Viral Graphic: Visualizing the Facebook IPO

Pretty graphics of pretty big numbers.
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Is Facebook IPO on Track for Late May?

With a click, with a shock, phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch! Something’s coming, don’t know when, but it’s soon; Catch the moon, one-handed catch!
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Exclusive: Zynga’s Van Natta Moves to Strategic Adviser; Feld Off Board, Paul In

Big changes at the online social gaming phenom as it gets ready to go public.

Exclusive: Groupon Prices at $20 a Share; More Than 10x Oversubscribed, So It Adds 5M More Shares

Despite all the controversy and criticism, the daily deals site is not going out into the public markets at a discount.
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You’re Spending More Time Than Ever Watching Web Video. But You’re Not Watching For Long.

Brightcove reminds us that in the world of Web video, three minutes is a really long time.
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Uh-Oh: Groupon Loses New COO, Who’s Going Back to Google

In a blog it just posted, Groupon said its recently hired COO, Margo Georgiadis, “has decided to return to Google (her former employer) in a new role as President, Americas.” She was hired in April, only months before the company filed to go public.
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DST, Silver Lake and Yunfeng Lead $1.6B Tender Offer Aimed at Alibaba Employees at $32B Valuation

Big play in China, as big investors pour a fortune into Alibaba Group shares to give its employees some walking-around money.
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How Market Fares After Labor Day Will Determine if Groupon’s IPO Is Delayed — Or Even Pulled (Or Not)

With all the heat on it, questions swirl around the social buying phenom, including about the status of its IPO.
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Groupon Doesn’t Care if You Got the Memo

Didn’t you get the memo? Because it’s all in the raspberry of a memo the social buying site sent out to — well, everyone — last week.
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Exclusive: Groupon’s Mason Tells Troops in Feisty Internal Memo: “It Looks Good.”

Facing a barrage of negative press about its upcoming IPO, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason took up a pen to counter critics of the social buying service in a pugnacious email to employees.
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Brightcove’s Old-School IPO