Archive for May, 2007
Howard Lindzon yesterday wrote about the falling US Dollar, and what it meant to him.
Lindzon is a Canadian (did I just out him?) who lives in the US of A. Smart man for doing that. He said he moved to Arizona to play golf. I’m thinking of moving to the US, for other reasons.
Anyway, like […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | May 31st
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Redeye VC Josh Kopelman beat me to it, but indeed, everything that is old is new again.
Let’s get a few things out of the way:
Jason Calacanis is one helluva promoter. Between Silicon Alley Reporter and Weblogs Inc. (the latter which sold to AOL for $25M), Calacanis has a unique track record. Let […]
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Today, Yahoo!’s CTO announced his retirement after 11 years of duty. Valleywag asks some interesting questions and has the internal memo here.
“Of the three key positions under Terry Semel — sales, product and tech — two are open,” observes Valleywag.
Considering that 2 of the 3 spots reporting to Semel are open, and that Semel might be […]
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Media is going digital, in case you haven’t heard. Today CBS bought music social network Last.fm for $280M. That’s not to say that it will all be online, for free, in an ad-supported model. We maintain that what you see offline vs. the Web will remain different due to economics (ads on the webs are still paltry […]
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Today News Corp. made it official: Fox Interactive Media Agrees to Acquire Photobucket and Flektor, Inc.
A couple of years ago, Rupert Murdoch told the world that he was earmarking $2B to invest in digital media, technology etc. He then made a series of deals, effectively becoming my boss in the process:
- MySpace parent Intermix: $580M
- […]
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Yesterday, it was reported that the FTC was going to investigate into potential anti-trust issues in the Google/Doubleclick deal.
That puppy was for a whopping $3.1B, and triggered a plethora of deals, including Yahoo!/Right Media ($800M valuation), WPP/24/7 RealMedia for $680M and MSFT/aQuantive for $6B.
But this begs the question, in a market that is strong-form efficient […]
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For the past couple of years, News Corp. amassed considerable real estate online with the acquisitions of Scout, IGN and MySpace. The company’s fortunes grew as a result: MySpace today boasts the most amount of pageviews amongst any site. While the company continues to make specific acquisitions to bolster its portfolio - namely Strategic Data and Photobucket […]
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The search industry has been putting too much of a premium on paid results at the detriment of organic results.
Well, not so fast. The quintet of mass search - Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask.com and AOL - have focused on both organic and paid, but the laggards have not, and the market caps - and market […]
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I agree that talks of MySpace’s demise are overblown, but judging by Facebook’s euphoria, you have to ask yourself if it’s more about Facebook’s seemingly limitless potential more so than MySpace’s demise.
I think the blogosphere - and mainstream media in fact - has lost.its.marbles over Facebook. I think this has something to do with
a) we getting bored of Google’s dominance,
b) […]
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If Google was building, in John Battelle’s words, the database of intentions, then Facebook has been refining its database of connections.
Last year, after learning about the Spock “people search engine,” I wrote that MySpace was the closest thing to a search engine on people, because it was the social network with the most amount of […]
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