Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Facebook increases public offering share price making it worth MORE than $100 BILLION | Mail Online - Facebook has raised the price range on its initial public offering to $34 to $38 a share in response to strong demand, a source familiar with the situation said, giving the No.1 social network a valuation exceeding $100 billion. - The company plans to close the books on its IPO on Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule and in a signal that the landmark initial share sale is drumming up strong demand, a second source familiar with the deal told Reuters earlier. The social network is scheduled on Thursday to price its shares, then begin trading on Friday.
Monday, May 14, 2012
The Listener: Why Finebaum is Finebaum | Weld for Birmingham - Mark Kelly - But what, exactly, is “it”? What is the essence of the Finebaum show? What sets it apart from the glut of sports talk available 24 hours a day on the nation’s airwaves? What has propelled this bald, slightly-built, acerbic-but-unprepossessing man to widely recognized status as the South’s foremost authority on sports, presiding over an eponymous radio empire that includes 36 stations in seven states, as well as the nationwide scope afforded by its affiliation with satellite radio giant Sirius XM?
Texas athletics outspends college athletics competitors – USATODAY.com - The Longhorns took in a little more than $150 million in 2010-11, the most recent year for which public schools' filings with the NCAA are available. - And the Longhorns underscore a long and growing criticism of major-college athletics, that it's more big business than ancillary educational activity. Ten programs, all anchored by football, made or spent better than $100 million a year ago, USA TODAY Sports' findings show. Nearly two dozen topped $80 million on one side of the ledger or both.
Bourn-again Braves: The leadoff man is now the leading man | Mark Bradley - AJC - “Show me a good offense,” Chipper Jones said Monday, “and I’ll show you a good leadoff hitter.”
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