Facebook Stock Goes on Sale Facebook is the worlds ___________ social network. It has over nine hundred million users __________. And it reported $3.7 billion in ________ for last year. The company has been __________ held since two thousand four. That was when Mark Zuckerberg and several classmates at Harvard University ________ Facebook as a business. But on May _________, Facebook becomes a publicly ________ company. That means its ________ will be listed on the NASDAQ ________ market, and sold to the public. Interest in the stock kept building after Facebook announced details of its initial public _______, or IPO, earlier this year. The IPO will make ___________ of the companys founders, including Mr. Zuckerberg. Eduardo Saverin, a ___________ _____ co-founder, has been strongly ________ for recently giving up his United States citizenship. By doing so he will avoid a fifteen percent _____ on the value of his _______. He now lives in Singapore. ________ before the trading started, Facebook told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it wanted to ________the number of shares being offered to over four hundred twenty million. The company had _______ said it planned to offer three hundred thirty-seven million. The _____ ______ was set at thirty-eight dollars, also an increase. Some financial ________ say Facebook could raise sixteen billion dollars, making it one of the ________ IPOs ever. Most of Facebooks ________ comes from online advertising. But the company also says it ________ to earn money from fees charged on the sales of _______ goods. These are digital products used in social games, not ________ goods. Facebook says it sees important ________ coming from this new market, which could reach fourteen billion dollars by ______ _______. Not everyone is _______. General Motors ended its advertising _______ with Facebook just before the stock began _______. The carmaker said it did not see _______ from the millions of dollars it spent on advertising with Facebook. And Facebook has been ________ for some recent business decisions. It offered one billion dollars to buy Instagram, an application for sharing ________. The deal requires government _________ and has yet to be finalized. So is Facebook worth the price of the stock? That will be for _________ to decide. https://youtube/watch?v=ETwbKz0oYSI
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:46:06 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015