{"id":823,"date":"2004-04-26T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/26\/claria-ipo-good-for-computer-guy\/"},"modified":"2004-04-26T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T20:00:59","slug":"claria-ipo-good-for-computer-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/26\/claria-ipo-good-for-computer-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Claria + IPO = Good for Computer Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forwarded from PPG:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nApril 12, 2004<br \/>\nPop-Up Ad Company Plans an Initial Stock Offering<br \/>\nBy BOB TEDESCHI<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/12\/technology\/12claria.html?pagewanted=print&#038;position=<\/p>\n<p>The Claria Corporation, the company best known &#8211; and reviled by privacy advocates &#8211; for its online pop-up ads and tracking applications, has filed to offer shares to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Claria, formerly known as Gator, hopes to raise as much as $150 million in its initial offering, which will be underwritten by the investment firms Deutsche Bank Securities, Piper Jaffray, SG Cowen and Thomas Weisel, according to Claria&#8217;s filing with the Securities Exchange Commission on Thursday.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A majority of my business is defending against these people. Who wins in an arms race, no matter what? Arms dealers.<\/p>\n<p>(Not to worry intrepid reader, this IPO makes me just as queasy as you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forwarded from PPG: April 12, 2004 Pop-Up Ad Company Plans an Initial Stock Offering By BOB TEDESCHI http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/12\/technology\/12claria.html?pagewanted=print&#038;position= The Claria Corporation, the company best known &#8211; and reviled by privacy advocates &#8211; for its online pop-up ads and tracking applications, has filed to offer shares to the public. Claria, formerly known as Gator, hopes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}