Showing posts with label Nasdaq. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Facebook will be judged by problems in IPO

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Facebook, the Nasdaq and banks involved in the issuance of shares of social networking are increasingly a target of several lawsuits, according to Reuters . All will be centralized in a federal court in New York (United States), which will have the task of deciding on the legal consequences of problematic IPO of Facebook.

Investors claim to have lost money for technical failures in Nasdaq and accuse Facebook of omitting unfavorable information about their business prospects to Wall Street analysts, who then would have passed the privileged investors.

The lawsuits, seeking compensation for undisclosed amounts, can cost millions of dollars in legal fees to Facebook, which claims not to have violated any rules, and blames the Nasdaq by technical problems of business on the IPO.

Although some of the cases involving different defendants and claims, a group of federal judges ruled that Americans they gather sufficient factual issues common circumstances related and shared documentation to justify centralization.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Facebook announces first results as a public company

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The Facebook released its first quarter earnings report since it became a public company when it launched its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange technology. The social network claims revenue of $ 1.184 billion, representing an increase of 32% over the same period last year. In total, Facebook had a net loss of $ 157 million, or $ 0.08 per share, in the second quarter due to costs related to its initial public offering.

Most of the revenue came from the area of ​​advertising, which raised $ 992 million in the period and exceeded 28% mark in the same quarter of 2011.

The company also announced that it has 955 million monthly active users and 552 million daily users, in a measurement made in late June. 543 million people access the social networking application on smartphones and tablets.

The trading session on Thursday closed down 8.5% in the roles of the company, mainly driven by the poor results reported by sister company Zynga .

"Our goal is that everyone is connected and that every product can provide a great social experience," said CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the reporting of results. "So we're focused on investing in our priorities in the mobile, platform and social ads so we can help people to access these experiences."

With the closing today, the company's stock fell 29% over the price of $ 38 of its initial public offering in May.