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Zynga and Facebook have had a special deal for a few years now, that's not much of a secret. In fact, parts of the deal have leaked over time and some details were known, even if they weren't official. What was clear was that Zynga enjoyed preferential treatment on the Facebook platform, one that no other d... |
9 February 2012
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Facebook's user stats, made official in the IPO filling, are certainly impressive. Though not exactly new or surprising, Facebooks' 845 million monthly active users, 483 million daily active users.But it turns out that Facebook's definition of an "active" user may not necessarily be your definition of ... |
7 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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The Facebook IPO is bound to create over 1,000 millionaires. It's not only the co-founders who are all billionaires now, or the early investors, which have made a killing on Facebook, or even early employees that were granted stock options, it's all sorts of people that managed to get even a small piece of ... |
3 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Facebook's IPO filling was the first chance to get actual financial figures on the company. People have been speculating and estimating Facebook revenue for years now. It turns out, they weren't that much off. Facebook made $3.71 billion, €2.83 billion last year, a big jump over 2010, when it brought ... |
2 February 2012
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The inevitable has happened, Facebook has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). It wasn't much of a secret that the company was going to do it on the first day of February. In fact, nothing about the IPO has been much of a secret for a long time.
The company is looking to raise $5 billion, €3.81 bill... |
2 February 2012
05:30 GMT |
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The wheels are in motion, and have been so for a long time now, but the latest rumor on the Facebook IPO says that the company may file it as early as next week. This means that we'll be seeing the first official financial details on the company very soon. The filing should also shed some light on the size of th... |
28 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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It's not much of a secret that Facebook will have its IPO this year. What's more, the IPO was known to be most likely coming in late spring. Facebook said as much about a year ago, although it didn't use the word IPO at the time.
But we now have a more accurate date, the third week of May is said to b... |
16 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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It's that time of the year again. Christmas isn't here, quite yet, so that isn't it. No, it's time to speculate about the Facebook initial public offering (IPO), a past time nearly as popular as guessing about upcoming Apple products.
This time around, the rumors say that an IPO is coming very ... |
19 November 2011
07:31 GMT |
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After a major financial publication claimed that the leadership at social game developer Zynga asked employees to return shares given to them in the early days of the company or face threats and dismissal, the leader of the company launched a counterattack, saying that those who claim foul play did not understand the... |
14 November 2011
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Groupon has finally started trading publicly. After quite a troubled road to the IPO, company shares started trading on the New York NASDAQ market. Immediately after becoming available, shares soared and finally stabilized at around $28, €20.3, 40 percent over the starting price of $20, €14.5.At this price,... |
4 November 2011
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Facebook has been very secretive about its financial details, anything else about its business that it can keep private. But the site is known to be driving up revenue and income.
The latest numbers, coming from people familiar with the matter, via Reuters, show that Facebook made $1.6 billion in the first half of... |
8 September 2011
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Pandora has ended its first quarter as a public company. While it's been criticized about its poor financial record prior to going public and shortly after it and about the fact that it still isn't profitable, the latest financial report is actually quite good.
The company doubled its revenue, added more... |
26 August 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Brightcove, an online video platform that you may have used without even knowing, is filing for an IPO. The company expects to bring in $50 million which will serve to power Brightcove as it continues to expand and seek profitability. While revenues have continued to rise, the company is still not making any money an... |
24 August 2011
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Video game company Zynga has announced that more than 148 million unique players are engaged with its title as of March 31, according to information that was made public as part of its application for an Initial Public Offering.AppData, a measurement service that targets all Facebook applications, currently shows tha... |
4 July 2011
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Social game developer Zynga is rumored to be preparing an Initial Public Offering on the stock exchange that will be worth between 15 and 20 billion dollars, with investment bank Goldman Sachs set to handle the financial matters.
Sources that are familiar with the IPO efforts from Zynga have told financial-oriente... |
29 June 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Facebook has announced a somewhat surprising addition to its board of directors, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings will join to become the sixth member of the board. While the reason behind the move is left to speculation, adding Hastings has some advantages and he may be a good fit for the Facebook board and for... |
24 June 2011
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Dizzying valuations for Facebook are no longer much of a surprise. The company seems to be adding tens of billions in theoretical value every week or so. The latest figure, which actually looks conservative, pegs Facebook at over $100 billion when it will eventually go public, early next year.According to CNBC, citin... |
14 June 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Groupon has made it official and has filed for an initial public offer, tentatively valuating the company at $15 billion and selling $750 million worth of stock. With its intention to go public, Groupon also revealed some interesting internal numbers, showing just how well, or not, it has been doing.As expected, Grou... |
3 June 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Following two very successful web IPOs in the past couple of weeks, it looks like the time is right for hot internet companies to be going public. Investors are clearly hungry for this type of companies and the high valuations they fetch could mean a lot of money for the companies, their founders and existing venture... |
30 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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There is a lot of interest in tech companies these days and the initial public offer of Russia's dominant search engine Yandex is yet another indication, after LinkedIn's great start last week. Yandex stock surged 55 percent from the opening price.Yandex, which gets more than 60 percent of the searches in R... |
25 May 2011
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The first of a string of highly anticipated tech company IPOs was a huge success, judging by the first day of trading. Shares of LinkedIn, which started trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange, surged from their initial price of $45, which plenty were saying was too high, to as much as $122 and settled at ar... |
20 May 2011
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LinkedIn, the professional social network is finally going public, later today. It's the first social networking IPO, the first big Web 2.0 IPO and the first of a string of very hot initial offers coming, Zynga, Groupon and, of course, Facebook.LinkedIn shares will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ... |
19 May 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Facebook's valuation has been raising eyebrows ever since Microsoft invested at, what seemed then, a huge valuation of $15 billion. That was four years ago, the latest reports indicate that Facebook may be worth $100 billion by the time it finally goes public, at least in the eyes of its investors.This may happe... |
2 May 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Groupon has seen no shortage of coverage in recent months and it's mostly been for good reason. It's been labeled as the fastest growing company in history and now seems set to break even more records, as it prepares for an initial public offer valuating it at as much as $25 billion.If Groupon were to reach... |
18 March 2011
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Zynga is said to be interested in raising some new capital. Despite being profitable and having raised a significant amount of money already, Zynga is apparently looking to get about $250 million at a valuation of $7 billion to $9 billion. That's the highest figure for the company so far, but considering the num... |
14 February 2011
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Pandora, a company that's seen plenty of ups and downs in the decade since launch, is now filing for an IPO hoping to raise $100 million. The online radio has seen big growth in the past year, both in terms of users but also in revenue. Still, it's not quite profitable and doesn't expect to be this or ... |
12 February 2011
06:36 GMT |
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Facebook is apparently gearing up for even more financial gymnastics. There's been plenty of coverage of the Goldman Sachs deal, in which the bank but also some of its clients invested in the social network. Now it looks like the company wants to make some employees quite happy by enabling them to sell some of t... |
11 February 2011
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LinkedIn, the popular social network for professionals, has finally confirmed that it is going public. The company will file for an IPO though it hasn't said when or at what valuation. It has revealed some numbers and, though revenue and net income are not spectacular, they are on the rise. And there are other i... |
28 January 2011
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Facebook finally confirmed the massive round of funding that has been the focus of much speculation and analysis for the past weeks. Facebook said it raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and DST directly and an additional $1 billion from Goldman Sachs clients. The company also announced plans for an initial public ... |
22 January 2011
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Facebook has been generating quite a lot of buzz lately and, for once, it's not about some new feature or some new privacy issue, it's about its latest funding round, which will end up bringing in $2 billion for Facebook, while the company is valued at $50 billion. Those are certainly impressive numbers, bu... |
6 January 2011
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A Facebook IPO, the one everyone's been waiting for, may not be coming for at least another year, but there may be a chance to invest in a popular social network soon as LinkedIn is said to be filing for an initial public offer sometime this year, within the next several months. The plans are underway and have b... |
6 January 2011
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Facebook is about to get a huge infusion of cash as it has reportedly raised $500 million in funding mostly from Goldman Sachs but with the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies contributing. Facebook is being evaluated at $50 billion, a number we've been hearing lately. What's more, Goldman Sach... |
3 January 2011
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Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, is mulling an IPO according to rumors, following the successful initial public offer from another Russian internet giant, Mail.ru. The search company is looking to raise about $1.5 billion in the IPO and is considering a listing in London. According to Reuters, the Russian... |
30 November 2010
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Another week, another crazy Facebook valuation. Based on transactions in secondary markets, Facebook is now worth about $41 billion, making it the third biggest Internet company in the US. The number has been growing at a steady pace for the past few years, reaching increasingly dizzying heights, but it's still ... |
15 November 2010
10:25 GMT |
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The Mail.ru Group seems to have been a runaway success indicating that investors are very confident in the company's management team and its portfolio. Mail.ru shares are now trading at over $35, up from the initial price of $27.70. The company was valued at $5.71 billion based on the initial price.Even with the... |
5 November 2010
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Mail.ru Group, the company behind the eponymous Russian website and an investor in a large number of Russian online properties as well as companies such as Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, has filed for an initial public offering at the London Stock Exchange. The company announced the move earlier this month, but has now... |
25 October 2010
10:39 GMT |
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TechCrunch reports Brightcove may be preparing an initial public offering (IPO) in the first half of 2011.The rumor has its share of the truth after Brightcove has bolstered is management team in recent months with new personnel, all with previous experience in these kind of operations.The company's latest hire,... |
20 October 2010
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Being an early employee in a hot startup can end up making you a small fortune from the stock options. But until those companies file for an IPO, those shares don't amount to very much unless you find a way to sell them. And now, it's getting increasingly harder for those with shares in companies such as Fa... |
12 October 2010
09:22 GMT |
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Just when things were settling down for Skype and the newly-independent company was on its way towards an initial public offering, comes the rumor that Cisco may be interested in buying the VoIP company before the IPO goes through.Cisco has made an offer to buy Skype, according to TechCrunch, though this comes from o... |
30 August 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Hulu is said to be looking at an initial public offering some time this year. The company is said to be interested in going public at a $2 billion or more valuation, a number which can seem a bit optimistic. The owners of the site have started talking to investment banks to handle the transition to a publicly traded ... |
16 August 2010
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Skype, the VoIP company which rather recently became independent, is now filing for an initial public offering (IPO) in the US, hoping to raise $100 million. The IPO registration was filled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission today. Goldman, Sachs & Co, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley will be managing the o... |
9 August 2010
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Facebook, the site, is huge by any metric. By the end of the year it will probably be the biggest website on the planet, in terms of unique visitors, time spent and so on. But Facebook, the company, is still relatively small among the likes of Google, Microsoft and even Yahoo. Revenue is on the rise, but is nowhere c... |
30 July 2010
09:56 GMT |
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With Twitter getting back in shape in the past few weeks, even though visitor numbers are still down, it's time to play one of Silicon Valley's most popular games again. No, it's not 'how is Twitter going to make money' but 'when will Twitter be sold'. In the past, there have been ... |
24 November 2009
06:27 GMT |
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The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), formerly the Patent Office, is, let's say, a peculiar organization. Recently, it became fond of the idea of constructing a space capsule, to be opened no sooner than 2020. For its enterprise, the IPO asked about 85,000 children and young inventors to set their ideas on pap... |
8 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Newegg.com, a popular online retailer among computer and electronics enthusiasts, announced that it would file for an initial public offer (IPO) hoping to raise $175 million. The venture-capital backed company revealed its plans in a regulatory SEC filing that also shows that the company has been profitable for every... |
29 September 2009
04:55 GMT |
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The Skype acquisition wasn't one of the smartest moves eBay made. This, despite being one of the few bright spots in its inventory and seeing a 25 percent rise in revenue in Q2 this year. Still, the company plans to spin off Skype as a separate entity in an IPO sometime next year but now there may be another opt... |
28 August 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Google is one of the biggest tech companies in the world and certainly one of the most popular. With solutions as diverse as mobile operating systems and email services, it has its hands on almost every piece of the market and is still churning new products, like the Chrome OS. Still, just five years ago Google was h... |
20 August 2009
10:26 GMT |
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In a second IPO within a week after Ancestry.com, network security company Fortinet plans to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering. The plans were disclosed in a regulatory SEC filing on Monday, the first step in the process. The sum is somewhat small for an IPO but it does mark a growing trust ... |
11 August 2009
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Genealogy company Ancestry.com is going for an initial public offering (IPO) hoping to raise about $75 million in the process. The plans were laid out in an SEC filing yesterday. The economy isn't bouncing back just yet but this is a good sign as, after four quarters of no venture-backed IPO, things started to p... |
4 August 2009
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EBay acquired Skype in 2005, planning to integrate it with its auctions site to provide communication tools to sellers and buyers. It didn't quite turn out as planned, though the service is making decent amounts of money, and now eBay wants to spin off the company in an IPO, but those plans may be derailed by a ... |
31 July 2009
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