Screens displaying Facebook's share price inside the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York just after Facebook �began trading on the Nasdaq market Friday.
Photo: ReutersThe scene outside the Nasdaq Marketsite as the Nasdaq exchange welcomes Facebook.
Photo: ReutersMembers of the media deliver reports in front of the Nasdaq Marketsite early Friday.
Photo: ReutersBack in Silicon Valley, Facebook was winding down �Hackathon 31.� Every few months, the company says, participants in such sessions build prototypes of new ideas. Many successful products grew out of �hackathons,� according to Facebook, including Timeline, chat, video, a mobile development framework and some infrastructure components.
Photo: Facebook�Hackathon� participants bang away on laptops at Facebook headquarters.
Photo: FacebookA Facebook employee labors at a workstation in Menlo Park, Calif., during the �hackathon.�
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, having opted to remain in Menlo Park rather than travel to New York for the stock-market debut, is seen on a giant video screen in Manhattan.
Photo: ReutersZuckerberg�s was not the most famous face associated with the Facebook IPO, as U2 singer Bono, though his participation in the investment firm Elevation Partners, reportedly became the richest of all rock stars with the stock�s public listing. Here, Bono listens to President Obama speaking at a 2011 World AIDS Day event at George Washington University.
Photo: Reuters
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