Archive for March, 2007
Darn, here I was thinking I had a great April’s Fool Joke, and Michael Arrington beat me to the punch. I wrote this on the flight here to SF… In the end, Arrington had his own trick up his sleeve… you know what they say: no one remembers the second one to do anything… speed matters.
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Mar 31st
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Seven years ago, I was out of B-School working in the search engine industry at one of the early meta search engines online. Google had a fraction of our traffic, but we knew it was in a league of its own. Another company that was in a league of its own, but for an entirely different set of […]
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When services like Digg came around - along with others such as Reddit, Megite - people thought the news industry had changed forever. It did, but I think editorial is not all that bad.
Then services like Techmeme took it one step further. I actually covered both companies growth strategies and potential exit recently here.
Over time, both Digg and […]
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Very interesting denouement going on stemming from comments made by IDG chief pertaining to the blocked sale (3 times, apparently) of Web 1.0 bible The Industry Standard.
On the one side, you have former CEO John Battelle, former minority investor Fred Wilson; in the other, you have Pat McGovern, founder and CEO of IDG.
What’s fascinating, frankly, […]
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We use Wordpress on our blogs.
When you load up one of our blogs in IE, it seems to load up fine. But in Firefox, the upper-right area where ads, latest posts, contests display are seems to override the text in the actual post. Obviously that is not intended. When we had set it up, I […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Mar 30th
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Michael Arrington over at Tech Crunch asks: how much is Photobucket worth?
Lehman Bros., who has been hired to sell the Colorado-based photo sharing service, says the answer is $300-400M. We could say it makes sense because MySpace parent Intermix sold for $580M, and then it grew 200% (or tripled) the next year as part of […]
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When online ad serving platforms are a sought after asset, you know good times are back. Thankfully, instead of adding fuel to the fire, there seem to be a lot of voices of reason calling for pause.
What are we talking about? Let’s roll:
Doubleclick, the iconic, poster child of Web advertising Phase 1, was taken private […]
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Is Cell TV “a fool’s odyssey in an industry hungry for new growth? Perhaps not,” argues this article from the AP, via FOX:
“I don’t know if people will want to watch it, but every time I say one of these `I don’t know’s,’ it goes beyond my wildest imagination,” said Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief operating officer.
He […]
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Would have, could have, should have… but I wonder how different things would be if newspape companies would have embraced the Web, instead of trying to hide their heads in the sand over it.
Newspaper circulation nationally reached its peak in 1984, when there were 1,600 morning and afternoon paid dailies with a circulation of 63 million. […]
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Came across a nice rundown of MSFT’s revenues across units:
Windows desktop client $13 Billion
Windows Server and development tools $11.5 Billion
Office - Information Worker - $11.8 Billion
Home Entertainment Xbox, Zune - $4.3 Billion
MSN Live Search - $2.3 Billion
Business Solutions (CRM, ERP) - $900M
Mobile Embedded Devices (phones) - $400M
In 2006, Yahoo! had net income of $751M on […]
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