Tom Taulli

Founded in 1995, GoAmerica was meant to develop wireless solutions for the trucking and limo business. Of course, much has happened since then. Now, the company is developing a technology infrastructure that provides for seamless mobile access to e-mail and corporate data – using handhelds, PDAs and 2-way messengers. GoAmerica calls its technology Go.Web. Despite […]

With so many new technologies hitting the markets, there has been strong demand for technologies that monitor and diagnose for potential problems. Sunrise Telecom has been enjoying this trend. Founded in 1991, the company is now prepared to go public. The lead underwriter is Chase H&Q and the price range is $11-$13. The proposed ticker […]

What looks hot for the IPO market this week? Reply: Expect IPO sunshine from Sunrise Telecom. The firm develops verification products for the telecom industry. Sunrise will test services such as DSL, ISDN and ADSL. In fact, the company recently launched a product that monitors cable networks. But perhaps the most interesting technology is for […]

With a healthy jobs report, Nasdaq rallied last week. However, this did not mean much for the IPO market. With the Fourth of July holiday, there was not much time to launch IPOs. In fact, there were no IPOs until Friday. But it was a good Friday for InfoVista . The IPO was priced at […]

Expect high-performance from Network Engines. The company develops integrated server appliances – of course, with Net functionality. Because of scalability and customization, the company’s servers have been very effective for complex corporate environments. The systems are fairly easy to install and work on both Windows and Linux OSs. The marketplace is big. According to IDC, […]

For consumers, Internet searching is quite basic. However, this is not the case for corporate users. Verity has developed technologies that allow big organizations to effectively search their growing databases. Verity’s solutions are highly customized (based on the C language). With the technology, companies can manage hundreds of millions of documents – allowing for simultaneous […]

ImproveNet picked a horrible time to go public. The IPO was priced at $16 per share on March 15, 2000. The stocked opened at $17 and then closed the day at $14.13. Since then, the stock has been a nightmare. The current price is a scary $2-5/8. The market capitalization is $43 million. ImproveNet is […]

Markets don’t like surprises – especially now. It seems that every day a high-tech company announces that its quarterly results will not meet expectations. The result is a massacre of shareholder value. On the Fourth of July, Computer Associates lit a firestorm in its stock price, as the company reported dire news. The stock plunged […]

There are three IPOs planned for this week. Unfortunately, not all are expected to have great performances. Then again, it is a holiday week. Expect next week to be much better. Sometimes slow weeks can bring some interesting IPO plays. One is called Entegris. The company provides materials management services to the semiconductor and disk […]

For many years, EMC has been benefiting from the huge demand for sophisticated data storage. EMC considers itself a developer of electronic information infrastructures (“E-infostructures” for short). It seems to be working. The company has a market capitalization of $167 billion. But lucrative markets always have pesky competitors. EMC’s marketplace is no exception. A tough […]

As of Friday, IPO investors weren’t leaving early for vacation. There were several mega IPOs. One was StorageNetworks . The company is a leader in storage area networks (SANS). SANS are becoming increasingly important as companies must deal with huge amounts of data. Customers include Merrill Lynch, Yahoo!, and Lycos. Although, the company is in […]

What looks hot for the IPO market this week? Reply: Perhaps the only heat for this week will be from firework shows. Because of the Fourth of July holiday, the IPO market will be light. In fact, there are only two IPOs scheduled. There could be some action from divine interVentures. The firm is an […]