Archive for April, 2007
One of the best things - ie. most reassuring - is that the stock market is not exuberant.
Today, Yahoo! bought the 80% of Right Media it did not own for over $600M, valuing the entire company at over $800M. To put this into context, NBC bought all of iVillage for $600M, News Corp. bought Intermix […]
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Days between historic Dow closes, from 3000 in 1991 to Wednesday’s close of 13,090 (courtesy of USA Today Research, Robert W. Ahrens)
Dow hits 2,000
1560 days later…
April 17, 1991: Dow hits 3,000, 1408 days later…
Feb. 23, 1995: Dow hits 4,000, 271 days later…
Nov. 21, 1995: Dow hits 5,000, 328 days later…
Oct. 14, 1996: Dow hits 6,000, 122 days later…
Feb. […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Apr 29th
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Got back from LA this yesterday morning after attending the Economics of Social Media conference put together by Paid Content.
Definitely worthwhile, but the red eye flight is sinking in now was too much, maybe it did not help that I had a big meeting at 10am Friday morning - 45 minutes after landing - and that I worked […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Apr 28th
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Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer joined forces to moderate and tag team a nice panel on dealmaking, Yahoo!’s Toby Coppel and former Fox Interactive Media CEO Ross Levinsohn were no-shows, FIM’s Mike Lang was kind enough to step in and pinch-hit, and he added a lot of good intel.
Anyway, the roll call:
- Quincy Smith, CEO […]
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Moderated by Staci Kramer, the next panel was all about mobile:
- Peter Adderton, CEO Amp’d Mobile
- Marco Boerries, SVP Yahoo!
- Shawn Conahan, CEO Intercasting
- Larry Shapiro, EVP, Walt Disney
- Cyriac Roeding, EVP, CBS Mobile
This was a very lively panel, but frankly, it was so representative of the state of the industry:
The only clear thing in […]
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Lisa Napoli was the moderator for the next panel.
- Josh Deustch, CEO Downtown Recordings
- Courtney Holt, EVP MTV Networks
- Hadi Partovi, President iLike
- Tim Westergren, Founder of Pandora could not attend.
When answering to Napoli’s question of “A band that has really leveraged social networking?”
Deutsch: “Bias aside, Gnarls Barkley, with 3M streams on MySpace. Social media […]
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Staci Kramer took over the reins in the third panel, Social Media Meets Hollywood. Joining her on stage were:
- George Kliavkoff, CEO of NBC/News Corp.’s new site.
- Ilene Chaiken, Executive Producer the L World, CEO OurChart.com
- Alan Citron, GM TMZ.com
- Carson Daly, Host Last Call with Carson Daly
- David Eun, VP Content Partnerships Google
- George Kliavkoff, Chief […]
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According to this article, the past two days’ gains boosted Amazon.com’s market capitalization — the value of all the shares trading in the public domain — from $18.3 billion to $25.7 billion, a gain of about $7.4 billion.
But more importantly, for Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon.com in 1994, that meant the value of his 101.3 million […]
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This is hilarious…The Onion takes a nostalgic look at the little scooter that could…
Life Before The Segway
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In the second panel, Social Media Meets Marketing, moderator Jimmy Guterman sat down with:
- Simon Assaad, co-CEO of Heavy.com,
- John Battelle, Chairman Federated Media
- Shawn Gold, SVP MySpace
- Tina Sharkey, Chairman BabyCenter
- Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO Denuo and CIO Publicis Media Group
Simon Assaad is extremely well-viewed, respected and thought of in the advertising and publishing space. He and […]
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