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IPO

Twitter at 2,000 employees, up 90% from last year

Twitter’s IPO filing was made public today and it noted that the company now employs 2,000 worldwide. According to the… Read More

Twitter (TWTR) IPO filing revealed: Company lost $79M in 2012, tops 215M users

Twitter’s IPO was just made public and the company is looking to raise $1 billion. Twitter said it now has 215… Read More

Nanostring IPO disappoints as shares fall 20% on first day

It was a tough first day on the stock market for Seattle’s NanoString Technologies, with shares falling 19.4 percent on Wednesday as… Read More

NanoString sets IPO range of $13-$15, plans to trade on Nasdaq under ticker NSTG

Seattle’s NanoString Technologies today set the terms for its upcoming initial public offering, with plans to sell shares in the… Read More

Shares of Tableau still surging after strong IPO, now valued near $2B

Everyone is talking about Yahoo’s big buy of Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. It’s a sexy story, in part because… Read More

Big offering for big data: Tableau prices stock at $31 per share

Tableau Software had been boosting its proposed price for Friday’s initial public offering for the past few weeks and now we’ve got… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Workday soars in IPO, now valued more than rival Concur

Workday, a Pleasanton, California-based company that specializes in cloud-based payroll, financial management and employee expense management, is soaring in its… Read More

After all-night hackathon, Facebook rings opening bell

[Update, 9:21 a.m.: Facebook shares have settled in around $40/share, after opening at $42. Notably, shares of Zynga, the maker… Read More

Open Letter to New Facebook Millionaires: Pay off mom’s mortgage! (And 5 other tips)

Every once in awhile the matrix reboots itself. When Facebook makes its initial public offering this week, there will be… Read More

‘Big data’ company Splunk, backed by Ignition, soars in IPO

Shares of business intelligence company Splunk are up more than 80 percent in their first day of trading today —… Read More

Microsoft’s Facebook investment: Smartest deal Ballmer ever made?

It was a modest amount in the scheme of things — a $240 million investment by Microsoft in Facebook in… Read More

Groupon IPO: Is this the next Amazon.com or Pets.com?

Group discount buying service Groupon, the granddaddy of the daily deals startups, debuted on the stock market this morning with… Read More

Rich Barton on Zillow’s IPO: It’s a ‘great accelerant’ for the business

As CEO of Expedia in 1999, Rich Barton missed out on the excitement of the company’s initial public offering. After… Read More

Microsoft’s IPO, 25 years ago, and what happened after that

It was 25 years ago today — March 13, 1986 — that a personal-computer software company named Microsoft Corporation sold… Read More

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