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Companies Where Shareholders Have No Power — At All

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 6:40 am

Publicly traded companies, by definition, have many shareholders. The company’s management is supposed to be accountable to those shareholders. As it turns out, however, in some cases shareholders have limited power, ...
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Zynga’s 15% Stock Loss — Lemmings over the Cliff

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 6:16 am

Zynga’s (NASDAQ: ZNGA) shares are down 15% over the past two days, a little more than those of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) after its initial public offering. There are several critical difference ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/16/2011) RIM’s Best Chance, Zynga IPO

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 6:28 am

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said that if the eurozone crisis in not solved, the global economy could be damaged nearly beyond belief. She reasons that the sovereign debt crisis cannot ...
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Zynga IPO Prices! Great Offering, Lousy Voting Rights (ZNGA)

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a done deal.  The online social gaming company sold 100 million of its Class A shares at $10.00 per share, which was the top of ...
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Media Digest (12/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Bloomberg

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 6:26 am

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) and Bain may bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) along with Asian partners Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan. (Reuters) China’s PMI contracts for the first time in three years. ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (11/30/2011) Zynga IPO, IMF to Save Italy

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 6:31 am

Europe may only have a week to rescue itself from financial disaster. The borrowing costs of Italy and Spain have been unsustainably high for too long. The stability fund established ...
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What Matters In The Financial World Today (11/5/2011)

Posted: November 5, 2011 at 11:49 am

The Greek democracy is over 3,000 years old, and it may take another 3,000 for the nation to sort out its national debt problems. Prime Minister George Papandreou was able ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/25/2011) Zynga IPO, Tony Hayward’s New Life

Posted: October 25, 2011 at 8:14 am

Updated throughout the day. Zynga's IPO will happen the third week of November (Reuters) A group led by former BP plc (NYSE: BP) CEO Tony Hayward may offer to buy ...
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Zynga Continues IPO Push (ZNGA)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 9:41 am

Zynga Inc. is still planning to come public in an initial public offering.  The online and social gaming company has been making strides of late to distance its dependence solely ...
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Media Digest (8/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:22 am

Foreign oil companies may have to give up natural gas rights in Iraq. (Reuters) Several large pharma firms are in the early stages of an attempt to find new and ...
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Zynga Updates Growth & Financials For IPO… Risks & Pitfalls

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 2:09 pm

Zynga Inc. has updated its IPO paperwork with the SEC for its second amendment to its prospectus.  Many might be worried about market conditions due to the extreme volatility, but ...
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More Evidence of Pre-IPO Valuation Shell Games (LNKD, RENN, GSVC, P)

Posted: July 12, 2011 at 1:26 pm

We have said it before... Some of the current initial public offerings with very low share floats and some of the valuations of these private (semi-public) companies are in ...
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Media Digest (7/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 6:12 am

Strauss-Kahn may be released because of fraudulent charges (NYT) Geithner may retire as Treasury Secretary (Reuters) The Fed Bullard said QE2 was similar to more rate cuts (Reuters) Lockheed Martin ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/30/2011) Zynga IPO, New American Air Jets

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 8:28 am

Updated throughout the day Zynga may launch and IPO today (Reuters) Living Social will file for an IPO soon (Reuters) American Airline (NYSE: AMR) will get Boeing (NYSE: BA) and ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/29/2011) MySpace Demise, Zynga IPO

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 7:58 am

MySpace will be sold by News Corp (NYSE: NWS) to one of two suitors for $30 million (WSJ) Zynga will post details of it IPO which will value the company ...
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