Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2018 August 3

= August 3 =

Face book
My name is David Frank Jensson and I would like to get the history of facebook shareholders back to 2003 or as far back as possible. Afterwhich I will give wikipedia a very handsome and generous donation. Best regard´s, David Frank Jensson   email is  for complete information. Thank´s in advance.
 * I've removed your email address for your own protection. It is unwise to post it in a public place.  All communication will be via this page.  Rojomoke (talk) 16:35, 3 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Prior to initial public offering, American corporations are not - in general - required to tell anybody anything at all about who they got their money from. They just have to follow certain rules, but there are very strong protections to protect the company's privacy.
 * Along the same lines - we can't just go poking around on the internet and find out about who you conduct your finances with - unless somebody broke the law and the court proceedings went in to the public record.
 * After the IPO, you can go get way more documents than you probably care to read by using EDGAR, the search engine of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Free access to over 21 million pieces of boring paperwork.  I'll be perfectly honest - I'm the only person I know who reads these very boring, very extensive government-paperwork archives recreationally - even though these extensive archives will surely contain the information you seek for the years since the Facebook IPO (circa 2012).
 * Now, if you're a real historian (or an avid investor), you might recall the little bit of legal trouble, circa 2013, about the timing and release of certain information; and earlier than that, Facebook got into some legal trouble about whether it had correctly complied with Rule 506 exemptions; and so forth; and if you go reading investment publications, you'll find loads of news stories about those events. You can get such information from your investment broker, who probably maintains a paper and digital library archive.  But this type of specialty-information is going to be difficult to find in a general-purpose, free-to-use internet resource.  Your best bet would be to find a business-centric journal, and hope that the reporters did a good job, maintaining a level of professional detachment and neutral point of view, while still digging deep enough to get into the dirt.
 * Nimur (talk) 18:19, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ...and for the record - Wikipedia's information is free, which means it doesn't cost anything; the people who answer here at this desk are unpaid volunteers and we are not even formally affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation; we answer to the best of our ability, and we do not want or expect financial compensation or "generous donations." ... We don't do it for the money; if we needed money, we wouldn't be volunteering our time on a free free encyclopedia.  Take a hint from one of the great computer programmers of our era - sometimes, if you're a good enough programmer, you have enough money to, ahem, "saddle up and leave".  Nimur (talk) 18:47, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Emoji Question
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 * If you are using an apple or android phone, look on the app/play store for text editors. Then you can copy and past your favourite emojis and save them onto your phone. They can go to a collection of documents. You can also create a file called .nomedia with your text editor, just put in no content before saving. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:30, 4 August 2018 (UTC)