IPO

Both marketing and IT executives believe that big data is a key competitive differentiator and will be core to implementing a more customer-centric business culture, according to a new study …

Rumors about a possible initial public offering of Spain-based Telefónica’s Latin American business are back. According to reports, Telefónica is looking to float the Latin American units on the New York Stock Exchange. …

Telefónica is planning an initial public offering of its German O2 unit as a move to raise cash to pay-down debt and protect the company against América Móvil’s efforts to …

Wall Street’s wait is over: Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is finally public, pricing Thursday night at $20 a share in one of the most widely anticipated initial public offerings in years. …

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its …

San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange …

Ready for a daily deal? This one may cost a lot. Groupon announced it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public in hopes of raising …

Austin-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share. According to an initial public …

Bloomberg | May 10, 2011 | Adam Haigh and Manuel Baigorri Telefonica SA (TEF)’s Atento call-center unit will sell new shares in an initial public offering as the Spanish parent company …

CNBC Money Control | April 1, 2011 With Essar out of the way, Vodafone Plc is looking to list its Indian entity in the near future. The timing and the …

Wall Street Journal | March 18, 2011 | Kenan Machado and Bijou George MUMBAI–India’s Viom Networks Ltd. has scaled down the size of its initial public offering to 45 billion …

Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 | Zijing Wu and Serena Saitto Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., the Chinese video and music file-sharing company partly owned by Google Inc. (GOOG), is planning to …

Bloomberg | February 20, 2011 | Serena Saitto and Brian Womack Renren.com, China’s largest social- networking service, is seeking to capitalize on strengthening demand for the nation’s Internet stocks with a …

On the eve of their big press conference where they are expected to announce their “Gmail killer”, Facebook has overtaken eBay in value to become the third most valuable web-based company in the US.