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Quick cooling of hot stock market debuts by Internet darlings such as Groupon has fed fears of another speculative bubble as social networking star Facebook prepares to go public. http://phys.org/news241852755.html Technology Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:19:25 EST news241852755 (AP) -- The stock of consumer-reviews site Angie's List Inc. increased 16 percent on its first day of trading Thursday, showing ongoing investor appetite for Internet companies. http://phys.org/news240752599.html Technology Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:44:24 EST news240752599 LinkedIn Corp.'s employees and early backers plan to sell more than 6.7 million shares as they try to reap the gains from a rapid run-up in the online professional networking service's market value. http://phys.org/news240551516.html Technology Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:10:01 EST news240551516 Yelp is moving ahead with an initial public offering that would value the website which posts user reviews of businesses and services at $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news239997709.html Technology Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:02:02 EST news239997709 Groupon shares soared on Wall Street on Friday after the online daily deals sensation raised $700 million in the biggest initial public offering by an Internet company since Google. http://phys.org/news239636376.html Technology Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:39:58 EST news239636376 (PhysOrg.com) -- For most technorati ineligibles, it seemed like Wacky Math in the way that dollar signs were being placed on the value of startups in the heyday of the first dot.com bubble. When the bubble burst everyone hoped lessons would be learned and that the technobubble would be the last. Considering any week's frenetic business blog headlines this year of IPOs, IPO rumors, and seeded guesstimates about valuations, obviously not. http://phys.org/news239252056.html Other Sciences Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:54:29 EST news239252056 Facebook Inc. has struck a partnership with the U.S. Labor Department to help the unemployed find jobs. http://phys.org/news238421918.html Technology Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:30:01 EST news238421918 (AP) -- LinkedIn Corp. on Thursday launched its online professional networking service in Japanese, the first Asian language platform for the rapidly growing company as it pushes to expand in the region. http://phys.org/news238303801.html Technology Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:30:12 EST news238303801 Laid off after 23 years in the mortgage lending business, Dede Parise couldn't find a job. So she took a marketing class to reinvent her career, and before long she turned an assignment into a company. http://phys.org/news236343266.html Technology Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:10:01 EST news236343266 Tumblr on Monday announced a fresh round of funding that poured $85 million into the fast-growing online service for sharing pictures, videos, written musings and other digital snippets. http://phys.org/news236270217.html Technology Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:37:08 EST news236270217 (AP) -- President Barack Obama is again turning to a social networking website to host a town hall meeting. http://phys.org/news235833092.html Technology Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:11:51 EST news235833092 A startup devoted to connecting travelers with like minded locals is ramping up its mission with $7.6 million from investors Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network. http://phys.org/news233857791.html Technology Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:30:46 EST news233857791 Half of US adults are using social networks such as Facebook, Myspace or LinkedIn, according to a survey published Friday. http://phys.org/news233589583.html Technology Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:59:53 EST news233589583 (AP) -- President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. http://phys.org/news233033715.html Technology Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:37:43 EST news233033715 (AP) -- Social networking site LinkedIn says it will alter an advertising technique, following criticism and questions in the Netherlands about whether it violated privacy laws. http://phys.org/news232429674.html Technology Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:48:04 EST news232429674 Mark Johnson is something of a miracle worker for Groupon. No, he isn't a Master of the Universe salesman, nor a code-slinging prodigy. What he does is just as important. http://phys.org/news232381933.html Technology Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:32:57 EST news232381933 To date, most social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn have relied upon the ‘friend-of-a-friend’ approach to try and determine which people may have connections with one another. http://phys.org/news231760105.html Technology Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:48:41 EST news231760105 (AP) -- Venture capitalists invested more in U.S. startups in the second quarter than they did during the same period a year ago, suggesting that investors are ramping up their search for the next Facebook or Twitter. http://phys.org/news230353191.html Technology Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:00:07 EST news230353191 Tony Zingale is in the corner office at Palo Alto's Jive software when his phone rings. It's the chief marketing officer of a major pharmaceutical corporation, who's just heard from his counterpart at News Corp. about how Jive's social-networking software is boosting her company's bottom line. http://phys.org/news229794326.html Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:50:01 EST news229794326 LinkedIn leapfrogged Myspace in June to become the second-largest social network in the United States in terms of traffic behind Facebook, tracking firm comScore reported Friday. http://phys.org/news229399868.html Technology Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:17:17 EST news229399868 (AP) -- Buyer's remorse already may be setting in for some investors in Internet radio station Pandora Media. http://phys.org/news227453355.html Technology Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:29:37 EST news227453355 (AP) -- Internet radio station Pandora Media's IPO struck the right chord with investors Wednesday despite the static in the overall stock market. http://phys.org/news227369390.html Technology Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:10:08 EST news227369390 (AP) -- Pandora Media Inc. sold its initial public offering of stock at $16 per share late Tuesday, fetching twice as much as the popular but unprofitable Internet radio service expected less than two weeks ago. http://phys.org/news227330915.html Technology Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:50:02 EST news227330915 (AP) -- The popular Internet radio service Pandora raised the price range of its initial public offering on Friday by at least a third to between $10 and $12 http://phys.org/news226925400.html Technology Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:50:35 EST news226925400 Netscape co-founder turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen on Wednesday rejected recent speculation about a new high-tech bubble. http://phys.org/news226216169.html Technology Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:49:42 EST news226216169 Career networking website LinkedIn opened its Asian headquarters in Singapore on Tuesday, part of a plan to tap the region's large pool of professionals. http://phys.org/news226033076.html Technology Tue, 31 May 2011 03:58:17 EST news226033076 Yandex shares rose sharply on Tuesday as Russia's top Internet portal and leading search engine made its debut on Wall Street. http://phys.org/news225456895.html Technology Tue, 24 May 2011 11:55:13 EST news225456895 (AP) -- There was an unmistakable echo of the dot-com boom Thursday on Wall Street. LinkedIn, a trailblazer in the online networking craze, went public with a roaring stock offering. Within minutes, shares were trading at twice the value set by the company. http://phys.org/news225088687.html Technology Fri, 20 May 2011 05:38:29 EST news225088687 LinkedIn's stock nearly doubled in its market debut Thursday because of huge investor demand for the first major U.S. social networking company to go public. http://phys.org/news225021915.html Technology Thu, 19 May 2011 11:07:48 EST news225021915 (AP) -- LinkedIn priced its IPO at $45 per share to set up the first stock market debut among a fraternity of Internet networking services that's captivating investors. http://phys.org/news224958709.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 17:31:59 EST news224958709