IPOs

Shares of online crafts marketplace Etsy are surging in its debut as publicly traded company.

Venture capitalists poured a whopping $48.3 billion into U.S. startup companies last year, investing at levels that haven't been seen since the heady days before the dot-com bubble burst in 2001.

Yahoo's stock fell Monday as investors grappled with uncertainty about the Internet company's future in the wake of last week's record-setting Wall Street debut by the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

Yahoo is making amends for years of blundering with one smart move: an early investment in China's Alibaba Group that has turned into a multibillion-dollar boon.

Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings and revenue declined, hurt by a decline in display advertising sales that the company has been struggling with in recent years.

Once booming with activity, the U.S. IPO market took a big hit in October, with 15 IPOs withdrawn, the most seen since the market crashed in 2008.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett told FOX Business' Liz Claman Monday that social media stocks and IPOs don't interest him as investments.    

Legendary investor Warren Buffett told FOX Business' Liz Claman Monday that social media stocks and IPOs don't interest him as investments.    

Global initial public offerings have soared 70% to a combined $28.2 billion so far this year, according to data from Thomson Reuters.

Global initial public offerings have soared 70% to a combined $28.2 billion so far this year, according to data from Thomson Reuters.

One of the loudest criticisms of Twitter’s looming billion-dollar initial public offering is that the company is going to have a hard time cracking the massive Chinese market.

The hotel chain could launch an IPO early next year, marking a successful return to the public markets after an $18 billion leveraged buyout in 2007.

U.S. regulators are reportedly on the verge of slapping Nasdaq OMX Group with a $10 million fine over its handling of the botched Facebook IPO.

Alibaba overhauled its pact with the parent of its payments affiliate Alipay, boosting the Chinese e-commerce giant's potential gain if Alipay is sold or goes public.

Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba officially announced plans over the weekend to list its huge initial public offering in New York instead of Hong Kong.

Setting the stage for one of the biggest initial public offerings ever, China's Alibaba Group is reportedly 95% certain it will list its shares in New York instead of Hong Kong.

Pets.com? The exuberance over Twitter has some remembering the mania that surrounded intriguing yet unprofitable and largely unproven tech names some 15 years ago.

BofA Merrill Lynch is reportedly warning investors Twitter is likely to suffer losses through at least 2015.

The social media company reportedly plans to raise about $1.5 billion and list its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

The conglomerate is exploring a potential initial public offering of what would be the fifth-largest commercial bank in the U.S.