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Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) frenzy has swept the land. I obviously was not born when gold fever hit the California coast, but Facebook frenzy has to be very close in resemblance.  Just look at the creepy similarities: Gold and Facebook are two objects we as people could relate to in real life...

Actually there is plenty not to like.  If there was a ‘dislike’ button I would certainly click it. If I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me about the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO in recent weeks, I’d have almost as much money as Mark Zuckerberg.  Facebook mania seems to be sweeping...

By Carol Kopp, Minyanville Does Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) fever leave you cold? Did E*TRADE (NASDAQ: ETFC) deem you unworthy of participating in this Friday's initial public offering ("IPO"), or perhaps your broker laughed in your face? Here's a dose of medicine to turn those blues into a happy grin...

Introduction I have been asked by several of my readers to provide an easy to understand introduction to some of the more misunderstood or confusing concepts of stock markets and how they operate.  In this article I will go over an introduction to what a stock exchange is, who can...

Midstates Petroleum Company is looking to raise $408 mn in capital through an offer of 24 mn shares priced $16 to $18. Twenty-five percent of the shares are coming from insiders. At the mid-point of the range, the energy company would attain a valuation of $1.1 bn. Midstates Petroleum is planning...

A few weeks ago when Facebook filed its IPO, rumor had it that Facebook could see a valuation of over $100 billion. Using the International Monetary Fund's numbers, that would make Facebook worth about four times the GDP of Afghanistan, and about a third of Greece's GDP. The total was met with...

InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal, specializing in sector research including tech stocks issues an investor alert for social networking stocks for February 2nd, following the S1 IPO filing of Facebook Inc, ( Facebook.com) yesterday. The Company is raising $5 Billion in its IPO...

Despite decades of progress in treating cancer in its many forms, its rates of recurrence remains relatively high for many types. In an aggressive cancer, such as glioblastoma multiforme ("GBM"), a common form of brain cancer, recurrence typically occurs within less than a year. Even though...

Facebook, the grand daddy of social networks, is expected to file for IPO on Wednesday. A long anticipated event, this can either energize the technology company IPOs once again, or it can mean that intelligent companies always sell out at the top of the market. The verdict is yet to be known,...

Cancer Genetics Inc disclosed its plans for an initial public offering of up to $50 million in shares. However, further terms of the IPO were not disclosed. For the nine months ended Sept. 30, Cancer Genetic posted a loss of $16.8 million, versus a loss of $7.3 million, in the year-ago. Its net...