After months of planning, Snap — the company behind Snapchat — has officially debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, and things are apparently going well. [More]
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Snapchat Quietly Files For $25B Initial Public Offering
By 11.16.16
A month after the rumor mill began swirling with ideas that Snap — the parent company of quick-photo messaging app Snapchat — would file for an initial public offering, the tech company has officially filed papers to go public to the tune of $25 billion. [More]
Snapchat Has Reportedly Hired Itself Some Bankers Ahead Of Rumored IPO
By 10.13.16 — Updated: 11.1.16
The wheels of the rumor mill are busy turning once again, with a new report saying that Snapchat is hunting around for bankers in preparation for an initial public offering. [More]
Report: Snapchat Toying With IPO Valued At $25B
By 10.6.16
Three years after some folks laughed at Snapchat for reportedly turning down $3 billion from Facebook and $4 billion from Google, the messaging platform is apparently planning to go public with an initial offering that values the company at several times those earlier amounts. [More]
Hostess CEO Denies Reports Of Delicious, Cream-Filled IPO
By 7.7.15
For those of you hoping to get your hands on some sweet Twinkies stock in light of recent reports that the owners of Hostess Brands would be putting shares of the company up for sale in an initial public offering, stop drooling. The CEO and co-owner of the company says he and his fellow owner won’t be selling the company they bought just two years ago anytime soon. [More]
How Much Is A Company That Knows All About Your Financial Behavior Worth? Turns Out A Lot.
By 6.25.15
It’s no secret that consumer financial data is valuable: it determines if you get better rates on loans and allows lenders to predict the likelihood you’ll pay back debts. While we can’t necessarily put a price tag on that data (yet), we now know that one of the largest companies to collect that information is worth a bundle – 4 billion bundles, in fact. [More]
Company That Makes Game About Scoring Digital Candy You Can’t Even Eat Files For IPO
By 9.30.13
Using candy as bait is a tried-and-true trick to get people to do things. Like trading a Snickers bar to your little brother so he’ll promise not to tell your parents what time you really came home from that party junior year, candy has a way of persuading people. Heck, Candy Crush Saga doesn’t even reward people players with real candy and yet it’s so popular, the company that makes it is banking on its draw when it goes public. [More]
Twitter Announces It’s Going #Public, Files For IPO
By 9.13.13
If you didn’t get in on the Facebook IPO and feel like it’s time you started making waves in the social network investment world, start busting open your piggy banks: Twitter announced last night (on Twitter, where else?) that it has filed confidential paperwork to kick off the process of an initial public offering. [More]
