Last week we looked at 5Min’s history on the one-year anniversary of its sale to AOL. Today we mark the five-year anniversary of Google’s acquisition of YouTube, announced October 9, 2006. 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...
Very interesting read on Tech Crunch by Ali Partovi on the search industry’s search for respectability in the late 1990s. In some ways, video is exactly where search was: big media companies are comfortable making a lot of money from both search and display (I wrote about this in my last Media Post article, comparing it to the innovator’s dilemma). Read this paragraph and replace search with video and it reads like a contemporary article:
In the days before Google, Yahoo was the dominant search company – they had the vast majority of all search query traffic and seemed completely invincible. The other top search drivers were Excite, Altavista, Netscape, MSN, and AOL. All, including Yahoo, were victims of what Graham calls “easy money.” Thanks to the dot-com bubble, it was so easy to make money selling banner ads (to VC-backed dot-com startups) that everybody was distracted from the real opportunity in search — even when it was presented to them plainly. continue reading...
Via Paidcontent:
The Christian Science Monitor is a 100-year old organization and even they get this (this is one area WatchMojo has a lot of room to improve): continue reading...
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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...
