May 6 (Bloomberg) — From the railway to the information superhighway, in today’s “The Big Question,” Bloomberg’s Willem Marx looks at the biggest share offerings in U.S. history, covering more than a century from the Union Pacific Railroad to Alibaba’s upcoming IPO.
Union Pacific in 1898.
Ford Motor Company in 1956
Apple in 1980
Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Adobe in 1986.
AT&T wireless, T-Mobile, NTT docomo in 2000.
Who thinks Union Pacific and Ford Motor Company are tech companies?
May 6 (Bloomberg) — Alibaba filed today for what could become the largest U.S. initial public offering ever. Trish Regan and Cory Johnson have more on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.”
May 6 (Bloomberg) — John Malloy, co-founder of BlueRun Ventures, Crid Yu, vice president and managing director at InMobi, and Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman discuss the many businesses of Alibaba’s empire with Emily Chang and Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)
May 6 (Bloomberg) — Alibaba, the massive Chinese online marketplace, filed for what could become the largest U.S. IPO ever. In the world’s most populous country, the business Alibaba did over its sites last year accounted for the equivalent of almost two percent of China’s GDP.
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