Archive for June, 2007
Interesting to see News Corp. and NBC announce the hiring of former Amazon.com executive Jason Kilar as CEO.
It’s interesting because he’s very well regarded but I was am surprised they did not go with an advertising guru. Kilar hails from Amazon, where e-commerce reigns supreme but if NewCo. will be aiming for licensing and subscriptions […]
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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 […]
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When mainstream media gets on board something, it’s usually too late. I thought the exception to this was the type of things that have sent consumer Web media into a frenzy, that being many of the so-called Web 2.0 startups.
A good barometer of what is new in the space can be found on Tech Crunch, the […]
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Om Malik sent me a link to his post on “NewCo thinks it’s worth $1B.”
Is it? Well, it’s not what I think that matters, it’s what the market thinks, be it private or public.
COMPARABLE #1: M&A - Google acquires YouTube for $1.65B
We already know that Google, a publicly traded company then worth $140B, spent $1.65B for […]
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When Google bought YouTube, it was not clear whether the decision would be wise in the long term or not. That’s why we excluded it from our list of Web M&A deals in our Top 10 Web M&A deals of all time.
Today we find out that Myspace is doubling up efforts to go after YouTube. But […]
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This Sunday I raised a concern regarding Digg’s Kevin Rose raising money for Revision3, when Digg’s success was anything but a fait accompli. Yes, the company has supposedly crossed the 20M unique threshold, but that is meaningless to the people that have money at stake: the company did not find any buyers at the $150M asking […]
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Myspace Video is now Myspace TV.
Interesting to see “Myspace and Yahoo! gunning for Google’s YouTube”:
Yahoo and MySpace are battling it out for No. 2 behind YouTube. MySpace has more viewers, but Yahoo actually streams more videos. Along with NBC and Fox, they all seem to be ganging up on YouTube. (Watch this Disruptors video to […]
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Another day, another announcement. This one, obviously, is earth-shattering (yes, I’m kidding, I think).
WatchMojo.com partnered up with MyWaves to start offering our videos for wireless devices, check out the clips here.
The stats and figures, from our comprehensive breakdown and recap of the wireless market:
- worldwide mobile content to grow from $16.7B in 2003 to $78B by […]
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Why on earth would the NYT make news on cell phones look like this:
I mean, it looks cool, but come on? Talk about user-unfriendly.
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I think TechMeme is great, but something tells me that Alexa wildly over-estimates its actual traffic. If you think about it, tech bloggers are heavy Alexa-weighters and they skew most tech blogs. Seeing how so many rely and link to TechMeme.com you can imagine that TechMeme gets a favorable bounce. It’s all good, it’s definitely […]
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