Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings.

SEC 158

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Expert commentators in law and business schools have debated the pros and cons of dual-class voting structures for decades.

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IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

To put this in perspective, despite the media frenzy around when the UK would have its first successful IPO (and let’s be honest, the UK is not short on potential companies that would fit the bill), the only UK startup to IPO in 2013 was tuberculosis diagnostics company Oxford Immunotec for $86 million and that was on NASDAQ.

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