SEC head says Facebook IPO issues should be reviewed

Saudi Arabia officials threatened to ban messenger applications like Viber, Skype and WhatsApp, if operators do not allow them to censor the content and conversations. UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron, announced his plans to tighten the legislation for immigrants in the country. NASA uses smartphones in space. NASDAQ will pay $62 million to investors, reimbursing losses from Facebook’s IPO.   

Reuters - The top U.S. securities regulator will need to add about 800 new positions to carry out its part of the massive financial reform legislation, the head of the agency said in testimony to be delivered on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON – Regulators on Monday charged the Chinese affiliates of five top accounting firms with violating securities laws, alleging they refused to produce audit documents in connection with accounting fraud investigations into Chinese companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission began proceedings against the Chinese units of Deloitte & Touche; Ernst & Young; KPMG; PricewaterhouseCoopers and BDO.

By IPOScoop:Wall Street's equities syndicate desks burned the midnight oil last week. Bankers got two IPOs priced and brought 15 secondary offerings to market. But that's not all. They filed plans for four companies to go public, filed 11 amendments for IPOs updating their registration statements, and put three deals on this week's new-issues calendar.

By TechCrunch: By Eric Eldon

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By StockPandit:On May 18, 2012, the social networking giant Facebook (FB) entered its massive initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per share. Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Allen & Company LLC, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank Securities are serving as book runners for the offering.

ON MONDAY, news surfaced that a small investment fund, GSV Capital, had purchased $6.6m worth of private shares of Facebook, valuing the popular social network at $70 billion. The shares of GSV Capital, which are publicly traded, shot up 42% on the news, adding $14m to the fund’s market value. That suggests the stock market believes Facebook is worth roughly twice its current private market valuation.