Collection: Initial public offering

IPO: Pandora Goes Public. Will you invest? by Sean Browne

Pandora has submitted a registration statement on Form S-1 using the Securities as well as Exchange Commission, setting the music-recommendation service on the route towards a preliminary public offering. Hear say of an Ipo have been accelerating in the last 30 days, using the organization considered seeking to raise $100 million within an offering. Pandora [...]

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IPO: Linkedin Metrics, Key Financial Numbers, and the Top Investors and Shareholders

It’s official: LinkedIn’s long-awaited IPO is coming soon. Earlier today, the business and social network filed paperwork with the SEC. Although the document doesn’t reveal three important pieces of information — the price, date or number of shares for the offering — LinkedIn did reveal a lot of other interesting details. We’ve had a chance [...]

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HOT IPO: Linkedin Going Public Today 1/27/2011

LinkedIn, the #1 social network for professionals, announced its plans to go public by filing a registration statement using the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday 1/27/2010. LinkedIn’s move, while expected, makes it official: We’ve got an online IPO boom on our hands, after a long drought following a bursting from the first internet bubble a [...]

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Groupon going public is up in the air

Daily deals website Groupon is considering an initial public offering and is in talks with bankers, founder and Chief Executive Andrew Mason told Reuters on Monday. “We’ve met with a bunch of bankers, we’re exploring whether or not it makes sense for us but we haven’t made a decision. We’re still in the learning phase,” [...]

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The largest Internet IPO in history? Demand Media Worth More Than $1 Billion Following IPO

Demand Media is now officially a publicly traded company following its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, in which it raised $151.3 million. The deal values the company at nearly $1.5 billion, making it one of the largest Internet IPOs in recent history. Early indications suggest that concerns over Demand — which owns sites [...]

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America’s Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors by Barrons

Image via Wikipedia LIFE IS NEVER EASY for independent financial advisors. Although they’re about to win a historic battle over business standards for investment professionals, the victory could raise an entirely new set of challenges. Independent advisors long have argued that anyone giving investment guidance—whether they run a one-person shop or belong to Merrill Lynch‘s [...]

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How do I buy Facebook Stock before the IPO? This is how

Want to get buy a piece of Facebook? SecondMarket, the service that lets you buy private company stock, is your way in. But first you must qualify as an “accredited investor.” By SEC definition, an accredited investor earns more than $200,000 per year or holds at least $1 million in assets. If you meet those [...]

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When is the Facebook IPO? Facebook is going Public April 30, 2012

Facebook has 100% confirmed that it has raised $1.5 billion in fresh funding, with it, signaled that the IPO between 2012 is increasingly likely. In the funding announcement today, Facebook says that, “Even prior to the investment from Goldman Sachs, [we] had likely to pass 500 shareholders at some stage in 2011, and for that [...]

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Google Offers VS Groupon and LivingSocial. Who will win?

It’s confirmed: Google is preparing to launch Google Offers, a direct competitor to Groupon. If you can’t buy them, join them. Google is already beginning the push for its new group-buying service, reaching out to local businesses for the first test run of its daily deals program. With its massive reach, vast advertising network and [...]

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STATISTICS: Facebook vs Google Who Do Consumers Like More?

Coming off a phenomenal year, Facebook is close to narrowing the gap with Google when it comes to public sentiment, but is not quite there yet, according to research from YouGov’s BrandIndex. The company, which polls 5,000 people per day online, found that Facebook currently has a “Buzz Score” of 31.3 vs. 39 for Google. [...]

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