Registration Statement Effective August 17 at 4:00 PM EDT

Bids accepted at that point.

[bakedjake]

[ipo.google.com...]

Google and the underwriters have requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission declare the registration statement pertaining to Google's initial public offering of Class A common stock effective on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 4:00 p.m.

[bakedjake]

CBS Marketwatch Reporting:

Google (GOOG) on Monday said that it has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to declare its IPO effective on Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. Eastern, which could see the search company's shares trading the next day.

[loanuniverse]

I think everyone that got a bidder's id got an email saying the same.

[Chris_R]

Bidding seems to still be open. I added another bid with etrade and it accepted it.

For what it's worth...

[EquityMind]

<ahem> So how much was that bid Chris? (I won't tell anyone and neither will Jake, I'm sure of it)

[Kirby]

>For what it's worth...

I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

[caspita]

[biz.yahoo.com...]

[Chris_R]

Yeah - well it looks like google didn't get their wishes. the last thing CNBC said before the signed off my TV - was something like "We don't have anything to reoprt on Google yet".

I think the assumption is th earliest we will hear something now is wednesday morning

[Neo541]

[foxnews.com...]

U.S. securities regulators on Tuesday did not give Google Inc. the green light it needs to price its initial public offering, extending the wait for its highly anticipated market debut.

[bnhall]

Yep, SEC hasn't approved the registration. No IPO tomorrow it looks like.

[christopher w]

The delay raises the possibility that Google's paperwork may be incomplete or contain errors, said Thomas Curran, an attorney with the law firm of Edwards & Angell LLP in New York. Twice this month the company told investors it may have run afoul of SEC regulations governing stock sales.

Full article @ Bloomberg [quote.bloomberg.com]

[vitaplease]

..SEC delay..

a classic example of Google sand-boxing

[caspita]

The offering price is now expected to be between $85 and $95 per share. Google expects to sell 14,142,135 shares of Class A common stock in the offering as originally filed.

From GG notification.