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Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie)

Kara Swisher in Social on May 1 at 5:58 am PT

Camille, scramble the private jets, stat!

Is Facebook IPO on Track for May?

Kara Swisher in Social on January 16 at 1:31 am PT

With a click, with a shock, phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch! Something’s coming, don’t know when, but it’s soon; Catch the moon, one-handed catch!

Yahoo Stock Gets Gaslit by Bidders Dangling Phantom $20-a-Share Bid

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2011 at 10:03 pm PT

There is no $20 bid for Yahoo today. So why was it suddenly news? Time to blame Wall Street again.

For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain

Kara Swisher in News on November 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Yahoo has about 30 working days to make what has to be a complex and multiparty deal, in an effort that is akin to herding cats.

Yahoo Shares Melt as Rumors Collide (Plus, I Add Another Log to the Fire)

Kara Swisher in News on October 31, 2011 at 5:13 pm PT

The Hamlet of Internet companies asks: To be or not to be? That is the question. Or maybe something else.

Exclusive: Groupon’s IPO Road Show Set for Next Week

Kara Swisher in Commerce on October 18, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT

Oh, it’s on.

Not So Much on a Microsoft Bid for Yahoo (They’re Crazy, But Not That Crazy)

Kara Swisher in Media on October 5, 2011 at 12:59 pm PT

Is this investment-banker-hype week and no one told me? It certainly seems so from all the almost ridonkulous rumors about everyone and their mother considering making a bid for Yahoo. Microsoft is not.

Dancing Queen: After Meeting With Microsoft Last Week, Yahoo Is Next on Hulu’s Sales Card

Kara Swisher in Media on July 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm PT

Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late: “In preliminary talks” = “hawking itself to one of a half dozen big moneybag tech companies who will visit with Hulu’s bankers and management to see its presentation at Morgan Stanley’s office in Century City in Los Angeles.”

As Web IPOs Heat Up, Prominent Internet Analyst Khan Jumps From J.P. Morgan to Banking at Credit Suisse

Kara Swisher in News on February 2, 2011 at 10:38 am PT

In yet another sign that the Internet market is getting very interesting to Wall Street, well-known analyst Imran Khan is jumping from his perch as managing director at J.P. Morgan to become a banker at Credit Suisse, sources said. In this new role, the high-profile Khan–well known for his reports on digital companies–will be running investment banking for Internet markets, including IPOs and M&A.

Waiting for the Big Fish? The Next Web IPOs Might Surprise You

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT

No, not Facebook. Not Zynga. And probably not Groupon. At least not yet, when it comes to the blockbuster Web IPOs that Wall Street and investors have been waiting for, and now expecting to roll out sooner than later in the wake of the return of the Web IPO in recent weeks. Not so fast.