Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look…

It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that…

The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history.

Communism and capitalism are now apparently the same thing in Chinese online media. The People’s Daily newspaper, an organ of the country’s ruling Communist Party, has filed to float its People’s Daily Online website in Shanghai to raise 527 million yuan ($83.4 million).

Mobile ad company Millennial Media is going to try its hand in the public markets, filing papers Thursday for a $75 million initial public offering in hopes of raising cash to compete at a higher level. Registration documents show the company isn’t profitable but it posted a huge revenue increase…

The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having their bubble burst today: its shares opened above its initial offer price range, before quickly dipping down again.

Is Rovio’s floatation ever going to happen? For some time now, we’ve been reading chatter about an imminent IPO. The latest date is 2013, the latest market is Hong Kong. And, this time, the company itself is making bold on-the-record plans…

Facebook’s Carolyn Everson was tight-lipped several months ago at paidContent Advertising when the subject of mobile advertising was discussed. Turns out Facebook has been working on its mobile ad approach the whole time, and now according to a report it’s gearing up to launch what could produce a big influx…

Groupon will sell 30 million shares in its upcoming IPO, priced at $16 to $18 per share. The company estimates its net proceeds will be $478.8 million, down from the $750 million the company originally expected to pull in, on a valuation of $10.1 to $11.4 billion.

Groupon is planning an IPO of around $500 to $700 million in the next two weeks, according to reports in DealBook and the Wall Street Journal, on a valuation of around $12 billion. That valuation is down from estimates as high as $25 to $30 billion in May.

Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the company’s stock fall 10 percent this year will want more, particularly status reports on the company’s mobile, social, and local efforts. They’ll be keen to hear from co-founder Larry Page,…

Zynga’s executives and early investors are set to reap a windfall when the social gaming company goes public. But the hefty payouts have already begun, starting with founder and CEO Mark Pincus, who sold $110 million worth of shares back to the company in March. That same month, venture capital…

Zynga filed IPO documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday stating its intention to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering. But the company faces risks going forward, including its heavy dependence on Facebook and the fact that it derives revenue from only a tiny fraction of its…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more Skype partnering and merger speculation, this time with Microsoft; (NSDQ: MSFT) Angry Birds maker talks up going public; Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nuance chatter resurfaces; and U.S. Cellular hops on to the LTE express train.

Ebay may have decided that Skype was not an asset worth keeping—selling, in 2009, two-thirds of the company it paid more than $3 billion to acquire in 2005. But apparently some other big Internet hitters—namely Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—think otherwise.

Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reportedly making big cuts in its R&D staffing; mobile marketing agency Mobile Network Group goes public in France; and Asian mobile media company Ozura World buys mobile advertising company Tatto Media for $60 million.

Luckily for Rovio, raising cash from the public markets might be easier than trying to make the bird with the long beak spin back onto the pigs.

Personalized radio streamer Pandora has filed for its long-expected IPO and is seeking to raise $100 million from its stock sale, according to an SEC filing. The filing shows a company operating at a loss but with advertising revenues rising dramatically.