Facebook IPO : Official FB Listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market - Facebook shares have now been officially listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $ 42, 05 per share, up 10.5% from yesterday (18/05/2012).
Yesterday the price of IPO (Initial Public Offering) of this popular social networking company reached $ 38 per share. The last revision before the $ 38 it is $ 34 per share. This became the largest IPO in the history of technology companies.
According to Bruce Aust, Executive Vice President of Nasdaq, the first stock trading is actually delayed approximately 30 minutes and it resulted in the Nasdaq have a problem in setting the opening price.Facebook to offer 180 million shares at the initial offering that includes temporary and shareholder Peter Thiel and Accel Partners who sell 200 million shares again.
This is the biggest IPO since since Zynga whose shares rose 10% on a trade that opened $ 11 and give value to the company valued at $ 7.7 billion.
Meanwhile, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not go to New York's Times Square in the event of the company, he did the usual things like hackers do.
Mark Zuckerberg along with vice president of product Chris Cox, head of the office, Sheryl Sandberg and finance director David Ebersman rang the opening bell remotely from the Nasdaq up headquarters in a Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California.
"I just want to say a few things and then we'll ring the bell after that we went back to work. Go Public is a major milestone in the history of our company. But our mission is not to become a public company. "
"Our mission is to build the world's largest community and make the world more open and connected. So on this special day, on behalf of all the people up, I want to say to everyone out there who use our products, thank you, "said Mark Zuckerberg during a speech before the bell rang the Nasdaq.
This is the culmination of a journey that began with Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room. Facebook is the most anticipated IPO of the last 8 years after Google.
As quoted from TechCrunch, Facebook is the largest technology company IPO in history. Facebook and the initial shareholders has increased the value of up to $ 16 billion today, 10x from Google in 2004.
Mark Zuckerberg has signed a statement to be displayed in Times Square, which is the company motto. It reads, "for a more open and connected."
