SF News Look Out: Here Comes The Twitter IPO If you have friends who work at Twitter, or if you have friends who concern themselves with such things, be prepared to be hearing an earful about the long-term profitability and valuation of
SF News Facebook Stock Climbs Back Up to Its IPO Price Well, listen up now, all ye who delighted in the tumbling share price of Facebook stock after it hit the open market in May 2012 at $38 per share: It took a little
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Makes $500 Million Donation To Charity (In Facebook Stock) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a hefty charitable donation this holiday season. The 28-year-old entrepreneur, who pledged two years ago to give away at least half of his wealth to charity, has gifted
SF News Instagram Deal Could Lose $273 Million Thanks To Facebook's Plummeting Stock The $1 billion price Facebook agreed to shell out for Instagram back in April might turn out to be more than 25% lighter by the time the deal finally goes through. That deal
SF News Facebook Stock Price Sinks To New Low It's a tough post-IPO world out there for Facebook, apparently. Right before more than 271 million additional shares of the company's stock came up for sale today, the company's stock price hit it's
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Falls Off Billionaire Top Ten List As Facebook's share price took another tumble last week, Mark Zuckerberg got knocked off a list of the world's ten richest techie billionaires. He temporarily lost $423 million of his personal, on-paper fortune
SF News Facebook's Ugly IPO Mess Blamed on One Guy at Morgan Stanley So, Facebook shares are still at about $32, which isn't quite as bad as a couple of weeks ago but still 15% below the IPO price of $38. Today the Wall Street Journal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mark Zuckerberg Forgets To Tip, Eats McDonald's While On Roman Honeymoon At the risk of finding ourselves becoming Mark Zuckerberg's financial apologists, the tabloids are out to nail the bajillionaire Facebook CEO for being cheap (again). His offense this time? Stiffing the waitstaff at
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Facebook IPO Parody Rap In the vein of Funny or Die, this new video from American Hipster is only kinda funny. But it features a fake Zuckerberg getting a piggy back ride from a fake Sean Parker,
SF News Just Days After Rocky IPO, Investors Sue Facebook As Facebook's stock fell just days after trading, three investors filed suit against the company today, along with underwriters Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, accusing them of withholding damaging information about the social
SF News Gossip Mongers Discuss Mark Zuckerberg's Marital Finances Despite seeming relatively normal, as far as the weddings of the rich & loaded go, Mark Zuckerberg's post-IPO nuptials drew plenty of speculation about whether the Silicon Valley wunderkind strategically timed the ceremony
SF News Media Descends On Facebook's Less-Than-Stellar Second Day Trading After closing 23 cents above its record-breaking IPO price of $38 on Friday, Facebook's stock dipped 11 to 13 percent to $33.87, at least as of early this morning. Patience will most
SF News Facebook Underwriters Prop Up Their Investment, Stock Closes Flat at $38.23 In the last minutes of trading today, a team of underwriters lead by fat cat brokerage house Morgan Stanley had to rush in to buy up shares of Facebook to keep their investment
SF News Internet Luminaries Weigh In On Facebook IPO It's been a couple of hours since Mark Zuckerberg pulled the fire alarm rang in Facebook's fresh new stock from Menlo Park this morning. While the media is predictably crapping their pants over
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's New Facebook IPO Status Update: Listed Company On NASDAQ OMG OMG OMG—Facebook's initial public offering is today, with sales of the social media stock going on sale at 8 a.m. PST. But founder Mark Zuckerberg and many others are becoming
SF News Facebook Names A Price: $38 Per Share Facebook will unleash its historic initial public offering at $38 a share. Billed as the largest internet IPO in history, the deal should garner the social networking mammoth around "$16 billion in proceeds,
SF News Before IPO, People Are Kind Of 'Meh' About Facebook In General As Mark Zuckerberg continues to make up for all the fun he missed out on in college by taking a roadtrip with a few of his best executive Facebook buds, the touring dog
SF News Steve Wozniak Would Invest In Facebook, No Matter The Price Famed Apple engineer/cofounder and living teddy bear Steve Wozniak said that, if he does plan on buying, he would purchase coveted shares in Facebook when it goes live this week, no matter
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg! Today in history: Bajillionaire mayor of Silicon Valley Mark Zuckerberg turns 28 years old. And just days before Facebook is expected to go public. While you're reeling about in a constant state of
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Will Save California! The messiah Mark Zuckerberg is poised to save California and its impending financial ruin. More or less. How so? Facebook will have to pay so very many millions in taxes after the initial
SF News The Chronicle Thinks Facebook Stock Could Be A Tough Sell There's a curmudgeony piece in the Business section of the Chron today titled "Facebook must convince investors of its value" and goes on to quote one analyst who tries to compare Facebook's upcoming,
SF News Facebook To Debut Around $30 Per Share, $80 Billion Valuation As Zuckerberg and Company gear up for their big debutante ball, when they'll spend the next two weeks meeting with investors and shopping their stock around, the company has released an estimated price
SF News Facebook Buying Instagram For $1 Billion Writing in (where else) a status update from Palo Alto this morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company has agreed to purchase San Francisco-based social photography app Instagram for a reported $1
Arts & Entertainment Callers On NPR Whine About How Facebook Has Ruined Their Lives Michael Krasny took on the Facebook IPO today on Forum (a morning talk show on NPR's Bay Area affiliate), and not surprisingly, the call-in audience had A LOT to say about how Facebook
SF News Facebook IPO: Graffiti Artist David Choe Stands To Score $200 Million When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David
