Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part One, section #8,

2014-03-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
(continued from section 8, 1) Understanding how Web 2.0 firms are evaluated in terms of worth and earnings is no easy task - to say the least. But we could possibly use some simple arithmetics to shed light on the issue. Let us assume that Facebook's value in January 2011 was indeed $50 bn. At th

Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part One, section #8,

2014-03-13 Thread Patrice Riemens
Ippolita Collective, In the Facebook Aquarium Part One, section #8, 1 Free Markets and Financial Bubbles The radical transparency of Facebook users finds no equivalent in the firm's own financial dealings, which are singularly opaque and openly flout every rule of the market economy, despit