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Jamie Wilkinson, aka Jamie Dubs, is the go-to guy if you want to learn anything about Internet memes. He’s the brain behind Know Your Meme, and until recently used to be Rocketboom’s Internet Research Scientist, complete with lab coat and white board. continue reading...
Hermoine and Alex declare their love and fight to get married. I’m 99.9% sure this is a joke, but you can never be too certain these days… continue reading...
Landed in NYC on Thursday, fitting, since I owe you folks Part 5 of the Barbara Corcoran interview, where we chat about NYC and the hit it has taken since September 15 2008. Here it is, below. Honestly, now that I am back here for the third time in four months, something tells me New York will be just fine. This city is relentless. continue reading...
I always wondered about what happens to your holdings when you accept a government job. I figured you had to sell them… but I did not know about the tax free loophole.
Henry Paulson sold his 3.23 million shares in Goldman, worth about $500 million at the time, when he took the Treasury job, according to regulatory filings. He was exempted from paying capital gains tax on the sale of those stakes under a rule meant to avoid penalizing wealthy people who take government jobs and are forced to sell assets. continue reading...
On the one hand, distinguished financiers such as Bill Hambrecht are one step ahead of others… on the other hand, hearing them say that everything will be fine does suggest an element of being, you know, out of touch. Anyway, here’s an interview Om Malik did with Mr. Hambrecht, founder of legendary tech investment bank Hambrecht & Quist…
For the longest time, I’ve been hinting at private equity firms to give me a call so we can rescue Yahoo! That might happen, it might not. But to pull that off, you need a good $40B or so. With Yahoo! at $25B - and reporting earnings as we speak - it might happen.
But today, an easier target. No, I’m not talking about CNET - though I’d love to manage CNET and whip it into shape, too. CNET is in fact facing a hostile takeover from Jana Partners, who has built up a 20% stake in the company. continue reading...
The past few years have seen a balancing of the playing field between investors and entrepreneurs, one of the many manifestations of this trend has been a site launched by Nivi and Naval, called VentureHacks.com. HipMojo.com sat down with one half the terror twins to learn more about the venture, what exactly is a venture hack and what entrepreneurs and VCs can take away from it.
Q - Tell me about your and your colleague’s background? continue reading...
Monday we mentioned our new deal with Blinkx, Tuesday was Quebecor Media’s Canoe.ca, yesterday was our latest deal to go mobile with our deal with MyWaves, and today’s it time to accounce our latest deal, adding to WatchMojo.com syndication network by signing up Voxant’s The Newsroom as our latest partner. Here for example is one of our travel clips on Denver, Colorado:
The headline of this post ends with !? because Yahoo!’s name includes a “!” and the sentence is in fact a question.
But, even were it not the case, upon finding out that Yahoo! had shelled out $680M for the 80% of Right Media it did not own (after paying $45M for 20% of the company six months ago), any headline would have been followed by !?$%$(*&#. continue reading...
Nice interview by John Battelle with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
A lot of good points from it, continue reading...
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