capitalization

Demand Media Clears SEC and Prices IPO

Kara Swisher in News on January 12, 2011 at 7:06 am PT

Demand Media is set to go public, according to an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with shares priced from $14 to $16 each. The online publisher could sell up to 8.625 million shares and, if it prices at the top of the range, it could be worth about $1.3 billion and raise $138 million.

Demand Media's IPO–Which Won't Happen Until After the New Year Now–Depends on How It Accounts for Content

Kara Swisher in News on December 23, 2010 at 5:21 am PT

Demand Media’s latest amended regulatory filing for its IPO–which will now be taking place in 2011–gives investors greater detail about how and for how long the company accounts for its content costs. Apparently, pushing the envelope in content creation seems to also mean pushing it in accounting for it too.

Cisco Shareholders Scramble for Sick Bags

John Paczkowski in News on November 11, 2010 at 2:25 pm PT

If “air pockets” are to blame for Cisco’s weaker-than-expected outlook, then how shall we refer to the stock’s nosedive today? A sudden downdraft? Or, given its brutality, perhaps a squall line.

Voices

The Case for the Fat Start-Up

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on March 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital.”

Alcatel-Lucent: Let's Get Small

John Paczkowski in News on December 12, 2008 at 8:50 am PT

Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment, won’t be quite so large come 2009. This morning the struggling Franco-American network supplier said it plans to sack 1,000 managers and 5,000 contractors in a bid to bring down costs.

Alcatel-Lucent: Let’s Get Small

John Paczkowski in News on December 12, 2008 at 8:50 am PT

Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment, won’t be quite so large come 2009. This morning the struggling Franco-American network supplier said it plans to sack 1,000 managers and 5,000 contractors in a bid to bring down costs.