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Investors Missed Their Chance to Invest in Facebook?
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:58am | 405Read More...If you haven't already invested in Facebook, it might be too late. Not for the IPO, which is still forthcoming, but for the secondary markets that have allowed investors to buy a piece of Facebook before the company's initial public offering. According to Bloomberg, representatives of Facebook...
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SEC Investigates Facebook and Twitter Stock Trading (GS)
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 12:21pm | 288Read More...The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun investigating secondary trading markets, which allow privately traded companies, specifically Facebook and Twitter, to buy and sell stocks without revealing financial information. Privately traded companies use secondary trading markets, such...
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Goldman Sachs Invests $500 Million in Facebook, Currently Valued At $50 Billion (GS)
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 2:54am | 378Read More...Dealbook is reporting that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has invested $450 million in the social network site Facebook at a valuation of $50 billion. The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the transaction, and says that Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, which has already plowed...
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Trade On The Dark Markets (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 2:48pm | 237Read More...Have you ever wanted to buy shares in companies that aren't available from Scottrade or E*TRADE (NASDAQ: ETFC)? Now you finally can, thanks to new sites like SharesPost and SecondMarket that have opened the market to private investments. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are among the hottest private...
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No Facebook IPO? No Problem
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 9:42am | 311Read More...Facebook may not have had its IPO yet, but that hasn't stopped investors from flocking to the company. Over the past month, the social networking site has been doing well, thanks to a sale by Accel Partners (a venture capital firm that sold less than 15% of its stake in Facebook for a reported $517...
