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...company has branched out into e-business intelligence, helping clients develop online strategies like locating potential business partners. Last spring the firm got its third--and largest--round of venture funding, $24.5 million from ABS Capital Partners, and is rumored to be on the brink of an IPO. --By Melissa August
...weight on the Dow's inability to rally past old levels than they do on its ability to hold firm on declines. Hence they tend to be bearish. The NASDAQ slide since mid-July bolsters that view. And McCabe notes that speculative fever remains high, evident in a vibrant IPO market. John McGinley, editor of Technical Trends, worries about the recent slide in margin debt--money borrowed to buy stocks. You'd think a decline in that figure would be healthy, signaling that investors are more cautious. But McGinley reads the decline from the March record of $279 billion...
...phase of optical networking have become hot stocks. Component makers, such as JDS Uniphase and Corning, and system designers, such as Juniper and Ciena, are each up more than 50% this year. Last Friday, despite a vicious market sell-off, Corvis, an optical-equipment maker, launched its IPO at $36; it closed at $85. Corvis has no revenue and three corporate customers. High-end router-and-switcher company Avici launched...
...change hands at the click of a mouse. I stand by my assertion that one day most mutual funds will do the same. They'll be priced throughout the day--not merely at the close--and traders will shoot in and out of them as they would an overhyped IPO...
...avoid ending up in Kaplan's extensive archives that the digital workforce has started to act in a new and strangely sensible manner. When he got bored in his last job, software engineer Jason Fisher went to a headhunter and arranged interviews with 10 small, good-looking pre-IPO companies. Each made him a higher offer than the one before, and yet Fisher chose the company--myplay.com which copies and stores your CDs online--that made him the lowest offer. In fact, it was a pay cut. Why? "I didn't want to go anywhere that I didn't feel...