Ticketing software company StubHub is reportedly looking to raise over $1 billion in an initial public offering (IPO). The company has talked with bankers about launching an IPO this year, The New York Times reported Friday (March 7), citing unnamed sources. The talks are in...
There’s a chorus growing among companies that want to go public: Wait until next year. The 2024 initial public offering (IPO) market rebound that bankers and executives hoped for hasn’t been realized, leaving them to hold out hope for 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported...
Drip pricing, or added fees consumers only learn about at checkout, are coming under fire from consumer groups as proposed rules make their way through Congress. In the context of live event ticketing, the practice of drip pricing is “problematic because it can lead to...
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s new lawsuit against StubHub is just the latest occasion to call attention to practices that regulators have been contesting for years. The suit, filed Wednesday (July 31), accuses the ticket resale platform of drip pricing, utilizing the “deceptive and...
November 26, 2019
In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Also, cybersecurity company Kaspersky is putting a spotlight on the increase in fake browser notifications this year. And the pre-orders are coming in for Tesla’s so-called “cybertruck,” days after shattered glass embarrassed the automaker […]
September 26, 2019
In the “week of the CEO resignation,” eBay’s Devin Wenig is out, amid clashes with activist investors and the board. Amid slowing sales and rougher competition from Amazon and others,...
July 22, 2019
Instant payments are becoming crucial to consumers participating in the platform economy. These consumers want to be sure that they can both send and receive money seconds after they’ve completed...
January 30, 2019
In Q4, eBay saw deceleration into the end of the year, in part, on macro headwinds internationally as buyer volumes slowed, but still logged growth in active buyers, as well...
April 04, 2025
Several technology and FinTech companies reportedly paused their activities related to initial public offerings (IPOs) amid the stock market fall and investor uncertainty caused by the President Donald Trump administration’s announcement of tariffs. Five companies that were in various stages of their IPO-related plans are temporarily halting or rethinking them, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) […]
March 07, 2025
Ticketing software company StubHub is reportedly looking to raise over $1 billion in an initial public offering (IPO). The company has talked with bankers about launching an IPO this year,...
August 27, 2024
There’s a chorus growing among companies that want to go public: Wait until next year. The 2024 initial public offering (IPO) market rebound that bankers and executives hoped for hasn’t...
July 31, 2024
A lawsuit accuses StubHub of tricking its customers into paying inflated prices. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday (July 31) by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb, said the concert/event ticketing platform...
