Does unfettered crowd funding and initial public stock offerings open the door to investment fraud?
Mergers have overtaken initial public stock offerings as the strategy of choice, for now.
What does one do after generating billions from an initial public stock offering?
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Now Compuware is looking to spin it off through an initial public stock offering.
For months after his public stock offering in September 1998, Pierre Omidyar grappled with the meaning of his wealth.
Rovio is planning to make an initial public stock offering sometime soon.
In January AOL Brazil's parent, AOL Latin America, announced it would fuel its expansion with a public stock offering.
AirAsiaX, the long-haul, low-cost operator, floated an initial public stock offering this year.
The JOBS Act, which would allow public stock offerings through crowdfunding on the Internet, is not ready for public consumption.
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His public stock picks have outperformed the general stock market by an annual average of 7.0% over the past 13 years.
Gougeon and Amplatz are back on the board, awaiting a public stock offering that should yield a healthy profit for Welsh Carson.
And that could mean good things for public stock investors as well.
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In the Bay Area, giving has been fueled by a spate of new public stock offerings, including Facebook's highly publicized debut in May 2012.
Two decades later, when the Foundation pushed for a public stock offering, the family kept its 12 % ownership, but insisted on 40% voting control.
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Several red chips conducted multibillion-dollar public stock offerings in recent years.
No microfinance institution has traded seriously on a public stock exchange.
In May, the NASD, the regulatory body overseeing the Nasdaq stock market, withdrew its charges against Quattrone that were related to initial public stock offering allocations and research supervision.
The new law also limits members of Congress and executive employees to participating only in those initial public stock offerings that are available to the general public.
For one thing, he had favored a public stock offering last summer to raise additional capital, while Zell wanted--and got the board to agree to--a private offering.
Groupon, an online site whose members can get daily discounts from local businesses, has recently had the biggest initial public stock offering of any Internet company since Google.
Besides, since the acquiring company was private, any stock given to our employees would come with an income tax liability that could not be paid by selling non-public stock.
Vignette's CEO, Gregory Peters, says the software shop could break into the black by the end of next year--less than two years after its wildly successful public stock offering.
Vignette's chief executive, Gregory Peters, says the software shop could break into the black by the end of next year--less than two years after its wildly successful public stock offering.
The third option is to use niche index funds or ETFs to build a publicly traded portfolio weighted to track the total economy, rather than just the public stock market.
From the first of four public stock offerings in 1923 (shares are nontransferable) through the Vince Lombardi era to last year's Super Bowl win, the team has crafted deep ties to their followers.
On the eve of Facebook's public stock offering, consumer-measurement company Nielsen has released figures showing that, although the United States has the most Facebook users, higher percentages of the population can be found in other countries.
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Lunsford expects that Acorn may do another financing before launching CorCap, but does not foresee an offering to the public stock markets until the company has solid revenues--something that will take a few years, at the least.
Which helps to explain the weaker tradition of public stock ownership in Europe: As of 1999 less than 10% of the German and French population owned individual stocks, compared with 21% in the U.S. But as state-owned companies and pension funds are privatized, more companies issue stock options and cross-border investments increase, equities are the order of the day.
Once the company sold its stake in Mosaic, officials at the nonprofits were able to exchange the private Cargill stock for public Mosaic stock.
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