Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Twitter launched its initial public offering and started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013. After the day's trading, shares closed at $44.90, giving the company a valuation of about $31 billion.
Let's take a look at some of the biggest IPOs floated by Internet companies.
Source: Bloomberg Visual Data
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with his wife Priscilla Chan at the Sun Valley, Idaho Resort, United States.Photographs: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Value of issue: $16 billion
Trade date: May 17, 2012
Issuer country: The United States
Industry: Internet content, entertainment
Overall rank: 1
Facebook, which was founded in 2004, is now a Fortune 500 company.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
World Online International
Value of issue: $2.91 billion
Trade date: March 17, 2000
Issuer country: The Netherlands
Industry: Web portals, ISP
Overall rank: 2
World Online International, which was founded in 1996, was an Internet service provider based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The company was acquired by Italian ISP, Tiscali, in 2000.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: A view of the headquarters of T-Online International in Darmstadt near Frankfurt in Germany.Photographs: Reuters
T-Online International
Value of issue: $2.77 billion
Trade date: April 17, 2000
Issuer country: Germany
Industry: Web portals, ISP
Overall rank: 3
T-Online International, which was founded in 1995, is the biggest Internet service provider in Germany.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Music room at the Google office in Toronto, Canada.Photographs: Mark Blinch/Reuters
Value of issue: $1.91 billion
Trade date: August 18, 2004
Issuer country: The United States
Industry: Web portals, ISP
Overall rank: 4
Google, which was founded in 1998, is one of the biggest companies in the world.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Jose Manuel Abel, 46, writes an email in an Internet cafe in Munich, Germany.Photographs: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
Genuity
Value of issue: $1.91 billion
Trade date: June 27, 2000
Issuer country: The United States
Industry: Web hosting, design
Overall rank: 5
Genuity, which was founded in 1949, claims to have sent the first email in the world.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: A woman and her dog walk by a telecommunications store advertising Orange in Vienna, Austria.Photographs: Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters
Wanadoo
Value of issue: $1.84 billion
Trade date: June 27, 2000
Issuer country: France
Industry: Web portals, ISP
Overall rank: 6
Wanadoo stopped operating as a global brand in 2006 after being renamed Orange.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, left, and Jack Dorsey, centre, walk together during the Twitter's IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Value of issue: $1.82 billion
Trade date: November 7, 2013
Issuer country: The United States
Industry: Internet content, entertainment
Overall rank: 7
Twitter, which was founded in 2006, is now one of the 10 most visited websites in the world.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: An employee serves a guest at the reception counter inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Company on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.Photographs: Steven Shi/Reuters
Alibaba.com
Value of issue: $1.69 billion
Trade date: November 6, 2007
Issuer country: China
Industry: E-commerce, services
Overall rank: 8
Alibaba.com, a Chinese e-commerce portal, made its debut on the Hong Kong stock market in 2007.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Founder and CEO Arkady Volozh, front, second right, celebrates as Yandex is listed on the Nasdaq exchange New York.Photographs: Mike Segar/Reuters
Yandex
Value of issue: $1.43 billion
Trade date: May 23, 2011
Issuer country: The Netherlands
Industry: Web portals, ISP
Overall rank: 9
Yandex, which was founded in 1997, runs the largest search engine in Russia.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: An employee watches a computer screen displaying the video game Glorious Mission Online at the game developer's office in Shanghai, China.Photographs: Aly Song/Reuters
Giant Interactive Group
Value of issue: $1.01 billion
Trade date: November 01, 2007
Issuer country: China
Industry: Internet content, entertainment
Overall rank: 10
Giant Interactive Group, which was founded in 2001, is a Chinese company that runs and creates online games.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Pedestrians standing in front of an electronic board displaying various stock prices outside a brokerage are reflected in a polished stone surface, in Tokyo, Japan.Photographs: Yuya Shino/Reuters
TD Waterhouse Group
Value of issue: $1.00 billion
Trade date: June 22, 1999
Issuer country: The United States
Industry: Internet brokers
Overall rank: 11
TD Waterhouse Group provides brokerage and investor services around the world.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: A woman walks on the platform as a train arrives at Mayakovskaya metro station, which was built in 1938, in Moscow, Russia.Photographs: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Mail.ru Group
Value of issue: $1.00 billion
Trade date: November 05, 2010
Issuer country: Russia
Industry: Web portals/ISP
Overall rank: 12
Mail.ru Group, which was founded in 1998, is one of the top Internet companies in Russian-speaking countries.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Corporate logo of Zynga on the board outside the Nasdaq Market Site.Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Zynga
Value of issue: $1.00 billion
Trade date: December 15, 2011
Issuer country: The United States
Industry: Internet application software
Overall rank: 13
Zynga, which was founded in 2007, creates social games for stand-alone mobile-phone platforms and Internet.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: China's Renren Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Joseph Chen, centre, is joined by executives and guests as he rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.Photographs: Euronext/Handout/Reuters
Renren
Value of issue: $854.9 million
Trade date: May 04, 2011
Issuer country: China
Industry: Internet content, entertainment
Overall rank: 14
Renren, which was founded in 2005, is called the Facebook of China.
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15 largest IPOs launched by Internet companies in the world
Image: Groupon Chief Executive Andrew Mason with his wife, pop musician Jenny Gillespie, outside the Nasdaq Market following his company's IPO in New York.Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Groupon
Value of issue: $805 million
Trade date: November 03, 2011
Issuer country: The United States
Industry: E-commerce, services
Overall rank: 15
Groupon, which was founded in 2008, deals in discounted gift certificates that can be exchanged at outlets.
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