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- Initial Public Offering The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of...
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- LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?
- LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?This SMB ...... uses windows Remote Desktop and is investigating Direct Access in W7. No money left for addons when the OS does the job.That's fine if you have the capacity and ability to forward portsBut for me there are times when I...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?
- LogMeIn, which offers on demand remote access software, goes public today at $16 a share and is getting a nice round of applause from the folks following the venture capital world. After all, LogMeIn raised $107.2 million or so in a stock market that stinks. LogMeIn shares...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Facebook hires former Genentech exec as CFO
- Facebook today announced the hiring of David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer CFO of Genentech, as the company's chief financial officer. He won't join the company until September. Techmeme Back in March, the company started the search for a new CFO before...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor
- updated: Facebook said Tuesday that it has raised $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies DST, a Russian investment group. The deal gives values Facebook at $10 billion. In a statement, Facebook noted the following: Digital Sky gets preferred stock for a 1.96 percent stake...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake
- Updated: Time Warner's first quarter was weighed down by its AOL unit, which saw revenue fall 23 percent. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes reiterated that the company is looking for "the right ownership structure for AOL" and the company plans to buy back a 5 percent stake owned by Google. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5
- Despite constant brushfires and spending too much time on scheduling and database issues, I've been giving a lot of thought to a comprehensive, K-12 technology curriculum. With such a unified approach to teaching and integrating technology in our classes, teachers at each level would be able to expect certain...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Yahoo's Bartz: "No comment" on Microsoft deal (but maybe a hint)
- updated: Yahoo's earnings announcement - the actual financial numbers, that is - seems to be more of a formality these days. In a call with analysts today, CEO Carol Bartz made references to outsourcing or partnering pieces of Yahoo's business as the company rethinks its strategy under her leadership. Can...
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Dear Facebook: If Rosetta Stone can go public so can you
- Facebook is reportedly in the market for more funding at a valuation of either $2 billion or $4 billion and neither is all that palatable when you did a Microsoft deal valuing the social networking company at $15 billion. Perhaps Facebook should just skip this round and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO
- eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPOI think it will back fire.Trying to to strong arm a potential buyer with the threat of an IPO in this economy is not going to be much of a threat. I can't imagine many people wanting to buy Skype stock given...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Skype could be bought before any IPO; Gauging valuation
- Analysts were busy Wednesday figuring out what Skype would be worth as a public company---$1.5 billion to $2 billion seems to be the consensus---but few prognosticators ever expect to hit the stock exchange. Why? Another entity will buy Skype before it goes public. EBay on Tuesday announced...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- News to know: Intel, Skype IPO, Microsoft netbooks, EMC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Intel: The bottom is in for PC demand Larry Dignan: eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO
- EBay will recoup some of its losses on Skype via an initial public offering. Or at least that's what the online auctioneer is hoping. In a statement, eBay seems to have given its reply to the buyback plans of Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- SEC filing: Rosetta Stone to file IPO
- Rosetta Stone, the well-regarded language instruction company plans to file an initial public offering this month, the first VC-based IPO in about six months, according to a report in the Washington Post. The company plans to offer 6.25 million shares of common stock, priced between $15 and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- FriendFinder isn't likely to find any pals on Wall Street; Needs IPO to pay debt
- FriendFinder isn't likely to find any pals on Wall Street; Needs IPO to pay debtTis the day before ChristmasOK, a rewrite of last year's "Twas the Friday before Christmas". I named as many as I could. Tis the day before Christmas, all throughout ZDNot a blogger was ranting,...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-24
- FriendFinder isn't likely to find any pals on Wall Street; Needs IPO to pay debt
- FriendFinder Networks, the company formerly known as Penthouse Media Group, is filing to go public to pay off almost a half a billion in debt in an equity market that stinks. Simply put, FriendFinder is launching an IPO Hail Mary to stay alive. At least FriendFinder's initial public offering filing...
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- VMWare, National Lampoon & Lawsuits/Investigations
- Weird News of the Week I saw an advertisement in a major magazine where litigators are looking for shareholders of VMWare for a class action lawsuit. A Google search shows several recent results on the same story but here's one that's fairly explanatory. PR-Inside is reporting...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- 73% of VCs think their revenues will stay the same or grow in 2009
- Less than 20% of VC portfolio poised for exit in 2009 as IPO market recovery not seen for at least a year; M&A activity seen increasing as valuations drop. In polling 270 venture capitalists, corporate buyers and entrepreneurs, KPMG found that 73% of respondents expect their firm’s revenue to stay...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM world
- SugarCRM seems to be doing quite well, at least well enough to rankle its larger competitor Salesforce. John Roberts, the CEO of SugarCRM says Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce wasn't too pleased when he found out SugarCRM was hosting its user conference at the Marriott, just a few yards...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- LinkedIn raises another $22.7 million; SAP among investors
- LinkedIn has bolstered its war chest with a $22.7 million round of funding from the likes of Goldman Sachs, McGraw-Hill, SAP and Bessemer Venture Partners. In a blog post (Techmeme, statement), LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye said the latest round follows the $53 million the company raised in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?
- Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market has slowed to a trickle. The latest Wall Street crisis isn't helping. Here is a some...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
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