
UPDATED: Facebook IPO Priced At $38 Per Share


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We now know that Facebook’s initial public offering will open at $38 per share (tomorrow morning. But what price will it reach at the end of the trading day?

We might as well get all of the infographics related to Facebook’s initial public offering out of the way before its launch tomorrow morning, and this one from KissMetrics contains an interest chart near the bottom.

Don’t you just love a good infographic? Earlier today, we spotted this interesting visual from The Wall Street Journal highlighting major stakeholders that have changed the number of shares they plan to sell when Facebook’s initial public offering launches tomorrow.

The much-ballyhooed Facebook initial public offering will open trading Friday morning at $38 per share, the top end of the range the social network filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this week, CNBC reported.

Do you remember all that tax money Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin was set to save on Facebook’s initial public offering by renouncing his U.S. citizenship and establishing residency in Singapore? Not so fast, said Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.).

There’s been talk lately about Facebook’s growth potential among international markets. Much of this will depend on if and when the social network determines how to sell things on mobile, and if it can set up a seamless, user-friendly payment platform.

Maybe General Motors got an advance copy of new research from digital marketing agency Greenlight, which found that 44 percent of respondents to its survey would “never” click on Facebook ads or sponsored stories.

As part of the “Brazil: A Magical Journey” campaign that launched Wednesday in select Macy’s stores and on its Facebook page, the department store is inviting shoppers and fans to share what it calls “augmented experiences,” or virtual excursions surrounding famous Brazilian fetes and pastimes, by uploading application-based photos to their Facebook pages.

It’s not quite a primetime slot on one of the “Big Four” television networks, but Facebook video application Youtoo announced that videos uploaded via its Be on TV app will air on “network television,” in “177 of the top 200 cable markets in the U.S.”

Will a new chief executive officer bring new hopes for a settlement in the patent-infringement brouhaha between Yahoo and Facebook? Yahoo Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn reportedly reached out to the social network in hopes of a settlement, after taking over for former CEO Scott Thompson.