For the past half-decade, a gang of well-connected entrepreneurs who worked together at online-payments startup PayPal have quietly built a string of successful Internet companies. At last, with Linkedin, public-market investors can get a piece of the action.
Not since …
Who says the IPO market is anemic?
Television-and-Internet audience measurer Nielsen Holdings raised $1.6 billion Tuesday during its initial public offering, close to 10 percent more than analysts had a projected, and boosting the company’s shares nearly 8 percent to …
Concerns about the readiness of its CEO and a shaky market have Skype, the iconic Internet voice-chat service, saying it won’t hold its much-awaited initial public offering until the second half of the year, according to a report in the …
As of this writing, online publisher Demand Media is worth more on the stock market than is The New York Times Company. Of course, this says more about the enthusiasm of IPO investors than it does about the relative merits …
Social buying powerhouse Groupon may be looking to move ahead with an initial public offering (IPO), according to anonymous bank sources in the New York Times.
The company recently turned down a $6 billion dollar acquisition offer from Google and, …
Welcome to the age of the stealth IPO.
Groupon, the fast-growing purveyor of online discounts from local businesses, has confirmed through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that it has authorized a new $950 million financing round. (Groupon’s …
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — at least for Silicon Valley startups in 2010.
While many smaller, lesser known newbies languished as venture capital investments declined overall, those that did score, scored big, …
Content farm Demand Media has delayed its IPO because of questions about its accounting practices, according to All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher.
Demand amortizes the cost of its cheap, substandard content over five years, meaning that only a fifth of …
General Motors, maker of the upcoming electric-powered Chevrolet Volt, has priced its initial public offering at $33 per share, a good chunk higher than its previously announced range of $26 to $29.
It also bumped its overall valuation to $20.1 …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: David Millard is Chair of the Business Department of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
As with many other industries, the days since the 2008 crash have been “dog days” for the venture capital …
Here are the top cleantech stories we’re following today on the GreenBeat:
Global solar panel leader First Solar has announced a 15 percent rise in third-quarter profits, with net income increasing from $153.3 million to $176.8 million, Bloomberg writes. …
Wind farm developer First Wind has shelved its plans for an initial public offering (IPO) after cutting its offering price by nearly 25 percent.
We reported earlier this week that the company’s IPO was up in the air, given its …
Skype has asked Nimbuzz, makers of a popular VoIP mobile app, to remove support for all Skype services starting October 31st.
Nimbuzz provides a mobile application for accessing multiple VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and messaging services such as MSN, …
The world’s largest online betting exchange, Betfair Group, soared close to 20 percent in its first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange closing at £15.50 per share and raising $322 million during the session.
That closing price put …
The world’s largest online betting exchange, Betfair Group, today set a price range for its upcoming initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange that would value the company at as much as $2.4 billion.
The British company, …
Internet phone giant Skype has appointed former Cisco senior vice president Tony Bates as its new CEO, the company confirmed Monday.
The changeout at the top spot is one more indicator that the firm is getting closer to going public, …
Siemens has purchased building management firm SureGrid, Green Tech Media reports. The acquisition is a sign of interest in building efficiency startups, which make software that integrates into building management systems created by big companies like Siemens and Honeywell. …
GE has acquired Calnetix, a company that takes waste heat from industrial processes and converts it into electricity. In a release, GE forecasted the waste-to-energy sector as future $1 billion industry, and said it had also acquired intellectual property from …
Biofuels and biomaterials company Amyris’s stock held up in its first day of trading, closing last night at $16.50, up three percent from its opening price of $16. The stock peaked at $17.44, the San Francisco Chronicle writes. The …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Jeff Bussgang is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. This column originally appeared on his blog Seeing Both Sides.)
One of my favorite business school professors, Andre Perold, used to like to say that in every transaction …
