When Betfair Group, the world’s largest online gambling platform, went public in October the stakes were unusually high.The London-based company’s £1.5 billion British initial public offering was not only scrutinized by investors and analysts as a measurement of the company’s prospects.Read more

Wall Street observers marveled that it felt like 1999 for a few hours on July 16, a sweltering day in New York City that signaled the start of a heat wave.That day Qliktech, which pioneered a disruptive new approach to business intelligence software, launched an initial public offering of stock on the NASDAQ  and saw its stock shoot up by more than 30 % after the opening bell, before settling down for a 28 % gain, making it one of the hottest tech IPOs of the year in the U.S.Read more

France's Carmat, a company that is building an entirely artificial human heart, is planning an initial public offering on the Alternext market of NYSE-Euronext Paris in June. The company, co-founded by renowned French heart surgeon Alain Carpentier, is leveraging the aerospace industry's expertise in modeling, stress testing, miniaturization and design for severe environments as well as the latest advances in software, medicine, biology and materials science. Click to read the story and see the video. Read more