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Evercore Partners has initiated coverage on Linkedin Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) with an Equal-weight rating and $70 price target.

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...

We knew it was coming. Groupon's prospective IPO has been the talk of the town ever since Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) attempted to acquire the daily deal organization last fall. The reports were all but daily, with every rumor indicating that Groupon would be sold to the search engine giant. Groupon...

Business Insider has an interesting take on the matter, noting that while U.S. job seekers did not consider a photo to be job-search material, times have definitely changed. Now that LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) has become such a key part of the market, users have to strongly consider showing their...

In the ‘90s, fresh startups were known as “websites” and “dot-coms.” Now that every company has a website, we simply refer to them as “tech startups.” For the average person, these labels are meaningless. Few people care about the way Groupon is classified so long as it saves them money. If...

LinkedIn has raised the terms of its IPO, as it believes demand for the social networking company's shares will be stronger than first initially thought. LinkedIn provided an amended filing to the SEC, and raised the IPO pricing by 30%, going from $32-$35 to $42-$45. This would value the company...

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, LinkedIn has priced its IPO. The social networking company said it will sell 7.84 million shares at a range of between $32-$35 per share. LinkedIn's market cap will be approximately $3 billion should the IPO price in the expected range....

Peters and Deborahs of the world, rejoice! Your parents have gifted you with a leg up on your colleagues for securing a job as CEO of a corporation. Seriously. In an interesting experiment, linkedin.com blogger Monica Rogati compared linkedin users first names with their profession. What she found...

LinkedIn Reaches 100 Million Members Worldwide LinkedIn today announced it has reached a major milestone in its development: 100 million professionals are now members of the world's largest professional network. LinkedIn marked the occasion with posts on the LinkedIn blog. CEO Jeff Weiner...

Jim Breyer with Accel Partners says LinkedIn IPO is "priced for perfection." He was on Bloomberg TV earlier today giving cautious comments on social media IPOs. Breyer spoke from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 conference in Davos, Switzerland.

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) discarded its plans to offer U.S. investors private stock shares of Facebook, as reported this morning by Bloomberg. Goldman Sach's abandonment of this sale is a heavy blow for U.S. investors in the increasingly hot market of privately-owned social media engines. The...

Facebook seems to be straddling the fine line between public and private markets. Recently, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) approached its best private wealth clients with quite an intriguing offer, which will allow them to invest in a fund that will own shares of Facebook. This is a win-win situation...

Dealbook is reporting that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has invested $450 million in the social network site Facebook at a valuation of $50 billion. The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the transaction, and says that Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, which has already plowed...

A new Quick Poll from SEI (Nasdaq: SEIC) today showed that 70 percent of high-net-worth individuals surveyed are users of Facebook and other social media sites. That's considerably more than the number of daily social media users among the general populace. According to an August 2010 report from...