Angie’s List, a consumer review site, was a hot item for investors in its first day of trading on Wall Street. The website has local reviews of plumbers, doctors, dentists, and others.
(Scott Eells/Bloomberg News/File 2011)
Angie’s List stock up 25% in debut
Angie’s List, a consumer review site, was a hot item for investors in its first day of trading on Wall Street. The website has local reviews of plumbers, doctors, dentists, and others.
(Scott Eells/Bloomberg News/File 2011)
Consumer-reviews site Angie’s List Inc. saw it stock grow by 25 percent on its first day of trading Thursday, showing ongoing investor appetite for Internet companies. The company’s public debut came the same day that another reviews site - San Francisco-based Yelp Inc. - filed for an initial public offering of stock. Founded by Angie Hicks in 1995, Angie’s List runs reviews of dentists, doctors, veterinarians, gardeners, plumbers and other businesses offering local services.
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