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Eric Schmidt to cash in half of his shares in Google for $2.51 billion

Eric Schmidt to cash in half of his shares in Google for $2.51 billion
  • Posted February 11, 2013, 8:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is planning to sell nearly half of his shares in the company he helped turn into a household name according to documents recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Three Facebook executives sell stock as trading restrictions are lifted

Three Facebook executives sell stock as trading restrictions are lifted
  • Posted November 5, 2012, 9:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • A number of Facebook employees are now able to sell shares they were awarded when the company went public earlier this year. Three executives, including the social network’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, took advantage of the lifted restrictions and…

Google tops Microsoft, becomes second most valuable tech company

Google tops Microsoft, becomes second most valuable tech company
  • Posted October 1, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Google is now the second most valuable technology company in the world, bumping Microsoft to bronze status earlier this morning. Google stock value increased 0.7 percent to $759.98, giving the search giant a market capitalization of roughly $249.2 billion. Microsoft,…

Dell and HP report poor second quarter results

Dell and HP report poor second quarter results
  • Posted August 23, 2012, 12:26 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Dell has posted second quarter financials and the prognosis is pretty bleak. The PC business posted revenues of $2.6 billion which is 22 percent less than the same time period last year. The overall picture isn’t as bad, however, with…

Zynga insiders dumped a lot of stock before it tanked, now under investigation

Zynga insiders dumped a lot of stock before it tanked, now under investigation
  • Posted July 30, 2012, 7:30 AM by Jason Schreier | Filed in Industry News, Gaming
  • Zynga CEO Mark Pincus dumped $200 million worth of stock this past April, three months before his company's stock suddenly tanked last week. According to Yahoo News, Pincus sold $200 million worth of stock back in April, just when the year's second financial quarter had begun.

Facebook set to go public on May 17, valued at $100 billion

Facebook set to go public on May 17, valued at $100 billion
  • Posted April 19, 2012, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Facebook is planning to go public on May 17 according to multiple sources, granted the social network is able to get all of the necessary paperwork through the Securities and Exchange Commission in time. There’s little doubt that Zuckerberg’s company…

Facebook finally files long-rumored $5 billion IPO

Facebook finally files long-rumored $5 billion IPO
  • Posted February 1, 2012, 7:17 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, The Web Breaking News
  • As expected, Facebook's initial public offering hit the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, raising $5 billion -- less than the $10 billion previously speculated. The long-rumored move reached relative certainty last Friday when the Wall Street Journal reported the IPO…

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