BROWSING: IPO

Austin-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share. According to an initial public offering filing (IPO), Freescale wanted to raise more than $1 billion, which is around $22...

Bloomberg | May 10, 2011 | Adam Haigh and Manuel Baigorri Telefonica SA (TEF)’s Atento call-center unit will sell new shares in an initial public offering as the Spanish parent company seeks to reduce debt and focuses on Latin America to offset declining domestic market share. The...

CNBC Insight on the Chinese social networking website making its initial public offering, with Joseph Chen, Renren chairman/CEO.

CNBC Money Control | April 1, 2011 With Essar out of the way, Vodafone Plc is looking to list its Indian entity in the near future. The timing and the equity stake to be listed will be decided once the British company buys out Essar's stake...

Wall Street Journal | March 18, 2011 | Kenan Machado and Bijou George MUMBAI--India's Viom Networks Ltd. has scaled down the size of its initial public offering to 45 billion rupees, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday. The telecom tower company wants to launch...

Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 | Zijing Wu and Serena Saitto Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., the Chinese video and music file-sharing company partly owned by Google Inc. (GOOG), is planning to raise about $200 million in an initial public offering in the U.S. this year, according...

Bloomberg | March 2, 2011 | Zijing Wu and Serena Saitto Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., the Chinese video and music file-sharing company partly owned by Google Inc. (GOOG), is planning to raise about $200 million in an initial public offering in the U.S. this year, according...

Bloomberg | February 20, 2011 | Serena Saitto and Brian Womack Renren.com, China’s largest social- networking service, is seeking to capitalize on strengthening demand for the nation’s Internet stocks with a U.S. initial public offering. Renren.com is preparing an IPO of about $500 million this year, according...

On the eve of their big press conference where they are expected to announce their "Gmail killer", Facebook has overtaken eBay in value to become the third most valuable web-based company in the US.