Is LinkedIn's IPO Bad for America?

IPOScoop.com submits: First, the bad news: The stock market has taken a few body blows over the last five weeks. The three popular indexes have lost on average 4.9% since the end of April. Now for the good news: Leadership is emerging in the IPO market. It’s in specialty technology. Consider this trend. The Present

By Tim Plaehn: LinkedIn (LNKD) recently posted a very good first quarter. The company continues to double quarterly revenues year-over-year.

Market Blog submits: By David Berman

Tom Lydon submits: It’s not just LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), but initial public offerings (IPOs) are hot right now, as two large companies – Pandora and Groupon – are planning to offer stock to the public. The IPO related exchange traded fund (ETF) could be poised to react to this action.

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Could Zynga — creator of Mafia Wars, FarmVille, and other social games — follow on the footsteps of

TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, this morning announced the pricing of its initial public offering of a little under 52.2 million Class A ordinary shares at $25.00 per share. The shares will begin trading later today on NASDAQ under the symbol “YNDX.” The offering would give Yandex a market cap of roughly $8 billion.