Can Tableau Software Be Data''s George Washington?
nosql.mypopescu.com
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: This is why I’m so excited about Tableau’s forthcoming IPO. There are few companies that helped spur the democratization of data over the past few years more than Tableau. It has become the face of the next-generation business intelligence software thanks to its ease of use and focus on appealing visualization, and its free public software has found avid users even among relative data novices like myself. Tableau’s success and vision no doubt inspired a number of the companies I’ve already referenced. I’d be excited about an IPO if I’d own stock and the prospect of the IPO would make me rich(er). For all other cases I’ll continue to dream how a company will change the future.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, IPO, visualization
Why Twitter's Ads API Launch Suggests An IPO Might Follow In August
www.businessinsider.com
on 02/27/2013
Excerpt: The launch of Twitter's Ads API — an "application programming interface" that allows advertisers to plug their own ads into Twitter's ecosystem — will probably turn out to be one of the more significant moments in the history of the microblog platform. It also lends itself to some speculative guesswork about when the company might finally file IPO papers with the SEC in order to sell stock to the public. One potential clue is to look at how long it took Facebook to file for its IPO after it launched an ads API. Advertisers are eager for an easy, effective way to target the millions of people who use Twitter every day. The API provides that, and thus it will likely also provide a solid economic underpinning for Twitter.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, IPO, Twitter
As IPO Gets Closer, Twitter Tries Growing Up Fast - Mike Isaac
allthingsd.com
on 12/20/2012
Excerpt: Preparing for an eventual IPO isn’t easy, taking years of planning, of careful strategy decisions, of picking your people perfectly. Even then, things can still go wrong. Just ask Facebook. While an initial public offering is still far down the road for Twitter, perhaps sometime in 2014 at best, it seems the company wants its house in order now. The culmination of this came on Wednesday evening as Twitter shuffled two of its highest-ranking execs, shifting Ali Rowghani from his position of CFO to COO, while moving recent hire and former Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta into the CFO seat. In typically understated Rowghani fashion, the move went down rather unceremoniously.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Voice, IPO, Twitter
As IPO Gets Closer, Twitter Tries Growing Up Fast
allthingsd.com
on 12/20/2012
Excerpt: Preparing for an eventual IPO isn’t easy, taking years of planning, of careful strategy decisions, of picking your people perfectly. Even then, things can still go wrong. Just ask Facebook. While an initial public offering is still far down the road for Twitter, perhaps sometime in 2014 at best, it seems the company wants its house in order now. The culmination of this came on Wednesday evening as Twitter shuffled two of its highest-ranking execs, shifting Ali Rowghani from his position of CFO to COO, while moving recent hire and former Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta into the CFO seat. In typically understated Rowghani fashion, the move went down rather unceremoniously.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, IPO, Twitter
Facebook schedules one last hackathon before going public (rumor)
www.zdnet.com
on 05/16/2012
Excerpt: Facebook has reportedly scheduled an all-nighter hackathon for Thursday (tomorrow) at its Menlo Park headquarters. It will end with Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq bell remotely to signal the company has gone public. The social networking has set up an internal Facebook Event page for the big day that supposedly already has over 1,000 saying they are going. “We want to get everyone together and remind ourselves that this company is about building things,” a source told TechCrunch. This hackathon will probably result in some new product ideas and features, unlike the last one we heard about: Facebook engineers + paint + beer = giant QR code on roof (video).... read the full post.
Tags: Facebook, Hackathon, IPO
Facebook's IPO: The social business implications
www.zdnet.com
on 05/14/2012
Excerpt: It’s at the intersection of companies that wish to engage with Facebook’s audience, and the Facebook platform itself, where the vast majority of the business opportunity lies. It’s likely — though not yet a certainty — that the world’s largest and most well-known social network will finally go public in the coming week. With over 900 million users, Facebook is by any measure a tremendous online success story. A recent summary of the IPO data points from Reuters says it all: The social media juggernaut has some of the highest levels of user engagement in Internet history (483 million daily active users), a decent revenue stream of $3.... read the full post.
Tags: Facebook, IPO
Excerpt: The launch of Twitter's Ads API — an "application programming interface" that allows advertisers to plug their own ads into Twitter's ecosystem — will probably turn out to be one of the more significant moments in the history of the microblog platform. It also lends itself to some speculative guesswork about when the company might finally file IPO papers with the SEC in order to sell stock to the public. One potential clue is to look at how long it took Facebook to file for its IPO after it launched an ads API. Advertisers are eager for an easy, effective way to target the millions of people who use Twitter every day. The API provides that, and thus it will likely also provide a solid economic underpinning for Twitter.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, IPO, Twitter
As IPO Gets Closer, Twitter Tries Growing Up Fast - Mike Isaac
allthingsd.com
on 12/20/2012
Excerpt: Preparing for an eventual IPO isn’t easy, taking years of planning, of careful strategy decisions, of picking your people perfectly. Even then, things can still go wrong. Just ask Facebook. While an initial public offering is still far down the road for Twitter, perhaps sometime in 2014 at best, it seems the company wants its house in order now. The culmination of this came on Wednesday evening as Twitter shuffled two of its highest-ranking execs, shifting Ali Rowghani from his position of CFO to COO, while moving recent hire and former Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta into the CFO seat. In typically understated Rowghani fashion, the move went down rather unceremoniously.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Voice, IPO, Twitter
As IPO Gets Closer, Twitter Tries Growing Up Fast
allthingsd.com
on 12/20/2012
Excerpt: Preparing for an eventual IPO isn’t easy, taking years of planning, of careful strategy decisions, of picking your people perfectly. Even then, things can still go wrong. Just ask Facebook. While an initial public offering is still far down the road for Twitter, perhaps sometime in 2014 at best, it seems the company wants its house in order now. The culmination of this came on Wednesday evening as Twitter shuffled two of its highest-ranking execs, shifting Ali Rowghani from his position of CFO to COO, while moving recent hire and former Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta into the CFO seat. In typically understated Rowghani fashion, the move went down rather unceremoniously.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, IPO, Twitter
Facebook schedules one last hackathon before going public (rumor)
www.zdnet.com
on 05/16/2012
Excerpt: Facebook has reportedly scheduled an all-nighter hackathon for Thursday (tomorrow) at its Menlo Park headquarters. It will end with Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq bell remotely to signal the company has gone public. The social networking has set up an internal Facebook Event page for the big day that supposedly already has over 1,000 saying they are going. “We want to get everyone together and remind ourselves that this company is about building things,” a source told TechCrunch. This hackathon will probably result in some new product ideas and features, unlike the last one we heard about: Facebook engineers + paint + beer = giant QR code on roof (video).... read the full post.
Tags: Facebook, Hackathon, IPO
Facebook's IPO: The social business implications
www.zdnet.com
on 05/14/2012
Excerpt: It’s at the intersection of companies that wish to engage with Facebook’s audience, and the Facebook platform itself, where the vast majority of the business opportunity lies. It’s likely — though not yet a certainty — that the world’s largest and most well-known social network will finally go public in the coming week. With over 900 million users, Facebook is by any measure a tremendous online success story. A recent summary of the IPO data points from Reuters says it all: The social media juggernaut has some of the highest levels of user engagement in Internet history (483 million daily active users), a decent revenue stream of $3.... read the full post.
Tags: Facebook, IPO
Excerpt: Preparing for an eventual IPO isn’t easy, taking years of planning, of careful strategy decisions, of picking your people perfectly. Even then, things can still go wrong. Just ask Facebook. While an initial public offering is still far down the road for Twitter, perhaps sometime in 2014 at best, it seems the company wants its house in order now. The culmination of this came on Wednesday evening as Twitter shuffled two of its highest-ranking execs, shifting Ali Rowghani from his position of CFO to COO, while moving recent hire and former Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta into the CFO seat. In typically understated Rowghani fashion, the move went down rather unceremoniously.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, IPO, Twitter
Facebook schedules one last hackathon before going public (rumor)
www.zdnet.com
on 05/16/2012
Excerpt: Facebook has reportedly scheduled an all-nighter hackathon for Thursday (tomorrow) at its Menlo Park headquarters. It will end with Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq bell remotely to signal the company has gone public. The social networking has set up an internal Facebook Event page for the big day that supposedly already has over 1,000 saying they are going. “We want to get everyone together and remind ourselves that this company is about building things,” a source told TechCrunch. This hackathon will probably result in some new product ideas and features, unlike the last one we heard about: Facebook engineers + paint + beer = giant QR code on roof (video).... read the full post.
Tags: Facebook, Hackathon, IPO
Facebook's IPO: The social business implications
www.zdnet.com
on 05/14/2012
Excerpt: It’s at the intersection of companies that wish to engage with Facebook’s audience, and the Facebook platform itself, where the vast majority of the business opportunity lies. It’s likely — though not yet a certainty — that the world’s largest and most well-known social network will finally go public in the coming week. With over 900 million users, Facebook is by any measure a tremendous online success story. A recent summary of the IPO data points from Reuters says it all: The social media juggernaut has some of the highest levels of user engagement in Internet history (483 million daily active users), a decent revenue stream of $3.... read the full post.
Tags: Facebook, IPO
Excerpt: It’s at the intersection of companies that wish to engage with Facebook’s audience, and the Facebook platform itself, where the vast majority of the business opportunity lies. It’s likely — though not yet a certainty — that the world’s largest and most well-known social network will finally go public in the coming week. With over 900 million users, Facebook is by any measure a tremendous online success story. A recent summary of the IPO data points from Reuters says it all: The social media juggernaut has some of the highest levels of user engagement in Internet history (483 million daily active users), a decent revenue stream of $3.... read the full post.
Tags: Facebook, IPO
