Facebook may end up being the biggest name on the IPO calendar this year, but it's also part of a trend in which technology, and particularly Internet companies…
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Our World of Mobile Phones [Infographic]
The arrival of mobile phones has caused people to go gaga over technology even more. If I were to compare them to something equally ambitious and far-reaching, that would be, perhaps, the PC, or the internet –or religion if you may (Apple fan boys/girls ftw). The day the world became hardwired to technology has become the point of no return. We just can’t go back to how things were. Continue …
Tech IPOs Set for Strong 2012
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — While 2011 saw a frenzy of IPOs from hot Internet companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, expect this year to see relatively fewer large-scale offerings. There were 44 U.S. tech IPOs last year, nearly double the number of offerings of any other sector. Of these, around half were Internet companies, including four of the five largest Internet IPOs in U.S. history …
A Q&A on contested Internet anti-piracy bills
Online piracy costs U.S. copyright owners and producers billions of dollars every year, but legislation in Congress to block foreign Internet thieves and swindlers has met strong resistance from high-tech companies, spotlighted by Wikipedia's protest blackout on Wednesday, warning of a threat to Internet freedom.
AdVoice: Wells Fargo Top 12 Tech Trends for 2012
Picking “the rise of the Social OS” as his #1 tech trend for 2012, senior tech analyst Jason Maynard and his team have released a list of Top 12 Trends for the year that also features “The Internet Is Not Dead.” I’ve known Jason for many years and have long believed he’s one of the …
Five tech predictions for 2012
The past year in technology was pretty wild. The really big Internet IPO returned and the massive venture capital funding bubble inflated, which seems difficult considering that the venture capital industry is far smaller than it was three years ago. But look at some of the crazy valuations on revenue-less photosharing start-ups like Color and Path. And there is clearly another bubble inflating …