Tag Archives: Facebook Valuation

Facebook In Talks With Banks For Upcoming IPO?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 17. May, 2011 in Facebook

Kate Kelly of CNBC reported that Facebook is meeting with bank delegates to discuss about the possible IPO. According to the report, Facebook doesn’t think that the IPO is inevitable. Rather, CEO Zuckerberg and others are seeing this as one amongst many strategic options to comply with the regulations of Security and Exchange Commission.
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Early Facebook Investors Keen On Selling $1 Bn Worth Shares

by Shabbir Akhtar on 28. Apr, 2011 in Facebook

We have reasons to feel sceptic whether the growth Facebook has experienced is adequate with its market valuation because a section of Facebook’s shareholder is trying to sell out $1 billion worth of shares in secondary market. The transaction would value Facebook at $70 billion. These stock holders estimated the price significantly lower, earlier they [...]

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Small Investment In Facebook Gives Interpublic Huge Returns

by Shabbir Akhtar on 05. Apr, 2011 in Facebook

In business, there’s basically no sure shot way to strike gold, some strategies click, while others don’t. Interpublic, an advertising group held one that falls on the first kind. Back in 2006 when nobody knew who Mark Zuckerberg was, Interpublic made an investment of less than $5 million into Facebook. And just [...]

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Will Facebook Be Valued At $234 Bn In 2015?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 02. Apr, 2011 in Facebook

Facebook will have a valuation of $234 billion and will earn a total revenue of $11 billion on $22 billion in 2015, according to Lou Kerner, a Wedbush Securities analyst who has published a report, “Second Internet” which has been republished by GigaOM. The report highlights the growth of the companies which have a social [...]

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Facebook Valued At $52 Bn After Kleiner Perkins’ Investment

by Shabbir Akhtar on 15. Feb, 2011 in Facebook

Venture Wire has reported that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is purchasing $38 million worth Facebook stocks from other share holders. The venture capital firm has been more or less passive during most parts of the last year when social networking madness was climbing up the ladder. And now, when the rush amongst investors to [...]

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Facebook Valued At $82.9 Bn Topping Amazon, Second Only To Google

by Shabbir Akhtar on 31. Jan, 2011 in Facebook

The net worth of Facebook is now more than Amazon. Bloomberg reported that, in the latest private market auction on SharePost, the net value of Facebook has been declared $82.9 billion. Amazon on the other hand, saw 9.5 percent drop on the last valuation of their shares. Their value was previously around 83 billion and [...]

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Facebook Attains $70 Bn Valuation In SecondMarket

by Shabbir Akhtar on 25. Jan, 2011 in Facebook

In the closing week of December, security firm SharePost calculated that Facebook’s share prices had gone up to $25 per share. A week back from then, the value of each Facebook share was $20 per share. From that time onwards, all investors were waiting for the next auction that was due take place on January [...]

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Will Facebook Be Valued At $224 Bn In 2013?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 24. Jan, 2011 in Facebook

All the discussions on Facebook’s revenues and stock prices are centred at the present scenario. Currently, one after another security firms are valuating Facebook in the secondary market and one valuation seems invariably to redeem the next one. But, how much Facebook will be worth in the future? Is $224 billion a good enough number?

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Facebook Attains $60 Bn Valuation

by Shabbir Akhtar on 23. Dec, 2010 in Facebook

Facebook’s lucky streak doesn’t seem to end. The company has seen tremendous growth throughout this year. Recently, Zuckerberg himself has been nominated as the person of the year by Time magazine. And now, Facebook’s valuation has gone up by 20 percent and stands at nearly $60 billion.
All Facebook reported that, according to SharesPost, the common [...]

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