Paid Content refers to a NYT article on CBS which calls for the company that Bill Paley built to make digital acquisitions, which begs the question: should they go for a big purchase or make small moves?
Of course, answering that question alone without addressing the backdrop to that question yields an incomplete picture. continue reading...
Pardon the over-simplifying in the first paragraph, bear with me… you will see why.
Assets, liabilities and shareholder equity. Any financial transaction boils down to that: Leverage assets to obtain resources (which usually creates a liability of some kind) in order to create value. continue reading...
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 be - fully complete because there are too many countries around the world and too many industries to report (it is highly possible that the Wall Street Journal or Financial Post, for example, has such a list… but it would be thick and unwieldy).
We have included: continue reading...
I was half-right,
When I was at Paid Content’s Economics of Social Media conference in LA in late April, I realized Gorilla Nation Media was working with Paid Content sponsor DeSilva and Philips Jordan Edmiston to raise some money, or sell the company. continue reading...
