Meaning of IPO | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of initial public offering.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Initialism of Intellectual Property Office.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“In spite of the recent falls in the value of the Nasdaq index and the value of Amazon stock, the new technology had the city by the ears: the talk was still of start-ups, IPOs, interactivity, the unimaginable future that had just begun to begin.”

“You just shrug when you change the site’s privacy settings overnight to capture lucrative personal information and make Facebook’s IPO one of the biggest in Silicon Valley.”

“But AB InBev pulled the plug on a proposed IPO of its Asian business in Hong Kong earlier this month, citing tough market conditions.”

“The paper points towards a broader shift from public to private financial markets where the winning tech firms with hectobillion-dollar-equity valuations may reject IPOs and stay privately-held while founders seek to retain total corporate control over AGI technologies.”

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