On HipMojo 26, Rebecca and I chat about the Facebook IPO. Enjoy: continue reading...
Time magazine chose “the protester” as the person of the year for 2011. In WatchMojo’s end-of-year series, we chose “Popular Uprisings” as the story of the year, with two videos showcasing that, first one being the Arab Spring and the second one on Occupy Wall Street movement. continue reading...
When Specific Media acquired MySpace for $35M - after News Corp. had bought it in 2005 for $580M - SM CEO Tim Vanderhook said that the main reason for buying it was the brand. At 69.7%, MySpace’s brand awareness was close to Facebook’s 74%. Mind you, today former MySpace CEO Mike Jones argues that that brand awareness actually played against MySpace when it relaunched: continue reading...
I was in NYC all week and didn’t get a chance to post this week’s HipMojo show; we’re at week 8, if you’re counting, though the cue card at the beginning erroneously says Episode 7. Anyway, last week I published an article on MediaPost looking back at the 1-year anniversary of AOL’s acquisition of 5Min. That will actually be part of the next HipMojo show where we talk about “tech vs. media, content aggregation vs. content creation”. continue reading...
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Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google filed for incorporation on September 4th, 1998. Though the Google.com domain name was registered 11 days later, the search engine celebrates its birthday on the 27th of the month. 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...
Since it’s the 61st birthday of Apple founder Steve Wozniak today, we present to you a set of videos of Steve Wozniak talking about various topics in his words. continue reading...
