Secondary offerings are giving VCs a chance to show off early returns to their limited partners–but are retail investors getting a bargain, or getting burned?

The innovation now taking place in big data is the result of simpler and more efficient ways to use and manipulate large volumes of information. It may soon stem from “actionability.”

He once trashed the concept of college. But, now, Peter Thiel is heading to Stanford to teach a course. Should students buckle down on homework, or hope to be plucked from their university early, like star athletes?

If there was an umbrella message he offered it was this: never lose sight of company objectives. Any new product or feature has “got to show tangible wins very quickly,” he said.

Anthony Malkin, the real estate investor whose family owns a majority stake of the building, says that savings from retrofits now shave $4.4 million off the building’s operations expenses per year.

Look across the Web and you see it. While content surfers “like” plenty of content, they’ve fallen hard for LinkedIn’s “inshare” tab.

UK-based healthcare charity Wellcome Trust is riding high in the social media world. In addition to an early stage stake in Facebook, the prolific venture limited partner has private shares in Zynga, Twitter, Groupon and LinkedIn.

The wait is finally over. On Wednesday, Facebook finally filed with the SEC for an IPO that could raise as much as $5 billion. Mark Zuckerberg’s company didn’t disclose how many shares it would sell or at what price (that usually comes in future filings), but the company is expected to trade under the ticker [...]

The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have always been fierce competitors, but as different accounts surface about which exchange Facebook has chosen or is about to choose, the public relations’ battle appears to be heating up. At least, the New York Stock Exchange seems eager to send a message to potential future issuers in [...]

(Reuters) – Zynga Inc could raise $925 million, less than previously planned, in what is still one of the largest and most hotly anticipated Internet IPOs in years. The Facebook game maker plans to sell 100 million shares, or 14.3 percent of the company, at $8.50 to $10 per share, according to a regulatory filing [...]