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Winners & Losers for the week that was in business and deals, Deal Journal’s weekly look back and grading system of some of the biggest stories. (This week, an edition entirely free of Facebook and Yahoo edition, because we wanted to talk about something else for once.)

Put this in your "interesting timing" folder. From Dow Jones this evening, Intelsat Global Holdings S.A. is filing to go public right as Facebook landed in the public market with something of a whimper.

Facebook was apparently not distracted and not busy enough during its historic initial public offering. It bought a company today too.

Royal DSM announces the deal just weeks after it purchased Kensey Nash Corp. for $360M

General Electric, KKR, Twitvid and Google each announced acquisitions; check out other recent deals from the past week

El Paso Pipeline will also pick up the remaining stake of Colorado Interstate Gas spending a total of $877 million

Facebook traded 460 million shares by 3:07pm EDT, the most ever for a US stock the day of its IPO.

Facebook's debut drew a crowd to Times Square New York as people who were interested wanted to get close to the historic day.

Lead underwriter Morgan Stanley received about 38% of the shares in Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering to distribute to investors, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s allotment was roughly 15%, according to people familiar with the situation.

LJM Partners, an Illinois-based manager with $258m in AuM, will launch an offshore version of its preservation and growth fund this month, HFMWeek has learned.

Facebook’s IPO is looking a bit disappointing given all the hype and the size of one of the largest IPOs in U.S. history.

Some asset managers responded to Facebook's somewhat underwhelming debut Friday with disappointment following a historic run-up to the offering.

Facebook's Zuckerberg is now among the wealthiest people in the world.

Facebook's shares opened up 11% to $42.05 and touched its IPO price of $38 a share.

In its first 10 minutes of trading, volume in Facebook had already hit one-fourth of the all-time high for an IPO in the US.

Wedge Partners has issued a Facebook research report in what might be the fastest research report on an IPO in history.

Glendon Group's offer values the Culver City, Calif.-based target at $14.3M; Bidz may solicit alternative bids until June 25

Mergers & Acquisitions went on a pub crawl to discover which independent breweries stand out as likely targets for industry giants Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and Molson Coors Brewing Co.

Facebook shares opened at $42.05 and then instantaneously hit $42.99, up 13% from its IPO pricing.

The Markets Hub is live through the debut on Facebook's shares.