Monday, May 01, 2006

Making money - Vonage More Than Doubles IPO Expectations


Vonage More Than Doubles IPO Expectations
ABC News - NEW YORK May 1, 2006 (AP) Vonage Holdings Corp., the country's largest Internet telephone service, on Friday more than doubled the amount it expects to raise in its initial public offering and reported record subscriber growth. Vonage, which in

The Best Kept Secret
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Study: Consumers would trade some privacy for convenience
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Some Web sites invest in domain names alone
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - The Web site www.flashgames.com has no staff, spends no money on marketing and despite its name, offers no games. All it offers is a list of links to other game sites. Yet it earns revenue of more than $150,000 a year selling online ads. Flashgames

Inventor fills the need for speed
Edwardsville Intelligencer - Steve Norbury's air-powered, drag strip ride may be the fastest amusement ride in the world. Or maybe not. Maybe it's Space Mountain, at nearby Disney World or Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster, in Sandusky, Ohio. Fastest or not

Kids' issues worry Bay Area residents
San Jose Mercury News - Bay Area residents are more concerned about the well-being of children and education than health care, the war in Iraq, or the region's cost of living, according to a survey released Friday. And when respondents were read a wide-ranging list of 23