Google sets its own terms in IPO with "Dutch auction" (AFP)

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Google sets its own terms in IPO

Google sets its own terms in IPO 05/01/2004 03:19 AM
Business Day South Africa May 1 2004 7:25AM GMT

Some See Google Dutch Auction in 2004

Some See Google Dutch Auction in 2004 12/21/2003 09:28 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Dec 21 2003 8:33PM ET

IPO VIEW - What am I bid for a Google
Dutch auction ?

IPO VIEW - What am I bid for a Google
Dutch auction ? 12/21/2003 07:11 PM
With no initial public offerings on the calendar for the rest of the year, talk has turned to 2004 and increasing speculation over an anticipated Google ...

IPO VIEW- What am I bid for a Google
Dutch auction?

IPO VIEW- What am I bid for a Google
Dutch auction? 12/21/2003 04:54 PM
Reuters Dec 21 2003 2:35PM ET

Google Dutch auction IPO declared a
success

Google Dutch auction IPO declared a
success 08/23/2004 06:49 AM
vnunet.com Aug 23 2004 11:09AM GMT

Google sets its own terms in IPO with
'Dutch auction'

Google sets its own terms in IPO with
'Dutch auction' 05/01/2004 10:25 AM
Channel NewsAsia May 1 2004 2:40PM GMT

Google Sets Auction Registration
Deadline (Reuters)

Google Sets Auction Registration
Deadline (Reuters) 08/10/2004 02:12 PM
Reuters - Google Inc., the Web's No. 1 search engine, on Tuesday said it would close bidder registration for its auction-style $3.3 billion initial public offering in two days.

Google Sets Registration Deadline,
Auction Next (Reuters)

Google Sets Registration Deadline,
Auction Next (Reuters) 08/10/2004 12:40 PM
Reuters - Google Inc., the Web's No. 1 search engine, on Tuesday said it would close bidder registration for its auction-style $3.3 billion initial public offering in two days.

Google Sets Deadline to Register for IPO
Auction (washingtonpost.com)

Google Sets Deadline to Register for IPO
Auction (washingtonpost.com) 08/10/2004 09:06 PM
washingtonpost.com - Google Inc. has set Thursday as the deadline for investors to register for its initial public offering, moving forward with plans to auction off shares even as it and others offered fresh cautions about the search engine's future revenue and profit prospects.

Shopping.com Sets Terms for Planned IPO
(Reuters)

Shopping.com Sets Terms for Planned IPO
(Reuters) 05/26/2004 09:05 AM
Reuters - Shopping.com Ltd., an online comparison shopping service, said on Wednesday it planned to sell 5 million common shares in its initial public offering, for between $14 and $16 per share.

Lindows settles with Microsoft, sets IPO
terms

Lindows settles with Microsoft, sets IPO
terms 07/20/2004 09:11 PM
The New Zealand Herald Jul 21 2004 1:24AM GMT

Motorola chip unit sets IPO terms

Motorola chip unit sets IPO terms 06/21/2004 12:31 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 21 2004 4:22PM GMT

Google's IPO Trading Defies Dutch
Auction Logic?

Google's IPO Trading Defies Dutch
Auction Logic? 08/19/2004 11:01 PM
Slashdot Aug 20 2004 3:25AM GMT

Motorola Chip Unit Sets Spinoff Terms

Motorola Chip Unit Sets Spinoff Terms 06/21/2004 12:31 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 21 2004 5:08PM GMT

Lindows Settles with Microsoft, Sets IPO
Terms (Reuters)

Lindows Settles with Microsoft, Sets IPO
Terms (Reuters) 07/19/2004 02:47 PM
Reuters - Lindows Inc. settled a trademark infringement case with Microsoft Corp., maker of Windows software, and set terms for a $48 million public offering on Monday, the company said.

Motorola's chip-making unit sets terms
for spinoff's IPO

Motorola's chip-making unit sets terms
for spinoff's IPO 06/23/2004 03:03 AM
eTaiwanNews.com Jun 23 2004 5:22AM GMT

Roman glass sets auction record

Roman glass sets auction record 07/15/2004 03:47 AM
A delicate glass bowl, dating from the third Century AD, sells for more than £2.6m at an auction in London.

A $104.1 Million Picasso Sets a Record
at Auction

A $104.1 Million Picasso Sets a Record
at Auction 05/06/2004 10:09 AM
A rare Rose Period Picasso, "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," sold for $104.1 million on Wednesday, eclipsing the world record set in 1990.

Picasso Work From Rose Period Sets
All-Time Record for a Painting Sold at
Auction

Picasso Work From Rose Period Sets
All-Time Record for a Painting Sold at
Auction 05/05/2004 11:56 PM
A rare Rose Period Picasso, "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," sold for $104.1 million on Wednesday, eclipsing the world record set in 1990.

The Real Terms of the Google Deal

The Real Terms of the Google Deal 05/01/2004 05:19 PM
Google's equity class structure (10 votes per share for "us", 1 vote per share for "you") is designed to keep insiders in control, pocketing investors' dollars while letting them sit in the back seat for the ride. In this, they're following the lead of media companies like the New York...

Why is Google going Dutch?

Why is Google going Dutch? 05/03/2004 08:58 PM
CFCN Plus May 4 2004 0:31AM GMT

Going Dutch With Google

Going Dutch With Google 05/26/2004 02:59 PM
Bill Mann has everything you wanted to know about the Google IPO but were afraid to ask.

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms 12/12/2003 03:10 PM
A few months back, France fined Google for selling ads based on trademarked terms. I was surprised, because in my own experiments with Google ads, I've had a few ads that were rejected because they (according to Google) contained trademarked terms. Personally, I don't see how buying a keyword is, in any way, a violation of trademark. The point of a trademark is to protect the company from having someone else appear to be you. You can't sell Bob's Cola and put a Coca-Cola label on it. However, if someone is looking for Coca-Cola, there's nothing wrong with suggesting they might also want to look at Bob's Cola, as well. Anyway, now it looks like Google may get hit from the other side as well. They've been fined for selling ads based on trademarks, and now, apparently, they're going to ge t sued for blocking ads based on trademark complaints. The pending lawsuit apparently says that Google is banning ads on terms that aren't trademarked as soon as anyone complains. That is, Google doesn't check to see if there's an actual trademark - they just ban the ad as soon as there's a complaint. The group that's going to sue says they've brought together over 3,000 complaining advertisers who have had ads blocked. As mentioned, I've had my ads blocked too, but this seems like a ridiculous lawsuit. Where in the law does it say that Google has to sell you ads for whatever you want? They have the right to reject ads for whatever reason they want. It is their system, after all. If people believe they're blocking ads unfairly, then isn't that an opening for competitors to better serve advertisers by offering them something that Google doesn't?

Changed terms and conditions for Google
AdSense

Changed terms and conditions for Google
AdSense 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
In response to some pressure from their customers and potential customers, Google has changed the terms and conditions for their AdSense program. I only took...

Victory: Google Updates Terms and
Conditions

Victory: Google Updates Terms and
Conditions 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Google has updated their Terms and Conditions, removing the sentence that required no public statements be made about AdSense. However, they do add that people using Google trademarks should follow their Permission Guidelines, which seem a bit excessive. (All the other changes are pretty minor.) Thanks, Google!...

Google Says Okay To Selling Trademarked
Search Terms

Google Says Okay To Selling Trademarked
Search Terms 04/13/2004 02:10 PM
Considering the fact that they've come out on the losing end of a number of cases on this subject, it's a bit surprising that Google is so aggressively changing their ad terms to say that they will no longer prevent advertisers from buying ads based on trademarked keywords. There have been a ton of cases on this, from France< /a> to wallpap er to eBay to Playboy . In fact, despite all of this, Google was also sued by someone else who felt it was illegal that they were illega lly blocked from buying a trademarked keyword. While I think Google's position is the right one, the track record in court doesn't seem good. As we've said many, many times before, a trademark doesn't give you full control over a word or phrase. It's only designed to prevent confusion over the trademark. That is, if someone is presenting themselves as your company or your product, they have violated your trademark. However, to simply advertise themselves to anyone searching for your trademark - as long as it's clear that they're a different company - doesn't not violate the trademark. It's simply a good marketing strategy to position yourself where people are looking for that type of product. It's the same thing as making sure you're on the shelf in the store near your competitor. Thus, it seems as though Google's new rules fit with the spirit of trademark, but unfortunately too many people are misinterpreting trademark in a way to believe that it means you have total control over the trademarked word or phrase. No matter what, there are going to be a lot more lawsuits over this.

Just what do the Dutch and Google.com
have in common?

Just what do the Dutch and Google.com
have in common? 06/19/2004 10:38 AM
Royal Gazette Jun 19 2004 2:15PM GMT

Google Wins Lawsuit In Germany Over
Trademarked Terms

Google Wins Lawsuit In Germany Over
Trademarked Terms 09/21/2004 12:29 PM
While the courts in the US still seem to be a bit confused over the purpose of trademarks in lawsu its against Google concerning advertising based on trademarked keywords, it looks like the German courts may have a clearer picture. A similar lawsuit brought against Google in Germany has been dismissed, though details are not given. Again, the purpose of a trademark is to avoid confusion for the customer. That is, it's designed to protect another company from misleading someone into believing they're a different (usually more popular) company. However, advertising somewhere where people are looking for a particular brand is simply good marketing, not trademark infringement. Just go into your local supermarket, and look at all the similar products stacked near each other, the aisle coupons for other products, and the receipt coupons advertising competing products after you pay. There's no confusion over brands -- it's just advertising.

For Google, Going Dutch Has Its Rewards
and Its Risks

For Google, Going Dutch Has Its Rewards
and Its Risks 05/10/2004 01:26 AM
New York Times May 10 2004 5:51AM GMT

Baidu.com beats Google.com to rank
fourth in terms of web traffic

Baidu.com beats Google.com to rank
fourth in terms of web traffic 05/31/2004 08:22 AM
Interfax Information Agency May 31 2004 12:28PM GMT

AXA takes Google AdWords to French Court
over Trademarked Terms

AXA takes Google AdWords to French Court
over Trademarked Terms 04/27/2004 08:08 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 28 2004 0:30AM GMT

Wall Street, Google On Dutch Date

Wall Street, Google On Dutch Date 08/01/2004 03:24 AM
New York Post Aug 1 2004 7:12AM GMT

Dutch Man Pleads Guilty in Google IPO
Scam

Dutch Man Pleads Guilty in Google IPO
Scam 05/18/2004 06:19 PM
BizReport.com May 18 2004 9:08PM GMT

Dutch Man Pleads Guilty to Google Fraud

Dutch Man Pleads Guilty to Google Fraud 05/17/2004 09:09 PM
San Jose Mercury News May 18 2004 1:46AM GMT

Google to power Dutch classifieds sites

Google to power Dutch classifieds sites 05/06/2004 08:40 AM
DMeurope.com May 6 2004 12:29PM GMT

Google IPO Scam Victims Fooled By Fancy
Wall Street Terms

Google IPO Scam Victims Fooled By Fancy
Wall Street Terms 05/10/2004 02:32 PM
Back in March we wrote about a scam from someone who convin ced a lot of people who should know better he could sell them pre-IPO Google shares. Among the still unnamed victims were "the chairman of a global telecommunications company, a New York investment banker, a corporate attorney and a senior executive at a brokerage firm." These folks forked over half a million dollars without any due diligence to the guy who claimed to know the founders of Google from attending Stanford (which he didn't) and via working at Kleiner Perkins (again not true). We also had a post noting that a simple search query on the guy's name, though not on Google, would have turned up his questionable history. It appears that the NY Times has just discovered the story, but did a little extra sleuthing to point out that, beyond their scam-blinding greed to get in on the Google IPO, what really fooled these investment bankers and big time executives was the sophisticated Wall Street lingo used by the scammer. It turns out that if you just say "participation agreement," "stock purchase agreement" and "promissory note," combined with "Google IPO" wealthy stock brokers and executives will simply open their wallets for you. Also worth noting is that the scammer doesn't appear to have stored away most of his ill-gotten gains, but rather spent a large portion of it partying at expensive clubs and restaurants.

Google Beats Overture to Dutch
Classifieds Deal

Google Beats Overture to Dutch
Classifieds Deal 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Search Engine Lowdown May 6 2004 4:13PM GMT

Dutch Man Guilty of $3 Million Google
Stock Fraud

Dutch Man Guilty of $3 Million Google
Stock Fraud 05/17/2004 07:33 PM
Reuters-47 minutes ago ... pleaded guilty on Monday to duping investors into committing nearly $3 million for nonexistent shares of the Internet search engine company Google through a ...

Google Auction Gets Under Way

Google Auction Gets Under Way 08/15/2004 01:42 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Aug 15 2004 4:37PM GMT
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