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If Google Buys Groupon, It'd Be a Windfall for Investors, Bankers…and...

If Google does manage to close the deal to buy Groupon–acquisition discussions flagged by BoomTown 10 days ago–it will be at a cost that is likely to be much more than the $2.5 billion price tag being...

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Google's Groupon Offer: $5.3 Billion, With $700 Million Earnout

According to sources close to the situation, Google has offered $5.3 billion for Groupon, in what would be its largest acquisition yet, if completed. Sources said the deal for the Chicago-based social...

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Demand Media's IPO–Which Won't Happen Until After the New Year Now–Depends on...

Yesterday, Demand Media submitted another amended S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission, part of its march to an initial public offering many had expected to take place sooner rather than...

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Even If It Had 500 Shareholders Today, Facebook Doesn't Have to Disclose...

For all those in a tizzy–including BoomTown–about Facebook’s deal with Goldman Sachs, which some think is designed to circumvent securities rules related to shareholder numbers and financial...

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Demand Media Clears SEC and Prices IPO

Demand Media is set to go public, according to an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with shares priced from $14 to $16 each. The online publisher could sell up to 8.625...

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Warning: Oversharing Ahead, as Wall Street Bankers Start to Talk Up Web 2.0 IPOs

Here’s the tastiest part of an article in the New York Times yesterday about how Goldman Sachs essentially borked a deal to offer its rich clients in the U.S. private Facebook shares: “However, over...

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Should the Next Commerce Secretary Be a Tech Exec (or Would It Cause a...

Yesterday, the Obama administration dribbled out the news that it was going to nominate current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the next ambassador to China. If approved, Locke will surely have his...

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Former FCC Chairman to Be Top Cable Lobbyist

Michael Powell, the former top U.S. telecommunications regulator, will become the cable industry’s top lobbyist. Mr. Powell is joining the cable industry’s trade association from Providence Equity...

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Worried About IPO Filing Backlash, Groupon Surveys Consumer and Merchant...

Groupon’s S-1 filing for an IPO last month certainly got a lot of ink. Unfortunately, much of it was negative, focused on several controversial parts of the document. Most scrutinized were large slugs...

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Not So Much on Groupon IPO Delay, But SEC Scrutiny Still a Drag

Earlier today, CNBC reported that the regulatory review of Groupon’s questionable use of certain accounting metrics in its IPO filing was delaying its offering until later in September. While more...

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Exclusive: Groupon Will Dump Controversial ACSOI Accounting in Amended IPO...

According to numerous sources close to the situation and after regulatory pressure, Groupon will amend its S-1 public offering filing to remove references to an unusual accounting treatment that has...

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Motoogle: BOOM! The Mobile Business Just Got Completely Blown Up

With the entry of Google into the handset-making market, the search giant has just declared a number of things, most especially that its own future is all about mobile. With the $12.5 billion purchase...

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Loeb on Yahoo Board: I've Looked at Clowns From Both Sides Now

And you thought former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could lay into the Yahoo board with some zingers, including the not-used-enough “doofuses” insult. Time to meet Third Point’s Daniel Loeb, the smack-tastic...

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Google Calls Justice Department Second Request on Motorola Deal "Pretty...

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Think about the federal government’s blocking of the $39 billion AT&T and T-Mobile merger and you might want to reread Google’s blog today,...

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As U.S.-Listed China Internet Stocks Dive, Renren CEO Smacks Alibaba on the...

While they are usually much less voluble than the chatty Web execs of Silicon Valley, the execs who run China’s fast-growing Internet companies seem to be keeping up just fine of late. On Friday, for...

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As Skype Skips Through Approvals -- What's the Deal With the Deal?

As expected, the European Commission approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype late last week. Next, the deal for the popular Internet communications company — which had previously been...

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Yahoogle Redux? Why "Project Porcupine" Means Someone Is Definitely Going to...

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. You gotta hand it to those geniuses over at the Googleplex, thinking up adorkable names for all their various plots and schemes. And for its latest...

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IPO Watch: Facebook Hiring Brunswick to Help With Comms for Expected Public...

It’s 2012 and it’s time for a brand news obsession for me besides the mishegas of Yahoo — and the winner is: Facebook’s upcoming IPO. Thus, I shall endeavor to scoop all deets great and small about...

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Is Facebook IPO on Track for May?

According to multiple sources, the long-anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the second or third week of May. That means that the company must file its IPO documents within...

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To Stanch Layoffs, Yahoo Has Been Shopping Its Ad Technology Platforms to...

In an effort to minimize the impact of massive layoffs that Yahoo’s top management has been planning, according to sources close to the situation, one of the latest ideas to save costs and presumably...

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Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With...

According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is anticipating getting approval from government regulators to officially distribute its S-1 public offering prospectus to investors within days,...

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In Defense of Mark Mahaney

Mark Mahaney, not surprisingly, has a number of defenders both inside and outside Citi. Citi terminated Mahaney today for allegedly trying to cover up a disclosure violation tied to Citigroup’s...

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Yahoo's Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium...

According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently met with top execs at Hulu, the premium video service whose big media company owners have been considering...

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Facebook's General Counsel Ullyot to Depart the Company

Facebook’s top lawyer Ted Ullyot is leaving the social networking giant, apparently to take some time off. Facebook disclosed the departure today. Ullyot, 45, will be officially gone in July; the...

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Yahoo's Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range -- Even as It Preps Other Big...

According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo has bid from $600 million to $800 million for the premium video site Hulu. The reason for the wide range is due to the fact that the Silicon...

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