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Now that the party’s over [SHARESPOST]

SharePost revealed that the Facebook auction closing on March30, 2012 is likely to be the last on the platform ahead of the Facebook IPO. More than 1,100 institutional and individual investors participated in Facebook auctions on SharesPost, ‘resulting in total …

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SEC takes action in private secondary Facebook trading

We all know that the SEC has been looking into private secondary markets, especially given the rise in pre-IPO trading in companies such as Facebook. And, action has come. According to Lexology, a year-long SEC investigation has led to ‘three …

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Facebook inches higher in SharesPost trading

Trading in Facebook on SharesPost has flattened out, now that the IPO is on the horizon. In the auction that closed on March 7, 2012, the final clearing price was $40.50, with 125,000 shares units hands. This is only a …

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Facebook slips to just under $100 bn [SHARESPOST]

Now this actually makes sense, in a bizarre way. The latest auction in Facebook stock on SharesPost closed on February 14, 2012. The final clearing price was $42, and 200,000 shares changed hands. This represents a slight – and sensible …

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Twitter: STOP TRADING OUR STOCK!!!

Over the past year, it’s pretty obvious that Facebook had given up on being a private company. It crossed the 500-shareholder threshold and didn’t stand in the way of trading in Facebook stock on the likes of SharesPost and SecondMarket. …

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BOOM: Facebook skyrockets on SharesPost, $94 bn! [CHART]

Well, it looks like private investors aren’t deterred by the prospect of an imminent Facebook IPO. As expected, a SharesPost auction in the white-hot social media company closed yesterday, right after the Facebook IPO filing was revealed to the public. …