QlikTech (QLIK) began trading on the NASDAQ on 16 July 2010

Qlik Technologies Inc. (QlikTech), through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Company sells software solutions that deliver data analysis and reporting solutions. QlikTech’s software platform, QlikView, combines enterprise-class analytics and search functionality. The Company’s solution addresses the needs of a range of customers from middle market customers to large enterprises, such as Autodesk, Campbell Soup Company, Colonial Life, The Dannon Company, Inc., Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, ING, Kraft Foods, Lifetime Brands, Nasdaq OMX, National Health Service (NHS), Qualcomm, Symantec and Volvo Car UK Limited. It has customers in over 100 countries, and approximately 75% of its revenue, during the year ended December 31, 2010, was derived internationally. On January 22, 2010, QlikTech acquired Syllogic Corporation (Syllogic).

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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.