- Game Face: Zygna May Delay $1B IPO
Online Media Daily, - Monday, August 29, 2011
Zynga, the social games maker, may delay its plans for an IPO, worth up to $1 billion, due to poor market conditions and questions from the SEC, reports Reuters. T ...
- Brightcove Files For IPO, Reports $44M In 2010 Revs
Online Media Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Hoping to raise up to $50 million, online video platform Brightcove on Wednesday filed for an IPO with the SEC. As of May, Brightcove was streaming 700 million videos ...
- LinkedIn is Bigger than MySpace
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Thursday, July 14, 2011
Perhaps fueled by the publicity surrounding its recent IPO, LinkedIn is now the second-biggest social network, according to comScore. In June LinkedIn drew 33.9 million unique visitors, up from 33 ...
- Zynga Files For $1 Billion IPO
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Friday, July 1, 2011
Social-gaming juggernaut Zynga filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission for an IPO to raise up to $1 billion. The company behind hit games such as "FarmVille," "CityVille" and "Maf ...
- GSV Takes Stake In Facebook
Around the Net in Online Marketing - Top of the News, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, June 27, 2011
Investment fund GSV Capital Corp has reportedly taken a small stake in Facebook at a valuation of about $70 billion. "The investment fund said on Monday that it had boug ...
- Social Media Stock Bubble? Not So Far
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Monday, June 20, 2011
Naysayers and Cassandras of all stripes (including myself) have been wringing our hands over an alleged bubble in social media company valuations over the last year. While much of th ...
- Pandora IPO Puts Sirius XM On Defensive
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Investors see the rise of Internet-based audio services as a real threat to companies delivering audio content via other channels, even if they're still just a fraction of the si ...
- Is Groupon An Overvalued One-Trick Pony?
On Media, Diane Mermigas - Friday, June 10, 2011
The moment Groupon goes public later this year, it becomes a takeover target -- it can't happen too soon, given the latest turn of events. The daily deal wonder h ...
- Now Hear This: Pandora Ups IPO Price
MediaDailyNews, Erik Sass - Friday, June 10, 2011
Pandora Media, the nation's largest Internet radio company, is raising the price of its planned IPO in response to growing investor demand -- to $10 to $12 a share, whi ...
- Zynga Wants Cake With IPO, To Eat It, Too
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Similar to the strategy used by LinkedIn, Zynga plans to sell a small number of shares in its IPO, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. The idea is that a company c ...
- Mathematicians Cry "Bubble" on LinkedIn IPO
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Having harped on the whole social media bubble thing in the past, including the LinkedIn IPO, I now find myself playing devil's advocate in response to an interesting study ...
- Groupon Finally Files IPO
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 2, 2011
Daily deals site Groupon filed for an IPO Thursday with the intention of raising an estimated $750 million. Although still struggling to turn a profit, the company reported revenue ...
- In the First Wave of Social Media IPOs, Advertising Takes a Back Seat
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, May 25, 2011
LinkedIn ventured forth into the public markets with great success earlier this month and now comes word that Zynga, the casual game juggernaut, is preparing to go public sometime ...
- LinkedIn IPO Exceeds Optimistic Forecasts
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Thursday, May 19, 2011
After raising the low end of its stock price in the days before the IPO, "early indications and the investment community's keen interest in the offering had pointed to ...
- As IPO Nears, How Does LinkedIn Make Money?
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Tuesday, May 17, 2011
If all goes according to plan, on Thursday LinkedIn will become the first major social media company to stage an initial public offering. Currently the company is planning to se ...
- Pre-IPO: LinkedIn Sales Execs Change, Ad Rev Doubles
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Thursday, May 5, 2011
LinkedIn is making a number of staffing changes in its advertising business as it prepares for an IPO. Jonathan Lister, promoted to vice president, North America, for Marketing Solutions, replaci ...
- Ad Industry: The Year Of The IPO
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 21, 2011
The advertising industry likes to think 2011 will be the year of mobile, but with improving economic conditions and a crop of companies bringing in new clients and better-than-expected earning ...
- Envivio Files For $69 Million IPO, Targets Sales, R&D
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Monday, April 18, 2011
Broadband video provider Envivio has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $69 million in an IPO. The company's technology powers live and on-demand video f ...
- LinkedIn Hits 100 Million Users
Online Media Daily, - Tuesday, March 22, 2011
As it gets closer to an IPO, LinkedIn announced that it hit 100 million users. ...
- Groupon's Big IPO Plans
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, March 18, 2011
Bloomberg Business devotes over 3,000 works to Groupon and its wily young founder and CEO Andrew Mason. After all, the group-buying leader is reportedly eyeing a $25 billion IPO. ...
- Groupon IPO Valued Higher Than Google
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, March 17, 2011
To stay ahead of the group-buying fray, Groupon has reportedly held talks with several banks about an IPO valuing the company at a jaw-dropping $25 billion. Just 2-years-old, Groupon's I ...
- Pandora Files IPO
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, February 14, 2011
Showing the resilience of ad-supported streaming media -- and perhaps the over eagerness of investors -- Pandora has filed an IPO and plans to raise $100 million. As
Bloomberg- Digital IPO Hunger Resembles Dot.com Boom: Frenzy Before Fiscal Sense
On Media, Diane Mermigas - Friday, January 28, 2011
The stock market is getting frothy again over hefty bets being placed on the exploding value of companies poised to capitalize on an improving economy and the rousing digital revolutio ...
- LinkedIn Is About To Go Public
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, January 28, 2011
Finally set to go public, LinkedIn on Friday had everyone asking why now, what it means for the social network, and which social-centric companies could follow suit."The decision by Linked ...
- Demand Media Shares Exceed Demand, Spike 35% In First Day Of Trading
Online Media Daily, - Thursday, January 27, 2011
Robo publisher Demand Media began trading shares as a public company Wednesday, and based on its initial day of trading its shares soared 35% over their initial offering to clo ...
- Goldman's Facebook Folly
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Coming as a surprise to Goldman Sachs -- if on one else -- the bank's top U.S. clients are fuming over losing their chance to invest early in Facebook. "Goldm ...
- Groupon's Swift Move Towards IPO
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, January 14, 2011
Cementing the perceived power of social buying, Groupon is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering as soon as mid-year. What's more, "The offering may value the company at $ ...
- Demand Media Raises $112M IPO
Around the Net In Media, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Demand Media Inc, which relies on search engine data and thousands of freelancers to churn out low-cost articles and video, set terms on Wednesday for a $112.5 million initial publ ...
- Demand Media Approaching IPO
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Demand Media is one step closer to going public, reports
AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, citing an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. With shares priced from $14 ...
- LinkedIn IPO, Dead Ahead
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, January 6, 2011
Sure to upset the social networking ecosystem, LinkedIn is reportedly planning to go public before the end of the year. Sources
tell Reuters -- which broke the news ...
