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The Carlyle Group is latest in a line of private equity giants to decide to enter the public markets.

The U.K. soccer giant chose Singapore for its $1 billion IPO so it could have a dual-share structure—one with voting rights and one without—that enables its owners to effectively retain control of the team.

... Groupon, far from representing some kind of new paradigm, is a phenomenon we’ve all seen many times before: a money-gushing dot-com that’s gambling it can make it across the IPO finish line by keeping the conversation focused on revenues (growing) rather than P&L (worsening).

China-based video site Tudou has stumbled out of the gate on the company's first day of trading on the U.S. stock market. Tudou went public today with an offering of 6 million American depositary shares at $29, raising $174 million.

Vodafone said that it has reduced its shareholding in its Indian operations to adhere to the nation's foreign direct-investment rules, paving the way for a possible initial public offering of the unit.

Yahoo and Chinese internet company Alibaba reach an agreement over its online payment service Alipay... Yahoo and Alibaba have now agreed that Alibaba would benefit from any future financial gain, such as a public offering.

Shares of real-estate website Zillow more than doubled on its first day of trading, giving the unprofitable Internet company a valuation of more than $1 billion.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, operator of a chain of dining and entertainment venues in North America, filed plans to raise $150 million in an initial public offering to pay down debt.

Investors pile into Internet IPOs and start-ups, making overnight millionaires. House prices and salaries soar. Another dot-com bubble? Maybe, but with differences. As she unloaded groceries in the driveway of her Palo Alto home, Lisen Stromberg was approached by a real estate broker who asked whether she'd be willing to sell her five-bedroom house to a senior Facebook executive.

Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions. And unlike the last bubble, this bubble’s first wave of IPO’s will be companies showing “real” revenue, profits and customers in massive numbers...