The end of the Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB)Â lockup is quickly approaching. More than 270 million shares of the social network will become free to trade on Thursday. Following the initial public offering…
LinkedIn Corp.’s (NYSE: LNKD) business model is supposed to be better than that of most other tech IPOs in the past year. The company has three lines of revenue: hiring solutions, marketing solutions…
Is Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) really a social media company? We might consider it a Web 2.0 (or 3.0) company instead, but the market is what the market is… Groupon has become…
Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) may be the first of the large Web 2.0 companies that has gone public in the past year to lay off workers. At least it should be. The…
Wikimedia Creative Commons, JohnnyMrNinjaReed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), might well assume that as the company’s founder he should have an unfettered ability to run the company. That may not be…
The drought raises more concerns about food inflation. (Reuters) The United States asks banks to set up further plans in the event that they collapse. (Reuters) The U.S. will not prosecute Goldman…
Short sellers backed away from their gambles on old tech firms as they increased their positions in new Web 2.0 companies. For the period that ended July 31, short sellers cut their…
News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) takes a $2.85 billion write-down, mostly on its publishing properties, as it prepares to spin them off. (Reuters) Standard Chartered pushes back on allegations about money laundering, portraying…
ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a company where shareholders already have very little no control. Call it no control to be precise. Now the company’s CEO is just that much stronger to…
Jon C. Ogg Quietly, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced its entrance into the social game business. It will be joining a slew of companies in that nascent business. Due to the number of visits to…
Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) raises $400 million. (CNBC) HTC reports that sales of its smartphones fell 45% year-over-year. (Reuters) The New York State Department of Financial Services apparently is investigating…
ZyngaZynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) needs all the help it can get, but perhaps not today. It appears that Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) is going after Zynga on copyright infringement and the…
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is obviously about as silly of a company as a group of billionaires could run. That is what the market is telling you. Facebook as a growth company…
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares reach an all-time low as doubts about its business model grow. (Reuters) China’s PMI for July falls. (Reuters) Home prices may have steadied, according to Case-Shiller data.…
wikicommons / SkimstaMany American companies have been lauded for their rapid rise to greatness, a process that sometimes takes less than a decade. These firms become leaders in their industries, are renowned…
