While there’s been some concerns of a tech bubble lately, most internet companies (like social media, e-commerce, or search engines) have done extremely well in recent years.  The Chinese internet giant Alibaba would be the latest company to join that list. Alibaba is set to go public on Friday, when it’s expected to raise over $21 billion in what could be the largest tech IPO of all time.  Here are the 10 internet-based companies that have raised record-high levels of funding by going public.  (Source: Renaissance Capital)10. Renren Inc.

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The public cloud offers unprecedented scale, low cost, and global distribution. Other than Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), there are two other hyper scale cloud competitors, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services (AWS) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (Google Cloud). Google Cloud is distinguished in that unlike the others, it primarily does not provide infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), that is, software running on Google Cloud must use the Google platforms.

Initial public offerings are like a big, exclusive party that all investors are invited to but only a few can actually attend.