{"id":647786,"date":"2010-01-29T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.stoth.com:\/\/bae161f4fc94391d49a15f9e646f9fbe"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:35:20","slug":"another-tech-ipo-you-haven%e2%80%99t-been-waiting-for-mediamemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/647786","title":{"rendered":"Another Tech IPO You Haven\u2019t Been Waiting For [MediaMemo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/files\/2008\/12\/dark-knight-burning.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1583\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fa22f_dark-knight-burning-247x300.jpg?fit=780%2C150\" alt=\"123\" width=\"780\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Facebook is officially out of the running for a 2010 IPO, and it&#8217;s a good bet that other sort-of candidates like Zynga are going to be waiting for a while, too.<\/p>\n<p>So if you really want to make a bet on a Webby public offering in the near future, you&#8217;re going to have to wager on the companies with a &#8230; less impressive pedigree. Companies like FriendFinder networks, which runs a collection of porn sites and niche social networks, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1410428\/000119312510016082\/ds1.htm\">Vringo<\/a>, which is ostensibly in the ring tone business and wants to raise $64 million to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>How can ring tones still be a business in 2010? For Vringo, they aren&#8217;t: The company has been giving them away for free, though it hopes to start selling them soonish.<\/p>\n<p>Better hurry. Vringo has raised $17.5 million since 2006, and has burned through almost all of that. Total revenues so far: $36,000, generated by a partner in Armenia. <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-video-ringtones-service-vringo-files-for-64.3-million-ipo\/\">PaidContent<\/a> has more details from S-1.<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20100129\/another-tech-ipo-you-havent-been-waiting-for\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is officially out of the running for a 2010 IPO, and it&#8217;s a good bet that other sort-of candidates like Zynga are going to be waiting for a while, too. So if you really want to make a bet on a Webby public offering in the near future, you&#8217;re going to have to wager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Iwa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}