Will Zynga still try to go public?
In the game industry, all eyes will fall to Zynga and whether or not it will still go public in the face of the big stock market collapse.
If the economic headwinds continue to get worse, that will make it …
Market hits enterprise companies, but their prospects remain good
On a damaging day for the U.S. stock market, enterprise-focused stocks got hammered just like everything else. But their prospects during a downturn are better than most, according to analysts contacted by VentureBeat.
At the end of trading Monday, the …
Silicon Valley VC Tim Draper: “U.S. just dropped a notch”
The biggest question on every mind in Silicon Valley relates to our collective worst nightmare: Could a macroeconomic collapse trigger another dotcom-esque bust?
For at least one VC, Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner Tim Draper, the market for U.S. startups just …
Market tantrum scares cleantech investors
Cleantech companies might not be feeling the sting of today’s market frenzy any worse than the rest of the pack. But for those companies, which typically require massive capital investments, a sustained downturn could crunch down on the sector’s badly-needed …
Obama seeks to calm stock market in wake of debt-rating downgrade
U.S. President Barack Obama took to the airwaves today to try to calm a stock market set in turmoil by after market analysis firm Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s debt rating to AA+ from AAA.
Obama said that he …
Updated: Fresh IPOs stumble amid market tantrum. Is the IPO window closed?
It’s day two of complete market mayhem. Has the chaos closed the window for companies looking to file for an initial public offering?
As of market close, the NASDAQ composite index was down nearly 7 percent for the day. This …
What will happen to tech stocks on Monday?
Update: As of 7:51 am PST, the Dow is down 2.62 percent and the Nasdaq is own 3.31 percent.
When the stock market opening bell tolls on Monday, much of the technology industry will be paying attention. This weekend has …
LinkedIn spurns NASDAQ, lists with NYSE
Could this be the end of an era?
LinkedIn, one of the highest-profile tech initial public offerings this year, indicated today that it will list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) rather than the NASDAQ stock exchange, …
Twitter predicts performance of individual stocks
We recently wrote about a study from Pace University that showed that the popularity of a company in social media can predict its daily stock price. Now economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have launched a website that …
Social media popularity can predict stock prices
A new study conducted by a doctoral student at Pace University, in association with Famecount (which tracks how popular brands are according to social media) concludes that social media popularity can reliably predict daily stock prices.
The study tracked three …
Nasdaq Stock Market's computers penetrated by hackers
Hackers have penetrated the computer network of the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. Federal investigators are trying to figure out who did it and why.
If it’s true, then …
S&P 500 index welcomes Netflix, boots the New York Times
Out with the old, in with the new.
Netflix, a subscription service for mail-order and streaming movies, has joined some of the largest and most prominent companies in the world on the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock market index, kicking …
Betterment raises $3M to give casual investors a more accessible portfolio
Online investing service Betterment announced today that it has raised $3 million in a first round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Betterment lets users transfer money to their accounts and decide how much of it they want invested …
Wall Street blames the computers again
Yesterday’s sudden 1,000-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was created when a trading glitch caused Procter & Gamble, like a sinking ship, to suck down lots of helpless victims along with it. PG shares dove from $62 to …
