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eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News The parties said the deal values Skype, which is likely to see an IPO in the coming months, at $2.75bn. In April, eBay announced plans to spin off Skype, with an IPO in the first half of next year.... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News In April, eBay announced plans to spin off Skype, with an IPO in the first half of next year. eBay is expected to announce today that it has reached a deal to sell its internet telephone service, Skype, to a group of... [01 Sep 2009]
JA Solar Shines a Light on Global Operations With Integrated ERP Platform
White Paper The company's rapid expansion following the IPO prompted a number of challenges in finance, sales, procurement, inventory, and supply chain management. Founded in 2005, JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd is a manufacturer of... [30 May 2009]
Facebook: 'In no rush to go public'
News I know for a lot of companies the IPO is the endpoint or the goal," Zuckerberg said. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that the... [20 May 2009]
IP infringement fines to rise
News Following a consultation by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), a majority of respondents supported the increase in the maximum fine, known as an exceptional statutory maxima. The option of courts imposing 10 years... [07 May 2009]
IPO Readiness Meets Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
White Paper The path from the first Research and Development (R&D) project to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) is a roller coaster of market and product ebbs and flows. Racing toward an IPO, building the company... [23 Apr 2009]
eBay to spin off Skype
News eBay announced on Tuesday plans to spin off its internet phone and video-conferencing service, Skype, with an IPO in the first half of next year. Although eBay plans to launch a Skype IPO in the first... [15 Apr 2009]
Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors
White Paper Virtualization is the buzz of the enterprise IT market, and the upcoming IPO of VMware, the industry's most successful virtualization solution vendor, is of great interest. IT infrastructure virtualization, and in... [01 Apr 2009]
Sustaining Virtualization's ROI: How a Disciplined Process and Complementary Technologies Can Make It Happen by Bill Tohtz
White Paper The virtualization software company - whose IPO price was set at $29 - zoomed to $56 by day's end and has continued to climb. On August 13, 2007, the highly anticipated VMware public offering stunned the Wall Street... [07 Mar 2009]
Fewer white knights to tech's rescue in 2008
News In addition, the research group said it expects to see a continuation of private companies seeking out public companies that they can acquire, as a means to turn themselves into public companies, given that the IPO... [19 Dec 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment In each of the five inventions considered - Software 2000 and laser printing, Astron Clinica and cosmetic surgery imagery, Inrotis and identifying proteins in drug therapy, SurfKitchen and mobile internet services, and Cyan Technology... [13 Feb 2008]
'Clean-tech' grabbing a slice of venture capital
News Venture capitalists get their investment back through an IPO or sale of their portfolio company. Kamra said: "The market was good for IPOs in 2007 but now we're concerned about the IPO market shutting down. [21 Jan 2008]
Tougher times ahead for social networks
News It is for this reason that most social network sites would be wise to postpone an IPO, said the analyst. Social networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new... [19 Oct 2007]
Facebook CEO: No IPO for "years"
News But when it came to getting Facebook's founder to comment on the rumours about either a forthcoming sale or IPO, Battelle couldn't get Zuckerberg to deviate from his original line. Facebook's CEO has very publicly doused... [18 Oct 2007]
Teradata and SAS going steady
News Teradata was previously a unit of NCR but was floated on the NYSE last Monday, just over 20 years since it first IPO'd as an independent vendor. Teradata, the datawarehouse software specialist with its own NYSE listing... [09 Oct 2007]
