Petsky Prunier: In 2010, Media M&As Rose Nearly 50 Percent
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As the advertising recovery took hold in the latter half of 2009, acquisitions activity in the media space were expected to pick up markedly… Read more »
Internetq: UK IPO Pegs Mobile Marketing Company At $50 Million
Internetq, a mobile marketing company that works with operators, media companies and brands in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, ha… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Youku’s Stock Soars In IPO
The stock of Chinese video site Youku is rising at dot-com boom IPO-like levels today. The company, which filed to go public on the New York… Read more »
Deloitte: UK Tech Firms Don’t Think 2011 Is The Year To Go Public
Deloitte’s biannual survey of UK technology companies shows heightened optimism for mergers and acquisitions in the year ahead, with cloud s… Read more »
Sport Webcaster Perform Group ‘Surprised’ By IPO Talk
Last month, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) reported that UK-based sports webcaster Perform Group was considering a public flotation. Yesterday, The Sun… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.16.10
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» Tribune Company chairman Sam Zell doesn’t see an operating role for himself after the company emerges from bankruptcy. In recen… Read more »
Online Health Giant Everyday Health Cancels IPO; Raises $20 Million Instead
Everyday Health, the online health content giant which filed to go public in March, but has been mum about its plans since, is withdrawing i… Read more »
Updated: Another Russian IPO? Social Net Badoo Rumoured For Float
The partial floatation of part of Mail.ru Group in London this month appears to have warmed up the market for Russian digital IPOs.
Badoo,… Read more »
Hulu’s Revenue More Than Doubled Over The Last Year
Hulu’s second sales update in a year: CEO Jason Kilar says the company’s sales will total $240 million in 2010, up from $108 million in 2009… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Tudou Files To Raise Up To $120 Million In U.S. IPO
Tudou, the heavily-backed Chinese video site, has filed to raise up to $120 million in an IPO on the Nasdaq stock market, according to an SE… Read more »
Mail.ru Jumps On IPO, Raising A RuNet Warchest
Europe has a new biggest internet company.
Russia’s Mail.ru Group had priced its London IPO, in which it was floating 32.93 million shares… Read more »
Motricity’s Q3 Revenues Up 35 Percent Over Past Year
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Bellevue-based Motricity’s stock has skyrocketed 172 percent in the past two months, bolstered by big projects with new international carrie… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Keyboard War; TeleNav; Skype IPO; PlayStation & BOKU Rumors
– New virtual keyboard approaches: Just when you think there will be a face-off between Swype and Nuance, which are both creating alternati… Read more »
Demand Media Gets Closer To The Black
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In the aftermath of its filing for an initial public offering in August, Demand Media was roundly criticized for overstating its financial p… Read more »
Penthouse-Parent FriendFinder Raises $551 Million In Financing
Penthouse-parent FriendFinder Networks, which pulled its plans for an initial public offering last fall, has now raised $551.2 million in de… Read more »
Mail.ru Files For An $876 Million IPO
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As expected, Facebook and Groupon backer Mail.ru, has filed to go public on the London Stock Exchange. There had been talk that the company,… Read more »
Brightcove Hires A New CFO As IPO Buzz Mounts
Online video platform Brightcove, which said publicly in April that it might go public next year, has now hired a new CFO, likely to lead th… Read more »
Dossett Latest Ex-Yahoo To Join IPO-Bound Demand Media
The adventurous Jeff Dossett is changing paths again. The new gig: SVP for content partnerships at IPO-bound Demand Media, where he is repor… Read more »
Demand Media Lays Out Some More Details About Its IPO
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Demand Media still isn’t saying how much it expects to raise in its initial public offering, but it is providing some more details about how… Read more »
Mail.ru Confirms IPO With A Reported $5 Billion Valuation
At long last, this is where Mail.ru Group – the new name for russian digital investor Digital Sky Technologies’ domestic assets – confirms i… Read more »
In-Text Ad Startup Vibrant Hints At Coming IPO; Hires New CFO
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Vibrant, whose double-underlined in-text ads have become ubiquitous on many top sites, has hired Jeff Babka as its CFO. Babka was formerly C… Read more »
What’s The Next Digital Media Takeover Target?
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A weekly look at a story that is defining the news.
In the aftermath of Hellman and Friedman’s $640 million purchase of Internet Brands ear… Read more »
TeleNav Warns That Revenues From Its Largest Customer Sprint Will Fall
White label turn-by-turn navigation provider TeleNav (NSDQ: TNAV) is warning investors today that it has finalized contract negotiations wit… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Ku6 Signs Content Deal With Sony
Chinese video site Ku6 is licensing rights to “several hundred” films and TV shows from Sony (NYSE: SNE) and a second, unnamed Hollywood stu… Read more »
TeleNav Pushes Into Advertising As Carrier Revenues Become Less Certain
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TeleNav (NSDQ: TNAV) has revealed today that it has been in the advertising business for the past year, and is integrating location-based ad… Read more »
Wireless Industry Attracts $312 Million In Venture Capital In Q2
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Mobile applications, payments, social networking and other software investments were popular in the second quarter, as venture capitalist sh… Read more »
Forecast: More Digital-Media IPOs Coming
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In an eye-catching report earlier this week, New York investment bank Peachtree Media Advisors said there had been a surge in digital media… Read more »
A New Peek At Everyday Health’s Financial Well-Being
Everyday Health, which filed to go public in January, provided an update on its financial well-being today; the company which is behind site… Read more »
Skype’s Top Engineering Executive Leaves After A Month On Job
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Skype’s top engineering executive has left the company for “personal reasons,” the NYT says. Skype had hired Madhu Yarlagadda away from Yaho… Read more »
Nielsen Raises Up Planned IPO To $2.01 Billion
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Talk of IPOs is in the air these days, as audience measurement company Nielsen is increasing the amount it wants to raise in a stock sale to… Read more »
Hulu Plans IPO; Company Valued At $2 Billion
It looks like video JV Hulu can be added to the list of expected IPOs coming this year. The IPO could come this fall, the NYT reports, citin… Read more »
And The Next Big IPO Filing Will Come From …
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The week’s news was dominated by two IPO filings: Skype, which filed for a $100 million IPO, and Demand Media, which did so a week ago and h… Read more »
Market Shrugs At MediaMind (Formerly Eyeblaster) IPO
It was an active week for digital media IPO filings — and actual IPOs too. MediaMind, the online ad campaign management firm formerly known… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08.12.10
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» Funny, but wasn’t Demand Media always profitable, according to CEO Richard Rosenblatt? Well, as the IPO filing revealed, that r… Read more »
Skype Doesn’t Need To Float: One VC’s View
“I don’t understand why they need to IPO,” Mike Chalfen, a partner with Advent Venture Partners, tells paidContent:UK, after Skype filed for… Read more »
Skype’s IPO Filing: 8.1 Million Customers And Plenty Of Risk
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Skype’s $100 million IPO filing shows a company with big ambitions to monetize the online telecoms space, but with relatively few customers… Read more »
BSkyB Has Been Opposing The ‘Sky’ In ‘Skype’
Could the Sky fall on Skype?
Under a lengthy “risks” section in its IPO filing, Skype warns its trademark applications are being opposed in… Read more »
Skype Files For IPO To Go Big; Revenue $406 Million First Half This Year
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In a couple of years, the time parked in eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) may be a distant memory for a publicly traded Skype. The VoIP firm has filed for… Read more »
Demand Media By The Numbers
Demand Media picked a Friday afternoon in August to file for its anticipated IPO. Some numbers from the SEC filing:
– Demand reports $114… Read more »
Demand Media Files For IPO; No Word On Date
Freelance aggregator Demand Media (DM) has filed for an IPO, according to an SEC filing late Friday afternoon. The company lists a “maximum… Read more »
