initial public offering

The next year during its initial public offering, it raised another $226 million in private money.

Last week, King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush, went public in a splashy initial public offering.

Twitter staged its initial public offering on Thursday morning.

By contrast, Facebook alone raised $16 billion in its May 2012 initial public offering.

As the chart above shows, it has been a long road back for Facebook from its initial public offering in May 2012.