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LinkedIn to $4 billion: Join my network
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
After its IPO this Thursday, LinkedIn will prove the adage that non-paying users of its social network aren't the customers, they're the product.
FORTUNE -- Here's a dirty little secret about social networks: No matter how much they talk about designing their sites for users, it's not true. Social networks are about making money off their users. Facebook makes money when it gets users to interact with big MORE
May 18, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Groupon rushing IPO?
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*All Things D reports that daily deals site Groupon wants that initial public offering (IPO) to happen sooner rather than later -- and by "sooner," we mean as early as this week. Regardless of when ever it does go public though, the company could be valued at $15 billion-plus. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 11, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple Insider, Farmville, Groupon, Ice Cream Sandwich, Initial public offering, Lady Gaga, Y Combinator -
Today in Tech: Angry Birds maker IPO coming?
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*A sneak peek at Adam Lashinsky's deep dive into Apple's corporate structure, including a juicy anecdote on how Steve Jobs tolerates internal company failures (Hint: Not so well). (Fortune)
*LinkedIn plans to offer 7.8 million shares in its initial public offering (IPO), valuing the professional social network at MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 9, 2011 10:28 AM ETPosted in: Adam Lashinsky, Angry Birds, Apple, Initial public offering, LinkedIn, Mobile, PlayStation Network, Steve Jobs -
Today in Tech: Facebook wants Skype, Cisco reorganizing
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Facebook and Google are each reportedly negotiating a partnership with Skype, though Facebook is also considering buying the free calling app-maker altogether. Any such deal would hypothetically be valued at between $3 to $4 billion, significantly more than the $1 billion Skype's impending initial public offering (IPO) would MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 5, 2011 11:48 AM ET -
Why startups don't go public anymore
Facebook, Twitter, Groupon -- hot Internet startups are using private financing to grow like never before. Why do they trust the social graph to be the backbone of their business model but not of their statement of ownership?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
The web is nothing if not a democratizing force. It has turned us into active investors with low-cost commissions from online accounts and free access to vast amounts of financial MORE
Mar 17, 2011 2:46 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Groupon's $25 billion IPO
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Groupon is reportedly in talks with various banks over an initial public offering (IPO) that would value the daily deals site for as much as $25 billion, roughly half of what Facebook is currently worth. Given Groupon's recent actions -- walking away from Google's $6 billion offer, building MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 17, 2011 9:55 AM ET -
Not Pandora's Box: Why the music company's IPO isn't the sign of a bubble
Pandora's IPO might look like dot-com Bubble 2.0. But the company actually has a sound case for going public.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
In 1995, Netscape went public. Underwriters believed the stock was worth $14 a share but demand was so strong they doubled the offering price overnight. It rocketed to $75 a share on its first day. But Netscape was a browser maker, with no clear plan to make money. In time, it was bought MORE
Scott Olster, editor - Mar 1, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Facebook, Initial public offering, Morgan Stanley, Netflix, Netscape, OpenTable, Pandora, Pandora Media, tim westergren, Time Warner -
The SEC's challenge in the secondary market
SecondMarket, Sharespost, NYPPEX all let wealthy investors treat private companies, like Facebook, as publicly traded ones. Are they flouting securities laws, or reinventing them for the 21st century?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
Sorry, small investors. If you want to buy shares in Facebook, Groupon or Twitter, you're going to have to wait until their IPOs.
That much is certain now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has started looking into the trading of MORE
Jan 4, 2011 1:34 PM ET -
A green technology wish list for 2011
By Michael Kanellos, Editor in Chief of Greentech Media. His colleagues Shayle Kann, Shyam Mehta, MJ Shiao, Rob Day, Eric Wesoff and Brett Prior also contributed.
The green tech industry will fondly remember 2010. After enduring collapsing prices and lackluster demand in 2009, solar companies saw panel shipments grow by an astounding 93 percent to 125 percent this year. Waiting lists for the new electric cars from Nissan and General MORE
Dec 29, 2010 1:05 PM ET -
Google's Groupon groping reveals the shifting power in the web world
First Yelp, now Groupon: Why hot startups -- especially those holding the key to "local" -- keep slipping through the search giant's fingers.
While the official confirmations have yet to land (and my colleague Dan Primack is following up on Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's hopefully tongue-in-cheek offer to discuss the finer points of his affection for miniature dollhouses), it's looking like talks between Google and Groupon have fallen apart. The situation MORE
Paul Smalera - Dec 4, 2010 2:09 PM ET
