Yahoo! & Google: And The Little One Said..
Yahoo’ announcement that it was rejecting Microsoft’s long-running attempt at a take-over came as a bit of shock. Just 2 weeks ago an MSN staff member was telling me that the deal was all but done and that when Yahoo! had finished grabbing headlines then both companies would get down to business and put together […]
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 […]
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 […]
AOL & MSN Should Be Very Scared: The BBC Is Coming
Amongst all of the coverage of the BBC’s plans to cut thousands of jobs and sell off Television Centre, one point seems to have slipped through with almost no mention. And that is, as The Telegraph puts it, the decision to:
[Sell] Advertising for the first time on the BBC’s website.
Now I’m assuming that this news […]
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. […]
Will Adobe Own The API?
Adobe has finally released an alpha version of its highly-anticipated Apollo runtime. Much has been written on the potential of this cross-platform runtime, which allows developers to use HTML, JavaScript, and ActionScript to write applications which blend desktop functionality with web connectivity, but it simply boils down to this: Apollo represents Adobe’s effort to own […]
Contaminate Firefox? Or exterminate IE?
So, recently I discovered IE Tab, which is a tasty little plugin for (Windows) Mozilla/Firefox that lets you view any page as it would appear in IE from within Firefox. (Visit a page that doesn’t work right in Firefox? Right-click on the tab and select “Switch rendering engine”. You can also get […]
