Will Facebook's debut on the Nasdaq have a ripple effect among start-ups, particularly those that are built on top of the social infrastructure established by the company?

The chief executive of Evernote, now valued at billion, says he wants to delay going public for as long as possible, but also wants to be ready to go as early as the end of next year.

The Internet was built by users for users. Rarely has this been so true as with Facebook, which is little more than the collection of everyone's personal data. So why isn't the social network owned by

Facebook is the third biggest initial public offering in United States history, but no other market debut has matched the frenzy created by Mark Zuckerberg's social networking site. DealBook's live bl

  THE truism that banking is a confidence game barely needs repeating. Yet occasionally both bankers and their regulators need to be reminded of this. Two events this week show

If history offers any lesson, average investors may find they face steep odds if they hope to make big money in a much-hyped stock like Facebook.

IT IS unlikely to keep Facebook's IPO rocket from taking off. But General Motors’s decision to scuttle its ad campaign on Facebook highlights the big question about the service, which now boasts mor

At Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche in Silicon Valley, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the down low.

An interactive graphic showing all the technology I.P.O.'s from the 1980s on.

ONE of the success stories in retail banking over the past decade has been the expansion of TD, Canada’s second-largest bank, along America’s eastern seaboard, fuelled by such

Ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls. Step right up and play the Facebook initial public offering game!

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Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder, issued a statement Thursday that he will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government. "It is unfortunate that my personal cho

The initial public offering, priced at a share, values Facebook at 4 billion, putting the social networking company on par with McDonald's, Citigroup and Amazon.com.

Larry Rosen, a psychologist in California, says Facebook is not an addiction, but it is a compulsion. And he says it might exaggerate some unhealthy tendencies in people already predisposed to them.

Facebook's initial public offering has been looming over the tech landscape for what feels like forever. But while Facebook may be by far the biggest I.P.O. to come out of Silicon Valley, history will

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Crowdtilt, a crowdfunding start-up, lets friends band together to pool their money for purposes like vacation rentals, party buses and even weddings. Just months old, the service has persuaded an impr

With Facebook's initial public stock offering looming, the technology reporters and editors of The New York Times found an abundance of important and peculiar items about the company on the Web on Wed

Facebook will offer 421 million shares, 25 percent more than it had planned to offer, in response to high demand.