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Prospectus for Silicon Valley’s Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong by John Flowers
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Form S-1 Registration Statement Under The Securities Act of 1933 Ponzify, Inc. LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS Forget Facebook. Forget Groupon. Forget everything you know about Silicon Valley. Because Ponzify isn’t like other tech companies. We don’t promise results. We show them to you, on a piece of paper, that has...
Prospectus for Silicon Valley’s Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong by John Flowers
Apple Stock Opens At New Record High Of $680 At A $637B Market Cap After Samsung Patent Win
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Hear that? It’s the sound of corks popping as Apple’s stock price rocketed to new highs. Following Apple’s landmark victory against Samsung late Friday night, the company’s stock price (NASDAQ:AAPL) opened today at a record high of $680 per share, the first day of trading since the court ruling. This...
DeNA Has Big Quarter, Acquiree Ngmoco:( Has Layoffs
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Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA bought mobile app developer Ngmoco last year for $400 million. Since then, the company has acquired a range of other outfits and worked to tie the San Francisco startup in with everything else it does. In general, things seem to be improving. The conglomerate just...
Apple Shares In Record Territory. Again.
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Apple’s sweeping court victory over Samsung is proving to be a hell of an accelerant for the company’s already skyrocketing stock price. Apple shares, which closed Friday afternoon at an all-time high of $663.22, spiked to $680.87 in early trading — a new record high. At that price, Apple’s market...
The Facebook IPO: Marketing, hypocrisy, and arrogance
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The social media juggernaut's financial filing reveals some uncomfortable truths about Silicon Valley and Wall Street. By Allan Sloan, senior editor-at-large FORTUNE -- There's something to be said for being a fossil when it's time to look at a phenomenon like Facebook's pending stock offering. The medium is new, the...
Here Are The Zynga Insiders Who Cashed Out Just Before The Stock Crashed... (ZNGA)
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In April, Zynga conducted a "secondary stock offering" in which insiders dumped 43 million shares of stock at $12 a share, raking in about $516 million. Yesterday, four months later, Zynga reported a horrible quarter, and the stock plunged to $3. In other words, Zynga insiders cashed out at exactly...
Apple announces dividend and share repurchase program for 2012, expects to spend $45 billion over three years
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Surprise, surprise -- Apple just let the cat out of it's own bag. In right around a half-hour, the company will officially unwrap plans to initiate a dividend and share repurchase program commencing later this year. 'Course, analysts have been clamoring for such an announcement for quite some time,...
Apple announces dividend and share repurchase program for 2012, expects to spend $45 billion over three years
In letter to stockholders, Groupon CEO explains why he wants to move fast on a bumpy road
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Andrew Mason, co-founder and CEO of Groupon, says the company wants to build an ‘Operating System for Local Commerce’ in a letter to stockholders that was just filed with the SEC and published on the Groupon blog. Mason reiterated that, in 2011, Groupon sold more than 170 million Groupons to...
3 key differences between Tesla and Fisker
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Tesla Roadsters lined up outside of the Model S Beta Customer event This week two Valley-backed and government-supported electric car companies — Tesla and Fisker — have been taking two very different paths: one up and one down. As you read this, I’ll shortly be heading down to Tesla’s design...
Facebook Valuation Surges Past $100 Billion On Private Markets
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150,000 Facebook shares just sold for $44 a pop in a private auction hosted by SharesPost. The trading platform announced the auction results in an email last night. That stock price values Facebook at more than $102 billion. This follows an auction last week in which investors bought 150,000 shares...
The incredible shrinking Yahoo: Activist shareholder’s latest weapon is an infographic
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Hedge fund and activist Yahoo shareholder Third Point (which is in the middle of a proxy fight with the beleaguered Internet firm) recently set up a blog called ‘Value Yahoo’ that basically chronicles everything that is wrong with the online giant. Yahoo, which has fallen from grace after a series...
What happened to AMD?
www.theverge.com
There's blood in the water, and the sharks are circling around. AMD is in trouble, to the point where buyout rumors sound credible even when they turn out to be false. AMD's having trouble putting its processors into computers people want to buy. The company's losing money and some...
Nokia is getting pummeled: Stock price hits staggering low after a 6% nosedive
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Troubled Finnish phone maker Nokia saw its stock price take an unusually steep nosedive this morning on market open, dropping about 6.3 percent to 2.35 euros. Earlier this morning, it even hit an all-time low of 2.34 euros per share. Yup, Nokia’s definitely no longer the most valuable Finnish company....
How The Media (Including TechCrunch) Is Wrong About Facebook’s IPO
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Editor’s note: Dan Scholnick is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures where he invests in early stage cloud computing and consumerized IT companies such as New Relic, dotCloud, StackMob, Cloudscaling, and Loggly. You can read more about Dan at the Trinity Ventures website or follow him on Twitter @dschol. He is not an investor...
New iPad goes on sale: thousands queue around the globe
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As the third version of Apple's popular tablet computer goes on sale, the company's stock price hits $600 for the first timeGadget fans have been camping outside Apple stores in London, Sydney and Tokyo to be among the first to get their hands on the new iPad.The third version of...
With stock price at low, Facebook loses 3 more executives
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Three Facebook executives announced Wednesday they are leaving the company, the latest in a string of departures that come at a tough time for the company. Director of Platform Partnerships Ethan Beard, Platform Marketing Director Katie Mitic, and Mobile Platform Marketing Manager Jonathan Matus all announced their pending departures separately...
Apple's Market Capitalization Hits $500 Billion, Stock Up 34% in 2012
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Apple's stock has hit yet another psychological milestone today, pressing through to reach $500 billion in market capitalization. Apple passed the milestone in after-hours trading yesterday, but has just now passed it in regular trading as the trading day opens. At the end of January, we noted that Apple had...
No, I Still Wouldn't Buy Groupon's Stock (GRPN)
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After Groupon reported its Q4 earnings yesterday, I suggested it was time for all the folks saying the company "can't make money" to finally admit that they're wrong. And it is time for that. Groupon's business generated a nice operating profit and cash flow in Q4, while still posting...
Not Much Riding on BlackBerry World -- Just RIM's Future
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For Research In Motion, the past year has been about as ugly as they come. Marked by market share erosion, product delays, a management shakeup and a precipitous 75 percent decline in its stock price, the last 12 months have seen the company on a relentless and unforgiving downward trajectory....
RadVision Finally Finds A Home With Telecom Giant, Avaya — For $230 Million
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Back in December, we reported that Israeli-headquartered video-conferencing specialist, RadVision, was in advanced acquisition talks with global collaboration and communications giant, Avaya. While those talks have taken awhile to unfold, today Avaya officially inked the deal, agreeing to an acquisition of RadVision in which shareholders will receive $11.85 per share...
Want Facebook Shares? HK’s 8 Securities Offers $200 Of Them If You Join Its Trading Platform
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With Facebook announcing its ballsy stock price of $38 yesterday and all eyes now on what will happen with the social network when it finally goes public today, a new trading platform in Hong Kong, 8 Securities, is seizing the moment to boost its own profile by offering customers US$200...
How Goldman Sachs Blew The Facebook IPO
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IPOs are wildly profitable deals for Wall Street investment banks, and they come with huge bragging rights. So it's no surprise that the biggest Wall Street banks fought over the Facebook IPO for years. The inside story of the Facebook showdown reveals a lot about the relative status of...
Well, It Looks Like One Of Apple's Biggest Risks May Be Starting To Hit Home... (AAPL)
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One of the biggest risks to Apple's stock price and profit growth, ironically, stems from one of the company's most amazing strengths: Its shockingly high profit margin. Profit margins for hardware companies are normally in the single-digits, because hardware is generally a brutally competitive business. The big profits, meanwhile, have...
Apple Share Price Hits $600, Just One Month After Hitting $500
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Apple's share price touched the $600 mark as trading opened this morning, just a month after reaching $500/share for the first time in mid-February. The stock has, however, pulled back slightly since the open and now sits at $594. The stock price has been on a tear ever since Apple...
Why Zynga is Shedding Users
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Social gaming company Zynga had an outstanding 2011, leading to a well-hyped IPO in December. But Zynga's biggest risk was always an over-reliance on Facebook, with most of its revenue and users coming from the social network. It's now six months after Zynga's IPO and its stock price has halved,...
Bad news for an already troubled Groupon: Another pair of CityDeal co-founders quit
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Local commerce giant Groupon is dealing with a lot of issues right now, with its stock price in free fall, slow growth and many of its investors heading for the exit doors. The last thing the struggling daily deals company needs right now is another headache, but alas: German blogs...
Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Just Resigned
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Best Buy’s Brian Dunn just stepped down as the retailer’s CEO and director effective immediately. This comes just days after Best Buy missed Wall Street’s estimates last quarter and the retailer announced plans to shutter 50 large stores and open smaller, likely more lucartive Best Buy Mobile locations. Director G....
Apple Share Price Breaches $500, Hits All-Time High
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Apple's share price pushed through the $500 barrier as trading opened this morning, reaching an important psychological figure. The stock price has been on a tear ever since Apple reported blowout earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2012, rising more than $75/share, or nearly 18%, in just under three...
Nokia share price hits 15-year low as Fitch downgrades it to 'junk' status
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We may look back on this day as the point from which Nokia bounced back up, but for now at least, the struggles over in Espoo are being judged harshly by the financial markets. The Fitch ratings agency has followed Moody's and Standard & Poor's in downgrading Nokia stock,...
UK retailer GAME enters administration
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Troubled British high street retailer GAME announced its plans to enter administration today. The company has been struggling for months, following layoffs, store closings, rumored acquisitions, and several issues stocking the latest blockbuster games. The problems resulted in a 15 percent stock price drop in February after a leaked...
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