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YuMe Video Ad Network IPO Prices Below Expectations

Another video ad network is set to go public, and investors don’t seem to be excited about this one, either: YuMe, which will start trading on the NYSE tomorrow, had hoped to sell its first shares at $12 to $14 a piece; instead, the company reportedly got $9 a share. In June, video ad network Tremor also priced below expectations, and its shares fell on the first day of trading and haven’t recovered.

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus