The Future of Facebook: Mining the Human Cloud

By Valuentum: Fusion-iO (FIO) just came public a few months ago, without much fanfare. The company isn’t a sexy social media darling alas LinkedIn (LNKD) or Facebook, but it does help fuel the profitability behind them. When cloud computing as a sector heated up, the stock rallied to over $40.

With cloud companies and services gaining more popularity, it is only a matter of time when enterprise technology will transition to the cloud as well. Bill McDermott, co-CEO of enterprise software company SAP, says that he is not concerned with the buzzed-about cloud startup that have emerged in recent years.

Two sources familiar with the matter say that Glam Media, the digital lifestyle-content publisher, has filed confidential documents as part of a new secret IPO process.

By Sageworks, Inc: By Brian Hamilton, CEO and co-founder of Sageworks Inc. A key part of the JOBS Act recently signed by President Obama has been described as creating an "IPO on-ramp" that makes the process of an initial public offering easier and more attractive. In fact, many of the Act's provisions grew from a task force appointed by the Treasury Department to address a decline in the number of IPOs in recent years.

By Chuck Jones:Facebook (FB) has started its IPO roadshow with a target date of Friday, May 18, as the first day of trading. I have taken the financial numbers from its latest S-1 filing and built a revenue and earnings model through 2014. I am backing out stock expenses since I believe the Street will remove these costs to get a better view of Facebook's operating results.

Roughly two years ago, I penned a piece called How Greece Killed Its Own Banks! It outlined the end result of Greece attempting to hide sparse demand for its debt by forcing its banks to binge on it using excessive leverage. Of course, once you eat too much garbage, you start to stink, and eventually... Well, let's look at it from a visual perspective:

Jason Schwarz submits:Recently I remarked that Apple’s (AAPL) entrance into the cloud will be the most important investment catalyst of the year, due to the market’s growing appetite for cloud-centric stocks like Acme Packet (APKT)m Riverbed (RVBD), etc. Today I will further articulate why.