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Initial public offering

VIDEO: Groupon IPO largest web offering since Google in 2004

Business, Economics and Jobs

The stock offering raised more than $700 million for the online company, which sells coupons for deeply discounted goods and services. Groupon was the first major success in that market, but competition is rapidly increasing.

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Facebook Gets Off to a Poor Start as a Public Company

Facebook IPO: Take It or Leave It?

A Public Display of Facebook

Cartoon: Facebook Going Public

Global Satire

Dutch cartoonist Tom Janssen uses a familiar emoticon to show how Facebook (the company) is probably feeling about the upcoming IPO.

Facebook’s Game-Changing IPO

Facebook is scheduled to release its initial public offering sometime on Wednesday, and is rumored to be valued at $100 billion. If it turns out to be worth more than $100 billion, Facebook would be the fifteenth-largest IPO in world history, out-valuing  Google’s 2004 IPO by sixfold. This means big changes for the company itself, which […]

The World

More US Companies Issuing IPOs on Foreign Exchanges

Business, Economics and Jobs

New York Times Wall Street and Finance reporter, Louise Story, joins us to discuss the growing number of companies going public.