News tagged with private stock

Social games star Zynga in the red, but optimistic (Update)

Online social games star Zynga stayed in the red in its second quarter as a publicly traded company but on Thursday promised better days ahead with the help of play on smartphones and tablet computers.

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Zayo Group buying AboveNet for $2.2B

(AP) -- Telecommunications company Zayo Group said Monday it will acquire AboveNet Inc. for $2.2 billion. Both companies offer Internet and phone services to companies over fiber-optic networks.

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created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China e-commerce firm Alibaba in privatization bid

(AP) -- Alibaba.com's parent company wants to take the Chinese e-commerce company private for $2.5 billion, the firms said Tuesday, part of a shift in business strategy that also includes plans to buy back a stake from Yahoo ...

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created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US-based iGate to delist Indian unit Patni

US-based company iGate said Wednesday it plans to delist its unit Patni Computer Systems from stock exchanges by buying shares from the Indian company's public shareholders.

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created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pre-bubble hype for second dot-com bubble?

What's a dot-com worth? Investors got it badly wrong when they pushed Internet stocks to nose-bleed levels in 2000, only to lose billions when the companies mostly went bust.

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created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US-based iGate in $1.2-bn Indian outsourcing deal

US-based iGate and a British private equity firm announced a 1.2-billion-dollar deal on Monday to buy one of India's oldest software firms in a major move into the outsourcing business.

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created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

KKR, tech companies to go public this week

(AP) -- A handful of young technology companies are expected to kick off the market for initial public offerings in the third quarter on a hopeful note.

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created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Private exchange to aid startups seeking more cash

(AP) -- Since June, a Web site called SharesPost has been helping a small pool of qualified buyers and sellers trade shares in fast-growing startups that have not yet gone public. Now, the private stock exchange is hoping ...

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale -- privately

(AP) -- Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad economy choking initial public offerings and acquisitions, ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0