site on …

How “The Hacker Way” helped propel Facebook to market dominance

February 1, 2012 3:38 PM Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

Facebook's core values include a powerful, results-oriented, anti-theoretical philosophy called "The Hacker Way," according to founder Mark Zuckerberg.

"The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration," Zuckerberg writes. "Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it -- often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo."