| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78%
— One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.
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The Facebook IPO, One Year Later
— The Company Is Getting Serious About Making Money; But the Stock Is Stuck — Two weeks ago, new posters began appearing at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. The posters proclaimed: “Advertisers are users too*.” At the bottom of the page, in smaller font …
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Nasdaq gets OK to pay out $62M for botched Facebook IPO
— The Securities and Exchange Commission said the stock exchange operator can provide cash compensation to investors who lost money while attempting to trade Facebook shares during its IPO. — The Securities and Exchange Commission …
| Bernard Vaughan / Reuters: |
Ex-Oregon governor candidate charged in Facebook IPO fraud
— (Reuters) - A former Oregon gubernatorial candidate was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged role in defrauding investors who had hoped to buy shares of Facebook Inc before its initial public offering in May 2012, federal authorities said.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Start-Up Investors Grow Wary of Tech Ventures After Facebook's I.P.O.
— SAN FRANCISCO — Call it the Facebook effect. Until recently, investors had been all too eager to pour millions into any Web start-up with rapid growth, regardless of whether it made money or even had plans to do so down the road.
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Massachusetts has fined Morgan Stanley $5 million over Facebook IPO improprieties
— According to Bloomberg, the state of Massachusetts has fined Morgan Stanely $5 million over Facebook's initial public offering (IPO) earlier this year. — The offering was troubled, with trading errors leaving many confused.
| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Checking In on Foursquare's Valuation
— Facebook's IPO, Flattening Valuations Put Hurdles Before Social Media Startups — Some social media startups are finding investors a lot less friendly in the wake of Facebook Inc.'s messy initial public offering. — A few months before Facebook went public …
| Bloomberg: |
Facebook Banks Spent $66 Million Buoying IPO, Fed Economists Say
— Facebook Inc. (FB)'s underwriters may have spent an estimated $66 million supporting the stock's price in the first day of trading after the company's initial public offering, Federal Reserve Bank of New York economists said.
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Citigroup's Star Tech Analyst Mark Mahaney Fired After Leaks To TechCrunch
— Mark Mahaney, a star tech analyst at Citigroup, was just fired. — He got canned because one of Mahaney's junior associates leaked information about the bank's views on the Facebook IPO to TechCrunch writers Josh Constine …
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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