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Yahoos Black Monday Begins With Shares Down 20 Percent.

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2008-05-05 14:09:48 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...shares? Following Microsofts withdrawal of its takeover offer on Saturday, shares of Yahoo took a 20 percent hit after the market opened this morning, opening at $23.02 (from Fridays close of $28.67) but then started to edge up. Thats still well above the $19 per share that Yahoo was trading at when Microsoft originally made its offer three...
 
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Yet Another Facebook Price: Employee Shares Sold At Valuation "North Of $6 Billion"

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2008-07-22 16:35:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...shares and B) Microsoft was making the deal for strategic reasons (it wanted access to Facebook's ad inventory, and a relationship with Mark Zuckerberg), not financial ones Last month Mike Arrington reported that a California money manager was peddling shares at a $3 billion to $4 billion valuation , and we heard separately about a Facebook...
 
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Trade shares in rock bands? It worked for Bowie

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2008-02-27 23:59:00 by Greg Sandoval in Webware.com
...shares in. (Credit: Slicethepie.com A lot of people have talked about selling shares in bands as a means to help finance promising musicians and a means to do away with record labels. In Great Britain, a company called Slicethepie.com is enabling fans to trade stock in music acts the way they would a publicly traded company The Web start-up...
 
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Craigslist Sues eBay: Wants All its Shares Back.

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2008-05-13 22:11:01 by Kristen Nicole in Mashable!
...shares in the online classifieds company Why would Craigslist do such a thing? Because as part of the agreement between eBay and Craigslist indicated that should they start competing with each other, each company has the right to resell shares without an ROFR, as Stan reported in our previous coverage of this matter Now, Craigslist has...
 
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ConnectU: Facebook's $15 Billion Valuation A Crock, Our Shares Only Worth 25% of That

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2008-07-03 18:00:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
...shares it paid ConnectU -- the company that claims Mark Zuckerberg stole Facebook from them -- in their February settlement The claim was made in a document (PDF) filed in during a hearing in the Facebook-ConnectU case, over whether Mark Zuckerberg stole code from ConnectU's founders, settled last week The Term Sheet and Settlement Agreement...
 
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Icahn Receives FTC Clearance to Purchase More Yahoo Shares

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2008-05-30 12:15:11 by Allen Stern in CenterNetworks
...shares. Federal regulators granted early termination Thursday of the waiting period required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust law, the FTC disclosed. Earlier this month, Icahn launched a proxy fight to unseat the Internet giant's board, saying it has acted irrationally and "lost the faith of shareholders" and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT Icahn...
 
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Metacafe Founders Ditch, Reportedly Cash Out Their Shares For $5 Million

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2008-04-29 16:09:08 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...shares for $5 million, according to an article in the Israeli paper The Marker (in Hebrew). Czerniak stepped down as CEO in February, 2007, when he was replaced by former Electronic Arts executive Erick Hachenburg, but stayed on the board. Adler was always an adviser and investor, and remains at IncrediMail , another company he co-founded...
 
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GTA Aftermath: Take-Two Shares Stay Steady (TTWO)

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2008-04-30 10:34:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
...shares high enough to force Electronic Arts (ERTS) to raise its bid significantly or walk away. And so far that hasn't happened. TTWO started Tuesday morning at $26.70; it closed at $26.63 That the price is still above Electronic Arts' offer of $25.74, but we're pretty sure ERTS would be happy to shell out a few more dollars for TTWO. And if...
 
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Report: Rumored Google, News Corp. bids make Blinkx shares soar

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2008-05-09 17:39:00 by Caroline McCarthy in Webware.com
...shares of Blinkx , a publicly traded video search site based in the U.K., climbed 50 percent on Friday following rumors that corporate giants Google and News Corp. may be vying for an acquisition On Friday morning, Blinkx shares were trading at 36.75 pence, their highest value since September. That puts the company's valuation at 102 million...
 
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