Among his investments are the largest consumer Internet companies: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Foursquare.
It would draw a clearer battle line between traditional cellular networks and Internet companies.
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The transaction adds Yahoo to the list of established Internet companies, including Google Inc.
Crazy or not, Internet companies are clearly driving the direction of compensation these days.
The office will continue to punish internet companies that fail to co-operate, it adds.
He's also an entrepreneur, having helped launch two Internet companies, Southern Corners and Third Age Media.
Until a few years ago, Internet companies couldn't dream of having that kind of inside access.
In fact, Wall Street is really only interested in the cream-of-the crop Internet companies.
According to the IPO Monitor database, 37 Internet companies have gone public since January 1997.
Struggling to acquire customers, the Internet companies have discovered the importance of the real world.
It was in 1996 that serial entrepreneur Bill Gross founded Idealab, an incubator of Internet companies.
That is an awfully high number considering the wrenching drop in public Internet companies.
What is surprising, however, is that only Google makes the cut among Internet companies.
It is well known how Chinese Internet companies are savvy at aligning with government regulations.
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Brilliant has also been an early-stage chief executive of several networking and Internet companies.
However, as Internet companies have found, there is one blemish: profits may be some way off.
Evans used his trading vehicle, Dominion Capital, to invest in a number of internet companies.
For those with lingering doubts, the deal shows just how potent Internet companies have become.
While all of that sounds great, ooVoo, like other fast-growing internet companies, faces a monetization problem.
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Many Internet companies are precluded from listing locally by rules requiring three years' profits.
In addition, unlike in America, most of the biggest Internet companies are spin-offs from established firms.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple: four Internet companies that are, arguably, the best of the best.
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But investors with stakes in big internet companies, and Google in particular, might pause for thought.
After college, she spent three years at McKinsey, launching wireless Internet companies in the US and abroad.
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"The 'Facebook' effect on Chinese Internet companies has already started, " said Sina Chief Financial Officer Herman Yu.
Five consumer Internet companies went public at lofty valuations in 2011, among them Zynga, LinkedIn, and Pandora.
Customers include cable and satellite network operators, telecommunication companies, broadcasters and Internet companies that provide video services.
The result is Chinese internet companies like Tencent, and Baidu, cannot help but become world leaders.
Not surprisingly, behind them there is a queue of tiny, profitless Internet companies jostling to go public.
Indeed, mobile-phone companies are engaging in the sort of deals that used to be associated with Internet companies.
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