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Measuring Misery: Management of Facebook vs. Google Employee Morale
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology —
... at $550. I thought morale would be down then. Today, Google closed at $311. I mean, I am not sure if $750 was ever realistic (oh-oh, I think we’ve heard this line of thinking before), but the point is: a lot of employees’ options are priced with that underlying stock price.
Faecbook, meanwhile, can’t be a garden of euphoria either.
Facebook sold preferred shares at $15B, while its employees own common shares at a $4B valuation. As SAI points out:
As we all know, Microsoft, Li Ka-shing, and some ...
Last Bytes: Target, Google, YouTube, more
Tech Observer —
Best Buy and Target selling gift cards that double as audio speakers and digital cameras. [Gizmodo] Google adds voice chat and video chat to Gmail chat. [TechCrunch] TroopTube restores online video to military personnel abroad after YouTube was restricted. [TechCrunch] American Tech companies are disposing of "tech trash" in China illegally. [Daily Tech] Facebook revenues lower than expected this year. [Alley Insider] by Shannon Geis Related Links Google Vision Google Reads Brains to ...
Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins
VentureBeat —
... . Separately, Facebook has apparently upped the common stock valuation by five percent, a source tells Silicon Alley Insider — putting the common stock valuation at slightly above $4 billion (apparently with a strike price of $9.27 per share, versus the prior round’s $8.90). ...
Is Facebook Worth $4 Billion?
All Facebook —
... Image of Hundred Dollar Bills-' />We couldn’t help but play in the favorite Silicon Valley game of “Name Facebook’s Valuation!” Yesterday Henry Blodget posted that Facebook has officially begun to let employees sell shares at a valuation above $4 billion. He states that “the source recalled a strike price of $9.27 per share, versus a prior round of $8.90.” Regardless of what the valuation is, many employees at Facebook may have a great holiday season with much more cash in the bank. ...
Why Facebook Likes Small Ads, Despite the Small Dollars
Bits —
... The ad on Facebook was a tiny rectangle in the right-hand column of its home page. Click it once, and you saw an equally tiny trailer for the film. Click again, and you were invited to send your friends your list of what things you would want to preserve if the Earth were about to be destroyed. When it comes to advertising, Facebook is thinking small. That means small ads and correspondingly small revenue, especially compared to MySpace. Indeed, Facebook is taking a lot of heat because it isn’t making much money from advertising (for its size) and ...
News Bits: Facebook Thinks Small
Contentinople: —
... , and Facebook's revenue this year is expected to be less than the $300 million it had planned . So can sites like these really have success without the in-your-face methods? Facebook has tried a few different ad strategies over the years. Last year it tried social ads, until Beacon creeped everybody out, and more recently they've been pushing "engagement ads," which ask the user to do something, like send a gift. According to some, ...
What is the Value of a Virtual Gift?
Wired: Epicenter —
... to upwards of $50 million), but the accuracy of these numbers
is complicated by lack of public data on the types of
gifts offered (free, $1, and those sponsored by advertisers). ...
Law Firm Blunder Reveals Value Of Facebook Payout To ConnectU: $65 Million
TechCrunch —
... by Microsoft’s ad deal 2007, while recent internal valuations are only around a quarter of that). Given the fact that it’s in Quinn’s best interest to claim the highest figure possible and the apparent lack of judgment from the ad’s writer, I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual value of the settlement is significantly less. ...
