The Facebook IPO
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Tensions between Nasdaq and Facebook are so high that the social networking company is still considering switching exchanges and is weighing the costs of such a move, officials there said. The New York Times reports.
Wall Street's View
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A few days ago Facebook rolled out a little feature called 'Friends Nearby' that was, well, potentially a stalker's dream come true, which might be why the social network decided to nix the feature in just a few hours.
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Facebook already knows what you "like." It could be near uncovering your desires, too. As Inside Facebook first reported, Facebook might soon supplement its "like" button with a "want" button that could push the site more toward becoming a place for consumption, rather than social connection, and make commerce a mainstay of the site.
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Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld told CNBC that the firm has been "embarrassed" by the botched Facebook IPO but the exchange has no direct responsibility to individual investors.
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If the miserable Facebook IPO has kept you out of the stock market, Knight Capital CEO Tom Joyce says, you'll be sorry.
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One month after its botched initial public offering, Facebook is set to file a motion to consolidate all the shareholder lawsuits against the company, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity because the document was still private, the New York Times reports.
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From Facebook's company-obsessed culture to its rowdy company parties, a former employee is airing some of the social network's dirty laundry in a new book that was released Tuesday.
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Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is joining the social network's board of directors, the company announced Monday.
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Just how hard can it be to verify the age of a person online? The answer, it turns out, is very hard. The reality is that, online, it is extremely difficult to tell whether someone is an 11-year-old girl or a 45-year-old man.
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I did something Wednesday that I didn’t think I was ever going to be able to do. Not only did I establish a position in social media giant Facebook, but I did so while feeling good about the decision.
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Sean Parker, Facebook's first company president, rejected one analyst's claims that Facebook would "disappear in five to eight years."
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Nasdaq OMX Group proposed a "one-time" payout of about $40 million to compensate some financial firms that suffered losses from botched trades during the Facebook IPO.
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Facebook will lose dominance as a major web company in less than a decade, Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital said Monday on CNBC's Squawk on the Street.
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Facebook, the internet's top social network and the first U.S. company to start with a market capitalization of more than $100 billion at its initial public offering (IPO) last month, turned into a disappointment later as its stock price fell and one banker said this is a bad sign for other IPOs.
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With investors wondering just how low Facebook will go, Wall Street’s Henry Blodget tells us FB could have another 20% of downside.
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The market for the ads that dot smartphone and tablet screens is expected to soar to $10.8 billion in U.S. sales by 2016, from $2.6 billion expected this year, according to research firm eMarketer.
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Facebook's stock price may have taken a dive today, but the social networking giant's stock should stabilize after about two or three quarters and then will move up, according to Victor Anthony, an analyst for Topeka Capital Markets, during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk on the Street.
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Facebook's volatile IPO was the result of no one knowing how to value the social network's 900 million users, according to a recent report by the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Conflict-of-interest arguments are brewing about whether Morgan Stanley and other banks were allowed to make significant downward adjustments to Facebook's financial estimates during the deal's 9-day marketing period.
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Facebook's chief technology officer Bret Taylor is leaving the social network later this summer to work on start-ups that have not been determined, according to a report.
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Nasdaq executives are making an aggressive, behind the scenes push to stem the damage from the Facebook IPO, CNBC has learned.
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Investors, who have not been spooked by Facebook’s tumultuous market debut, will be able to get exposure to the social networking giant through an exchange-traded fund starting Friday.
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Apple has struck a new alliance with Facebook to integrate the social network into its iPhone, iPad and Mac operating system at the same time as it introduces a range of new MacBook computers.
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Investors looking to short Facebook stock are getting ‘in front of a freight train,’ analyst Laura Martin of Needham & Co. told CNBC.
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It’s possible that the underwriters’ analysts never were tipped off about any non-public information. Maybe they just all came to the same conclusion based on changes in the publicly filed IPO materials. But the only way to know for sure is for the SEC to investigate the matter.
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There are plenty of reasons Facebook's IPO had a disappointing debut on Friday, but new information is emerging on why the stock selloff nearly turned into a run on Monday.
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Word of mouth is the most powerful way to market any business. In fact, many studies have shown that consumers are more likely to make purchase decisions based on recommendations from people they know than from a brand’s marketing materials. And this is precisely what makes Facebook such a powerful marketing tool.
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Harvard Business School MBA candidates are preparing to hear from one of the school's most high profile alumnus -- Sheryl Sandberg.
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"When all the parties to a transaction are greedy, this is the kind of outcome you can expect," the leader of the Vanguard Group said of the Facebook IPO.
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While trading glitches at the Nasdaq on the company’s opening day are widely seen as contributing to the sell-off, the stock’s lingering shortcomings are raising questions about whether or not lead underwriter Morgan Stanley (along with other banks) misgauged the demand, and the price of the deal.
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The speculation about who gets what in the Facebook marriage reflects a common problem in any marriage of (financial) unequals. Experts give views on Zuck's pre-IPO nups.
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“Ironically, this is a huge plus for the IPO market ... with below-average pricings moving forward,” one IPO analyst said.
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Still waiting for your buy and sell orders on Facebook spacer to clear? That's ok, it's only money. A lot of money. Your money. In honor of the most astounding trading event of the year, Josh Brown renamed the Facebook IPO "Face-plant", which I thought was pretty funny.
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The Facebook fiasco: One party conspicuously quiet in all this is NYSE Euronext. What you have heard from it, officially, is: Zip. Zero. Nada.
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Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifeld will be on high alert Monday morning when newly public company Facebook gets set to trade after Friday's debacle. He tells Maria Bartiromo what went wrong.
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The Facebook IPO has raised a lot of questions: Has its popularity peaked? Is the stock a “buy”? And is a hoodie acceptable fashion for a CEO? We went straight to the "experts" — kids at the Mackay Elementary School in Tenafly, NJ.
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Click to see who Facebook’s investors were pre-IPO, and how much of a stake they have in the company.
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The Facebook gravy train is a long one – and some of the people who will benefit from the initial public offering are ones you might not expect.
Inside Facebook
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With more than half a billion users around the world, Facebook has altered our everyday lives for better or worse, and in ways we may not even recognize. Correspondent Lester Holt explores the real story behind the $50 billion dollar social network juggernaut.
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Facebook is bulking up its communications teams as it prepares to cope with the increased spotlight of being a public company, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Next year Mark Zuckerberg’s base salary will receive a dramatic pay cut—going from a base salary of $600,000 to just one dollar.
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In its much-anticipated IPO filing, Facebook states that its mission is “to make the world more open and connected.” Well, every place except China.
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Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a massive controlling stake — the largest by a landslide — and he's putting forth a distinctive, ambitious social mission that could alienate investors.
Facebook Timeline
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So, what did it take to change the way millions of people around the globe stay connected? Click through the interactive timeline below for some of the key dates in Facebook's history.
Key Shareholders
CNBC Facebook IPO Webinars
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What are Facebook's risks and challenges ahead of its initial public offering? CNBC Reporter Kayla Tausche lays them out in this 55-minute webinar hosted by Tyler Mathisen and recorded on May 16, 2012.
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How does Facebook make money and what are the risk factors it lists for the social network's upcoming initial public offering? CNBC Media and Entertainment Reporter Julia Boorstin goes "Inside Facebook's Money Machine" in this 40-minute webinar hosted by Tyler Mathisen and recorded on May 3, 2012.
Slideshows
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Click to see who Facebook’s investors were pre-IPO, and how much of a stake they have in the company.
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For the approximately 2,000 employees who will report to work at Facebook each day, it’s sure to be a unique work experience. Have a look at Facebook’s new Menlo Park campus.
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Just how historic is Facebook’s IPO compared to other internet-related deals? Find out.
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So, which products and companies that have changed the way the world does business? Click ahead for the list!
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Some prefer a modest place to call home, belying their rock-star-nerd status. But others have splurged, showing it really pays to be a geek after all.
Facebook Facts
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Facebook raised the roof off Wall Street with its initial public offering, which had a target valuation on the social-media giant as high as $104 billion. To see where Facebook’s IPO stands now, here are some questions and answers with updates as they happen.
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Don’t have time to wade through hundreds of pages of the Facebook registration statement?
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Watch Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of Facebook top management describe their mission — and why you should invest.