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Private exchange to aid startups seeking more cash

Technology / Business

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

(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 ...


Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale - privately (AP)

Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale -- privately

Technology / Internet

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

(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, ...





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The future of private equity

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Although global private equity markets have fallen on hard times, reports of their imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. So says Steve Kaplan, a widely recognized authority on entrepreneurial finance and corporate governance ...


Stocks of bad companies often outperform those of good ones

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created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Reputable companies aren't always the best investments, says a University of Michigan business researcher.


Fight over bringing Aussie carp to Britain

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created Jul 03, 2006 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A private fishery in England is being inundated with letters and e-mails from anglers over plans to stock an 11-acre lake with imported Australian carp.


Facebook creates dual-class structure, but no IPO (AP)

Facebook creates dual-class structure, but no IPO

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.


Another bailout? Government pension insurer could be next, expert says

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Another multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a University of Illinois finance professor ...


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Facebook's $200M investment values co. at $10B

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Facebook is getting a $200 million investment from a Russian Internet investor that values the social networking company at $10 billion even though it has yet to turn a profit.


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Microsoft Hopes To Win Back Browser Market Share With Internet Explorer 8

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created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (12) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has a lot at stake with the success of Internet Explore 8 since they lost 7 percent of their browser market to Firefox, Safari, and Chrome browsers. IE8 has been in release candidate ...


Experts disagree on seriousness of attacks on government Web sites

Technology / Internet

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Government Web sites were operating normally on Wednesday, officials said, after a broad attack on public and private computer systems that targeted sites operated by the White House, the New York Stock Exchange and The Washington ...


Lenovo buying back mobile phone business

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created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year.


It was unclear if Facebook had responded to or decided to accept the offer from Digital Sky Technologies

Russian firm offers to invest in Facebook: report

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created May 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Russian Internet-investment group has offered to invest 200 million dollars in Facebook Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported.



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