John Jannarone | Vox Our world has too much noise and too little context. Vox helps you understand what matters. 2019-03-06T11:14:10+00:00 https://www.vox.com/authors/john-jannarone/rss https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/vox_logo_rss_light_mode.png?w=150&h=100&crop=1 John Jannarone <![CDATA[Waiting for Alibaba IPO? Beware This Substitute.]]> https://www.vox.com/2014/5/5/11626520/waiting-for-alibaba-ipo-beware-this-substitute 2019-03-06T06:14:10-05:00 2014-05-05T17:49:36-04:00 As the wait for Alibaba’s New York initial public offering drags on, some other high-flying Chinese technology companies are poised to get a U.S. listing first. Investors who consider owning such shares should be sure to read the fine print.

Consider JD.com, which has filed a prospectus for its U.S. listing and may make its debut in the coming weeks. JD has a few businesses, including an online marketplace that matches buyers and sellers, similar to Alibaba’s main operations.

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]]> John Jannarone <![CDATA[Tiger Cub Coatue to Return $2 Billion to Investors Amid Volatility]]> https://www.vox.com/2014/4/8/11625388/tiger-cub-coatue-to-return-2-billion-to-investors-amid-volatility 2019-03-06T05:51:13-05:00 2014-04-08T13:18:58-04:00 Hedge fund Coatue Management plans to return more than $2 billion in capital to investors in its flagship fund on June 30 after extreme volatility in technology stocks led to a nine percent loss in March.

“We are focused on returns and do not want to become asset gatherers,” Coatue founder Philippe Laffont wrote in an April 4 investor letter reviewed by CNBC. He added that the flagship fund’s assets had grown from $1 billion to more than $7 billion in the past six years. “We believe the right size for Flagship is $5 billion,” he wrote.

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]]> John Jannarone <![CDATA[Less Sirius Is More for John Malone]]> https://www.vox.com/2014/3/14/11624582/less-sirius-is-more-for-john-malone 2019-03-06T06:11:20-05:00 2014-03-14T16:50:10-04:00 As it turns out, Sirius XM Radio and Charter Communications don’t really belong together.

John Malone’s Liberty Media said Thursday night it had pulled its tender offer to buy the 47 percent of satellite-radio operator Sirius it didn’t already own. It’s also creating a new tracking stock called Liberty Broadband to house its 27 percent stake in Charter, along with a few other assets.

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]]> John Jannarone <![CDATA[Did Investors Miss the Message on the Value of BlackBerry’s BBM?]]> https://www.vox.com/2014/2/20/11623726/did-investors-miss-the-message-on-the-value-of-blackberrys-bbm 2019-03-06T05:48:51-05:00 2014-02-20T11:07:07-05:00 Facebook’s deal with WhatsApp has everyone talking about how much messages are really worth. So should investors consider picking up their BlackBerrys again?

Facebook has agreed to pay up to $19 billion for fast-growing messenger service WhatsApp as part of a bid to command more of consumers’ time on their mobile devices. The price equates to an impressive $42 each for WhatsApp’s roughly 450 million monthly active users.

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