SMART Technologies (SMT) started trading on the NASDAQ

SMART Technologies Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary, SMART Technologies ULC (ULC) and its subsidiaries, the Company designs, develops and sells interactive technology products and integrated solutions that enhance learning. The Company’s core interactive technology solution is its interactive whiteboard product category. SMART Board interactive whiteboards combine the simplicity of a whiteboard and the power of a computer. By touching the surface of a SMART Board interactive whiteboard, the user can control computer applications, access the Internet, write in digital ink and save and share work. Its interactive whiteboards are designed to serve as the focal point of a technology platform in classrooms and meeting rooms. Its line of interactive whiteboards ranges from the 400 series, to the 600 series, and the 800 series. As of March 31, 2011, the Company had shipped over 1.9 million of its SMART Board interactive whiteboards worldwide.

Biggest IPOs

The initial public offering (IPO) of Agricultural Bank of China, the country’s third-largest bank, looks set to become the biggest on record. 

On July 6th and 7th the bank raised a reported $19.2 billion in a dual listing on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges. If the bank takes up a further 15% allotment of shares, that would value the deal at a total of $22.1 billion, slightly more than the offering in another Chinese bank, ICBC, in 2006.

According to Dealogic, a provider of financial information, telecommunications was the investors’ choice in the 1990s, but during the past decade the biggest IPOs have been mostly in the financial sector, and mainly of Chinese banks.

Tesla Motors (TSLA) started trading on the NASDAQ on June 29, 2010

Ticker: TSLA

 

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, stands with his fiancee Talulah Riley and his twin sons Griffin, left, 6, and Xavier at the Nasdaq’s opening bell to celebrate the electric automaker’s initial public offering on Jun. 29, 2010.
 

Tesla Motors, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. The Company owns its sales and service network, and markets and sells its vehicles directly to consumers through the phone and Internet, in-person at its corporate events and through its network of Tesla stores. The Company commercially produces an electric vehicle, the Tesla Roadster. The Tesla Roadster offers acceleration and performance without producing any tailpipe emissions. In addition, it provides services for the development of electric powertrain components and sells electric powertrain components to other automotive manufacturers. On July 1, 2010, it introduced the Roadster 2.5, with new styling and an upgraded interior. As of December 31, 2010, it had delivered over 1,500 Tesla Roadsters to customers in 31 countries, almost all of which were sold in North America and Europe.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves in front of the Model S at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif.