Google Investors Await the Dropping of 39 Million Shoes
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Google investors may find out this week whether there really can be too much of a good thing.
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Shares in newly public Google Inc. fell 2 percent on Wednesday as investors braced for the expiration of a lockup period that has kept insiders at the Web search company from selling stock.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.&#39;s plan to sell shares today in a $3.47 billion initial public offering was delayed because the US Securities and Exchange Commission didn&#39;t act on the company&#39;s request to approve its stock registration.
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Time is running out for prospective investors to submit their offers to buy shares of Google Inc. (GOOG.O), the Web's No. 1 search company.
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Shares of Crocs are red hot. Is the stock still a good fit for investors?
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Google&#39;s long-awaited flotation hit another snag last night as the US financial watchdog made the internet search firm wait for its approval.
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Microsoft&#39;s $1.2 billion acquisition bid for Oslo-based Fast Search and Transfer and a dour report on Amazon marked the new year&#39;s first full trading week in the United States, as technology company share prices continued to slide.The increase in tech share prices that occurred in 2007 -- a banner year for IT company earnings -- appears to be in danger of evaporating, as fears of a general downturn and bad news on the consumer front resound among industry insiders. U.S. Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke&#39;s announcement on Thursday that he would move to cut interest rates to spur growth provided only a temporary halt to a decline in the Nasdaq Composite Index, which closed Friday at 2,440, down 212 points from its close at the end of 2007.This week, investment banking firm Goldman Sachs forecast that the United States will suffer a recession this year. Company analyst David Kostin reduced his recommendation for the amount of technology stocks that investors should keep in their portfolios, from 19 percent to 15 percent.Investors usually like to keep a good percentage of their holdings in tech stocks to hedge their bets. IT companies are truly global, with major U.S. vendors earning about 50 percent of their revenue outside their home countries.But inside the United States, tech companies are getting hit with a double whammy: a predicted weakening of consumer spending because of falling home prices and a resulting crisis in financial markets. Up to 18 percent of U.S. and global tech spending comes from financial companies, according to Forrester Research.Turmoil in the financial markets will likely dampen tech buyouts from private equity investors, according to the 451 Group&#39;s Tech Banking Outlook Survey, released this week. But that might not stop cash-rich technology companies from continuing to shop for deals, it noted.On Tuesday,&#160;Microsoft announced that it would buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer&#160;for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion). Microsoft said it will integrate Fast Search&#39;s high-end search technologies into its enterprise infrastructure offerings, including SharePoint Server 2007 business productivity platform.Microsoft is locked in a search battle with Google, not just for general Web searches but also for businesses. Fast Search shares got an immediate boost on the Oslo exchange, where its price jumped from 13.35 kroner to close at 18.80 kroner Tuesday. The deal did not keep Microsoft shares from sliding in a generally down market for tech, however.On the consumer side, investors were particularly spooked by comments on Tuesday from AT&amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson, who said the company has had to stop servicing an increasing number of customers who did not pay their bills. The company closed Tuesday at $39.07, down by $1.96 for the day.The news did not bode well for other technology companies that sell to consumers. Citing uncertainty about U.S. consumer spending, American Technology Research Monday put a &quot;sell&quot; rating on Amazon, which then on Tuesday fell by $2.66 to close at $85.22 on the Nasdaq.Even companies that received positive reports from analysts this week were slammed by the general market slide. Lazard Capital Markets started its coverage of virtualization-software darling VMware, which had a successful IPO last month, by issuing a &quot;buy&quot; rating on Tuesday. VMware&#39;s share price jumped by $5.39 to close at $79.89 Wednesday, but slid back to $77.53 by the end of the week.
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NEW YORK, August 18 (New Ratings)  Google Inc has reportedly reduced its expected IPO price range to $85-$95 per share, from the previously expected price range of $108-$135 per share. The company is unlikely to price its shares until the market closes ...
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The search-engine giant, which was expected to go public as early as Wednesday, instead has slashed the deal&#39;s expected price range and cut the number of shares being sold by existing shareholder in half. The new parameters suggest a newly public Google ...
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Google Inc.&#39;s initial public offering has been delayed while the company awaits final approval of its paperwork by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Google Inc., the Web search engine, on  Wednesday slashed the price range on its eagerly awaited  initial public offering to between $85 and $95 per share from  $108 to $135 per share.
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The shoes may be cute, but there's a scary stock lurking behind them.
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Google Lowers IPO Price, Limits Shares  Google's IPO wasn't as popular as expected, apparently not as many fish bit at the Dutch Auction bait.  Google will be lowering its estimated price range to between $85 and $95 per share, down from its earlier prediction of $108 and $135 per share ...
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.&#39;s share sale has put Wall Street on notice: The old way of doing business may be ending.
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Wall Street was set for a soft start on  Friday as rosy results from Internet search engine Google  GOOG.O fails to dispel disappointment over software giant  Microsoft's MSFT.O downbeat outlook.
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NEW YORK/CHICAGO  - Shares of Google Inc. fell  almost 9 percent on Friday after an analyst forecast a sharp  drop in the price over the next 12 months as the Internet  search company grows more slowly.
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Wall Street's long-playing drama,  "Waiting for Google," is about to reach its final act, but its  stock market debut is ending up as more of a nostalgia event  than the catalyst for a new era.