Tag: FB

Google Oops

Now there’s something you don’t see everyday: a big public company accidentally releasing its quarterly earnings announcement before it was finalized and before the market closed, precipitating a 10% drop in the stock price and a halt of trading in its shares. Google fall down and go boom-boom-big today on […]

Facebook, Meet Apple; Apple, Meet Facebook

I’m an old dog when it comes to Facebook. I, along with a lot of 50-somethings, used it quite a bit a few years ago, mostly to connect with people from our highschool days back in the ’70s. It was great for catching up with long-lost old friends. That lasted about half […]

Facebook and Knight: Human-Fail and SkyNet-Fail?

According to someone out there with the need to calculate this number, “the volume-weighted average price of Facebook stock on May 18, 2012, between 1:50 pm and 2:35 pm” was $40.527. That was the day Facebook went public. That was also the day that the modern stock market had, by […]