initial public offering

Mark Zuckerberg may sell about $1.67 billion of Facebook Inc. stock in the company's initial public offering to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy 120 million shares.

The social network filed to sell shares on the stock market in what is on track to be the largest Internet initial public offering ever, potentially valuing it as high as $100 billion.

Facebook just filed documents paving the way for an initial public offering of stock. Click here to read the filing at the SEC.

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When the company finally decides to make an initial public offering (IPO), it’s likely that Facebook’s stock will skyrocket.

Scott Kessler, head of technology equity research at Standard & Poor's, and Bloomberg's Lee Spears talk about the initial public offering market and the outlook for Zynga Inc.'s listing.

Yelp has filed for its initial public offering. Reports have had it valued between $1.5 billion and $2 billion.

The company outlines its growth strategy in the SEC filing: We intend to grow our platform and our business by focusing …

As investors clamored for shares, Groupon, at the end of the day, priced its initial public offering at $20, above the expected range of $16 to $18.

The stock sale values the company at $12.65 billion.

Groupon, which recently cut its valuation by billions of dollars, may still be valued too high ahead of its initial public offering.

Also known as 360buy.com, it is seeking to raise up to $5bn by listing shares in New York next year in what would be the largest ever US internet initial public offering .

Groupon is going to wait at least a couple of weeks before launching the final phase of its initial public offering because regulators still have questions for the daily deals website and the stock market is too volatile, a person familiar with the situation said Tuesday.