The coming Facebook IPO will reignite interest in the stock market, and make it interesting to a whole new generation. Many young adults fear investing in the stock market after witnessing the global financial crisis (GFC) and its affect on the world. The fear comes from not knowing how to invest, how the stock market actually works, or why the global financial crisis happened in the first place. With fresh…

When a hugely successful company such as Facebook makes an initial public offering (IPO) of their stock, fortunes are made, and not only by the company owners. Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, for example, will make an estimated $14 billion when his company goes public this spring. Many employees of Facebook will probably also reap millions if they own company stock. The big money of a successful IPO most often goes…

 Facebook can terminate services of its chief Mark Zuckerberg at any time for any reason, or even without a reason, but the social networking giant’s founder and CEO also enjoys similar exit rights. As per Facebook’s employment agreement with Mr Zuckerberg, his tenure at the social networking giant would be on an “at will” basis, meaning his job can be terminated “at any time for any reason or no reason”,…

The $100 billion question following Facebook’s IPO filing earlier this month: Will Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth possibly justify that valuation once trading begins? The public is already answering. As with most frenzies, emotion, not reason, wins the day, especially when the majority of stock buyers have an intimate relationship with the prod­uct. To gauge the IPO’s prospects, we asked General Sentiment to track and analyze the online chatter, including Twitter (privacy…

Facebook unveiled plans for the biggest ever Internet IPO that could raise as much as $10 billion (6 billion pounds), but made it clear CEO Mark Zuckerberg will exercise almost complete control over the company, leaving investors with little say. The Harvard dropout, who launched the social networking phenomenon from his dorm room, will control 56.9 percent of the voting shares in a company expected to be valued at up…