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The Groupon IPO. The one everyone has been waiting for. This morning, some details were released about about the company's second quarter, as it had an amended filing with the SEC to get rid of its accounting metric, known as "adjusted consolidated segment operating income,” or ACSOI. “While we...

Will @wallstreet save us a seat at the dinner table? #8billion, #IPO2012 The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Twitter has secured multiple investors for a rumored $800 million including a "significant round of funding" from venture capitalist Yuri Milner and Digital Sky Technologies....

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said on Monday that it had agreed to acquire The Dealmap, a startup that aggregates daily-deal offers from around the web. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but The Dealmap's talent and technology are expected to help bolster Google Offers deals site. The Dealmap was...

The SEC Form D can be found here. The terms do not clearly delineate the amount of cash and stock involved in the deal's financing.

Who knew that a simple Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) promotion would grow into a market that could save consumers billions of dollars each year? In 1888, the leading cola manufacturer is credited with creating the world's first coupon. Consumers who redeemed the coupon would get one free glass bottle of...

Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) and Groupon announced today the first live deals on Groupon Getaways with Expedia.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter is now worth $7 billion, having raised hundreds of millions in a few financing round, according to a person close to the situation. It is not known who is participating in this round of financing, although the company did raise $200 million seven...

By Jared Rosenbaum “Don't mess with the bull young man, you'll get the horns.” – Principal Vernon So in terms of being wrong, I would say this week (through Thursday) is up there with my all-time worst calls ever (have you figured out yet that betting against me is a sure way to make money?!)....

Online social media company Zynga, popular for its interactive games like Words with Friends and FarmVille, is looking to raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion in an initial public offering, a source familiar with the matter said. An IPO filing could be submitted to the SEC as soon as...

General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is set to report fourth-quarter fiscal 2011 results tomorrow, June 29, before the markets open. The report should offer a look at where things stand in terms of the cost of food and transportation. Analysts are looking for the maker of Wheaties and Lucky Charms to report...

As the calendar quarter winds down this week, S&P 500 components scheduled to report quarterly results include Family Dollar Stores, General Mills, Monsanto and Nike. Analysts on average are expecting to see year-over-year earnings growth from each of them. Here are the consensus per-share...

According to people close to the plans, Twitter is going to introduce advertisements among the tweets that users see in the most active part of Twitter. As Twitter tries to generate revenue and become a profitable company, this is a new way for the social networking company to generate profits....

One of the trickiest areas of investment is one of growing prominence in 2011: initial public offerings. IPOs are often tremendous opportunities for companies entering public trade and the investors that buy into them. Investors must be warned, however, of the common mistakes that can entrap the...

Zero Hedge thinks so. The site just published a piece on the matter, along with a graph that shows the declining performance of new Internet IPOs. “Of all the dot com 2.0 IPO to hit the market in the past 3 months, the average return is now down 20%, but that has not prevented an underwriting...

Waiting until a company goes public to invest in their future is so last millennium. This is the premise behind the innovative and game-changing SecondMarket company. Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of SecondMarket, spoke with Benzinga radio Tuesday afternoon, and laid out his vision of where the...