As we all know, the Facebook IPO is upon us. One of the things This Means For You: legions of unpaid amateurs are going to be taking to their various social media outlets at their own risk to then endanger the rest of human populace with their patently unfunny insights (as opposed to those like us, who Read More
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Facebook is going to become a stock you can invest in as of today. If you haven’t already heard this news, you probably don’t even know what Facebook is (in which case: How’d you get here?).
Either way, Eduardo Saverin—the press-shy founder of Facebook who was famously ousted from the company in its early days, thus giving The Social Network a plot and Saverin a decent-sized cash settlement—has spoken on the matter of the Facebook IPO… Read More
Well, Facebook is probably going to file for an IPO tomorrow. In the event you haven’t already been bombarded with this news and don’t know what it means, it means that Facebook is going to go to the stock market, and soon you—or anyone—will be able to own an over-hyped, overvalued piece of The Most Famous Social Network Basically Ever.
Seeing as how this is the case, there seems to be no better time than to bring forth the quotable Mark Zuckerberg on the matter of selling out. Read More
So, we at Betabeat have been waiting to roll this one out for a while. Seeing as how the business year is coming to a close today—and also, like, nobody’s around to read what you’re about to read—there’s no time quite like the present to disclose the following:
My fat, white Jewish ass has been engaged in a battle with Groupon for about three months now. Read More
On Sunday, the New York Times’ Dealbook finance vertical—increasingly focused on tech IPOs, naturally—unrolled a monster story by writer Evelyn M. Rusli about just how toxic the culture of Zynga can be to employees, and how it’s hurt the company’s potential growth opportunities. It’s an utterly fantastic read. But—as one Betabeat tipster pointed out to us—the best moment in the piece was missed by many, because it was buried in the 29th paragraph, in a story with 38 paragraphs. Read More
Remember that time that one daily deals company IPO’d, and everyone was really excited about it, except for those crazy, mean naysayers (like Google searches for it) who were like, “this will not end well because Groupon is basically a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme” and made flow charts that may have suggested this?
Well, guess what? Today, those people are eating Correct Sandwiches for lunch. Read More
So, you want to get in on some of that Facebook and Groupon action before they hit the public markets, on the secondary market? And oh, what’s that? You’re not an accredited investor, so you can’t get in on the secondary markets? Well, do we have the people for you. Read More
The Greatest IPO In Daily Deals History, Groupon, debuted last week on NASDAQ to much fanfare, hype, naysaying, and bloggers like us huffing into paper bags and praying for deliverance from Groupon Cat. One week later, and how’s it doing? Read More
Well, after our exciting first day of Groupon IPO coverage, we returned from our weekend to find Groupon Cat having a sadz. Read More
So: Yesterday we had a wonderful little contest in which we offered everyone a chance to guess the Groupon IPO pricing, and what it would close at today. Here are the results, in which you watch an entire team of bloggers lose to both the least (and most!) obvious people we would lose to. There’s a cookie on the line, here. Read More
