DealBook: LinkedIn Plans a Stock Offering This Year

The social networking site, which is built around professional relationships, and its advisers will most likely complete the prospectus by the end of the quarter.

DealBook: LinkedIn Plans a Stock Offering This Year

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Chief Says Fiat May Try to Add to Stake in Chrysler Before a Public Offering

Fiat Industrial and Fiat’s auto business met analysts’ expectations Monday in their trading debuts as separate entities.

Chief Says Fiat May Try to Add to Stake in Chrysler Before a Public Offering

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The Search: Offering Help (Carefully) to Jobless Friends

Experts say there can be a fine line between aiding and offending an unemployed person. First, go easy on the pity.

The Search: Offering Help (Carefully) to Jobless Friends

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DealBook: New Capital for Groupon Sets Stage for an Offering

The fast-growing social buying site locks up $500 million in fresh funds from Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price and other large investors.

DealBook: New Capital for Groupon Sets Stage for an Offering

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DealBook: Share Rules Could Push Offering by Facebook

While it is unclear what exactly the S.E.C. is focusing on, legal experts say that one clear area of inquiry relates to a federal law that establishes a limit for private companies of fewer than 500 shareholders. Once a company has 500 shareholders, it must register its private shares with the S.E.C. and publicly disclose its financial results.

DealBook: Share Rules Could Push Offering by Facebook

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DealBook: Share Rules Could Push Facebook Offering

A surging shadow market in the privately held shares of Facebook is making such restraint difficult and could spur the company to go public — even as its executives try to tamp down speculation about an initial public offering — much as similar pressure helped push Microsoft and Google toward their own initial public offerings.

DealBook: Share Rules Could Push Facebook Offering

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DealBook: Focus on Private Shares Could Push a Public Offering

While it is unclear what exactly the S.E.C. is focusing on, legal experts say that one clear area of inquiry relates to a federal law that establishes a limit for private companies of fewer than 500 shareholders. Once a company has 500 shareholders, it must register its private shares with the S.E.C. and publicly disclose its financial results.

DealBook: Focus on Private Shares Could Push a Public Offering

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