Pin Itemailprint Zynga raised $1 billion late last night by pricing its initial public offering of 100 million shares at the upper end of its anticipated range. The online gaming company based out of San Francisco priced its IPO at $10 per share, compared with estimates for a debut at $8.50 – $10.00 per share. [...]
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In 2011, ringtones may seem like a distant memory. When was the last time you downloaded one? Does anyone still even use them? You bet. Ringtones are almost as hot as ever. In fact, people are still buying and downloading ringtones like it’s 2005. Check it out below. Created by: Music Production Schools Incoming search [...]
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Groupon raised $700 million after increasing the size of its initial public offering, becoming the largest IPO by a web company since Google raised $1.7 billion in 2004. The “daily deals” mega site is now valued at almost $13 billion after saying it increased the IPO by 5 million shares to 35 million in total [...]
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I guess it’s better to be late to the party than to never show up at all. Word on the street is that Facebook is getting ready to launch a music service. Yes, the world’s most popular social networking may be planning to launch Facebook Music (as it’s tentatively being called) at its F8 developer [...]
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The tech IPO surge is on, and now streaming-music service Pandora is the latest to enter the fray. Oakland-based Pandora is expected to begin trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and will further test the appetite for tech initial public offerings and investor taste for music services. Pandora’s audience has grown quickly, but [...]
What if websites could be roasted just like people? Penn Jillette, Gilbert Gottfried, and Lisa Lampanelli start a flame war with the world’s most popular website, Facebook. In the end, it’s really MySpace that ends up taking it on the chin here. “People spend an average of three hours a day on Facebook. Of course, [...]
On Wednesday night, Google OneBox was born. U.S. users are now one click away from listening to a full-length song in that you are now able to stream songs directly from Google’s results page. Google OneBox will let users stream songs directly from the Google search results page and will also include additional information such [...]
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Pandora has announced that it is adding song lyrics to the service, a feature that Last.fm had for a few months before the plug was pulled on the service. According to their post, Pandora has been slowly adding licensed lyrics to the site with the help of their lyrics partner, Gracenote, for about seven days [...]
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Image by ruzel via Flickr Just off the wires over at TechCrunch, it looks like Pandora has just reached the 20 million-users-milestone, at least according to Twitter (it seems like all kinds of interesting news is being broken on Twitter these days). The service is trying to hold on despite tough times and recent layoffs. [...]
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