A new crop of tech IPOs are en route to the market, among them vacation rental website HomeAway, online radio site Pandora and business networking site LinkedIn. But how can you tell if these startups are worthy of your cash? H…
RPX has been in business since just 2008, but it has rapidly built a list of big-name clients attracted to its novel service. It offers tech companies a way to gain access to patents without having to own them outright — and w…
Groupon is planning an initial public offering that would value the three-year-old online coupon distribution site at as much as $15 billion — more than double what Google reportedly bid on the company last year — The New Yor…
Unless you’re ultra-wealthy or willing to chance the vagaries of the secondary markets, you can’t invest yet in hot social networking companies like Facebook, Zynga or Groupon. But soon there may be an alternative: a new fund c…
Companies such as Duke Energy and DuPont are off and running with megamergers early this year. Even Playboy is among the dealers. And market pros say the trend is far from over. Why are so many U.S. companies tying the knot? Fa…