A spectacular solar eclipse, dubbed the ring of fire, will be visible to people in certain parts of the world Sunday night and Monday morning -- depending on location -- but live broadcasts will make it available to anyone with an Internet connection.
One value of going public for any company is to raise cash as well as mint new shares for acquisitions. Facebook (Nasdaq: FB)?s $16 billion initial public offering was no exception.
A day after Facebook went public, its co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg Saturday updated his relationship status to married. Zuckerberg had an eventful timeline this week with the addition of two events - Facebook IPO Friday and his wedding with his longtime girl friend Saturday.
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.
Japan's vaunted automakers may soon stop building cars in their homeland for export as a soaring yen combines with Mother Nature's mood swings, and an aging population saps the strength of its domestic market, driving the companies across wide oceans and far from their birthplace.
Private rocket company SpaceX was forced to abort the launch of its Dragon space capsule on Saturday because of an engine glitch in its Falcon 9 rocket.
Human Rights Watch released a new report that documents an epidemic of sexual harassment and sexual violence against female immigrant farmworkers by employers, supervisors, and others in the workplace.
In a mysterious turn of events, a California woman's shorts ignited after she put a few beach rocks in her pocket.
As the wildfires in Colorado rages on, more than 500 firefighters are being deployed to 12 square miles of flames in order to prevent the blaze from reaching a reservoir for the city of Greeley. However, rising temperatures and dry thunderstorms will make their work all the more difficult and dangerous.
Well, THAT just happened. The world's most dominant social network, touting some 900 million worldwide users, made its Wall Street debut from home Friday, as Mark Zuckerberg and co. opted to celebrate the beginning of a more open and connected Facebook from the company's headquarter's in Menlo Park, Calif.
Investors in Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, got their first chance on Friday to gauge reaction to its $38-a-share public offering price that initially had valued the company at $104 billion.
The moment is finally here: Facebook, the world's most dominant social network with 900 million-plus users, is finally ready to make its Wall Street debut. Zuckerberg will ring the opening bell at 9:30 a.m. ET, but since he will be broadcasting from Facebook remotely, NASDAQ has provided a way to watch all the proceedings occur live.
It's Friday, May 18 and the world's largest social network, Facebook Inc., enters the market raising a whooping $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in the US history. What makes it even more eye-popping is the amount the company is now valued at - $104.2 billion.
Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week.
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Kim Kardashian will no longer be endorsing Skechers' Shape-ups fitness shoes. A lawsuit against the company has resulted in a $40 million settlement along with the company no longer being able to make health-related claims about their Shape-Ups, Tone-Ups, and the Skechers Resistance Runner athletic shoes.
A man who had been missing for about week is in the hospital after police discovered him in a wooded area on Highway 101 where his wrecked pick-up truck was discovered several days earlier.
Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, were largely unaffected by a report it would fire as many as 25,000 employees as part of cost-cutting measures.
A rash of late-night break-ins at offices in the House of Representatives has one member suggesting an inside job.
Social networking site Pinterest has raised $100 million from a group of investors led by Japanese online retailing giant Rakuten Inc in a deal that reportedly values the three-year-old U.S. company at $1.5 billion.
The Navy began assessing the damage of the USS Essex after it collided with a refueling tanker, USNS Yukon, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Early reports indicate that the Essex experienced technical difficulties with its steering.
Shares of Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), the No. 1 U.S. instrument maker, surged on Thursday after the company announced it?s biggest acquisition, the $2.2 billion takeover of Denmark?s Dako.
