On a day when Wall Street darling Apple hit new highs, making it the most valuable company ever ("not adjusted for inflation":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/20/apple-just-became-the-most-valuable-company-in-history-update), ex-darling Facebook co…
With the 3-month lockup period expiring Thursday, Facebook stock plummeted to record lows as insiders scrambled to make bank while they still can. Since its ridiculously hyped, massively overpriced IPO, Facebook has eviscerated nearly half its value,…
One of China’s four sacred Buddhist mountains could be listed on a stock exchange in two years by planning a Facebook-like IPO, "according to state-run Xinhua news agency":http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/07/06/will-pure-lands-gold-rush-pay-ou…
Thirty-five-year-old Kenneth Mike Merrill, resident of Portland, Oregon, is a publicly traded person. Just as a person might say their parents want the best for them and are invested in their future, Merrill’s parents are literally invested. As ar…
Let's not forget everything Facebook has done for us. In leveraging our social curiosity and innate egomania, Mark Zuckerberg unleashed a social revolution, compelling us to share even the most mundane aspects of our lives. No longer anonymous trolls…
Long an oasis of innovation and meritocracy, Silicon Valley has often represented all that is pure in capitalism, a place where guys dare to dream big and big dreams come true, making its players outrageously wealthy, but also producing the kinds of
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It was an election year. An exciting new company, founded just seven years ago, was ready for its big IPO, a symbolic gesture to the world that they had officially made it. Many were curious about this new “walled garden” community that was sweeping…
Apparently, Facebook is opening stock options to the public this Friday. I know about a lot of things, but the stock market is not one of them. However, I have seen the '80s guy episode of _Futurama_, where Fry and his Wall Street pal take control of…
There are no shortage of oracle bones to presage the outcome of Silicon Valley’s largest ever IPO, no shortage of kindle for the raging pyre of hype.
Ones and Zeros is Motherboard’s weekly investigation into the particle accelerator that is the internet.
Investors this week have been chattering about what they’ve deemed to be “marks of immaturity” for the traveling CEO during Facebook’s pre-IPO roadshow. The guy wore a hoodie?! How crass.
I was lurking around Twitter a couple mornings ago, doing my usual routine of checking up on old boyfriends, current crushes, and the Iron Sheik, and my entire feed was clogged with people losing their minds about the whole Instagram Facebook thing.
By now you've heard tell of David Choe, the Facebook "decorator" suddenly worth nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in stock amid the promise of the tech bubble's second coming, leaving most of us 99 percenters to wonder "wtf" we're doing with our
