In this week’s show, we run down the list of candidates that I included in my last TechCrunch article on who the Next Talisman of Tech might be. 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...
In segment 1, we shift our focus away from the debacle at AOL and look at Yahoo!’s own soap opera by expanding on a couple of articles I published on TechCrunch, namely why and how Yahoo! could make a run to Hulu and Yahoo!’s options. We cover a lot, and in there I go over a lot of numbers explaining the financial engineering, so I included the numbers below. Watch the video below (and scroll down to get the financial engineering math) 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...
When NBC Universal and News Corp. hatched plans for a competitor to YouTube, the cynics were laughing already. continue reading...
Picture courtesy of PaidContent’s AOL Slideshow Throughout the Years. continue reading...
If you want to understand why Yahoo! spent $90M on Associated Content and AOL is gunning to position itself as the larger producer of quality content online, look no further than the above table which shows that 47% of people’s time online is spent consuming content. continue reading...
Don Dodge might have raised some eyebrows when within his first week of joining Google from MSFT suddenly developed an aversion to MSFT products in favor of Google ones, but in a recent interview, he both gives a lot of praise and dishes out diplomatic criticism of his former employer. This part stands out in general about the evolution of tech companies: continue reading...
What are the 10 consumer web companies that are best positioned for the 2010s? continue reading...
