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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 20, 2010 6:30 PM
In an eye-catching report earlier this week, New York investment bank Peachtree Media Advisors said there had been a surge in digital media deal-making during the first half of the year; the volume of transactions was up 68 percent, the bank said, while their total dollar value more than doubled.…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 19, 2010 7:40 PM
Everyday Health, which filed to go public in January, provided an update on its financial well-being today; the company which is behind sites including its namesake, as well as RevolutionHealth.com and SouthBeachDiet.com, said in an SEC filing that revenue increased nearly 30 percent to $26.4 million from $20.41 million during…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 18, 2010 4:06 PM
Skype’s top engineering executive has left the company for “personal reasons,” the NYT says. Skype had hired Madhu Yarlagadda away from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) in early July to oversee the company’s engineering and development initiatives as chief development officer, succeeding CTO Dan Berg.
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David Kaplan
Aug 17, 2010 10:11 AM
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 $2.01 billion, according to its latest S-1 filing. Just two months ago, the company had planned to file for a $1.75 billion IPO.…
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David Kaplan
Aug 16, 2010 8:24 AM
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, citing unidentified sources. The offering is said to value Hulu at roughly $2 billion.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 13, 2010 6:40 PM
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 has since faced criticism for not being as profitable as it had claimed to be. What big digital media name will be next?…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 12, 2010 6:20 PM
It was an active week for digital media IPO filings—and actual IPOs too. MediaMind, the online ad campaign management firm formerly known as Eyeblaster, finally went public almost two years after it had first tried to do so, becoming the first digital media related company to list its stock in…
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David Kaplan
Aug 12, 2010 7:30 AM
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:» Funny, but wasn’t Demand Media always profitable, according to CEO Richard Rosenblatt? Well, as the IPO filing revealed, that really wasn’t the case. [WSJ] » AppleTV is getting a makeover, starting with the name: the set-top box will be known…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 10, 2010 9:52 AM
“I don’t understand why they need to IPO,” Mike Chalfen, a partner with Advent Venture Partners, tells paidContent:UK, after Skype filed for a $100 million public flotation... “The company isn’t yet as profitable as it will be in a couple of years. If it was more fully maturing into its…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 9, 2010 12:55 PM
Skype’s $100 million IPO filing shows a company with big ambitions to monetize the online telecoms space, but with relatively few customers so far and plenty of risks in sight… The document reveals how the company’s current owners had to raise $825 million in debt to buy the company from…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 9, 2010 11:32 AM
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 an IPO with the SEC, looking to raise $100 million in what could become one of the world’s biggest online telcos.
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Amanda Natividad
Aug 6, 2010 7:20 PM
Demand Media picked a Friday afternoon in August to file for its anticipated IPO. Some numbers from the SEC filing: —Demand reports $114 million in revenue for the first half of 2010, following $198 million for 2009. After traffic acquisition costs, it’s on pace for $216 million in revenue this…
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David Kaplan
Aug 6, 2010 5:26 PM
Freelance aggregator Demand Media (DM) has filed for an IPO, according to an SEC filing late Friday afternoon. The company lists a “maximum offering price” of stock up to $125 million without saying how much of a stake is actually up for sale. The S-1 filing is also missing some…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 30, 2010 1:47 PM
That Facebook IPO may be even further off than previously thought ... A report by Bloomberg cites insiders who say that the company may wait until 2012 for an IPO. The previous expected date was 2011, because two top investors had said in January that the IPO wouldn’t be happening…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 28, 2010 5:38 PM
Will Facebook backer Digital Sky Technologies go public before Facebook? The Russian internet investment group, which has accumulated a five percent stake in the social network, has hired Goldman Sachs, along with two other investment firms, to explore an IPO next year, according to a report in the WSJ. If…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 26, 2010 12:30 PM
Eyeblaster, which filed to raise up to $115 million in an IPO in March, now says it expects to raise at most three-quarters of that amount. The company, which helps ad agencies manage their digital ad campaigns, says in an SEC filing that it plans to raise up to $92…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 20, 2010 11:59 PM
Fast-growing Jive Software, which provides social networking tools that companies use to communicate internally and to build online communities for their customers, has raised $30 million in a funding round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. CEO Tony Zingale says it’s the biggest joint investment for those two venture capital…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 16, 2010 6:49 PM
After a span of 12 weeks at the start of the year in which seven digital media companies filed to go public, the IPO market for digital media firms seems to have dried up. The most recent digital media firm to register for an IPO was mobile marketer Velti, which…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 18, 2010 4:00 PM
Motricity ended up pricing its initial public offering at $10 a share, instead of the $14 to $16 it hoped to get just 16 days ago—but its stock nevertheless dropped 7 percent on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq, closing at $9.26. (By contrast, the Nasdaq stock market…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 17, 2010 12:59 PM
Motricity, which is expected to go public tomorrow, has shrunk the size of its offering once again. The company now says in an SEC filing it expects to sell 5.87 million shares at between $10 and $11 a share, meaning it will likely raise between $58.7 million and $64 million.…
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