Is There A Company That Yahoo! Isn’t Merging With?
First Microsoft approached Yahoo! about a merger/take-over. Then Google gave the guys at Yahoo! a call to see if maybe they could hook up.
And whilst Information Week thought that Nokia would be the perfect partner for Yahoo! lots of other people think that they should consider getting together with AOL. But of course that was […]
Will Microsoft–Yahoo! Produce An Effective Search Marketing Platform?
Yahoo! Search Marketing joining forces with Microsoft AdCenter sounds like a good idea for Microsoft in theory, but will it work? Microsoft would benefit from boosting its market share of search, and Yahoo’s dominant position in the display ads market will be a major asset to the company if the deal goes ahead. But it […]
MSN Buying Yahoo?
This isn’t really post, just a note as this news could have a potentially huge impact on the whole internet economy.
Microsoft has made a bid to buy Yahoo!, valuing Yahoo! at $45 billion (which makes a $15 billion valuation for Facebook look even more far-fetched). It may well be that this is coming off of […]
Making Money From Free Software: Sun Buys MySQL For $1 Billion
Today, Sun Microsystems announced its intention to buy MySQL AB, makers of the open source MySQL relational database system, paying $800m in cash & $200m in share options. This is a huge amount of cash for a product which is primarily given away for free.
Over 100 million copies of MySQL have been downloaded or distributed […]
Why LinkedIn Is Likely To Cost More Than MySpace
TechCrunch have posted some new data from comScore, showing US traffic to the main social media sites (although there are some notable exceptions such as YouTube, Orkut & Bebo - the latter presumably because they are bigger internationally than in the USA). And whilst a lot of it is relatively unsurprising, there was something that […]
Virgin Moves Into Peer-To-Peer Lending
It would seem that Richard Branson still has the capacity to surprise when it comes to his business deals. Whilst he looks to build his British financial portfolio with his proposed take-over of troubled (traditional) mortgage provider Northern Rock, in the US it seems that he is being a bit more forward thinking.
TechCrunch reports that […]
Secret Skype Conversation Leaked…
The Guardian has published “an amazing Skype Instant Messenger transcript” which seems to detail a conversation between Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom. It makes for fascinating reading.
@megwhitman: um, need to say something. You remember we paid $1.6bn for Skype and promised you up to $1.7bn in earnouts and other things for […]
Microsoft To Take Stake In Facebook: Is It To Keep Google At Bay?
There are reports this morning that Microsoft is planning to take a 5% stake in Facebook which would value the social networking site at $10 billion. This is quite an increase on the $7 billion that was mentioned in the last round of rumours surrounding Facebook, and makes the $1 billion that Yahoo! apparently offered […]
Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, MSN & MySpace: Everything’s Connected In Web 2.0
One of things I love about the internet is the fact that I am constantly finding new sites that I love and also, that I am constantly challenged, and often proved wrong.
I’ve been telling anyone who would listen (following a conversation with my colleague Chungaiz) that Facebook would be sold this year for $1 billion. […]
