Entries Tagged as 'ipo'



Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Rackspace Serving Up IPO Plans

GigaOM: RackSpace IPO Filing Hints at Expansion Plans. Data center and hosting provider RackSpace Inc., has filed to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering. Its financials seem generally sound (unlike many tech companies it’s actually profitable), although profits did drop by 10 percent in the last year.
I’ve added Rackspace Inc. contracts. [...]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

RedEnvelope Sold

San Francisco Business Times: RedEnvelope Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Agrees to Asset Sale. Online gift seller RedEnvelope Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 17. The San Francisco company (NASDAQ: REDE) detailed the move in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday.
Even though I’ve never shopped at RedEnvelope, I recently received one [...]

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Visa IPO Charges Ahead

CNNMoney.com: JPMorgan Chase Makes $1B-Plus on Visa IPO. Thanks to its stake in Visa’s initial public offering this week, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has enough money to pay for its Bear Stearns purchase and still have about a billion dollars left over.
I’ve added Visa Inc. contracts to the site. I’ve also added ViewSonic Corp. [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Al Gore IPO

Current Media contracts, from the company founded by Al Gore, Jr. He’s also the Executive Chairman and Director.

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Legend of the Rogue Trader

MarketWatch: RiskMetrics Soars in Stock-Market Debut. In markets, like comedy, timing is all-important. So it was highly fortuitous for RiskMetrics Group Inc., a provider of risk-management and corporate-governance products and research, to make its stock-market debut one day after Societe Generale, France’s second-largest bank, stunned the financial world with the revelation of its $7.1 billion [...]

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Death of Suburbia

Levittown was the first mass-produced suburb and built by Levitt & Sons, Inc. Last November, the builder, a victim of the real estate downturn, declared bankruptcy, laid off its employees, and left a line of homebuyers in limbo. Levitt Corp. contracts have been added.

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Dan Marino Stockholders Agreement

Hollywood Reporter: Digital Domain Enters IPO Ring. The market for initial public offerings is getting interesting, with a special effects company filing for an IPO, while a social networking firm has canceled one. The effects company, Digital Domain, wants to raise about $100 million to pay off debt and maybe produce films, apparently in an [...]

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Hakuna Matata

Silicon Alley Insider: Accoona IPO: RIP. Accoona, the odd New Jersey e-commerce company that thought it was a search company, has finally given up on its quixotic quest to go public.
OK, Baidu surprised me, but is there really room for yet another search engine? Google works pretty well most of the time. However, [...]

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Les Contrats Dangereuses

RCR Wireless News: Sidekick Maker Danger to go IPO Route. Danger Inc., the “software-as-service” company that enables data and Internet services to T-Mobile USA Inc.’s Sidekick devices, will pursue an initial public offering to pay down $7.2 million in debt and raise working capital, the company said.
I’ve posted the Danger Inc. contracts to the website. [...]

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Internet Brands Going Public

Reuters: Internet Brands Files for $100 million IPO. Internet Brands Inc. filed with regulators on Friday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its Class A common stock.
I’ve added Internet Brands Inc. contracts to the website. Mostly CarsDirect.com agreements.