Genomics startup NanoString files for IPO in spite of consistent losses

Not content with the research side, NanoString places a lot of emphasis on its technology's usefulness in clinical settings for present-day patient care. Unfortunately, one of the biggest risk factors for this IPO is the company's consistent losses.

Facebook IPO may be delayed due to Instagram buy, other distractions

Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offerings might be delayed due some of the company’s recent high dollar purchases, unnamed sources familiar with the matter tell CNBC.

Rumors have been circulating that Facebook management had targeted the IPO for May, with …

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

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 …

Zynga to sell 43M shares in secondary offering, bought OMGPOP for $180M

Zynga filed a revised S-1 this morning with the SEC that contained a number of interesting details. It pegged the price of its recent purchase of NYC game company OMGPOP at $180 million. The filing also revealed the company will …

Two Facebook graphs Wall Street analysts and investors should ignore

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 …

Beware the king: Zuckerberg’s voting power a risk to shareholders

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 …

Power play: How Zuckerberg wrested control of Facebook from his shareholders

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 …

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

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."

BREAKING: Facebook files its S-1; let the IPO hoopla begin

Facebook has filed its S-1 form with the SEC, announcing its intention to go public.

The SEC filing is included at the end of this post for your convenience, since this news has understandably had a negative impact on the 

Facebook made $1B on $3.7B in revenue last year

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 …