Archive for the 'China' Category
One of the other arguments in the “YHOO should remain independent”camp is that Yahoo! Asian Alliance Agreement.
In essence, it argues that Yahoo! can somehow:
1- spin off Alibaba and / or Yahoo! Japan.
The problem here is that such sales would not be tax-free. The company can look into something called the Morris Trust act, but […]
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Facebook’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is as reckless as they can get when it comes to his management of Beacon: ballsy on Madison Avenue, then apologetic on his blog, then brash again on 60 Minutes.
But when it comes to Facebook’s global strategy, Zuckerberg is quite sedate and demure. To penetrate China, instead of the […]
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“We predict internet advertising to pass three milestones over the next three years,” ZenithOptimedia’s forecast said. “We expect it to overtake radio advertising in 2008; to attain a double-digit share of global advertising in 2009; and to overtake magazine advertising in 2010, with 11.5% of total ad spend.”
In 2008, Worldwide internet ad spending will climb […]
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Today Facebook announced that it had closed an additional $60M investment from Li Ka-shing. This is interesting for a few reasons.
For one, it adds one more investor joining MSFT’s $240M investment at the $15B valuation. It’s important to remember than MSFT did not invest $240M, but committed to investing $240M at $15B at […]
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Last year Barry Diller decided to get serious about search and plunked down $100M in an ill-fated advertising campaign for Ask.com. Today, Ask.com’s market share is lower than it was last year.
Let’s hope the company’s Chinese ambitions will fare better. Today the company said that it would spend a whopping $100M on its Chinese […]
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Some time ago I listed some of Facebook’s potential use of funds if it were to raise $500M or so in a $10-15B valuation round. The company subsequently sold 1.6% to MSFT for $240M at the targeted $15B value.
What is Facebook about to spend it dough on?
China. The Times is reporting that Facebook […]
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Last year, I asked if Google would surpass MSFT by 2010, this year, with Google crossing $600 and $700 in a matter of weeks, Silicon Alley’s Henry Blodget and Tech Crunch’s Duncan Riley are getting in on the fun.
For the record, it is highly possible to think that Google will be worth a lot more […]
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Yesterday the Dow dropped 367 points. It could have been worse, frankly, because Friday marked the 20th year anniversary of the Dow’s 22% drop on Black Monday. According to this CNN article, Black Monday ranks near the top of worst one day performances any way you dice it. Let’s look at some […]
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Or… maybe, we can just publish some clips in Mandarin. Yeah, that might be more prudent…
Anyway, WatchMojo.com’s already produced and published clips in Spanish and French, along with the thousands of English ones, but over the next few weeks and months, we’ll be unveiling and releasing a barrage of multi-lingual clips, here is one […]
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