SGMT 6050 – Mergers and Acquisitions Facebook IPO Facebook‚ a social networking site‚ has grown at an exponential rate that far surpasses market expectation‚ so much so that its growth rate is referred to as the “ Facebook phenomenal”. In 2004‚ Facebook had 1million monthly active users‚ and in comparison‚ it had reached 845million monthly active users in 2011. This phenomenal led to one of the biggest initial public offerings (IPO) the market had seen in recent years‚ with total capital raised
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Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Harvard undergrad students as an alternative to the traditional student directory. Its popularity quickly spread to other colleges in the US by word of mouth‚ and the site now registers close to 15M monthly UVs and over 6B page views per month. Facebook has completed two rounds of venture financing at very high valuations‚ the first at a valuation of ~$100M and the second at ~$550M (valuations are unconfirmed). These valuations were driven by the multiple
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INTRODUCTION: FACEBOOK WEBSITE When a student enters their first year of college‚ the first thing they do is created a profile of themselves on Facebook. Students try to network with students in the same university‚ so that they will be able to get to know people at their university. Facebook users try to provide information about them‚ so others‚ who have similar interest‚ may become friends with them. But sometimes‚ Facebook users provide too much information and don’t protect their information
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The effects of Facebook on depression in young adults Australian Catholic University Bachelor of Art and Social work‚ School of Arts and Sciences‚ Australian Catholic Universtity. Abstract This report was conducted to evaluate the links between social media sites such as‚ the effects of Facebook on depression in today’s youth. The Patient Health Questionnaire. 9 and a Diary was the method use to collect data
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Topic: Privacy Restrictions of Facebook – Unquestionable or Unachievable Date of Submission: 25th October 2010 It is alarming how fast technology is improving. Nowadays‚ it seems like having a Facebook account is a daily necessity or even a trend. According to a research done by TIMES magazine‚ more than one in four people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site in the past thirty days. It is truly alarming how much Facebook has expanded. “Sometime in
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Facebook‚ Inc: The Initial Public Offering 1. How does Facebook make money? What are the value drivers of its business? What is its comparative advantage relative to other social networking companies? (1) Facebook makes money from the following three main fields First is the advertising. According to the case‚ we know that the major revenue of Facebook is advertising‚ which took up 98 percent in 2009‚ 95 percent in 2010 and 85 percent in 2011. Facebook uses all information uploaded
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Question > Why do people use Facebook and what do they do when they are there? The social networking website fulfill 2 needs 1) Need for belongingness 2) Need for presenting yourself to the world/surroundings Internet based services like Facebook gives some capabilities to the individual to present themselves to the world and share events/photos etc. to the outside world. Initially Facebook started with an idea for interacting students of a common school‚ but now it becomes so large
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explict content on fan pages another reason i think facebook should be banned is because children accept random peoples friend requests‚ with them not knowing that behind the screen cpuld be somebody as twisted as a phedophile. children play gamesbon facebook filled with spammers‚ hackers‚ and viruses‚ and waste energy which could be used for something useful to the earth‚ such as paying for new inventions to cure cancer‚ diabetes‚ etc. Facebook is becoming overly addictive to young children‚ and
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SCRIPT LEWIS: FACEBOOK IS A GREAT WAY FOR PEOPLE TO MEET NEW PEOPLE‚ OLD FRIENDS‚ OLD CLASSMATES OR EVEN WORKMATES AND KEEP UP TO DATE WITH WHAT THEYRE DOING. THERE ARE MANY ADVANTAGES TO FACEBOOK SUCH AS IT ALLOWS PARENTS TO CHECK UP ON THEIR CHILDREN TO MAKE SURE THEYRE NOT MIXING WITH THE WRONG GROUP OF PEOPLE. ASWELL AS KEEPING UP TO DATE WITH CURRENT EVENTS. FOR EXAMPLE BARACK OBAMA USES FACEBOOK TO GET OUT HIS MESSAGE TO THE MILLIONS OF USERS OF FACEBOOK AND HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS OFTEN
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