Kahn Gauthier Swick, LLC (KGS) has announced an initial filing of securities for a class action suit against Shoretel. According to a press release: If you purchased shares of ShoreTel in connection with the IPO or if you purchased shares...
ShoreTel hit it big with an IPO which jumped 27.5% on it’s opening day. The IPO was derailed last week as a result of a lawsuit filed by Mitel. The company closed the day at $12.15, after the company priced...
The IPTV market is forecasted to grow nicely for the foreseeable future and one company in the space who has recently gone public is Espial. As a pure-play provider of IPTV solutions Espial may be positioned nicely to take advantage...
Please enjoy my Publisher's Outlook from the November 2006 issue of Internet Telephony Magazine. --- A Visit to the Ultimate IP Communications Experience I just returned from Internet Telephony Conference & Expo where I was overwhelmed by all the...
While a single positive offering does not a trend make, the negative effects of the Vonage IPO have been felt far and wide and yesterday at ITEXPO many people in the industry told me they hope the Acme Packet IPO...
Many people are still complaining that the Vonage IPO has killed the investment environment for anything related to Voice over IP. 50% of any investor conversation revolves around explaining why Vonage did it wrong. The most common thing mentioned about...
Here is a worthy story in Vonage's first quarter as a public company. 256,000 subscribers were added -- a very healthy number. Still the company needs to focus on profit pretty soon while investors as still clinging to a small...
Here is the scoop on Vonage. Earnings were lower than expected but losses as a percentage of earnings decreased.Vonage's loss from April through June was $74.1 million, or $1.16 per share, compared with a loss of $63.6 million in the...
TheStreet.com basically destroys Vonage in this article. One wonders if all the negative press around the company makes it a good buy. I have had many people in the industry tell me the value of this company’s stock should be...
Take a look at how short sellers have hurt Vonage’s stock. Very painful. A good quarter of positive growth should get the short sellers out of this offering and force them to buy back shares....
Om predicts bad things for Vonage – His readers agree. Does this make Vonage a good buying opportunity? After all, the company has so many seasoned Wall Street veterans in its ranks. Do they know something we don’t? Time will...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Vonage will repurchase shares from underwriters if some of their customers refuse to pay. This is very unusual and speaks volumes about how the NJ based broadband phone company is trying to do...
I was recently quoted in this article along with Jon Arnold:Rich Tehrani, president with Technology Marketing Corporation, said Vonage remains an interesting takeover play for a foreign company that wants to establish a foothold in the United States. "It could...
Here are Andy's thoughts on Vonage and the IPO. He is not a believer in Vonage in the long term. I am.He thinks Jeff Pulver could have steered the company in a better direction but since he was pushed out...
Check out the Vonage News site on TMCnet if you are interested in seeing what is being said about the company. You can not only see what we at TMC are saying about Vonage, you can get a taste of...
I told a reporter yesterday that I wasn’t sure if I would invest in Vonage as it first goes public but I would if it dips a bit. I don’t know where the magic number is but I get the...
CNBC had a report on Vonage this morning and mentioned the shares should price tonight. There were a few people being interviewed fro the segment and both seemed bullish on the prospects. The anchor related Vonage’s strategy of losing money...
I have had a few questions regarding the Vonage IPO recently. One question was at the Aculab Ace event and yet others are verbally or in an e-mail. I responded to one this morning and I believe it may be...
The Vonage IPO values the company at $2.65 billion according to TMCnet’s Bob Liu. For the full year, marketing expenses totaled $243.4 million in 2005, nearly as much as the $258.2 million garnered in telephony services revenue.Just over 30 million...
You have got to give the company immense amounts of credit for this accomplishment. Nice going Vonage. At this rate the company seems like it will have a better IPO than previously thought. Their churn rate is lower than expected...
Here is my March 2006 Publisher’s Outlook in Internet Telephony Magazine. This is a follow up to my last entry on the Vonage IPO.If you’ve been following INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine for a while, you have probably read how challenging it...
Vonage IPOVonage needs more cash… Lots more. It seems they have gone to many VCs for more and didn’t get it and as such are forced to do an IPO. The rumored multi-billion dollar IPO isn’t happening and to be...