Care to Bet Which Other Social Games Company Is About to Go Public?

Caesars Entertainment may be known for its Las Vegas casinos, but it also has a burgeoning business developing way off the Strip.
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Holiday Reading: The SEC Dissects Groupon’s Original Prospectus

A point-by-point takedown of Groupon’s original prospectus — by the sticklers at the SEC — became public this week.
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TripAdvisor Dips Lower on First Day of Trading

TripAdvisor, which has collected more than 50 million reviews from travelers around the world, is facing a critique of its own on its first day trading on the Nasdaq.
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Game On! Zynga Starts Slowly On First Day of Trading.

In its first morning of trading, Zynga has started trading only marginally higher at $11 a share, up from its initial $10 offering.
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Roadshow: CEO Pincus Not Selling Shares in Upcoming Zynga IPO

While he has recently been portrayed as Mr. Potter of Silicon Valley, it looks like the online gaming leader will not get greedy in the IPO.
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Exclusive: Groupon’s IPO Road Show Set for Next Week

Oh, it’s on.
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Apple Shares Hit Yet Another Lifetime High

On the day it announced that sales of the iPhone 4S surpassed four million units over the weekend, shares in Apple hit their second record high in as many days. Shares peaked at $426.70 a share, up $4.70 from Friday’s close of $422, before falling back in midday trading. Share price has risen by more than 97 percent this year.

Investors Spooked by China

Investors dumped the stocks of some of China’s biggest Internet companies, as scandals with some smaller Chinese firms have shaken Wall Street’s confidence in the country’s businesses.

Here’s Why Wall Street Is Killing AOL

Tim Armstrong says it would be “hard to comprehend” why investors would dump his shares while other stocks go unscathed. Here’s the bear case in 5 bullet points.
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Dow Slides 5.5 Percent, Ending Below 11,000

U.S. stocks tumbled in a Monday rout that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 5.5 percent, plunging below 11000 for the first time since November, as investors fled from risky assets in the first trading session since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the federal government’s credit rating late Friday.

Presto Chango: KaChing Becomes Wealthfront

Sirius Digging Out of Its Hole