For example, lots of international companies coughed up for a Tokyo listing in the late 1980s, hoping to share in the euphoric multiples then applied to Japanese firms.

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But a recent exit of a short-term venture capital partner, and a significant share buy back by Kaspersky ownership means that the initial idea of listing shares has been shelved.

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The listing will allow him to reward his 1, 000 employees under a share scheme, especially the nine young executives he recruited on Facebook and YouTube in the fall of 2010.

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The move provoked a stare-down with Schwab, which ordinarily mandates that a fund list its cheapest share class with the supermarket, but Schwab let the old Davis fund keep its NTF listing for existing customers.

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