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THE REPERCUSSIONS from Facebook’s botched initial public offering deepened on yesterday as Fidelity Investments found itself dealing with “thousands” of customers with order problems and Knight Capital demanded tens of millions of dollars in compensation from Nasdaq for trading-related losses.

NEW YORK -- Facebook's rocky initial public offering hasn't stopped life at the world's biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone.The app can be downloaded from Apple's App Store and works like most other camera applications for smart phones. To take a photo, you tap a camera icon in the upper left corner of your screen, aim and shoot. You can ...

Facebook and banks including Morgan Stanley are being sued by the social networking leader's shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid Facebook's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering.

mrquagmire writes with this snippet from CNET: "Facebook shareholders have sued the social network, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a number of banks, alleging that crucial information was concealed ahead of Facebook's IPO. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan this morning, charges the defendants with failing to disclose in the critical days leading up to Friday's initial public ...

Facebook is facing a federal probe into its disastrous floatation in the stock market after it emerged that underwriters may not have given investors critical information before the site's initial public offering last week.

Nasdaq will make the final decisions on making up losses sustained by brokers and traders after glitches struck the initial public offering of Facebook, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said.

AFTER THE incessant build-up to Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) last Friday, the end result probably left more than a few humming the old Peggy Lee song, “Is That All There Is?”

Facebook shares fell below their $38 issue price in premarket trading, as support from banks which underwrote the initial public offering dissipated after Friday's market debut.

Facebook Inc went public last Friday with a big-bang initial public offering (IPO) of shares that valued the company at more than $104 billion (R566,600 crore). While the share on the first day of listing gained a mere 37 cents from its IPO issue price of $38 per share, there is little doubt that the clamour for shares led to a pre-listing frenzy.

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Bono's investment group Elevation Partners stands to make more than $15 billion in the initial public offering of Facebook stock Nasdaq reports Elevation Partners bought 23 percent of the social network company for $90 million in 2009 Facebook is expected to raise $16 billion in its IPO which would be the...

Facebook Inc. priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, giving the world's No. 1 online social network a $104 billion valuation in the third largest offering in U.S. history.

Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled a $91-billion budget proposal Monday that reflects a steadily worsening fiscal picture for California. It freezes construction of new courthouses, sharply cuts health and welfare spending and reduces state payrolls by 5%. About the only positive note is an expected Facebook initial public offering that should kick $1.5 billion in tax revenues into the state's coffers b...

Facebook's $11.8 billion initial public offering will cement the status of 27-year-old Mark Zuckerberg as one of the world's richest men and put his social network among the highest-valued companies in the US.

Facebook will launch an initial public offering on May 18, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal (and summarized here at the AP, for those who aren't registered WSJ users). Some of the social networking giant's advertisers question whether they're getting their money's worth.

FACEBOOK now has more than 900m members worldwide, as calculations reveal that Mark Zuckerberg’s social network values itself at $77billion (£476bn). Despite the strong user growth, the eight-year-old company posted a fall in revenue and profits in the first quarter of 2012. Ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO) later in the year, Facebook has spent some $500m buying up ...

Cambodia's first stock exchange finally starts trading following the initial public offering of a state-owned water company.

CVC Capital Partners has tapped Goldman Sachs (GS) as it explores a possible sale of part of its stake in Formula One in an initial public offering, according to anonymous sources close to the matter. As Bloomberg is reporting, a deal to sell part of the private equity firm’s 63.4% stake could value the auto-racing [...]

Pricing initial public offering above targeted range a sign of strong investor demand

When it comes to information privacy concerns, Facebook already has a bullseye on its back. That won't change now that Facebook is going public in its highly anticipated Initial Public Offering. But disclosure rules affecting publicly traded companies may force Facebook to reveal privacy-related investigations that it otherwise might have kept secret.

Facebook could file as early as next week papers for its much-anticipated initial public offering, which will value the social networking site at up to $100 billion.

Facebook is preparing for an initial public stock offering next year while it looks to raise $10 billion to jolt its company to a value well over $100 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.