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In most tech ipos, only about 20% of share goes to ordinary investors. it's why it pays to wait. remember facebook, the biggest tech ipo ever quickly became one of the biggest flops, the stock debuted at $38 a share. but three months later you could get it at half that price. right now the early wagering is that twtr shares, twitter, will rise when they start trading. but there's to way to know for sure. which brings me to blackberry. in 2008, blackberry stock traded at $147 a share. today? blackberry is in the single digits. big news this morning that blackberry has abandoned its plans to sel...

Revenue came from mobile users but it fell again after it revealed that young teens are not using the site as much as they used to. that came after mark zuckerberg defending the accusation that teened don't find it cool anymore. what's cool? a billion dollars. that's how much twitter co-founder ed williams could make when twitder goes public. a co-founder -- $154 million. that's a lot of money. you, not so much. you've heard me say it before. sometimes it feels like the deck is stacked against ordinary investors, and usual usually it is. twitter says it's shared will debay between $17 and $2...

to answer any question you could possibly ask. but facebook represents something different. the idea that the internet and technology can bring people together and together the community you choose cure rates your entire journey through life. but is this a real shift in the motion important tool in the world or a fad that's peaked? can facebook live up to the hype? and if it really is a paradigm shift, can facebook dominate it? >> as no other network can, we've brought together cnn's best team covering this story. dan simon at facebook headquarters in menlo park, california, where ma...

The facebook ipo got off to a rocky start yesterday with a traffic overload at the nasdaq, sending would-be investors error messages, combined with tepid movement in the stock price. that resulted in a gain of just about 23 cents for the day. joining me is ben mez reshgs -- was it successful? >> not the crazy success that a lot of people hoped. it wasn't flying how of the gate. i think overall, there was so much press and so much hype, it would have been hard to live up to it. so many people were wanting to buy shares it kind of went crazy. but the price never exploded. you couldn't call it a ...

investors have just begun. welcome to "your $$$$$." i'm ali velshi, christine romans with me. we've been following this company with one thing in mind, after a troubling day for stock, can facebook live up to the hype? facebook, the most anticipated tech talk in history. from a startup in a dorm room to a global community approaching a billion people. facebook is the next paradigm shift on the web. first, the internet was defined by the portal, a one-stop shop for everything you needed. then came search, a single place to answer any question you could possibly ask. but facebook repre...