Social networking giant Facebook filed IPO documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. Although the company said it aims to raise $5 billion, that number could rise as high as $10 billion, depending on …
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The 11 Largest IPOs in U.S. History
Facebook filed documents Wednesday with the SEC in preparation for one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in recent memory. The word on Wall Street is that the IPO will raise at least $5 billion for the firm. How …
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The 10 Best (and Most Unusual) Employee Perks
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The Heavy Hitters of Davos 2012
Each year, the world’s most important decision makers in business, politics and the nonprofit world descend upon Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum to rub elbows and discuss the year to come. With the specter of a Eurozone breakup looming and the world economy clinging to a fragile recovery, these big-wigs will have plenty …
Anybody Home? Governor’s Mansions Around the U.S. Sit Empty
In the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, governor’s mansions were state palaces, meant to symbolize the grandeur of government while providing a place for formal entertainment and housing for the state’s chief …
Ten Prominent Websites Protesting SOPA and PIPA
Thousands of websites went black or obscured their homepages on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two controversial bills designed to crack down on web piracy. Critics of the …
8 Celebrity-Endorsed Financial Products We Wouldn’t Buy
Athletes, actors and other famous folks lend their recognizable faces to promote all sorts of products, from breakfast cereal to basketball sneakers to prepaid debit cards (see Suze Orman). But a celebrity endorsement is, of …
Where President Obama Vacations in Hawaii
President Obama and his family are back in his birth state for their annual winter beach bash. Although they are in a different rental this year than the Plantation Estates home in which they stayed in 2008, ’09 and ’10, they
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Where Commanders-in-Chief Get Away for the Holidays
Next week, President Obama will take his family to Hawaii for their annual Christmas vacation — if, that is, Congress passes an extension to the payroll tax holiday. A look at a few of the more notable Presidential vacation …
