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(Bloomberg) — Robinhood Markets Inc. is now looking to go public in July, after its plans for a listing as soon as this month slipped, according to people familiar with the matter. Robinhood wants to time its initial public offering so people will be back from July 4 holiday travel, said the people, who asked to not be identified because the matter isn’t public. A final decision hasn’t been made and Robinhood’s listing plans could change again, the people said. The popular trading app,… Source link

SoFi’s (SOFI) long-awaited IPO on Tuesday isn’t the first time CEO Anthony Noto has had a splashy deal day.  Noto is a former tech analyst and investment banker at Goldman Sachs who spent more than 12 years at the firm (1999 to 2008, then a return from 2010 to 2014 after a stint in between as the NFL’s CFO). He played a key role in Twitter’s IPO while at Goldman — he then joined CEO Jack Dorsey at the company as chief operating officer for an almost four-year period. Given that extensive… Source link

The king of oat milk Oatly (OTLY) has big plans on how it will spend the $1.43 billion or so it raised from a well-received IPO on Thursday.  Investors should expect an ambitious plan to expand manufacturing capacity to meet strong demand for Oatly oat milk, long-time CEO Toni Petersson said on Yahoo Finance Live.  “It’s to build supply, to build out our production capacity across the three continents,” Petersson said, referring to the use of its new capital infusion. Petersson — who has… Source link

(Bloomberg) — One of the few countries in the world where Google doesn’t dominate web searches is South Korea, where Naver Corp. leads the market and is also a big player in e-commerce and fintech. But the Korean company, which now gets more than 95% of revenue domestically, wants to boost its international presence. To help with that, Naver is considering more dollar bond sales after its debut deal last month, and it’s also eyeing a possible future U.S. initial public offering for a… Source link

One of the few countries in the world where Google doesn’t dominate web searches is South Korea, where Naver Corp. leads the market and is also a big player in e-commerce and fintech. But the Korean company, which now gets more than 95% of revenue domestically, wants to boost its international presence. To help with that, Naver is considering more dollar bond sales after its debut deal last month, and it’s also eyeing a possible future U.S. initial public offering for a unit, chief… Source link

Julien Viry / Getty Images The cryptocurrency that started as a joke in 2013 based on a Shibu Inu meme gained 54% Tuesday to reach a value of $0.11, making each Dogecoin worth more than a full U.S. dime, based on CoinDesk statistics. Earlier in the day, Doge hit $0.12. That figure represents an all-time high for the crypto touted by celebrities Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg, Business Insider writes. See: Coinbase, the Largest US Cryptocurrency Exchange, Goes Public – ‘It Will Infect the… Source link

Robinhood, the app-based trading platform, looks set to hit the public markets this year after filing confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. It has been among the most talked about firms on Wall Street as retail investing has grown in popularity amid the pandemic, and more recently, as Reddit-fueled investors used the platform to buy up heavily shorted stocks like GameStop (GME). But Robinhood is far from the only financial technology, or fintech, startup… Source link

Coupang (CPNG) shares closed at $49.52 each on their first day of trading, well below their opening trade but still above their IPO price, in the largest initial public offering in the US this year. Dubbed the Amazon (AMZN) of South Korea, shares of the e-commerce giant opened at $63.50 after pricing its IPO at $35 a share, raising $4.6 billion. About 10 minutes after the opening trade, the stock was trading at around $59 a share. The IPO surpassed that of dating app Bumble (BMBL), which Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches… Source link

TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Could Rack up Triple-Digit Gains, Say Analysts Is a pause to the stock market’s continued surge finally in the cards? The talk has turned to rising interest rates and the specter of inflation against the backdrop of growth powered by Covid fiscal stimulus. However, strategists say there’s no need to get alarmist just yet. According to Goldman Sachs equity strategist, Ryan Hammond, the stock market bull may stick with us for a while. Hammond notes that interest… Source link