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Yelp looking for $12 to $14 per share in IPO

(AP) -- Online review service Yelp rated its own business Thursday, setting an IPO target of $12 to $14 per share that could value the 7-year-old company as high as $840 million.

Technology / Business

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zynga plans to raise up to $1.15B in IPO

(AP) -- Online game maker Zynga says it plans to raise up to $1.15 billion in an initial public offering of 115 million shares in the latest in a spate of Internet IPOs

Technology / Business

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A look at Roku's new line of digital media players

Getting video from the Internet to your TV used to be a difficult, costly procedure. That's no longer the case.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Playing a ruthless game

Plenty of young gamers dream about playing videogames for a living, but Robert Bishop has a plan: It's all a matter of suckering in enough victims to make it happen.

Technology / Software

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Groupon stock tumbles as IPO lock-up period ends

(AP) — Groupon's stock tumbled Friday as insiders sold their shares after a post-IPO prohibition was lifted.

Technology / Business

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook deflates any thought of new tech bubble

The horrendous stock market debut for Facebook suggests investors are not ready to jump in and create another tech bubble despite big expectations for social media, analysts say.

Technology / Business

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LIVE: Facebook goes public

(AP) -- It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?

(AP) -- Facebook begins selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. Two Associated Press business writers are debating whether the stock is a smart buy.

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook spawns ecosystem of startups

To get the true measure of what's often called "The Facebook Effect," look beyond the company. Generally ignored in the klieg lights focused on Facebook's IPO is a growing ecosystem of other startups that are using the social ...

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intel introduces first batch of Ivy Bridge processors

(Phys.org) -- Intel officially launched its 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge family of processors on Monday -- well, sort of. A sea of news headlines using the words rollout and release can be measured with the fact ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Hollywood, Silicon Valley need unity, leader says

(AP) -- Chris Dodd, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Tuesday that Hollywood and Silicon Valley must work together to protect intellectual property.

Technology / Business

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Hackers for hire put corporate security systems to the test

Most weekdays, Jarrad Sims and Tin Tam, a pair of college buddies, ride their bikes to a computer center and try to hack into computer security systems belonging to Boeing Co.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?

(AP) -- Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Game of go: A complex network

Could computers ever beat the best go players? Although unthinkable at this stage, this could soon become possible, thanks to CNRS theorists. For the first time, two scientists from the Theoretical Physics ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 31


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