When MSFT launched an unsolicited $44.6B acquisition bid for Yahoo!, it was clear that 2008 might set a record for global M&A, with digital media leading the way.
However, I think what you are seeing now with regards to deals in the $50-200M range is a sign of things to come. Yesterday Compete.com was acquired […]
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Daily Motion is escalating the battle for #3 in their space (after YouTube and MySpace TV).
Online video advertising is growing, quickly.
Online video advertising is where search advertising was in 2000-01: a major part of the web ecosystem desperately looking for a business model.
Unlike search - where traditional media companies failed to invest and even new […]
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The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will […]
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Having worked in the past - and hopefully in the future, too - with Demand Media, I was intrigued to learn that in addition to $220M of funding to date, they closed an additional $100M round yesterday.
There was no word on the valuation, but it was obvious that the company was gunning for an exit […]
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