(Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard.
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- News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?
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- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?
- LogMeIn, which offers on demand remote access software, goes public today at $16 a share and is getting a nice round of applause from the folks following the venture capital world. After all, LogMeIn raised $107.2 million or so in a stock market that stinks. LogMeIn shares...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Facebook hires former Genentech exec as CFO
- Facebook today announced the hiring of David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer CFO of Genentech, as the company's chief financial officer. He won't join the company until September. Techmeme Back in March, the company started the search for a new CFO before...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public
- Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup publicRE: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup publicI think "take public" is a bit confusing -- I assumed this was an IPO!Sabatical - HR need to challenge this policyI hope investors in CrowdEye did their due diligence on the founding team.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor
- updated: Facebook said Tuesday that it has raised $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies DST, a Russian investment group. The deal gives values Facebook at $10 billion. In a statement, Facebook noted the following: Digital Sky gets preferred stock for a 1.96 percent stake...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Social PR Survey II: Continued disconnect between clients, agencies
- Back in February I published the results of a social public relations survey that attempted to gauge client satisfaction levels with their current PR agencies. What showed up was dismal - and really showed that client trust in their agencies was low. Given that data, and several...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Skype???s Giving Away Skype Credits
- Skype???s Giving Away Skype CreditsI guess this means thateBay DIDN'T have any ideas about this when they bought Skype or for years afterward. Begging others to help doesn't sound much like a business plan. I thought that Skype was going to be IPO'ed soon - maybe they need this business...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- News to know: Windows 7; RIM; Botnet hijack; Amazon
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: What to expect from Windows 7. Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: So many Microsoft codenames, so little time... The...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5
- Despite constant brushfires and spending too much time on scheduling and database issues, I've been giving a lot of thought to a comprehensive, K-12 technology curriculum. With such a unified approach to teaching and integrating technology in our classes, teachers at each level would be able to expect certain...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Dear Facebook: If Rosetta Stone can go public so can you
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- Blog posts 2009-04-16
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- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft makes it official: Forefront reaches the cloud Ryan Naraine: Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant Oracle...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO
- eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPOI think it will back fire.Trying to to strong arm a potential buyer with the threat of an IPO in this economy is not going to be much of a threat. I can't imagine many people wanting to buy Skype stock given...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Skype could be bought before any IPO; Gauging valuation
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- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Google first quarter earnings on deck: What to watch
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- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- News to know: Intel, Skype IPO, Microsoft netbooks, EMC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Intel: The bottom is in for PC demand Larry Dignan: eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO
- EBay will recoup some of its losses on Skype via an initial public offering. Or at least that's what the online auctioneer is hoping. In a statement, eBay seems to have given its reply to the buyback plans of Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- News to know: IBM-Sun; RIM, Web 2.0; CTIA; Facebook; iPhone
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM-Sun deal nears finish line; Antitrust worries just starting Sam Diaz: RIM delivers solid Q4 on BlackBerry...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- SEC filing: Rosetta Stone to file IPO
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- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- JA Solar Shines a Light on Global Operations With Integrated ERP Platform
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- Case studies 2009-04-01
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