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With Facebook’s highly anticipated IPO just a couple of days away, the press has been covering all kinds of depressing opinions from skeptics, naysayers, and suit-wearing Wall Street executives. Yes, it’s important to play devil’s advocate and look at the …
“When my kids were born, my dad bought them Disney shares, and we framed them and hung them up on the wall. They’re excited to know that they are a part of Disney.”
Mike Jones, MySpace’s onetime CEO, told VentureBeat …
Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offerings might be delayed due some of the company’s recent high dollar purchases, unnamed sources familiar with the matter tell CNBC.
Rumors have been circulating that Facebook management had targeted the IPO for May, with …
Enterprise data software company Splunk ended its first day on the stock market with an amazing 108.7 percent bump in price from its $17-per-share IPO.
The San Francisco-based company offers businesses software to better analyze and interpret “big data.” The …
Firewall and computer security company Palo Alto Networks plans to raise $175 million in a public offering, according to papers published today by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Palo Alto Networks has become popular because it allows chief information officers …
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We’ve heard quite a few opinions about who’s to blame for Groupon’s IPO fiasco ever since the company announced a restatement of its earnings last Friday and indicated that it had material weakness in its internal controls. Andrew Ross Sorkin …
The data is in: The first quarter of 2012 was a roller coaster ride of initial public offerings and unexpected power-plays.
Twenty companies held IPOs, raising a total of $1.4 billion in the first three months of the year, according …
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Groupon was forced to restate fourth quarter earnings, sending its stock down 6% in after-hours trading. This surprised me as much as my $2 investment in the Mega Millions jackpot not paying off.
The reasons for Groupon’s restatement were higher …
Thirteen year-old do-it-yourself printing service CafePress has priced shares higher than anticipated at $19, an underwriter said on the eve of the company’s public debut.
CafePress, a San Mateo, Calif-based company best-known for its popular custom t-shirt printing business, will …
Facebook will officially start courting investors and kick off its IPO roadshow next week in a one-month run-up to a late-April offering, multiple sources close to the company have said.
This revelation comes from financial data analysis company PrivCo, which …
Mark Zuckerberg may have completed the ultimate power play in nabbing a majority of Facebook’s voting rights, but the youthful chief executive would apparently prefer to take a back seat as his social networking company courts analysts and investors on …
Review site Yelp, which has turned into a ubiquitous guide to restaurants, opened 60 percent above its strike price of $15 today, valuing the company at $1.43 billion or roughly 17 times its annual revenue.
That’s not bad for a …
Review this. Yelp has priced its stock at $15 a share Thursday evening, and will make its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the YELP ticker symbol tomorrow.
With 7.15 million shares for sale, Yelp will raise …
Facebook’s newest advertising product, expected to be unveiled on Feb. 29, leaked to the web yesterday. The ads themselves would appear to be a natural evolution of the company’s primary money-making business, but perhaps there’s more to these new sponsored …
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Defenders of Yelp’s $600 CPM rate for small business advertising often justify the rate by saying Yelp’s narrow focus means consumers are highly likely to convert.
After researching some ads on Yelp, I question the claim that Yelp is delivering …
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Despite the public perception, the SEC quiet period isn’t a great boon for reporters and analysts.
I hate that some companies use the vague quiet period rules to duck important questions about their business.
But more importantly, I hate the …
Facebook employees and others who are contemplating when to sell their stock can get some help from a new startup called Wealthfront.
The company has created a financial planning tool that lets anyone who works in a tech company test …
Now that Facebook is fast on its way to becoming a public company, and its financials have been laid bare, there’s just one question that remains unanswered: What is Facebook actually worth?
A private market transaction completed Thursday may provide …
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Facebook faces some real challenges when it comes to keeping up its growth pace, as I covered yesterday. But I’m still bullish on the company, and here’s why.
Massive audience and social graph
Facebook has a connected audience like no …
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This is a revised version of a story that appeared on CNET earlier today; it is republished with permission.
For all the naysaying about Facebook, that it’s a flash in the pan and such, there are very few that say …
