Brightcove’s IPO: What you need to know
Brightcove just reiterated its desire to go public with an amended SEC filing. The company could raise as much as $59 million as it sells 5 million shares, but its filing also reveals that making money with online video is really, really hard.
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing massive growth in mobile, but it still hasn’t tried out advertising, its most effective route to revenues, on this platform. That’s not to say it won’t. But meanwhile, there is another area...
This Week in Review: Twitter’s censorship compromise, and Facebook files with big numbers
Plus: News Corp.'s growing scandal and Rupert Murdoch's Twitter candor, the hazards of Facebook Subscribe, and the rest of the week's must-reads.
Facebook’s Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery
So now we know that Facebook's ad business is huge, and growing like a weed. But how does it actually work?
Now Facebook Must Prove To Wall Street Its Ads Really Work
Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must find that proof. But experimenting on Wall Street, as well as Madison Avenue, could prove challenging.
The Facebook IPO Lowdown 2-1-12
» Facebook’s biggest risks explained (ReadWriteWeb)
» Is Facebook’s IPO the start of something, or the end? (GigaOm)
» Zuckerberg claims “We don’t build services to make money” (Forbes)
» IPO filing says that Zynga accounted for 12% of Facebook’s revenue in 2011 (TNW)
» From founders to decorators, Facebook riches (NYT)
2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1
Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look...
2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1
Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look...
Facebook’s Birth Certificate
Facebook is widely expected to go public in the very near future with a valuation north of $75 billion. It’s a moment that tech watchers have been anticipating for half a decade and will make millionaires out of many, many early Facebook employees.
Report: Facebook IPO Could Arrive Next Week With Hopes Of $10 Billion
The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history.
