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Jive Software, Inc. is the next social media oriented business filing to come public via an initial public offering.  The company did not list terms other than that the sale would be for up to $100...
Brightcove Inc. is among the latest of internet properties to file for an initial public offering.  Terms and conditions were not set, but the filing is for up to $50 million in common stock and the...
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is in the news this morning after entering into an agreements with a select group of institutional investors to sell 6,889,098 shares of its common stock.  Rather than...
After everything you have seen from IPOs with a small float and with all of the accounting scares out of China, imagine a Chinese internet IPO today that is bringing out a limited float in an IPO. ...
O’Donnell Strategic Industrial REIT, Inc. is going to be the next public warehouse REIT.  The company has filed its S-11 and the SEC declared it effective as of August 15, 2011. The public...
The 2011 Class of Private Equity-Backed IPOs is really off to a rough start.  The market conditions of late have all culminated to create a cautious IPO environment and even a cautious private...
Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOU) is just one of the companies in the coffee system that has enjoyed great returns of late.  This retailer has chased the performance of Green Mountain...
Zynga Inc. has updated its IPO paperwork with the SEC for its second amendment to its prospectus.  Many might be worried about market conditions due to the extreme volatility, but Zynga is still...
Carbonite, Inc. has filed its eighth amendment to its S-1 filing to come public.  It was just on August 1 that we had financial terms set at 5.4 million shares of common stock in a price range of...
Groupon, Inc. has filed its second amendment to its initial public offering and the data contains some updates on the financials.  The company will trade under the “GRPN” ticker. This remains...
Carbonite has set the terms for the pricing of its initial public offering.  If you will recall, Carbonite is one of our own Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011.  The innovator in providing secure online...
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has managed to save face on the Alibaba disaster.  An announcement was made this morning that Alibaba Group, Yahoo!, and SoftBank have all reached an agreement where...
The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) is likely going to go private.  U.S.-based WL Ross, a private equity firm, and Canada’s Fairfax Financial Holdings are each taking a stake in the bank of 9% after...
Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (AMEX: AVL) is getting hit pretty hard this morning after shares were hit hard last night.  The emerging rare earth materials players filed to sell some 7 million shares of...
We have more than ten initial public offerings on the docket this week.  If all price, this will be the busiest IPO week since late in 2007 before the recession went into swing.  Our take is that...