Clear sign that CT and I might want to compare notes on what we plan on wearing the day of the show… anyway, last week my article on Web rewards greed and bad behavior struck a nerve with the TechCrunch community, so on this week’s show CT and I spent segment 1 talking about it, enjoy: continue reading...
Zynga is expected to start trading on December 16 2011.
How do this year’s IPOs fare? continue reading...
The world wide web prospered and is what it is today because its inventor Tim Berners-Lee didn’t give into temptation and greed and chose not to patent his invention. But 20 years later, it’s evident that the only thing that most online leaders lead in is plain bad behavior and greed. continue reading...
Can content owners be disruptive? Or is content only intended to be disrupted by technology? I know disruption and disruptive are buzz words we can do without, but you get the idea: is content doomed or does it have a future? I sometimes joke that I wish the Ash of 2011 could go back in time and sit down the Ash of 2006 and tell him: “sure, content is king, but no one wants to pay for it and fewer even will want to fund it”. That being said, I don’t think that you can paint everyone in the content business with the same brush. CT and I chat about this in segment 1, which is based on an article I wrote for TechCrunch last week. continue reading...
With the AOL/TechCrunch soap opera finally coming to an end, we thought we would see the forest through the trees and focus on Mergers and Acquisitions, or M&A, in general. continue reading...
A few years ago, we published a list of companies who ruled the Internet each year, from 1994-2007. Then, we forgot to update it for 2008-2010. On this week’s HipMojo show, we run down the list and picked a company for 2008, 2009, and 2010… and then open it up for you to suggest companies for 2011. Vote for the company of the Year below in the Comments, feel free to vote for the company you work for, but explain WHY, what was the one thing or many things that made the company stand out from the noise? continue reading...
Tech Crunch’s Erick Schonfeld is commenting on Daniel Lyons’ Newsweek piece, which laments the state of Silicon Valley: continue reading...
Hulu and Demand Media both filed for an IPO. Demand files a week ago, Hulu today. Both companies are content plays. However, the similarities end there.
The real question is: which is the better investment? continue reading...
Demand Media has filed for its big IPO.
The company - founded by former MySpace CEO Richard Rosenblatt and private equity banker Shawn Colo - has raised a whopping $355M and, while it continues to lose money, is on pace to clock a massive $200M in annual revenues for 2010. At those levels sooner or later it shall eke a profit. Romenesko quotes a $1B raise target - that seems massive, and implies a long list of acquisition targets, which is possible given the company’s over-reliance on search traffic today. continue reading...
Great article from the founder of social net Tripod (acquired by Lycos) Bo Peabody in Washington Post, found via Business Insider:
Social networks aren’t great places to advertise. You can’t charge users for their services. And they never gain enough momentum to survive in the stock market. Indeed, no social network has ever made it as a public company. continue reading...
