Elpida announces '$990m' IPO
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Share sale to fund 'world's biggest fab' expansion plan
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By Tricia Duryee, Seattle Times  Mar. 8--In one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in years, Kirkland-based Clearwire raised $600 million Wednesday, making it the second-largest IPO in Washington state's history.
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Google Inc., the world's most popular  Web search engine, on Wednesday slashed the price range on its  eagerly awaited initial public offering (IPO) to between $85  and $95 per share from between $108 and $135 per share.
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TOKYO Shares of Elpida Memory, the world&#39;s fifth-largest memory chip maker, rose 7.1 percent Monday, their first day of trading in Tokyo, on investors&#39; expectations that a shift to consumer electronics will help the company weather a slump in global chip
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A POLISH distiller has set its initial public offering for January 18-28, to become the first vodka maker listed on the Warsaw bourse.
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Generic drug maker Mylan Laboratories Inc.  said on Friday it expects to raise $993.6 million after pricing a public offering of notes and common shares, with proceeds intended for global operations and potential acquisitions.
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NEW YORK Each quarter seems to bring a new, sizable acquisition by an industry holding company scrambling to add to its digital portfolio. In the last year alone, Publicis has added Digitas in a $1.3 billion headline-grabbing deal, and has also spent over $200 million on digital shops in France and China. WPP, in addition to a flurry of investments in emerging media, has purchased 24/7 Real Media for $649 million, Schematic and, sources say, is finalizing a deal to snap up Canadian digital shop Blast Radius. ...
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Global resources group BHP Billiton (BIL) on Monday announced the approval of the US$990 million Spence Copper Project in northern Chile.
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Google, the world&#39;s most popular Web search engine, has slashed the price range on its eagerly awaited initial public offering to between $85 and $95 per share from between $108 and $135 per share.
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Google Inc.'s GOOG.O initial  public offering of 19.6 million shares priced at $85 each, the  low end of their projected range, a source familiar with the  auction said on Wednesday, raising $1.67 billion and making it  the fourth-largest U.S. IPO this year.
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You don&#39;t have to be Google to challenge the way Wall Street manages initial public offerings. A little southwest Virginia biotechnology company has just gone public using the same innovative &quot;open IPO&quot; process as Google.
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Google stock opened this morning at $100.01 a share, about 18 percent above the $85 price set in the company's initial public offering on Wednesday.
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NetSuite has raised the estimated price range for its IPO (initial public offering) to $16 to $19, from the original $13 to $16.The company made the disclosure in a document filed Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The company is&#160;following the lead of Google in conducting an online, auction-style IPO, instead of having underwriters set the price.&#160;The auction opened on Dec. 10&#160;and NetSuite said at the time it expects the stock&#39;s price to be finalized on Wednesday.NetSuite, which sells a line of hosted business software, is putting up 6.2 million shares of common stock. NetSuite expects to net about $98.4 million after expenses from the IPO, it said in the filing. That estimate assumes the stock will price at $17.50.NetSuite has said it plans to use money generated by the IPO to pay off an $8 million balance on a line of credit with Tako Ventures, an entity controlled by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and to possibly make acquisitions.Ellison controls about 60 percent of NetSuite&#39;s outstanding stock, which works out to about 31.9 million shares. He plans to put those shares into a &quot;lockbox&quot; limited-liability company, a move that would &quot;effectively eliminate&quot; his voting control and thereby avoid potential conflicts of interest, NetSuite has said.
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(InfoWorld) - Japanese memory chip maker Elpida MemoryÂ and Taiwan's Powerchip SemiconductorÂ have announced a broad plan to invest $13.9 billion over five years to build four new DRAM factories in Taiwan. The investment, announced Thursday, will go into a new joint venture company that does not yet have an English name. The new company will open early next year in an advanced 12-inch chip factory Powerchip started building in central Taiwan earlier this year. In coming years, the joint venture company will build three more DRAM (dynamic-RAM) factories on the island, with output reaching 60,000 silicon wafers per month each, for total planned capacity of a massive 240,000 wafers. Thousands of DRAM chips can be made on each wafer. The investment means the companies are confident in the future of the DRAM industry and in their ability to compete against market leader Samsung Electronics. In fact, Elpida Chief Executive Officer Yukio SakamotoÂ pledged to surpass SamsungÂ in terms of DRAM market share within three years. The DRAM industry isÂ ripe for new factories. Most companies in the business have invested in non-DRAM production lines in recent years, mainly NAND flash memory, which is popular in digital cameras and iPods. ButÂ DRAM prices have surgedÂ recently due to strong PC sales, and the launch of Microsoft Windows Vista is expected to keep DRAM prices strong over the next several months due to strong anticipated PC demand and the greater memory content required by Vista compared to Windows XP. The two companies intend to marry Elpida's technology prowess with Powerchip's low cost manufacturing know-how, said Frank Huang, chairman of Powerchip. The companies will be even partners in the venture, each putting in their half of the value of investment, and each deriving half of the production from the new company. Elpida had beenÂ looking at four possible investment locationsÂ before deciding to partner with Powerchip in Taiwan. The company's CEO traveled to China to visit manufacturing partner Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) of Shanghai, in addition to scouting locations in Japan and Singapore. Despite better incentives offered by the Chinese government, Sakamoto said his company's relationship with Powerchip and Taiwan's superior infrastructure swayed Elpida's final decision. "Yesterday, Powerchip and Elpida had a very friendly relationship, but today we became a family," said Sakamoto. The two companies have been working together for over four years. Elpida will continue to use SMIC as a manufacturing partner in China, he said. Elpida and Powerchip will initially invest NT$40 billion to get the first DRAM factory up and running. They expect to move production line equipment into the factory by May 2007 and start mass production in August. The joint venture company will begin life with the latest production technology thanks to Elpida, etching transistors and other parts on silicon at the tiny size of 70-nanometers. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. Powerchip will take charge of daily operations and staff the factory. By the time the fourth plant is finished, Powerchip reckons it will have hired 8,000 new workers for the joint venture. Elpida and Powerchip will also co-invest in research and development, they said. Their technology pact will ensure joint development down to the 50nm level and beyond. The companies plan to sign a final agreement on the joint venture in January.
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US consumer healthcare company Perrigo is to buy Israeli drug-maker Agis for $818m (Â£441.5m) in cash and stock. The deal will create a firm with annual sales of $1.
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Animation unit&#39;s IPO up 39% in early trading as investors rush to grab a stake in Shrek. The sale of 29 million DreamWorks shares at $28 each raised $812 million from investors eager to get a piece of the
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TAIPEI/HONG KONG  - Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group Inc was set to begin marketing a U.S. initial public offering on Thursday worth roughly $700-$800 million, sources familiar with the deal said, joining a record-breaking capital-raising push by Internet firms.