Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Facebook, controlling about 24 percent of the company .
Status of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg June five was reduced to half a billion dollars , according to a regularly updated ranking of billionaires Forbes.This is due to the continuation of the fall of the value of shares Facebook, which declined by four percent in trading on the stock exchange Nasdaq.Papers of the largest social network in the world steadily decreased after the release of its IPO in mid-May.Over the past three weeks , they lost about a third of its value.Issue price of shares Facebook was thirty-eight dollars.During the IPO Facebook could raise more than $ sixteen billion.The entire social network at the initial offering of shares was estimated at one hundred and four billion dollars.However, on the second day of trading stocks Facebook fell below the offering price .Facebook Out to the stock exchange was accompanied by a number of scandals.First, trading in shares on the Nasdaq social networks due to technical problems began about half an hour later than planned .Then it was reported that a number of banks involved in IPO Facebook, shortly before the IPO received information about reducing the forecast for annual earnings of social networks , but these data are reported only to selected customers.A group of investors filed a lawsuit against Facebook and the organizers of the IPO, including the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley, accusing them of causing damage.twenty-eight -year-old Zuckerberg is the largest shareholder in Facebook, controlling about twenty-four percent of the company .In the list of key shareholders also includes venture capital fund Accel Partners, a former employee Dustin Moskovitz and Russian- British group of DST.
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