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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!

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.

Hulu Still Beating the IPO Drum

Peter Kafka in Media on October 8, 2010 at 8:33 am PT

Newest trial balloon: A $2 billion IPO that raises as much as $300 million, sometime next year. Possible! But also very tricky to pull off.

On2 to Shareholders: Take the Google Stock, You Morons

John Paczkowski in News on December 7, 2009 at 8:18 am PT

On2 shareholders outraged over the company’s pending acquisition by Google will soon have a chance to sack the deal. At a special meeting on Dec. 18, the 60-cents-per-share offer will be put to a vote that’s likely to prove quite contentious, thanks to a cadre of On2 shareholders who believe it doesn’t reflect fair market value.

Google Makes AOL’s Turnaround Task Even Harder

Peter Kafka in Media on November 13, 2009 at 6:43 am PT

Little by little, AOL is offering investors more and more details about what the company will look like after it spins off from Time Warner. But the more AOL discloses, the less attractive the company looks. The newest problem: AOL’s steady flow of Google money is going away.