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The plummeting stock price wiped out as much as $150 billion in market capitalization and erased the stock’s gains since April when Facebook announced a surprisingly strong 63 percent rise in profit and an increase in users. Reuters reports: Operating profit margin, which fell to 44 percent in the second quarter from 47 percent a year ago, will sink to the “mid-30s” for more than two years, Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said in investor guidance. At the time, the drop was expected to result in more than $123 billion in market value. On July 25th, 2018, following their Q2 earnings call, Facebook's stock dropped 17%. As a result, the company and analysts noted that this would slow growth of the company's profits because billions of dollars would be needed in order to meet expected specifications and better secure user information. Stock Crashįollowing several controversies related to the privacy and security Facebook's user accounts, the proliferation of fake news and election meddling, the company refocused its efforts to place privacy ahead of profits. By October 4th, the price had gone down to $21.95 a share and dozens of lawsuits had been filed against both Facebook and NASDAQ due to glitches that occurred on the stock's opening day of trading. Within the first half hour, 200 million shares were traded and that day, the price peaked at $45 a share. On May 18th, 2012, Facebook held their initial public offering, with shares opening at $38. web-based company after Google and Amazon. In November 2010, online marketplace SecondMarket reported that Facebook's value was estimated at $41 billion, surpassing that of eBays as the third largest U.S. Facebook IPOĮven before Facebook announced its revenue profit for the first time in September 2009, rumors about Facebook's initial public offering (IPO) had been circulating both online and in the news media for years.

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On September 26th, 2006, Facebook officially opened up registration for anyone older than age of 13 with a valid e-mail address. In September 2005, the site significantly expanded its userbase after opening up registration for high school networks. In 2005, the company dropped 'The' from its name after purchasing the domain for $200,000.

In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. In July of 2004, the Guardian reported that more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard registered on the service within the first month of launch.įacebook incorporated in the summer of 2004 and appointed Internet entrepreneur Sean Parker, who founded the music sharing website Napster and had been informally advising Zuckerberg, as the company's president. On February 4th, 2004, Zuckerberg launched 'Thefacebook' as a social networking site specifically for Harvard University students. To accomplish this project, Zuckerberg compiled photographs from the online profiles of student houses and even reportedly hacked into the secure areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. According to the Harvard Crimson, the site represented a Harvard University version of Hot or Not, an image rating site where visitors can rate user-submitted photos based on their level of attractiveness, by presenting photographs of two students side-by-side and ask the viewer to choose the 'hotter' person. The early prototype of Facebook was initially called 'Facemash' and it was launched on October 28th, 2003. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while he was enrolled at Harvard University with college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.