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Wall Street is back in Silicon Valley, but its welcome may be worn out
By Peter Lauria, contributor
The big banks are back to help the Valley's tech pirates turn into titans, but this time there's a chill in the air.
FORTUNE -- They're back.
After all but abandoning Silicon Valley in the wake of the first dotcom implosion, Wall Street bankers have returned to the tech Mecca en masse, in search of -- what else? -- riches to be made taking startups public.
But the moneymen of MORE
Jun 24, 2011 11:47 AM ETPosted in: Goldman Sachs, Initial public offering, J.P. Morgan, LinkedIn, Morgan Stanley, Silicon Valley, UBS, Wall Street -
Could Bernanke kill the tech boom? Could Greece?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
Silicon Valley boosters swear there's no tech bubble, but maybe that's because they've all been living in one.
FORTUNE -- For all the talk this year about a tech bubble, there is surprisingly little agreement. On the one hand, valuations of hot web companies are irrationally high; on the other big tech valuations are inexplicably low. On the one hand, the number of overpriced IPOs in 2011 is MORE
Jun 21, 2011 12:12 PM ET -
If it looks like a bubble and walks like a bubble...
Tech luminaries who point to all the bubble talk as proof we know more this time around may need a history lesson.
FORTUNE -- Marc Andreessen reportedly said this today at the AllThingsD conference: "A key characteristic of a bubble is that no one thinks its a bubble … If everybody's upset, it's a good sign . . . I hope there are lots of bubble stories."
The trouble with his declaration is MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 2, 2011 6:25 PM ETPosted in: Business, Dot-com bubble, Jason Pontin, LinkedIn, Marc Andreessen, Microsoft, Real estate bubble, TechCrunch -
Why investors think big tech stocks are lame
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
The hot stocks of the 80s and 90s have morphed into value investments while Facebook and LinkedIn get all the buzz. Is the market pricing in uncool?
FORTUNE -- Have technology investors lost their bearings? In a month when Facebook, having made $2 billion last year, is valued near $100 billion; when social-network LinkedIn (LNKD) starts trading at 17 times its revenue and RenRen, the Facebook of China, lists MORE
May 26, 2011 12:27 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Zynga close to filing IPO
Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
* Sources tell All Things D that Facebook game maker Zynga is on the cusp of filing an initial public offering, a move that could happen this week or next week. The company has been on a roll lately with a string of smaller acquisitions for talent and/or MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 25, 2011 6:30 AM ET -
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: Angry Birds maker IPO coming?
A curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you everyday.
*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 -
How RenRen's IPO is setting the table for Facebook
A $4 billion valuation for a company that made a $7.7 million profit sounds laughable, but it could be paving the way for a flurry of mind-boggling offerings.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
A few years ago, a cynical editor I knew was fond of challenging reporters to write a credible and printable headline combining the words "sex," "iPhone" and "Obama" - three of the sweetest pieces of linkbait at the time. As far as MORE
Apr 20, 2011 12:29 PM ET -
Bubble babble
The only thing more important than whether there is a tech bubble: why we're so obsessed with one.
FORTUNE -- I'm calling a top to the pundit bubble. All week, spurred by Color's gaudy valuation, the tech and economic punditry have continued their months-long monologue about whether or not we're in a tech bubble. Back and forth they went, inflating nothing but their own self-importance as they jostled to be the one MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Apr 1, 2011 12:10 PM ETPosted in: App Store, Dot-com bubble, Eliot Spitzer, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Henry Blodget, iPad, Jason Calacanis, LinkedIn, NASDAQ, Zynga -
Jive adds Facebook, Google and McAfee muscle to its board
Is the "Facebook for the office" company joining the rest of the Valley in cranking up the IPO machine?
FORTUNE -- Nothing says, "we plan to go public" more than when a startup bulks up its board with executives from brand-name companies. Software company Jive has just done that, with the addition of former McAfee (MFE) Chairman Chuck Robel, McAffee President David DeWalt, Facebook's VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger and MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Mar 30, 2011 4:13 PM ETPosted in: David DeWalt, Facebook, Google, Jive, Jonathan Heiliger, LinkedIn, McAfee, Salesforce.com, Sundar Pichai, Tony Zingale, Yammer
