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For Facebook IPO day, Visual.ly lets you track how much Zuckerberg is worth in real-time
While most of the tech industry is watching Facebook’s historic IPO day unfold, data startup Visual.ly is taking advantage of the situation by showing off the capabilities of its infographics service.
Today Visual.ly launched a new interactive infographic that uses Facebook’s stock pricing data to show exactly how much the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is worth in real-time. The infographic displays the current stock price, a chart tracking the stock’s price over the last 60 seconds, the total value of Facebook’s stock offering, and the percentage of shares owned by Zuckerberg as well as his total worth.
The new infographic, much like the Twitter Visualization Project from July, is merely an example of what the company’s service can do by using information from various databases and APIs. And as VentureBeat previously reported, Visual.ly is able to offer these kinds of infographics Čítaj ďalej: http://feeds.venturebeat.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/M32DYqb5-bo/
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The Facebook IPO: What it looked like inside the company’s headquarters
Facebook began trading on the public markets for the first time today, and at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., excitement levels were high.
After an all-night hackathon designed to send the message that Facebook cares more about coding and shipping products than it does about the public markets, Facebook held a bell-ringing ceremony early in the morning. Using a specially-hacked remote-control NASDAQ button, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg simultaneously rang the bell on the trading floor of the stock exchange, 3,000 miles away, and updated his (and his company’s) Facebook status.
While chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and other executives looked on, Zuckerberg pressed the button and pumped his fist in the air before a crowd of cheering employees.
News outlets were confined to a small area in the company’s parking lot, although several helicopters circled overhead, getting crowd shots. Investor David Sze of Greylock made a brief
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Facebook CEO to take home $1B on IPO day
Buried in Facebook’s amended S-1 is a fun little nugget of information: CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be selling 30.2 million of his shares in the company’s initial public offering, a sale that will net him roughly $1 billion.
In the lead-up to its IPO, Facebook set its opening price range at $28 to $35 a share Thursday — but that could change. Financial data company PrivCo said that underwriters plan to raise the range to $38 to $40 per share prior to the IPO for an initial day price pop.
Depending on the final share price, Zuckerberg will take home between $845 million and $1.2 billion on IPO day. Alas, the $1 billion payout will be largely used for the oh-so-fun activity of paying taxes. Good times.
“Mark Zuckerberg, our founder, Chairman, and CEO, will exercise an outstanding stock option with respect to 60,000,000 shares of Class B common stock and
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After Facebook outbid Twitter for Instagram, Jack Dorsey stopped using it to post photos
Top venture capitalists and Mark Zuckerberg weren’t the only ones interested in high flying photo sharing app Instagram. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, an early angel investor in Instagram, was also trying to buy the service in the months before Facebook paid $1 billion for it.
Apparently there are some sour grapes. As the NY Times reports, “Mr. Systrom may have lost one connection in the deal: Mr. Dorsey of Twitter. His company, according to several people briefed on the matter, had expressed interest in buying Instagram in recent months. Mr. Dorsey once used Instagram daily to send photos to Twitter, but he has not been back since the deal was announced, perhaps a sign that he is not happy to see it in the hands of a competitor.”
Maybe Dorsey has simply been busy being the CEO of Twitter and Square. Who knows.
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Parents, Your Kids Are Flocking to Facebook — Deal With It
A new survey by MinorMonitor revealed 38 percent of children under 12 signed up for Facebook, and also revealed parents are gravely concerned about Internet predators and cyber-bullying. Parents may have reason for worry, as “Facebook depression” sweeps swathes of adolescents and both children and adults reported feelings of despair and low self-esteem after looking at the social media site.
The Internet poses dangers to children, especially those who have not been educated about its risks. And the chances of them running into cyber-bullying in their online interactions is a real hazard.
But kids will continue to go online, so a complete ban is neither effective, nor possible. Instead of trying to stop a moving train, parents may best serve their children by helping them navigate social media instead of trying to get them off it.
Children wary of parental guidance on Facebook tend to migrate towards more anonymous Čítaj ďalej: http://www.mobiledia.com/news/137666.html
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