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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The preparations for the AOL spin-off are going ahead as scheduled at Time Warner, with the media giant buying back Google's 5 percent share in the Internet company for $283 million. The deal was revealed in a regulatory SEC filing on Monday as part of the legal process for the spin-off. Google bought the 5 perc... |
28 July 2009
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With the weak economic conditions, initial public offerings (IPOs) experienced a nine-month drought period but things are apparently looking up as several IPOs were made just in the last few weeks. The latest, LogMeIn Inc., a company based in Woburn, Mass., will become the fourth in a six-week time frame and is set t... |
1 July 2009
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According to the latest news on the web, Facebook is attempting to purchase shares from many of its regular employees. The Palo Alto, CA-based company is known to reward valuable personnel with shares valued at less than a dollar each and now it is raising $150 million in capital to buy out these shares. There are al... |
19 May 2009
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Rumors that eBay is planning to sell Skype have been officially proven correct in the sense that the giant company indeed intends to separate from the popular calling service Skype, and the first step in this direction is an initial public offering (IPO) planned for the first half of next year – its exact date... |
16 April 2009
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