So before I go any further, here are the basics of this massive offering as it stands today: Facebook is offering 337.4 million shares at between $28 and $35 per share. It hopes to raise $11 billion and this give it a market cap of $67.4 billion.  The final prospectus has yet to be declared effective by the SEC and therefore all this information is still subject to change before May 18th (the date Facebook plans to begin trading on the public markets).

Obviously, this being the most sought after and talked about IPO in years, instead of boring readers with Facebook’s numbers; which have been thrust down investors throats for weeks now, I thought I would write about how no one should hold Facebook after the IPO……Read The Full Article Here

When a film is a major success such as “The Avengers”, investors will look at the studio, Disney (DIS) or the distributor, Paramount (VIA) for an investment opportunity. Often overlooked are the smaller exhibitors who show the movie…..Read The Full Article Here

The company expects to raise just under $79 million on the deal that puts the total market cap of Audience at $290.9 million. The offering is underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities and Pacific Crest Securities. Audience (ADNC), the semiconductor company that makes processors for mobile phones, is pricing 5.3 million shares at….Read more about Audience Pricing IPO Shares here

The deal is expected to come on May 9th and is underwritten by Deutsche Bank Securities, William Blair, Lazard Capital Markets and Needham. The offering will give Rib-X a market cap of $204 million and the company hopes to raise $75 million from the sale. Rib-X Pharmaceuticals (RIBX) is pricing 10 million shares at $…Read more about RIB-X Pharmaceuticals here..

This strategy worked pretty well for me as I did amass a decent number of Twitter followers. One thing I noticed is that my followers were not very engaged in the social network. I believe many of them were more focused on follower count than on interacting with other people. I very sure that a good portion of them were spam bots and automated accounts whose “follow” means nothing to me because no one is around to read my tweets.

Twitter now has hundreds of millions of users, which is shocking to me as I thought it would have faded away by now. In any event, I’ve decided to give the social network another try in the hopes of actually engaging my followers in my business and my daily life. This would mean not only would I have to put in more time on Twitter, but also I would have to get my account organized in a way that one person could manage it.

The first way to achieve this was to get rid of all the spam. Both direct messages and spam in my timeline. I was receiving thousands of direct messages a day, which made it impossible to determine what were the important messages and what was spam. In addition, when you follow tens of thousands of people, your timeline becomes inundated with tweets on every subject imaginable. Sometimes there would be 100 new tweets every few seconds. This not only made it difficult to see the relevant tweets, but any tweet I might care about was immediately pushed down the page never to be seen or heard from again.

So what was my solution? Unfollow everyone. This is obviously a very unpopular decision. Twitterers hate when someone follows them in exchange for a follow back and then discards them and I am completely aware that I’m going to lose thousands of followers. But, I have had roughly the same number of followers for over a year, so its not like its just a quick follower churning system.

The second part of the solution that I’ve come up with will benefit everyone. If you would like to receive a follow back from @AssetInvesting simply leave a comment below this article with your twitter username and a brief description on what you typically tweet about and I will check you out. This will prove you are not a spam bot and we can see if we’re interested in each other’s tweets.

If I unfollowed you before and you are a legitimate account I apologize. But like I said this will benefit everyone. You know that if I follow you back you will be getting an engaged follower who will pay attention to your tweets. Your twitter name will be listed under my following section with a very small number of other names. So people browsing my twitter account will see you and this will increase your popularity. And of course you can also be assured that any direct messages I receive, I actually read.

So if @AssetInvesting unfollowed you or you tweet about business and want another follower, leave your twitter information in the comments below. Also this page is getting a decent amount of traffic so you may get a lot of new followers if you leave a detailed comment. Thanks and sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.