With Groupon Inc.'s high-flying IPO earlier this month and Zynga Inc. poised to go public, Silicon Valley is once again atwitter (if you will) about its favorite obsession: the initial public stock offering.
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Nov 21, 2011
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New chief executives, especially those appointed from outside an organisation, can see the company's stock price soar if they present their strategy to investors in their first 100 days, new research from Oxford has discovered. ...
Economics & Business
Jan 7, 2016
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Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume. A position on the list is highly coveted as a source of free publicity, ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 1, 2012
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Twitter got a reality check Wednesday as the high-flying messaging company reported modest user growth during a quarter in which it lost $511 million.
Internet
Feb 5, 2014
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Despite concerns to the contrary, it turns out that Twitter is not uninformative when it comes to its reliability as an investor information source.
Economics & Business
Aug 28, 2018
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Activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed Thursday he has raised his stake in Apple, and urged an "immediate" buyback of shares to boost the stock price of the US tech giant.
Business
Oct 24, 2013
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Dealertrack Technologies Inc., which makes software used by auto dealerships, says it is buying Dealer.com in a cash and stock deal that could be worth nearly $1 billion.
Business
Dec 19, 2013
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Activist investor Carl Icahn said Thursday he would meet Apple chief executive Tim Cook in September and discuss the "magnitude" of a share repurchase plan.
Business
Aug 22, 2013
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As Twitter embarks upon an initial public offering that is projected to raise some $1.7 billion for the social media company, it walks past a veritable graveyard of dead IPO companies.
Business
Nov 7, 2013
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Earlier this week, Ford Motor Co. replaced company veteran Mark Fields as CEO with Jim Hackett, a relative newcomer to the auto industry. Ford said it needed the change to speed up decision-making and reorient toward the ...
Business
May 28, 2017
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