100 milliards Zuckie? 80 c'est ok....

Facebook shares are about to be halted by the sound of it. A report from Bloomberg noted that Facebook has asked companies which participate in trading of Facebook shares to stop trading shares at the beginning of April. If so, sales this week will be the last sales. A trader has said that he was also told about the lock-up news from one of his private share exchange contacts.

The news is obviously for the cooling off of any valuation gaps ahead of Facebook’s formal initial public offering. With valuations having ranged around $75 billion and $80 billion, it is too soon to know what sort of formal price valuation will be given to Facebook when the IPO hits the market in the weeks ahead.

Our take is and has always been that CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants as close to a $100 billion valuation. There is not much logic as to why that number stands out other than that it is highly impressive. Either way, Facebook is likely to be a record-breaking IPO and it is expected to create many new overnight millionaires.

NOK.nyse

Le groupe finlandais Nokia lancera en avril en Chine une nouvelle gamme de "smartphone" sous logiciel Microsoft dans le but de regagner des parts de marché face à Apple et Samsung.

Le lancement de Nokia sera aussi un test important pour le logiciel Windows Phone, qui a eu pour l'instant un succès limité, bien que le finlandais, qui reste encore le premier vendeur en volume de téléphones mobiles dans le monde, ait totalement misé sur Microsoft,renonçant l'an dernier à sa propre plate-forme logicielle.

Le directeur général de Nokia Stephen Elop a présenté deux modèles le Lumia 610 et Lumia 800 mais conçus pour les réseaux chinois. Ils seront vendus par China Telecom, troisième opérateur télécom chinois.

Nokia dit qu'il sortira toute sa gamme de téléphones Windows sur le marché chinois au cours du deuxième trimestre. A terme, le groupe souhaite vendre ses combinés Windows via tous les opérateurs télécoms chinois.

La part de marché de Nokia en Chine dans les smartphones est tombée à 30% l'an dernier, contre 70% en 2010, selon le cabinet d'études Strategy Analytics. La part de marché de Microsoft dans les smartphones est tombée à 2% lors du dernier trimestre écoulé, contre 3% il y a un an et 13% il y a quatre ans, toujours selon Strategy Analytics.

AAPL + BIDU + YNDX = fuck you GOOG ?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/461941-could-russia-s-iphone-sales-potential-fuel-yandex-shares

Annie est intéressante

http://www.retailroadshow.com/sys/launch.asp?k=51831929433

Annie’s IPO watch: Annie’s expects to land on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BNNY”. The company is offering aggregately 5 million shares of common stock (4.05 million shares come from the selling). The Annie’s IPO price of the common stock is expected to be between $16.00 and $18.00 per share. Approximately $9.8 million of net proceeds will be generated in the Annie’s IPO, on a basis of an initial public offering price of $17.00 per share, which is the midpoint of the Annie’s IPO price range mentioned above. The company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares offered by the selling stockholders in the public offering. The company intends to use the net proceeds to pay $1.3 million to Solera in connection with the termination of its advisory services agreement and repay a portion of indebtedness outstanding under our credit facility.

The company hires Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as the representatives of the underwriters. William Blair & Company, L.L.C., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and Canaccord Genuity Inc. also joined the Annie’s IPO underwriting syndicate. The company has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to 750,000 additional shares from certain selling stockholders to cover overallotments.

Annie’s, Inc. is a natural and organic food company with a widely recognized brand and headquartered in Berkeley, offering more than 125 products throughout United States and Canada. The company owns the #1 natural and organic market position in four product lines: macaroni and cheese, snack crackers, fruit snacks and graham crackers.

The company enjoyed strong sales and profit growth over the past few years. The company grew net sales from $65.6 million in fiscal 2007 to $117.6 million in fiscal 2011, representing a 15.7% compound annual growth rate. The same period income from operations increased from a loss of $3.9 million in fiscal 2007 to income of $15.1 million in fiscal 2011.

L'Or à 1687$ fait activer l'imagination des fraudeurs.

Des petits lingots sont "driller" et remplis de tungstène ! De quoi énerver ceux qui possèdent de l'Or physique.

je le veux....et j'achète

Even while admitting that its sample was biased toward younger, more tech-savvy consumers, Baird Equity Research demonstrates yet again what a juggernaut Apple Inc. Forbes reports that in an on-line survey of 488 potential customers, 24% indicated that they would be purchasing a new iPad in the next three months.

Here are some other eye-openers:

• 48% of existing iPad owners will buy a new iPad
• 42% of new iPad purchasers are first-timers
• 15% of customers will buy a discounted iPad 2
• 60% plan to buy the 4G LTE version of the new iPad

Forbes also nailed the most interesting result of the survey:

Although 81% of of these tech savvy online respondents had a pretty good idea what 4G meant, only 41% thought they knew what LTE was. Of that 41%, 13% correctly identified it as an acronym for “Long Term Evolution.” (Other guesses: “Light Transfer Expansion” and “Long Telecom Exposure.”) More than 20% thought it was a proprietary technology.

1 jour plus tard.....TEVA arrive !....

AstraZeneca had lost a patent ruling and that the company’s anti-pyschotic drug Seroquel lost its patent protection today. That’s all it took for Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. to kick out its quetiapine generic for Seroquel.

Teva’s price sheet shows the difference a patent makes in the UK. An equal supply of 100-mg coated tablets of Seroquel costs about $180 compared with the generic cost of about $27. In its announcement, Teva notes that it has released 10 new products in 11 weeks, and 7 of those came on the first day of patent expiration.

GMCR

On March 8th, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. announced that Starbucks Corp. would be making a single-cup coffee machine to compete with Green Mountain’s Keurig system. Shares of Green Mountain plunged to below $53 on March 9th.

A month earlier, on February 15th, Green Mountain’s founder and chairman Robert Stiller sold 500,000 shares at $65.94/share. On February he sold another 500,000 shares at $66.68. Good timing or trading on inside information? If Stiller had waited until March 9th, his take would have dropped to around $53 million. Stiller remains Green Mountain’s largest shareholder, with 13.4 million shares (about 8.7% of shares outstanding).

Green Mountain loses patent protection on its Keurig system later this year