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Vevo looks to IPO

According to reports online, music video site Vevo is in early-stage talks with investors to try and raise funds ahead of a planned flotation. The broadcaster, owned by Universal Music and Sony Music and Abu Dhabi Media– is said to have hired investment bank Allen & Co. to seek potential backers. Vevo is hoping to […]

May 23, 2012

Intelsat’s massive IPO

Intelsat’s giant $1.75 billion IPO news was somewhat dwarfed by Facebook’s somewhat larger announcement on May 18th. Nevertheless the IPO filing, made with the SEC on May 18th, says that investment bankers Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan and Morgan Stanley were the offering’s bookrunners and underwriters. The satellite operator, one of the two largest on […]

May 21, 2012By Chris Forrester

Facebook raises IPO price range

Facebook has increased the price range of its stock in what will be Silicon Valley’s biggest-ever initial public offering to raise more than $12 billion (£7.4bn), giving the social network a valuation that could exceed $100 billion. The company has raised the price target of its flotation on Friday to between $34 and $38 a […]

May 15, 2012

Face it, Facebook’s not worth $95bn

Facebook has named the range for its impending IPO with a share price of $28-35. That’s an unusually wide range and targets a value between $85-95 billion; in other words a little caution has set in since talk of $100 billion+ and the chill is partly down to the surprise drop in profit YonY for […]

May 9, 2012

Facebook IPO date set

Facebook shares will float on the US stock market on May 18th, with a “roadshow” for the company’s initial public offering to begin next week. The eight-year-old social network, with 900 million users worldwide, is expected to have a valuation of around $100 billion and is the most eagerly awaited flotation since Google’s in 2004. […]

May 2, 2012

Level 3 expands to meet rising CDN Demand

IP-based communications service provider Level 3 Communications has completed a substantial expansion of the global capacity of its content delivery network (CDN). The expansion, which was completed in less than two years, more than doubles the company’s CDN capacity to support customer growth and increased demand. Level 3 has increased its globally available CDN capacity […]

April 17, 2012

Ziggo completes IPO

Dutch cable operator Ziggo has officially completed its IPO after market close on 26th March. The IPO brought in €925 million including an extra allotment. The extra allotment was exercised in full, meaning Ziggo will put extra shares onto the market. Around 50 million shares will start trading, a “free float” of  about 25 per […]

March 27, 2012

Ziggo expands IPO to meet demand

Ziggo, the Dutch cable company owned by Warburg Pincus and Cinven, is adding to stock available through its IPO after the order books were filled in one day. Ziggo has increased the number of shares it will offer at €16.5 to €18.5 each, with proceeds of as much as €804 million going to the private- […]

March 19, 2012

PT MNC Skyvision restarts IPO plan

PT MNC Skyvision, Indonesia’s largest pay-TV provider, has reinitiated a plan to raise $300-$400 million via an initial public offering in June to take advantage of rising consumer spending in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. The company, a unit of media group PT Global Mediacom , plans to sell a 20-30 per cent stake to the […]

March 16, 2012

Ziggo to offer 20% of shares in IPO

Ziggo, the Dutch cable provider, will offer a fifth of the company’s outstanding shares in an initial public offering that could raise up to €745 million. The IPO will see private equity funds Warburg Pincus and Cinven – which created Ziggo by acquiring and merging three smaller cable networks in 2006 – selling off 35 […]

March 12, 2012