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Technology sector to rev up IPO recovery
News IT firms and emerging markets including China, India and Brazil, will lead recovery of public listing activities, finds new survey on global investors.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business development/management, Survey, U.S., Business Strategies & Functions, India, Technology Sector, IPO, Investor, oil & gas
Asian tech startups still worthwhile investments
News Returns may not be as good or take longer to realize, but venture capital firms investing in region are still focused on wringing monetary ROI out of technology.
Tags: Investments, Angel investing, Business, Patent, Phone, Asia, Investment, IPO, venture capital, venture-capital company
S'pore mulls 'three-strikes' law against piracy
News Country evaluating new law to curb online piracy from persistent users who refuse to heed repeated warnings, cutting Internet access to violators.
Tags: Piracy, Regulations, Piracy, Internet Access, IPO, Singapore, Internet Service, intellectual property, movie, Internet Service Provider
Ancestry.com hopes to stand test of time
News Analysts wonder if buying into the latest dot-com IPO makes sense for investors.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business plans, Facebook, Social Networking, Family Tree, Paul Allen, Business plans, Ancestry.com, Amazon.com Inc., Business Strategies & Functions
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
News Auction company wants to spin off telephony service it bought over four years ago, but rights to some of its software still remain with company's founders.
Tags: Networking technology, VoIP, Business structures, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Google Inc., IPO, Bloomberg L.P., telephony, founder
Why 'Joe Facebook' wants to cash out
News Reports indicate that Facebook's official employee stock buyback program has been "oversubscribed". Here's why this is normal, and hardly greedy.
Tags: Web 2.0, IPO, Stock, dot-com, payment, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Web, Web 2.0
Israel's high-tech IPO market falls flat in '08
News The country didn't see a single high-tech initial public offering last year, a first since 2003.
Tags: Mergers, IPO, high-technology company, Israel, technology company, CEO, leader, valuation, venture-capital fund, merger
eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO
News eBay apparently thinks it can get more value through an IPO than by selling Skype back to its founders. The company plans to spin off Skype in the first half of 2010.
Tags: Exit strategies, Business structures, Investments, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., IPO, Video, Exit strategies, CEO, revenue
Tech M&A down 40 percent in 2008
News Next year will likely bring just as few mergers and acquisitions in the industry, but with more twists, according to a study by research firm The 451 Group.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Continuation, Foundry Networks Inc., M&A, IPO, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., financial industry, housing market, research company
Facebook ousts CFO Gideon Yu
News Facebook confirmed that CFO Yu will be leaving the company. Now the big question is, why?
Tags: Human resources, CFO, IPO, GAAP, Gideon Yu, Gideon, EBITDA, Facebook, financial, valuation
Chinese game company completes year's first Nasdaq IPO
News Changyou.com, a subsidiary of Sohu.com, is successfully spun-off in a US$120 million listing.
Tags: Business plans, Sohu.com, NetEase Inc., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., IPO, Changyou.com, Online-gaming Operator, Online Game, game company, revenue
Venture capitalists pin hopes on green-tech 'exits'
News Green-tech sectors--solar, alternative fuels, auto, and wind--are expected to get more money from venture capitalists in the coming year, with hopes of healthy IPOs in 2010.
Tags: Venture capital, Green IT, Investments, Mobile, Google Inc., IPO, Stock, venture-capital company, KPMG Consulting Inc., Green-technology Venture
Intel cuts VMware stake in half
News Cisco Systems and EMC will pick up 500,000 shares each as Intel reduces its investment in the virtualization company.
Tags: Virtualization, Intel Corp., Conference, Cisco Systems Inc., IPO, EMC Corp., VMware Inc., networking company, alliance, Las Vegas
How Wall Street's mess will hurt high tech
News news analysis Consolidation and financial uncertainty at the nation's largest securities firms will close some doors to tech companies aiming to go public, slow the process for M&A deals, and add more worry lines to tech investing.
Tags: Venture capital, Mergers, Acquisitions, Legal, Financial, Bank Of America Corp., Security, Google Inc., M&A, IPO
SMBs get help against software piracy
News Singapore government and trade associations launch campaign to help small businesses better manage their software licensing assets.
Tags: Piracy, Software, Small And Medium Enterprise, Business Software Alliance, Safe Harbor, Software Piracy, IPO, Singapore, ASME, software company
