The legal team at Yahoo reached out to Facebook yesterday, at the same time as they were briefing the New York Times, to give the social networking giant the heads up that it would be seeking licensing fees on ten …
As popular ticketing startup Eventbrite moves slowly toward a likely IPO in the next year, the company’s financial situation appears strong with more than doubled revenue in 2011, the company has revealed exclusively to VentureBeat.
This has been quite a …
Yelp has amended its SEC S-1 filing to show a starting price of $12 to $14 per share of Yelp stock.
The shares will make their debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol YELP.
The most recent …
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The past two years have seen a marked rebound in the number of venture-backed technology companies that are going public. After the depths of the “great recession” in 2009, it’s quite a relief for venture capitalists and those who invest …
Groupon reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company this week and blew away its numbers — in the sense that it stopped reporting key numbers investors need to assess the health of its business.
Based on generally accepted …
There were a lot of doubters who said Groupon was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme looking to cash out with an IPO. Groupon just reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company, and did better than many on …
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 …
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No one knows how hard the mighty can fall quite like Mike Jones. Jones was MySpace’s most recent CEO; his job was to assess a faltering social app and see if it was saveable.
Since Jones saw a once-powerful network …
As VentureBeat’s Jolie O’Dell pointed out yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg managed to strike a deal with some key investors and friends that gives him 57 percent of the shareholder voting power. For a public company, it’s an almost unheard …
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Mark Zuckerberg controls a majority of Facebook’s voting rights, and will continue to enjoy that control after it goes public, according to an unusual arrangement he struck with some key investors and colleagues among Facebook’s shareholders.
A string of voting …
Facebook’s second in command COO Sheryl Sandberg was compensated millions more than any other Facebooker in 2011 — founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg included.
The social network’s leading lady took home $295,833 in base salary, $86,133 in bonus money, and …
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 …
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."
With Facebook’s just-released S-1 filing, we’re getting a better picture of how the company is competing in the mobile sphere. We already knew the company had more than 800 million registered members, and now we know it had more than …
Facebook filed for an initial public offering today, and included an updated report on the giant social network’s user and usage data.
The company’s total number of active monthly users, which it defines as registered Facebook users who have logged …
Facebook has been on a rocket ride to social network dominance. Now we know that it’s making some money from that ride.
The social-networking company made $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, according to the S-1 documents it filed with …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg owns 28.2 percent of the company, according to Facebook's just-released IPO S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Facebook's initial public offering is one of the most hyped technology events of the year, and the company is expected to debut on the stock market in May. Its stock ticker symbol will be "FB." The company has not yet named a starting price has yet been named, but Facebook said in the filing that it expects to raise at least $5 billion in the IPO.
If Facebook files its paperwork for an initial public offering this week, as many expect it to do, we’ll be on the road to one of the biggest tech IPOs in recent history.
The offering will probably raise $10 billion …
Social network king Facebook will likely file its first papers with regulators on Wednesday morning for a $5 billion initial public offering, “sources close to the deal” have told Reuters subsidiary IFR.
We heard at the end of last week …
When Facebook’s S-1 filing comes out (which could be as soon as tomorrow, if you believe the Wall Street Journal), we’ll see a lot of risks in it.
The S-1 is the first and most significant document that a …
