Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must find that proof. But experimenting on Wall Street, as well as Madison Avenue, could prove challenging.

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Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look…

It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that…

Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO looks to be coming ever-closer, with a new report out with further details of what we will see come Wednesday morning.

Facebook is widely expected to go public in the very near future with a valuation north of $75 billion. It’s a moment that tech watchers have been anticipating for half a decade and will make millionaires out of many, many early Facebook employees.

The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history.

Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s ruling Communist Party, has filed to float its People’s Daily Online website in Shanghai to raise 527 million yuan ($83.4 million).

Mobile ad company Millennial Media is going to try its hand in the public markets, filing papers Thursday for a $75 million initial public offering in hopes of raising cash to compete at a higher level. Registration documents show the company isn’t profitable but it posted a huge revenue increase…

The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having their bubble burst today: its shares opened above its initial offer price range, before quickly dipping down again.

Is Rovio’s floatation ever going to happen? For some time now, we’ve been reading chatter about an imminent IPO. The latest date is 2013, the latest market is Hong Kong. And, this time, the company itself is making bold on-the-record plans…

Zynga, the social gaming company behind Farmville, Words With Friends and other online games, is preparing to go public on Friday in what could be the biggest initial public offering of a tech firm since Google’s debut.

Facebook’s Carolyn Everson was tight-lipped several months ago at paidContent Advertising when the subject of mobile advertising was discussed. Turns out Facebook has been working on its mobile ad approach the whole time, and now according to a report it’s gearing up to launch what could produce a big influx…

Facebook games maker Zynga plans to raise $1 billion (£630 million) in its initial public offering, valuing the fledgling internet firm at $7 billion.

Facebook expects to become a public company over the next six to eight months, according to a report Monday. And the first step down that path could become before the end of the year.

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There may be hundreds of competitors out there, but Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) this week has confirmed itself as the biggest daily deals site of them all, not just in terms of users but value, as it raised $700 million in its IPO—the biggest in tech since Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—valuing the…

Beijing-based Chinese portal Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) had the pleasure of telling the Nasdaq, where its stock is listed, how Q3 net income is up nearly 80 percent to RMB 1.882 billion ($295 million) thanks to 85 percent higher revenue of RMB 4.175 billion ($654.7 million).

Groupon will sell 30 million shares in its upcoming IPO, priced at $16 to $18 per share. The company estimates its net proceeds will be $478.8 million, down from the $750 million the company originally expected to pull in, on a valuation of $10.1 to $11.4 billion.