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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differs from the dual-stock-class governance design some public companies prefer. Dual-class stock structures enable companies to keep control even after they become public with their IPO. Companies with this approach (including Facebook‚ Groupon and Zynga) issue shares to founders enabling them to have multiple votes per share. Alibaba isn’t doing a dual-class structure and the company is actually implementing a rather different concept. The Alibaba governance structure is probably inspired by the Chinese
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1. Investor Profile Mr. Avocado Willey is a 65 year old architect who sustained an injury at work. Since this occurred entirely due to negligence of safety procedures at work‚ he was able to successfully sue the company for compensation. He has been awarded an initial compensation of $8m‚ which is subject to a rise as the case is still ongoing. The seriousness of the injury meant that he is no longer able to continue working. He has already invested $3m in 5 Yr 0.85% US treasury bills for a fixed
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09/02/09/facebook-myspace-twittersocial-network/ Klaassen‚ A. (2008). Social shopping takes on new meaning with newsfeed purchasing. Advertising Age‚ 80(30). O’Neill‚ N. (2009‚ September 25). The Zynga influence. Retrieved November 13‚ 2009‚ from All Facebook: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/09/the-zynga-influence/Lange‚ R Learmouth‚ M‚ & Klaassen‚ A. (2009). Facebook’s plan to amp up ad revenue. Advertising Age‚ 80(4). Lessin‚ S. (2008). Welcome to the world of nanotargeted ads. Advertising Age‚
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internet. Today‚ I will introduce about how Facebook get the money‚ gradually become the best social network. People use Facebook to chat‚ post news and create group to connect with friend or another people same hobby‚ purpose. Facebook cooperate with Zynga‚ the company No. 1 developer of Facebook applications and Farmville and Mafia War become the most popular people play around the world‚ to make people more enjoy when use Facebook like they can play game with each other. Facebook began testing its
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Levine‚ David S. and Post‚ David. Open letter to the House of Representatives. November 15‚ 2011. 4. McCullagh‚ Declan. OpenDNS: SOPA will be ’extremely disruptive ’ to the Internet. November 17‚ 2011. 5. Mozilla‚ Google‚ Yahoo!‚ Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Zynga‚ LinkedIn‚ eBay‚ AOL. Joint letter to Congressional leaders. November 15‚ 2011. 6. Downes‚ Larry. Statement on Stop Online Piracy Act. 2011.
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ACC 291 Final Exam Copy this link to your browser to download: http://www.finalexamguide.com/ACC-291-Final-Exam-1-3.htm 1. On January 1‚ a machine with a useful life of five years and a residual value of $40‚000 was purchased for $120‚000. What is the depreciation expense for year 2 under the double-declining-balance method of depreciation? 2. As a recent graduate of State University you ’re aware that IFRS requires component depreciation for plant assets. A friend has asked you to succinctly
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Today I will talk about Facebook; it’s a very topical subject particularly since Facebook submit paperwork to regulators for an IPO‚ 1 month ago. But let’s start with a little part of history Histoire «From Harvard dorm room to all Canadian and US University : Mark Zuckerberg‚ 28‚ founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students‚ including Facemash‚ where you could rate people’s attractiveness
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com offers over 150 exclusive games in 12 languages. The company releases new games every month. In March 2013‚ King launched 2 new games on Facebook‚ Farm Heroes Saga and Papa Pear Saga. For years now‚ the Facebook game world has been dominated by Zynga‚ the developer behind FarmVille and Mafia Wars. Not anymore. The fast-growing company‚ King.com has basically taken over the top spot in recent months with its most popular game Candy
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