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Energy Voices SolarCity IPO: How it beat the solar curse
SolarCity defied a trend of failing solar IPOs Thursday when its share prices soared nearly 50 percent on its first day of trading. What's behind the succes of the SolarCity IPO?
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PayPal restructuring means lost jobs
PayPal is cutting about 325 jobs as part of a major reorganization by its new president in an effort to head off competition. Though revered on Wall Street, Paypal has a reputation as slow and bureaucratic on Silicon Valley, making it hard to attract top-level talent.
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Facebook stock struggles, but company focuses on new features
Facebook stock has lost nearly half its market value since the launch. As a company, can Facebook move past its stock troubles and further develop new programs and features, including beefing up their mobile business?
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The New Economy Facebook is worth $5 a share
Facebook shares have already lost nearly half their value. But recent selling suggests Facebook shares have much further to fall.
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Facebook stock: Early backer sells most of his shares
Facebook director Peter Thiel dumps some 20 million shares of his Facebook stock as lockup period ends. Facebook stock closes at nearly half its original price.
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Facebook shares hit new low as lock-up period expires
It's been a rough run for Facebook. After one of the most-anticipated IPOs in history, Facebook suffered what may be the most-botched public offering as trading glitches marred its first day. It's been almost all downhill for the Menlo Park., Calif., company since then.
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Sheryl Sandberg becomes Facebook's first board woman
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, has become the first woman on the company's board of directors. Sheryl Sandberg has been with Facebook since 2008, when the social-networking site lured her away from Google.
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Facebook stock still slipping as investors grow wary
The company has slipped to $91 billion in total valuation from its opening at $104 billion.
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Facebook stock falling again. What went wrong?
Facebook stock fell 7 percent in early trading Tuesday, after an 11 percent fall Monday. In challenging market environment, selling IPO of Facebook stock is like 'trying to get a jumbo jet to take off in turbulent weather.'
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Facebook to debut at $104 billion
The IPO will be one of the largest in history.
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Facebook shareholders selling more shares
Facebook stockholder and hedge fund Tiger Global has decided to sell more than 23 million shares, up from 3.4 million a day earlier. Other big sellers of Facebook shares include Goldman Sachs, a Russian billionaire, and two Facebook insiders.
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Companies question whether Facebook ads pay
General Motors has withdrawn ads ahead of the social giant's IPO, and others are asking if Facebook can really monetize its users.
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Robert Reich GOP's big investors: Who's really running for president?
A handful of billionaires are all but funding the GOP primaries. Never before have so few spent so much to influence so many.
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Facebook IPO will create hundreds of new millionaires
Facebook IPO reveals the company's social heart and business soul. Here's a peek at the Facebook IPO, by the numbers.
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Super PACs: FEC report sheds light on powerful influence of a few big donors (+video)
A strikingly few wealthy donors were the main 2011 contributors to super PACs, which analysts see as the main force behind a flood of negative campaign ads.
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Clean energy falls short so far
Clean energy companies have made money for some investors, but that doesn't mean they're successful businesses. Clean energy – or clean tech – will create winners eventually, but maybe not in the United States.
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The Monitor's View: Is college a scam?
A YouTube video argues ‘yes.’ But better higher education, not less, is what's really needed.
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Opinion: Make college accessible to the masses – and jobless
When American educators can say, "A degree in X means a graduate has mastered the following things," then it shouldn't matter how a person got a degree or where. That will make it possible for many more people to earn degrees, especially online.
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The higher education bubble has popped
Traditionally, Americans have firmly believed in two core investments: college and home ownership. Then the housing bubble popped. Is education next?
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Peter Thiel gives $100,000 each for 24 youths to skip college
Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel is giving $100,000 fellowships to two-dozen outstanding individuals under age 20, urging them to skip college and pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.
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'Drop out of school': Does that advice work in South Africa?
PayPal founder Peter Thiel has encouraged America's top students to drop out of university and create a company instead. South Africans could benefit from considering entrepreneurship as important as a college degree.
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Richard Branson bemoans 'overeducated,' risk-averse entrepreneurs: WikiLeaks
In a January 2008 meeting with Chinese businessmen, billionaire Sir Richard Branson agreed 'that British entrepreneurs are overeducated and that schooling does not prepare one for entering the business world.'
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Teen entrepreneurs getting paid to drop out?
PayPal founder Peter Thiel wants young innovators to jump start their entrepreneurial careers. Why that might not be a good idea.
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