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Social Media Valuations Frothy As LinkedIn IPO Approaches

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

As the impending IPO for LinkedIn, whose shares will be traded under the ticker symbol LNKD on the New York Stock Exchange beginning tomorrow, May 19, approaches, further signs of bubble-like valuations in the privately traded shares of social media outfits such …

Dell Profit, Margins Up

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

In contrast to Hewlett Packards’s (ticker HPQ) recently reported financial results, things are looking up for Dell (ticker DELL). The financial results for their most recent fiscal quarter were announced yesterday and show marked improvement over recent quarters as net profit nearly …

China – Linked IPOs Fade

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

Recent posts have commented upon rising investor concerns about transparency and accuracy in the financial reporting and corporate governance activities of Chinese companies, even those whose stock trades on public U.S. stock exchanges. An item in today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) relates …

Google Grows Up, Sells Bonds

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

In a sign of its growing financial maturity and clout, an item in today’s edition of Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) reports that Google (ticker GOOG) has successfully completed its first foray into the bond market with a $3 billion sale to pay back short-term …

Yahoo – Alibaba Rift Widens

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

Recent posts have commented on the developing rift between Yahoo (ticker symbol YHOO) and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce outfit in which Yahoo holds an approximate 40% stake, due to the spin off of Alibaba’s online payment unit by Alibaba last August, 2010, …

RIM Recalls Defective Playbooks

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

Off to a quite inauspicious start, Research In Motion Ltd. (ticker symbol RIMM) said it is recalling about 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets because of a software glitch a month after the device went on sale, a setback for the company as it …

Week In Review – May 14, 2011

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

There are certain trends or threads which seem to me to be running through the technology news and markets currently, but perhaps that’s just due to the tint of the glasses through which I view the world. There is a lot of …

EMC, VMWare Resist Market Downdraft

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

On the heels of the conclusion of the recent successful EMC World 2011 conference held in Las Vegas this past week, and all of the innovations and business and technology alliances that were revealed during the course of the conference, the stock …

Yahoo-Alibaba Rift?

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

In another sign of the concern over the apparent lack of transparency surrounding the financial and operations reporting of Chinese companies, even those whose shares trade on U.S. public stock exchanges, today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports news of a dispute between …

Rambus Acquires Security Outfit

NEWS By MICHAEL TRAGER15 YEARS AGO

An item in the wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that Rambus (ticker symbol RMBS), a Silicon Valley chip company known for memory technology, is seeking to branch out in other directions via its acquisition of a small computer security company. Cryptography Research, …

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