{"id":19482,"date":"2012-05-19T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T08:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=19482"},"modified":"2012-05-19T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T08:11:17","slug":"facebook-goes-public-in-a-104-billion-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/facebook-goes-public-in-a-104-billion-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Goes Public in a $104 billion IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was hyped as one of the most\u00a0ambitious stockmarket debuts in history.<\/p>\n<p>But Facebook shares\u00a0ended\u00a0their first day of trade\u00a0on New York&#8217;s Nasdaq Stock Exchange in lacklustre fashion.\u00a0They gained just 23 cents just above their Initial Publice Offering of 38 dollars a share.<\/p>\n<p>The value of\u00a0the social network site\u00a0is at around 104 billion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Al Jazeera&#8217;s<\/em> Scott Heidler reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO, AL JAZEERA: Facebook shares ended their first day of trade on New York&#8217;s Nasdaq Stock Exchange in lacklustre fashion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,76],"tags":[39,2033,1100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}