‘Tis the season for Internet company IPOs. Veteran local business review site Yelp has signed on bankers Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to lead its initial public offering at a valuation between $1 and $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal is …
Zynga may float its initial public offering after the Nov. 24 Thanksgiving holiday, according to two sources close to the matter who spoke with Bloomberg.
The social game maker, responsible for titles such as Farmville and Empires & Allies, filed …
Groupon shares soared in early trading this morning to $28, a 40 percent increase over its $20 price announced last night, as the company made its initial public offering.
The $28 opening price puts Groupon’s market value at $17.8 billion.…
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If you’d told me 5 months ago that I would spend a lot of 2011 studying accounting, talking to businesses and saying bad things about a company that everyone once loved, I never would have believed you.
It all started …
Groupon shares will be priced at $20 when the company begins trading publicly tomorrow on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol GRPN, according to AllThingsD, which would value the company at $13 billion.
The daily deals company’s share price came …
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I have long criticized Groupon’s accounting practices. As someone who has watched the company closely since the it first filed the paperwork to go public (now scheduled for November 4), I have seen how it has continually adjusted its S-1, …
Group deals startup Groupon is launching a new service called Groupon Reserve, the company announced today.
The service will focus exclusively on high-end deals from high-end merchants and may silence critics who complain that most of the deals from the …
Groupon is taking its show on the road this week to pitch wary investors on its stock. Can the company prove it will be profitable in the long term even though it’s posting nothing but losses so far?
“If you …
Groupon is set to go public on November 4, 2011.
After months of hemming, hawing, adjusting statements and balking at the closing IPO window, the company will offer its shares for public trading. They will be listed on the Nasdaq …
After an avalanche of negative press and a general market downturn, Groupon is gearing up for its IPO at a valuation of less than $12 billion.
Previously, sources close to the deal said the valuation was between $15 to $20 …
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Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, has been out of the public eye for months, mainly due to regulatory restrictions on what CEOs of companies filing for initial public offerings can say in public. But yesterday, he finally got on …
In the past several months, more and more venture-backed companies have shied away from tumultuous U.S. market activity and have sought entry into in European and Asian exchanges instead.
According to new data from Dow Jones’ VentureSource, exactly half of …
Glam Media announced today that it has hired 16-year Apple veteran Jeanne Seeley as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president, a move that likely positions the company for a public offering. Seeley starts work today.
Samir Arora, …
Continued uncertainty about financial stability in Europe and a government deadlock in the United States struck publicly-traded equities on Thursday, sending the tech-heavy NASDAQ index down 3.3 percent and below a technical level of support that might indicate future weakness.…
Daily online deals startup LivingSocial might delay filing its initial public offering in favor of a new $200 million funding round, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The fact that both LivingSocial and rival …
Groupon’s highly anticipated IPO, which stalled amid market volatility earlier this summer, is back on track.
Sources close to the matter told The New York Times that the daily deals company’s initial public offering is now slated for late October …
New financial details reported earlier today by Reuters about social media giant Facebook indicate that the company’s situation is more than good enough to go public.
Granted, Reuters cited “anonymous sources,” meaning none of this is confirmed. But let’s take …
Group deals service Groupon has delayed its plans for an initial public offering due to stock market volatility, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Groupon, which was originally planning to go public after the Labor Day holiday, still has …
Insurance technology software company Guidewire Software filed an initial public offering that aims to raise about $100 million, the company announced Tuesday.
Guidewire offers software solutions for insurance companies that provide property, workers’ compensation and casualty insurance to its customers. …
Zynga just revealed a teaser for its next big social game, an Indiana Jones-inspired creation called Adventure World.
The video trailer on the new Adventure World fan page says “you can explore exotic lands, solve ancient puzzles, and bring your …
