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Nokia n900 nokia price ebey 200 Dlls What would be the price the next year??
Sorry, Here there are only numbers
Uncertain prospects Smartphone
Smartphone by next year??? Not relevant!!!
The big problem is the number of shares Offerings 421,233,615
Facebook is just an album!!!...
Thieves 'like' Facebook cash photo
A WOMAN has been robbed after her daughter posted pictures of a large amount of cash on Facebook.
The 17-year-old girl was helping her grandmother count her personal savings in their Sydney home last Thursday afternoon when she took a photo of the cash and posted it on her Facebook page.
Later that night, two men armed with a knife and wooden club allegedly broke into the Southern Highlands house of the girl's mother demanding to talk to the girl about the money.
The woman told the intruders the girl no longer lived at the house but they searched it and took a small amount of cash and personal items.
No one was injured during the incident.
Police are warning social media users to be careful about what they post.
Now that Facebook is public and we are able to buy stock, it probably makes us all wonder how Zuckerberg at the age of 28 has been able to make it rich at such a young age with an idea that could have been thought up by anyone in a dorm room. Many start-ups could only wish to make the amount of money that Facebook has since it launched. Here is a fun tool by ForexTicket, that uses the date your start-up began to calculate how much your start-up would make if you were Mark Zuckerberg.
Have a laugh and don’t be discouraged, instead let it motivate you to work harder and promote your start-up even more so one day you too can make it on the world’s richest list. We wish you luck friends!
Just for fun we calculated the Socialeyezer blog and we too hung our heads and sighed…lol.
Over 1000M Volume and price target 28 grew to 30???
Mark Zuckerberg Officially a Billionaire
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is now officially a billionaire. Until now, Mr. Zuckerberg has been staggeringly rich only on paper.
On Tuesday, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the 28-year-old founder completed the sale of 30.2 million Facebook shares at $37.58 each. That will give Mr. Zuckerberg a not insubstantial $1,134,916,000 in cash.
Previously only a paper billionaire, he is now a real billionaire.
Other Facebook employees will have to wait. The S.E.C. maintains a 180-day lockup period for employees, their friends and family, and venture capitalists.
The transaction appears to have been done so Mr. Zuckerberg can pay his taxes, an exception to the lockup rule. If Mr. Zuckerberg decides in the future to go on a shopping spree and buy, say, a small country, he still owns more than 500 million shares, which are worth over $15 billion even as the price dips.
It’s a good job Mr. Zuckerberg didn’t wait until Wednesday to sell his first chunk of shares. The company stock closed at $32 even, which would have netted him only $966 million. And as we all know, being a millionaire isn’t cool. A billionaire, on the other hand, now that’s cool.
$16,006,877,370 Initial Public Offerings
http://ipoportal.edgar-online.com/ipo/ipoOfferings.asp?view=priced&ipo=1
New price target $32.00
The target price from $28 to grew $32 earning $4 in 5 sessions
Did Facebook Screw Up its Own IPO?
Facebook management pushed for a high opening share price of $38 and even negotiated sweetheart commission rates with its underwriters, but it now looks like the plunge in stock price since the opening bell last Friday many not have been the fault of investors or the market.
NASDAQ executives were apologizing profusely over the weekend for what they determined to be inadequacies in the network’s ability to handle cancellations in the staging prior to the opening bell. But when stock prices continued to slide on Monday and Tuesday, observers began looking for other possible underlying causes. The reason? Most of the activity was being driven by institutional trades, so somewhere in the halls of the big Wall Street firms, there must have been a back conversation taking place.
Indeed, Reuters’ Alistair Barr reported that the research analysts at the company’s lead underwriters—Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan—had cut their earnings estimates for Facebook during the company’s IPO roadshow – a move seen as highly unusual, if not unprecedented in the history of IPOs. That has regulators looking into the IPO now.
Henry Blodget, the former equities analyst and editor and CEO of Business Insider who was himself banned from securities trading in the early 2000s, said in a report today that he’s been given the real scoop.
According to his exclusive story in Business Insider, sources say an unnamed Facebook executive intimated to the underwriters during its roadshow last week that second quarter earnings may not be as good as the first quarter of 2012 – which would have made it the first contiguous quarterly loss in the company’s history.
“The analysts cut their estimates because a Facebook executive who knew the business was weak told them to,” wrote Blodget. “Put differently, the company basically pre-announced that its second quarter would fall short of analysts’ estimates. But it only told the underwriter analysts about this.
“At best,” said Blodget, “this ‘selective disclosure’ of the estimate cut is grossly unfair to investors who bought Facebook stock on the IPO (or at any time since) and didn’t know about it. At worst, it’s a violation of securities laws.”
Blodget acknowledged that he was unable to get official confirmation of this story, perhaps because there are signs that an SEC investigation into the IPO may be imminent. “Most official communications channels have gone silent,” he wrote.” Facebook declined to comment. Morgan Stanley did not return a call and email seeking comment. We have spoken to several sources familiar with aspects of the transaction. We do not have complete details yet, but a general picture of what happened is starting to take shape.”
Of course, this could all be just a case of blaming the new guy. Facebook, as an unsavy participant in the IPO process, may be seen as weak enough to take much of the blame for any non-systemic problems that may have caused the stock slide. It’s certainly possible that there is enough blame to go all the way around the circle.
Or it could just be that the stock was simply overvalued and the market responded reasonably.
Or it could be that Blodget has a bone to pick and this was his best shot.
If the accusations are true, they could indicate foul play in the form of a selective disclosure.
One thing is already clear
It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.
Investment Firms Warned Off Facebook IPO In Advance While Small-Timers Lose Big Money
In the days leading up to last Friday's initial public offering for Facebook stock, the company raised the IPO price by several dollars a share, leading many small-level and amateur investors to wonder if maybe there was something more to the company than a place to post photos of you and your friends waiting in line to see Men In Black III. But at the same time, large investment firms were reportedly bailing on sinking their money into the social media site.
The Wall Street Journal reports on how the folks at L.A.-based Capital Research & Management scaled back the firm's Facebook investment as the clock ticked down to the IPO, following discussions about the stock with Morgan Stanley, one of the banks underwriting the deal.
It's not talked about very much, but as part of the preparations for an IPO, securities firms are not forbidden from having selective chats with a few large investors.
"Wall Street firms, for their part, say they give certain information to big clients because the clients pay for this type of data," writes the Journal. "It is typical in an IPO for analysts or sales staff to give certain information to clients, they added. But that usually doesn't apply to small investors."
Thus, while these large firms were able to protect the piles of cash they would otherwise have invested in a stock that finished its fourth day of trading $10 below the initial sale price, individuals — like the retired St. Louis woman who bought 3,000 Facebook shares at that peak value of $42 — are now staring into the investor's abyss.
"We don't get the information that these institutional fund managers are getting," says the woman, who has lost — at least on paper — $30,000. "We're at a disadvantage."
Bloomberg has the story of a data systems manager in Louisiana who has been watching his $4,000 investment deflate like something that deflates really quickly and is really depressing to watch deflate.
"It's disheartening to know that things get over-hyped," he confesses. "That's about a 12th of my annual income — so a month's salary."
The Facebook fiasco (which, for all anyone actually knows, could eventually turn around and be the greatest investment ever made) has regulators, legislators and lawyers putting the whole IPO process under a microscope.
"Analysts should not be giving opinions about the IPO at the same time their firms are acting as underwriters," one securities lawyer — not currently involved in any Facebook-related litigation — tells the Journal about the practice of pre-IPO info-sharing. "They should not be giving information that's not in the prospectus to favored clients."
One Week After IPO, Zuckerberg’s Wife Files for Divorce
Mark Zuckerberg is having a really bad week.
With his company’s stock tanking, the Facebook founder’s wife of less than a week, Priscilla Chan, announced she’s leaving him.
California is a community property state, so with no prenuptial agreement in place, Zuck stands to lose about 10 billion dollars.
“Mark and I had a good run,” Chan told OMGG.com. “Unfortunately, at the rate Facebook stock is dropping, every day I stay with him is costing me a fortune.”
Will you invest in Facebook? Certainly!!! A target price of $28!!!
This Is A Visualization Of How Facebook Employees Are Reacting To The IPO Chaos
The WSJ reports: "While Wall Street moved into crisis mode over Facebook Inc.'s fumbled initial public offering, employees at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters had an entirely different response: a shrug."
"Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., office, many employees either ignored the news of stock-price declines, or studiously avoided talking about it, according to people familiar with the matter. Public employee posts on Facebook that just days ago celebrated the IPO in photos and congratulatory notes have dried up to a trickle."
A source of ours close to Facebook employees corroborates.
"I think the WSJ article summed it up. It's a shrug. Stay focused on the mission. This is a long long term battle. Mark is like a Bezos or a Jobs. Ignore the noise."
This is a smart reaction. The IPO may have been a mess, but Facebook itself is actually in phenomenal shape at the moment.
Here is a visual:
facebook Par Value $28.00
Renren (RENN) Volatility Rises Amid Facebook Weakness; Shares Break Below Key ...
The 11 analysts offering 12-month price forecasts for Renren Inc have a median target of 5.40, with a high estimate of 8.00 and a low estimate of 3.20. The median estimate represents a +17.65% increase from the last price of 4.59.
The current consensus among 13 polled investment analysts is to Hold stock in Renren Inc. This rating has held steady since May, when it was unchanged from a Hold rating.
Analyst forecasts for current quarter earnings per share estimate are $0.04.
Analyst forecasts for current quarter sales estimate are share are $29.7M
Renren Inc. (NYSE: RENN) shares are getting hit Monday, no doubt as Facebook has begun selling on weakness.
Volatility for Renren is up 16 - 17 percent and 117 percent over its trailing historical average.
Shares are down about 8.9 percent, though off of session lows. Renren also broke below its 50-day SMA and 200-day Daily SMA, at $5.94 and $5.44, respectively.
Why Did Zynga's Stock Drop After Facebook Went Public?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/why-did-zyngas-stock-drop-after-facebook-went-public/257395/
Some investors still await confirmation on Facebook orders
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After the shares began trading, Nasdaq had problems confirming trade orders to investors, resulting in confusion over what trades had been executed.
Nasdaq had all orders, executed or not, returned to member firms by 1:50 p.m. EDT (1750 GMT) on Friday, according to a trading alert issued by the exchange on Monday morning.
But Morgan Stanley's brokerage affiliate, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, e-mailed its advisers, also on Monday morning, that a "large number" of market orders entered on Friday for Facebook shares had still not been reconciled, according to an adviser at the firm, who is not allowed to talk to the media and who declined to be identified.
The brokerage, in which Citigroup also has a minority interest, is working to "reconcile" the issue manually, according to the email.
A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman declined to comment. A call to Nasdaq OMX Group Inc, which trades Facebook shares, was not returned.
"I heard a lot of brokers ranting and raving on Friday about this," said the adviser, who was still waiting for confirmation of one client's "sell" order for Facebook shares from Friday.
Fidelity Investments was still waiting for confirmation on some of its brokerage clients' trades as of Monday afternoon, a spokesman said.
While the firm did receive execution confirmations of some trades over the weekend from market makers, it was still awaiting final responses on others, a spokesman said.
"Fidelity continues to deal with the aftermath of Friday's market issues in delayed processing of orders for Facebook stock," a Fidelity spokesman said. "As they did then, Fidelity's systems continue to operate normally, but unfortunately, our clients continue to feel the effects of this in some cases. We are working aggressively to address these issues."
Similarly Charles Schwab Corp was still waiting for some trades to be resolved as of Monday afternoon, a spokesman said.
Nasdaq said on Monday it is changing its initial public offering trading procedures as a result of the glitches in Facebook's market debut. Facebook stock closed down $4.20, or 10.99 percent, to $34.03 on Monday.
(Reporting By Jessica Toonkel; Editing by Matthew Lewis, Steve Orlofsky, Tim Dobbyn and Carol Bishopric)
Mark Zuckerberg facebook and Martha Stewart on The Simpsons
You know what's funny? Reading stories written last week (before Friday) about $FB's stock price.