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Predicting the 2008 Jerry Yang and Yahoo in 2001

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »

While sitting in the 110 degree Las Vegas sun yesterday (en route to the worst sunburn of my life), I read Jeffrey Zygmont's "The VC Way: Investment Secrets from the ... Read more..

Should Facebook Acquire FriendFeed, Twitter and/or Digg?

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »

Over the last few years - in *numerous* settings - I have heard different variations of the following: “Why should we build it internally when we can let it be ... Read more..

April Search Data: Google 61.6% of Market, Yahoo Falls to 20.4%

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Much of the news today was around Facebook's 10% month-over-month decline in unique users - but the search query data out of Comscore is equally interesting (and important, particularly in ... Read more..

Iron Man’s Opening Weekend Box Office? $201mm Worldwide

Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »

Much of the talk over the weekend was about how Yahoo's stock would react now that Microsoft's offer was retracted (down 15% and ~$24)... but it was a magnificent weekend ... Read more..

Microsoft’s Yahoo Acquisition is No More - Microsoft Withdraws Offer

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo! Official Press Release REDMOND, Wash., May 3 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO). “We ... Read more..

Adify Acquired by Cox for $300mm

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Congratulations to the Adify team - who I've gotten to know through their YardBarker Network relationship (which beRecruited has used). TechCrunch is reporting that Adify was acquired for $300mm by ... Read more..

Yahoo Responds to Google Paid Search Results, Removes Minimum Bid Prices

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »

As noted in my last post, Google's latest paid search data demonstrates that power of ad quality and dynamic pricing requirements. This email just arrived from Yahoo - explaining that ... Read more..

Google’s Numbers: Conversions +24%, CTRs +19% and CPCs +11%

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »

The most interesting outcome of yesterday's strong Google earnings came from Efficient Frontier, who released a report on Q1 search engine performances: In Q1 2008,Google accounted for 77 percent of ... Read more..

Trying to Keep the Microsoft, News Corp, AOL, Yahoo Gossip Straight

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in News, Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Nearly a week into the three-week Microsoft ultimatum, there are a sudden flurry of developments and rumors... enough activity that (I imagine) something significant will happen shortly: - Microsoft gave Yahoo ... Read more..

Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo Board; Gives 3 Week Notice

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »

And with this, the Microsoft / Yahoo saga gets much more interesting... Microsoft delivered a powerful message to Yahoo's board and it came with a swift deadline: get the deal done ... Read more..