Tag: Valuation
Facebook IPO sees shares sell at $38, company valued at $104 billion
After months of speculation, Facebook will finally begin trading this morning at $38 (£24) per share, in what will be the biggest IPO from a web firm in history. Today's listing will see $16 billion (£10bn) raised for Facebook's NASDAQ…
Skype in 2011 = $8.5 billion, Apple in 2004 = $7.5 billion
Just a quick stat here pointed out by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, following Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of VoIP company Skype. Roll back a mere seven years and Microsoft could have bought Apple for that much money, and still got…
Twitter in $10 billion sales talks with Google and Facebook
Google and Facebook are said to have entered talks with Twitter in order to assimilate the micro-blogging site into their web-conquering services. Twitter are apparently asking for a whopping $10 billion for the company however, despite a December valuation of…
How much is your brain worth? Use this equation to find out…
Take a look at this formula: T = 40 M i K e (3e +M) (e +50M) / {(e2 +3M e +M2) (e +100M)} Mean anything to you? Well it apparently holds the key to as much as £30,000…
