Classmates prepares for an IPO
Classmates Media has just filed to go public at a valuation of $600 to $700 million. Compared to Facebook’s $15 Billion valuation, which the company took as a private entity, it ranks the company more...
View ArticleNo IPO for Classmates.com
On November 27, 2007 we have reported that Classmates Media has just filed to go public at a valuation of $600 to $700 million. It then appeared that Classmates is trying to cash in on the social...
View ArticleSome of the web’s biggest acquisition deals during 2007
As the end of the year approaches us we would like to briefly sum up some of the web’s biggest acquisition deals for the 2007, as we know them. All deals will logically be ranked by their sizes and...
View ArticleInternet Brands, Inc. went public on NASDAQ
Internet Brands, Inc., the smaller brother of IAC in terms of Internet strategy, and an Internet holding company with a number of second tier e-brands went public in the last weeks of 2007. They filed...
View ArticleLogMeIn files for an IPO hoping to raise $86M
It seems it is time for small-sized Internet and technology IPOs. After Internet Brands, Inc. went public on NASDAQ it is now turn of yet another second-tier technology company LogMeIn, Inc. to do the...
View ArticleAfter Samwer brothers Nokia is also going to invest in Facebook
It has been deal time for Facebook over the past months, or year? After Microsoft, the Honk Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing and the Samwer brothers Nokia is now rumored to be in talk to invest in...
View ArticleA big question: is Alibaba.com overvalued or Yahoo is seriously undervalued?
Let’s put it that way Alibaba lost $13B from its market cap in just one month, yet the company’s market value is close to 50% from what Yahoo!’s current value is! When Alibaba went public on the Honk...
View ArticleAfter Internet Brands, LogMeIn, now Al Gore’s Current TV files for an IPO and...
It seems it is time for small-sized Internet and technology IPOs. After Internet Brands, Inc. went public on NASDAQ, LogMeIn, Inc. filed to do so now Al Gore’s Current is looking forward to do the...
View ArticleInfoSpace has sold its mobile unit for $135M to Motricity, the second...
One of the Internet’s oldest companies InfoSpace is probably not performing well since they are largely selling out their businesses. With its switchboard and local directory business having already...
View ArticleGaming is hot in China; 9You raised $100M, talks IPO
After reporting on SpinVox’s massive $100M round of funding it seems there is more to come within the same money range – this time from mainland China. 9You, a Chinese online games operator, has...
View ArticleLi Ka-shing invests $40M more in Facebook; total funding is now $378M from...
The Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has reveled in a recent conference call that he raised his stake in the social networking site Facebook with some $40M more. That amount comes on top of his...
View ArticleFacebook raised $100M more, total is now at $493M
Facebook keeps on growing so does its expenditures. The latest news from the company is that they have raised yet another $100M round of funding. The company says this time all the money will go for...
View ArticleBootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction
“Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time because it’s something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings of startup-to-IPO in...
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