IPOs

Shares of high-speed trading company Virtu Financial Inc. have risen 17 percent in their stock market debut Thursday.

Foreigners who want to buy Alibaba Group shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant's U.S. public offering will need to get comfortable with an unusual business structure.

Cloud storage company priced its long-anticipated IPO Thursday at $14 per share, above the expected range of $11 to $13 per share. At this price Box raised $175 million in its offering and values the company at about $1.67 billion.

U.S. markets are attracting foreign companies seeking IPOs because of low volatility, strong performance overall in the equity markets, and because IPOs are getting great returns.

The day the tech world has been waiting for has finally arrived: China’s Alibaba made its public debut -- this is your tech rewind of the week.

Alibaba reported a record $9.3 billion dollars in sales on Singles Day in China, flexing its muscles to investors and smashing records on its busiest shopping day of the year.

Seven reasons why the reports of Silicon Valley’s death have been, and probably always will be, greatly exaggerated.

Twitter is enjoying a successful debut on Wall Street. But other social media stocks aren’t faring so well.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding revealed the members of its 27-person partnership in an updated prospectus for its U.S. share listing on Monday.

Goldman Sachs technology investment banker Anthony Noto, who helped orchestrate Twitter's successful IPO in November, is leaving and joining Coatue Management.

Top NYSE and Nasdaq officials met with Alibaba this week in a bid to score the highly-coveted listing of the Chinese e-commerce giant. 

Valero Energy Partners filed for an IPO of roughly $345 million, after becoming the latest master limited partnership in oil and gas.

The micro-blogging site received an equity rating of neutral from Wedbush, which put the 12-month price target at $37.

Transactions in the African region are growing at a faster pace than they were three years ago. Experts at Ernst & Young predict the trend will continue as the broader deals market recovers.

The microblogging network is set to close the books on its $1.75 billion initial public offering a day earlier than scheduled.

Industry Ventures has raised a $425 million secondary fund and a $200 million special opportunities fund, to buy equity inVC-backed startups.

The first lesson any private company going public needs to learn -- one Twitter better learn: Don't think you can sell yourself to public shareholders as standing for one thing and then conduct yourself in the most hypocritical way possible.  

Twitter priced its initial public offering at $26 a share, up from the estimated $23 to $25 range. The social media company will make its anticipated public debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "TWTR" Thursday.

Analysts at banks that are bringing Twitter public this week are decidedly less optimistic about the company's revenue prospects.