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- Friday rants: $25,000 acquisitions; 100 days too long; Dow Jones and Rupe
- Friday rants: $25,000 acquisitions; 100 days too long; Dow Jones and RupeOh, come *on*...I appreciate a good rant as much as the next guy, but on two of these points I think you're really off-base.First, there's the TechCrunch story. Yes, it's a pocket-cash deal, but what was the alternative? I...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- Friday rants: $25,000 acquisitions; 100 days too long; Dow Jones and Rupe
- A few rants ahead of the weekend...Is $25,000 material to anything?One rule of thumb in the news business is that you usually don't have to waste your time reporting a merger or acquisition where the deal value is roughly $50 million or less. Depending on the editor each newsroom had...
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Rupe zeroes in on Dow Jones
- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached an agreement to buy Dow Jones for $5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.That price tag is the same as Murdoch's original offer and the Dow Jones board will meet tonight to approve the deal. What remains to be seen is whether the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- MySpace, Yahoo swap would be brilliant--for Rupe
- MySpace, Yahoo swap would be brilliant--for RupeFacebookI'm no fan of MySpace, but I still kind of wonder if the whole Facebook community and hype isn't just a mirror image of a lot of the other Web 2.0 community sites where the site seems to be extremely popular with a relatively...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Rupert Murdoch's excellent adventure
- Is Rupert Murdoch shrewd or what? Perhaps that MySpace acquisition wasnt a fluke. Murdochs News Corp. made an unsolicited bid for Dow Jones and wants to pay a whopping $60 a share. Dow Jones closed at $36.33 on Monday. In a statement, Dow Jones said its evaluating the offer.To understand...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
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- Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer walked away from his bid for Yahoo and left numerous questions hanging. The biggest ones: What's plan B for Microsoft? Can Yahoo deliver? And who are the winners in the aftermath of the Yahoo saga. Here's your cheat sheet to the aftermath (Techmeme,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angst
- A few points to ponder ahead of the weekend...Why is my information always in the other database?When folks call customer service, some see incompetence. Others see red. I see data silos.This week I've called Verizon and Comcast about billing errors and been transferred repeatedly and also realized Yahoo thinks I...
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Done deal: News Corp. lands Dow Jones, Negroponte on WSJ edit board
- News Corp. has won Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch got his big catch--The Wall Street Journal.The companies announced that 37 percent of the Bancroft family voted for the deal. Combined with other shareholders--who would possibly turn down $60 a share?--the deal is done. There was little new information in the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- News to know: Salesforce.com; iPhone/Safari dialer; Rupe lands Dow Jones
- Notable headlines:Dan Farber: Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service. Salesforce swings into its Summer '07 release.Ryan Naraine: Beware the iPhone/Safari dialer.Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? Larry Dignan: CIO switches his company from Windows to Macs. Computerworld: Mac Attack! An enterprise PC shop switches to Apple.Garett...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Rupe ready to close Dow Jones deal?
- The Business, citing "sources acting for the Dow Jones board, is reporting that News Corp and Rupert Murdoch have sealed the purchase of Dow Jones.Here's what The Business is reporting:Negotiations have been completed and the board is confident the terms of the deal will be accepted by the Bancroft family,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- What's in a domain? $400 million if you're Business.com
- What's in a domain? $400 million if you're Business.comIt's not just Business.com -- it's a businessThe general press coverage of this sale is remarkably trivial. That $7.5M price tag for the domain name back in 1999 is a red herring that's distracting otherwise sober reporters, including my colleague Larry.Business.com is...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- MySpace, Yahoo swap would be brilliant--for Rupe
- Legacies in business are made by buying low and selling high. The asset swapped doesn't matter. And if Rupert Murdoch manages to unload MySpace he'll cement his already impressive legacy. The Times of London reports that Murdoch's News Corp. is exploring a swap of MySpace for a Yahoo stake north...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- The Joost-Viacom love in (and what they meant to say)
- Its official. Joost and Viacom are in cahoots. As noted earlier, this deal see Techmeme discussion is more about building up a potential YouTube rival than it is about anything else. That said Joosts peer-to-peer architecture has the potential to...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Four future Web merger flops
- SeekingAlphas James Nicholson has in interesting post on the 10 worst Internet acquisitions ever. The biggest surprise: Yahoos purchase of Broadcast.com was ranked at No. 1 ahead of even the Time Warner acquisition of AOL. See the list for other clunkers.Nicholsons list puts a nice perspective on the recent spate...
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
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