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Pandora Had a Good Wednesday, and a Terrible Thursday. What About the Next Couple Years?

Peter Kafka in Media on June 17, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Why was Pandora worth $4 billion on Wednesday, and $2.1 billion by Thursday morning? Who knows. Better question: What happens to the Web music company over the next few years? Time for a Q&A with CEO Joe Kennedy

What Happens When a Social Media Company Goes Public? Twitpics, Blog Posts and Trending Topics.

Liz Gannes in Social on May 19, 2011 at 8:55 am PT

LinkedIn is notable for being the first major social networking company to go public, but it’s also one of the first companies to go public whose leaders are avid social networking users.

LinkedIn Shares Jump 100 Percent Out of the Gates

Liz Gannes in Social on May 19, 2011 at 7:22 am PT

LinkedIn, the business networking site, leaped in morning trading after its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange today. After pricing at $45, shares opened at $83 and were trading above $90 this morning.

Renren Evades Red Flags to Raise $743M and Soar 40 Percent on IPO Day

Liz Gannes in Social on May 4, 2011 at 10:54 am PT

Investors are ravenous for social networking and Chinese Internet companies. That’s the only rational explanation for Chinese social network Renren’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange today, which raised $743.4 million and saw shares sustain a 40 percent gain in afternoon trading.

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Sprint Left Scrambling After AT&T Deal

Roger Cheng and Steven Russolillo, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 21, 2011 at 9:14 am PT

The combination between AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA would leave Sprint Nextel Corp. even further behind. The surprising deal would widen the gap between Sprint and its two larger rivals, and would place it last among the national wireless carriers.

Wall Street Welcomes the Content Farm: Demand Media Supersizes Its IPO

Peter Kafka in Media on January 26, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

It’s the first big-name Web company to go public in a very, very long time. And there was enough appetite for Demand to sell more shares, at a higher price, than it had planned. Now everyone else gets to vote.

IBM Results Beat Expectations on Strong Hardware Sales

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 18, 2011 at 1:29 pm PT

Strong hardware sales, led by the System Z mainframe business, boosted the quarter.

Apparently Two Motorolas Are Better Than One

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 4, 2011 at 3:53 pm PT

Shares of the cellphone-making unit rose in their first day of trading, while the remaining company, Motorola Solutions, held its own. The issuing of separate stock marks the end of a long process to divide the communications giant in half.