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SARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The World Wide Web is like a river of money. There is no question that profits are to be made online; the only question faced by entrepreneurs is exactly how to make them. For social media giants like Facebook and Twitter, opportunities for generating online revenues seem endless. Business Insider recently reported that the mobile transactions market, a fledgling industry just now taking root on various social networks, is expected to...

Venture capitalists are pouring millions into the start up Rent My Vacation Home dot com, which already is turning a profit.Rent My Vacation Home is Now on 83 Vacation Rental Sites Synced on 1 Form. New York, New York (PRWEB) February 10, 2012 There's no place like a second home. Or so the backers of vacation-rental start up Rent My Vacation Home dot com believe. Venture capitalists are so enamored of the 25 year old Washington D.C. Company, in fact, that they're plowing millions into...

Facebook is prepping itself to go public, according recent media reports. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that the social networking giant could issue stock as early as April of next year. However, in a response to an inquiry by AFP, Facebook spokesman Larry Yu said, “We are not going to participate in speculation about an IPO.” Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has spoken publicly of his reservations about an IPO and has kept the social network private...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorPlace.com has launched a new website, IPOPlaybook.com, dedicated to start-ups, stock IPOs and Wall Street's up-and-comers. The free portal updates retail investors and venture capitalists on the latest IPO news. IPOPlaybook.com features veteran financial journalist and Silicon Valley insider, Tom Taulli. Taulli has been covering IPOs since 1999, when he started one of the first blogs in the space during the dot-com boom. He is also the...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The combination of consumers' unquenched demand for new technology and businesses' application of new technologies, such as cloud computing, to gain efficiencies has given the high tech industry a job growth rate nearly four times faster than the national average since the employment trough was reached in February 2010 (5.1 percent vs. 1.4 percent). Additionally, rising venture capital and initial public offering (IPO) activity is fueling key...

FARMINGTON, Conn., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Information, Inc. presents a new market research report, "The State of the Optical Communications Industry: On a Path to Sustainable Profitability" by LightCounting. (For more information: http://www.giiresearch.com/report/lc205313-state-optical-communications-industry-on-path.html) Nearly a decade later, reverberations from the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble continue to impact the global communication industry's wireless segment. The optical...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus.com, the leading community for business expertise, with more than 1 million members and over 5,000 business and technology experts, announced it will be hosting an expert online roundtable next week, "Tech Bubble: Party like its 1999... or not?" The event will be taking place live on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 1 PM PDT/ 4 PM EDT, and will be free to all Focus.com members and experts. The featured Tech Bubble roundtable will explore the...

NEW YORK, July 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As the public markets warm up to venture-backed companies, corporate acquirers are pulling back. In the second quarter of 2011, 109 venture-backed companies achieved liquidity, netting $11.2 billion, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That represents a 13% decrease in exits and 26% increase in capital raised from the second quarter of 2010. "Deal-making is in a limbo - unstable global markets and sky rocketing IPO valuations are giving both...

Shares of LinkedIn Corp. more than doubled in their first day of public trading on Thursday, evoking memories of the late 1990s tech bubble.Shares skyrocketed to more than $100 per share at times, before closing on Thursday at $94.25 on the New York Stock Exchange.  The business-oriented social networking service unveiled its stock at $45 per share at the start of the trading day -- far more than the $32-35 range announced just one week earlier -- and valued the company at $4.25 billion....

NEW YORK, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Investors put $6.4 billion into 661 deals for U.S.-based venture companies during the first quarter of 2011, a 35% increase in investment and 5% increase in deals from the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. The median amount raised for a round of financing during the first quarter was $5 million, up from the $4.4 million median a year earlier but on par with the 2009 median. "Large deals for capital-intense industries --...