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...
This article first appeared on MediaPost. continue reading...
Turns out MySpace is in worse shape than previously anticipated, and while the cliche goes that companies are built over the long term, apparently, they’re “judged in quarters, not in years”, according to News Corp. COO Carey Chase. continue reading...
Last week, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that over the past few years he’s suffered from Twitter envy, probably focusing a bit too much on the media darling that has changed communications and media sharing, aspects that Facebook itself wanted to own and dominate in the 21st century.
Today, with location-based startups getting all the attention, one would think that Zuckerberg is about to let history repeat itself by worrying too much about how to recalibrate Facebook to clash against upstarts Foursquare, Gowalla and company. 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...
The following 8-video Decade Rewind 2000s series is a pretty impressive display of creativity and execution from the WatchMojo.com team, a 2000s decade recap and review where we rewind the events of the past 10 years in the Auto industry, Business & Technology, Entertainment, Fashion, Music, Politics, Science & Space and Video Games. continue reading...
Yes, Facebook today is an awesome company. But if you look at the landscape and wreckage, social networking sites failed to deliver on the hype. Social networking and media remains an ever-growing aspect of our lives, but as a business… not so sure to be honest:
- MySpace has all but capitulated on the “social networking” aspect of things and is essentially a great platform for entertainment, namely music. continue reading...
Since being pushed out of MySpace, Chris DeWolfe has tried to raise money to roll-up social games and compete against Zynga:
DeWolfe is likely looking at very small gaming companies run by a handful of stellar developers but that lack the legal, business development, and dealmaking resources to make any kind of a dent in the current social-gaming market. continue reading...
The authors of “Curse of the Mogul”, namely Jonathan Knee, Bruce Greenwald, and Ava Seave, allege that media moguls are a bunch of idiots, basically (note to their lawyers: yes, I am paraphrasing).
