Tracking Social Media Reaction to the Facebook IPO
The Facebook IPO has finally arrived. Facebook began trading on NASDAQ Friday morning. We're tracking reactions from the tech and media world on social media:
- (More on Facebook's impact from Fast Company here.)
Mark Zuckerberg rang the NASDAQ bell remotely from Facebook HQ:
Photo via Facebook employee Erick Tseng via Gigaom - Facebook engineers rigged a slick hack that posted an update to Zuck's status as he rang the bell... from a pair of headphones.
Facebook sign on Nasdaq Jumbotron in Times Square, photo by Andrew Johnson/Dow Jones Newswires http://pic.twitter.com/WWFbSN0H- While Zuck and company were at Menlow Park, Randi Zuckerberg made it over to NASDAQ.
- New Singaporean Eduardo Saverin posted reflections on his Facebook page.
- On the eve of the... | FacebookOn the eve of the Facebook public float, 8 plus year in the making, I as co-founder wanted to look back and cherish Facebook's early begi...
- Reuters tech reporter Alexei Oreskovic is tweeting from Facebook HQ:
Antennas sprouting up into the morning sky at Facebook HQ: http://pic.twitter.com/n5kQsdbf
- ... no kidding. Then, finally:
- Breaking: Facebook shares open at $42.99, up about 13% from offer price of $38 a share. on.wsj.com/Hv8LLL
- Social media stocks: LinkedIn is down 2.6%, Groupon is off 6%, Pandora is down 5%, Zynga is down 6.5%. on.wsj.com/JoOv9P
- Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Sean Parker and the rest of the IPO Players Club are now worth a packet. The Guardian found out just how much.
Facebook: how much are its biggest shareholders worth? – live interactiveFacebook is launching its first public share offering in a sale that values the social network giant at $104bn. Its major founders all ha...- New Republic editor Chris Hughes may have got out of the Facebook game early, but was part of the very first Facebook crew.
